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Ubisoft Just Made A Lot Of Notable Changes To The Division 2

Players of The Division 2 received a new endgame mission called Tidal Basin that extends the game’s story today, but that’s just part of a raft of changes included in the game’s first big patch. The developers have revamped two of the game’s more controversial systems—Skill mods and Weapon mods—and, hey, as per the patch…

What We Love About Country Trap Banger ‘Old Town Road’

No one, not even rapper Lil Nas X, thought his song “Old Town Road” would blow up the way that it has. After taking over the Hot Country Songs chart, it was removed for not being country enough, though the artist has been campaigning to get it reinstated. Now that he’s dropped a remix with…

Epic Games Is Spending $500,000 Just So Competitive Fortnite Players Can Practice

It’s a light weekend for esports, save for Epic Games’ Fortnite World Cup Warm Up. It’s a two-day mini-tournament which, because it’s Fortnite, will nevertheless include a $500,000 prize divided up among hundreds of winners. Competitive Fortnite’s World Cup event is slated to take place in July. Before that, teams will compete in a series…

Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission Is A Very Japanese Card Game

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an incredibly popular Japanese arcade trading card game. Players buy physical cards featuring Dragon Ball heroes and villains, form a team of seven and deploy them in battles via a specialized arcade cabinet. Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission for Nintendo Switch and Steam is the same thing without the…

Doom Mod Turns The Game Into One Extremely Long Hallway

Tired of getting lost in the original Doom while hunting for ammo packs and teleporters? Well there’s now a mod that takes everything in the game and unravels it along a single, unwavering path, and it’s called Linear Doom. Created by modder DeXiaZ and uploaded to ModDB, Linear Doom takes all of the game’s clever…

Fortnite To Add ‘Reboot Vans,’ Which Are Pretty Much Apex Legends‘ Respawn Beacons, Except Vans

Epic finally confirmed that reboot vans are coming to Fortnite next week, putting an end to players’ speculation. Reboot vans are a new feature, but they’ll seem familiar if you’ve played Apex Legends Here’s how they work: Dead squadmates will drop “reboot cards” that any surviving squad member can take to reboot vans, which will…

This Phone Game Is All About Summoning Sexy Anime Versions Of Food

One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In…

Major Speedrunning Hub Forced To Roll Back Rankings After Security Breach

The most popular speedrunning website, Speedrun.com, has reverted all its rankings to their April 1 state after a security breach left many leaderboards at risk of tampering. After a similar issue in November 2018, the site’s owner is considering strengthened security measures to prevent future breaches. Speedrun.com is the place to go for a game’s…

The Games This ‘Boy Band’ Makes Are Almost As Cute As They Are

The Sokpop collective, made up of game developers Tijmen, Rob, Aran, and Rubna from the Netherlands, started calling themselves a boy band as a joke, but they didn’t start it. “It was something people joked about at events,” Tijmen told Kotaku, “mainly because of our looks.” Even if it’s kind of a joke, their cute…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for doing taxes. It’s also for playing “just 10 more minutes” of a video game before doing taxes. I really want to play more Apex Legends, but I’m feeling a little burnt out on multiplayer games. So I think I’m going to pick up Titanfall 2, which I’m telling myself could just…

How Battlefield V’s New Microtransactions Work

Battlefield V received microtransactions this week, almost five months after the first-person shooter was originally released. Players can now use Battlefield Currency, which can only be bought with real money, to customize the look of their characters, guns, and vehicles. Prior to the update, players could buy common, uncommon, and rare cosmetics using an in-game…

Odd Tease In The Division 2 Spills The Beans On The Next Assassin’s Creed

An unusual teaser in Ubisoft’s loot shooter The Division 2, highlighted weeks after the game’s release, reveals that the next Assassin’s Creed game is all about Vikings. Kotaku can independently confirm the same. The Division 2 launched on March 15, but it wasn’t until this week that discussion about a possible teaser located within the…

What I Know About Surviving In Sekiro I Learned On The Volleyball Court

The spectral foe towered over me, her sheer size outmatched only by her overwhelming poise. The pole arm she held in one hand was twice the size of my character, and the loose robes and prayer beads draped over her hulking figure only served to make her more intimidating. With a grace that only made…

Marvel Science: How Controlling Ants Would Really Work

Animal communication is a key innovation that allows a species to find resources, perceive danger and respond to it as a group. When these interactions scale up into complexity they start to define how the species’ social structure and collective behavior. When we consider behavior in ants, we see the management of hundreds of thousands…

Shenmue‘s Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

Mario has Yoshi. Link has Epona. Ryo Hazuki has a forklift. This unassuming industrial vehicle has become so closely identified with Shenmue that when series director Yu Suzuki wanted to tease the announcement of Shenmue III, all he had to do was tweet a picture of one. For both advocates and detractors, Shenmue’s forklift sequences…