Explaining Fall Damage In Dark Souls

Dark Souls mechanics explainer illusorywall has created a new video to show exactly how fall damage works in that game. It’s worth knowing about. In this entry of Dark Souls Dissected, we get an explanation of the different kinds of fall damage in Dark Souls. I’ll admit that I wasn’t exactly sure how this worked…

‘Shop Contest: Princess Peach Forever

We learned something shocking this week: the aristocracy of the Mushroom Kingdom is weirder than we though. A crown can turn Toadette into Princess Peach. This will induce Mushroom Anarchy, and it must be stopped. We must restore Princess Peach’s reputation. There is nothing that threatens the peace of the Mushroom Kingdom more than a…

Spider-Man Makes Us Want To Swing With Style

Swinging around in the new Spider-Man is so much fun, it’ll make you look past the Ubisoft-style collect-a-thon. We discuss that and much more on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen First, Kirk and I talk some more about Destiny 2‘s Forsaken expansion, addressing the question “how much should creators listen to fan feedback?” and talking about…

Sunday Comics: Backpack Bandit

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 10. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 13. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

A D&D Supplement That Makes Your Game More Like Ocean’s Eleven

Wizards of the Coast recently released Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, which asks players to experience a heist, but if you want to play through lots of different heists and capers, you’re sort of out of luck. Here’s To Crime: A Guide to Capers and Heists is all about entertaining those who love crime. There’s not a…

Destiny 2 Team Beats Raid, Unlocks New Activities For Everyone

After 18 hours and 48 minutes of playing, a Destiny 2 team named Clan Redeem were the first players in the world to finish the game’s Last Wish raid that released yesterday. When they defeated the raid boss, some new changes appeared in the game for every other player of Destiny 2 When players entered…

DICE Lead Multiplayer Designer Valerian Noghin shared an image on Twitter of a map called Hamada from the upcoming Battlefield V. At 1500 meters in the Breakthrough game mode, it’s a pretty big map. Battlefield V releases on November 20. 

Yooka-Laylee World Record Speedrun Requires Clipping Through Walls, Bee Avoidance

There’s a new world record speedrun for Yooka-Laylee. Held by runner Kainalo and coming in at a lightning-fast 13:57, the run is a great example of all the tricks in a runner’s bag. I’ll admit that my interest in Yooka-Laylee is pretty thin, and that Heather Alexandra’s criticisms that “it pads playtime with demanding an…

‘Shop Contest: Make Hope County Weirder, Winners!

Hope County has zombies and apocalyptic cults, but I wanted it to be weirder, and you definitely didn’t disappoint when I asked you to add odder things to Far Cry 5 If the Far Cry universe can extend to any zone, then I think that we should see a wider variety of creatures, places, and…

This Week In The Business: Is Selling 50,000 Copies Enough?

QUOTE | “Our hope is to find a balance between games that sell a shitload of copies and are good, and games that may only sell 50,000 copies, but are also good. We think it’s important to do those type of games. We do all the spectrum. We’re not saying no to games because we…

In Japan, The Nintendo Switch Is Streaming Games That It’s Not Powerful Enough To Run

The oddest announcement from Nintendo yesterday wasn’t on the Nintendo Direct that aired in the West. It happened on on the Japanese Nintendo Direct stream when the company revealed that. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will be playable on the console when it releases October 5—thanks to streaming. This cloud-based version of the game will only be…

Splatoon 2 Gets Tweaked Before Becoming A Paid Online Game

Splatoon 2 is still kicking thanks to a community of dedicated fans. The new 4.0 update rewards that dedication with big changes to how Splatfests work and a cache of stylish weapons. Splatfests have always felt equally exciting and frustrating in Splatoon 2. These timed events run about every month, asking players to choose a…

‘100 Percent Uncensored’ Sex Game Now Out On Steam, But Only In Certain Regions

If you were hoping to spend your weekend not with Spider-Man or Lara Croft, but instead with the outerwear-despising anime girls of the long-awaited “100 percent uncensored” Steam visual novel Negligee: Love Stories, I’m not gonna judge. But I am gonna tell you that even though it’s now out on Steam, you still might not…

State of Decay 2‘s Daybreak DLC Is Fun But Fleeting

In State of Decay 2, players manage a ragtag group of survivors as they gather resources, use resources, and waste resources, as well as complain and fight off zombies. In the game’s DLC Daybreak, out this week, base-building and citizen micromanagement are put aside in favor of pure zed-killing action. Daybreak is an independent co-op…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for binge-watching BoJack Horseman, but since I have a Switch, I can play games while I do it! I’ve been playing Bastion on Switch, and I’d forgotten how great that game is. Its colorful world feels even more special on the small screen of my Switch. I’m also excited to check out…

Twitter’s Emerging Competitor Doesn’t Want To Be Twitter

Twitter is a hellhole. Mastodon isn’t trying to replace the trashcan fire that is Twitter, but it is offering its users something different. Mastodon, a social network released in October 2016, could be described as a Twitter competitor, but the more you dig into it, the less true that feels. On the surface, it’s pretty…