Our Video Game Predictions For 2019

What’s coming for video games in 2019? What sort of wild predictions do we have for the year? Today onKotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. Every January, Splitscreen makes a bet to see who can rack up the most correct guesses about what’s going to happen in the coming year. Last year, Kirk won, which is why…

Monthly Waves Of NES Games Are Triggering Monthly Complaints About Switch Online

Every time Nintendo posts a YouTube video about its NES games for Switch Online, it gets more thumbs down than thumbs up. Some Switch owners are clearly unhappy with how the paid online service is going so far, but they’re not all in agreement about what it is they’re complaining about. That’ll make it a…

Wild New Destiny 2 Puzzle Stumps Players, Leading Bungie To Reverse Course 

On Tuesday, Destiny 2 opened up Bergusia Forge, the fourth and final activity in the game’s recent Black Armory content pack. There was a catch, though. For everyone to access it, at least one player in the world would have to solve a fiendish puzzle called Niobe Labs. The puzzle turned out to be so…

All I Do In Final Fantasy XIV Now Is Play Mahjong

This week’s 4.5 update for Final Fantasy XIV brought players an exciting new raid encounter featuringa Final Fantasy XII cameo, a new dungeon to explore and the first half of the conclusion to the exciting Stormblood storyline. It also added multiplayer Mahjong. Guess what I’ve been doing for the past two days. Competitive Mahjong is…

Fortnite Maker Gets ‘F’ In Customer Service From BBB

Epic might be swimming in a pool of money thanks to the success of Fortnite and the debut of its exclusive-gobbling Steam competitor, but it’s also—to hear the Better Business Bureau tell it—in hot water with its own customers. Today, the Better Business Bureau announced that it’s awarded Epic with an F, its lowest grade…

Maybe Board Game Rules Can Suck Less Now

The best thing about playing board games is sitting around a table with some beers and playing board games. The worst part is having to learn the rules beforehand. Video: Shut Up & Sit Down Unnngh, even writing about rules makes my eyes roll over. A good rule book is as important a piece of…

Xbox Game Pass Quests Give You Money For Earning Achievements

Today, Microsoft announced a new slate of quests for Game Pass games in January. Earning certain achievements in particular games available through the monthly subscription service will net you rewards points. It’s a small but interesting new development in how the company has been trying to gamify how people play games on Xbox. Announced over…

Jeff Kaplan Knows Some People Will Always Hate Overwatch‘s Meta

Metas of competitive games age less like fine wine and more like cottage cheese in a dumpster. When a meta’s overstayed its welcome, you know—because players make stink after stink after stink about it. That’s where Overwatch, with its unpopular “GOATS” meta, is at right now. Game director Jeff Kaplan, though, isn’t sure it’s possible…

PUBG Bans Pro Players, 30,000 Others For Cheating

Last month, a team at PUBG “conducted a global investigation on all the currently active professional PUBG players” to see if any of them were using a cheat that had until recently been very hard to detect. Turns out loads of them were, and they’ve now received lengthy bans from the game. The cheat in…

The Slightly Sketchy 1990s ‘Computer Fairs,’ A Major Part Of My Gaming History

If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III, and it would likely take me a long time before I ever mentioned Barneystein 3D. But it was part of my gaming world in 1994, and there’s…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s First Bunny Person Is A Familiar Face

Ivalice’s resident rabbit people are coming to Final Fantasy XIV as a playable race in this summer’s Shadowbringers expansion. Who better to act as an early ambassador for the race than the most famous Viera of them all, Final Fantasy XII’s Fran? Fran appears in the latest part of Final Fantasy XIV’s ongoing raid event,…

Just A Couple Of WWE Stars Cosplaying As Team Rocket

Wrestling star Zelina Vega cosplays all the time, but here she’s joined up with Andrade Cien Almas for some fresh trouble. Make it double. The pair, who are usually a wrestler-manager couple but who also team up sometimes in the ring, are dressed up here out of it as Pokemon’s Team Rocket. If Nintendo and…

All these Ubisoft games are connected, huh? We’ve seen that Assassin’s Creed is a game played in the world of Watch Dogs (and seems to co-exist in the same world as Watch Dogs). Now, in today’s new Division 2 prequel comic book, The Division: Extremis Malis, you can squint and see that people in that Ubisoft series…