Bungie has detailed how Destiny 2 Faction Rallies are changing for next week’s season 3 debut. There’s a new “Renown” system that increases difficulty and rewards as long as you go without dying, which sounds neat. They’re also lowering the difficulty on waves 4-7 of Escalation Protocol, which, good

Streamer Solves Puzzle By Drawing Wang

Today on Highlight Reel we have esoteric puzzle solutions, H1Z1 plays, NHL slams, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on all…

Mario Tennis Aces‘ Adventure Mode Is A Great Teacher

Mario Tennis Aces is the sequel to the spiritual successor to the follow-up to Pong. Somewhere along the way, video game tennis became significantly more complicated than two paddles and a square ball. Fortunately, this upcoming Switch game will teach you all its tricks, by way of the RPG-style single-player adventure mode. To be released…

Pokémon Quest Is… Fine. It’s Fine.

Pokémon Quest is a cute little RPG that I enjoy playing, but that I feel like I’ll enjoy more once it actually comes to phones in June. On the same day that Nintendo announced Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, they also announced that there’d be a small, “free to start” game available on the Switch’s…

Fallout 76 Gives Overwatch Fans Crossover Fever

When Fallout 76 was announced yesterday, half the world immediately thought “Heck yeah, new Fallout.” But the other half—a more insidious and frankly intolerable one that includes noted individuals such as me—started cracking jokes about Soldier 76 from Overwatch. Then came the fan art. Evidently, a whole lot of people want to see Soldier 76…

GTA Online’s Fast-Paced Dispatch Missions Are A Great Addition

The latest GTA Online update was released earlier this week, and along with the usual new cars and new discounts, Rockstar has also added more contact missions, calling these new missions “Dispatches.” These six new co-op missions are fast, fun, and to the point. Dispatches are PVE missions that come courtesy of Martin Madrazo, a…

Old  Pokémon Gold And Silver Demo Shows Features That Never Made It

Pokémon Gold and Silver once had a bigger map, many more Pokémon, and even a skateboard, according to a new leak of a pre-release demo for the two 1999 Pokémon games. First shown at the Nintendo Space World Convention in 1997, two years before the games’ release, this demo for what would become Gold and…

Dauntless Is A Less Intimidating Monster Hunter

Dedicated players of games like Monster Hunter: World might feel burned out after spending so much time in the game, while players curious about the genre might be intimidated by World’s complicated gameplay. Dauntless is an upcoming free-to-play monster hunting game that looks to help both types of players scratch their itch for tough monster…

Vegeta’s Voice Actor Is Loving The New Dragon Ball Z Golden Age

If you ever find yourself in the cast of a Dragon Ball fight scene, Christopher Sabat has some advice. “You can either scream once, and make it really epic, and it really hurts, but you only have to do it one time,” explains the man who voices several cosmic soldiers in the Dragon Ball universe.…

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New Leak Reveals Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Set In Ancient Greece [UPDATE: Official]

The next Assassin’s Creed is called Odyssey and will take place in ancient Greece, according to a new report from the French site JeuxVideoLive, which adds that Odyssey is a sequel to last year’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. Kotaku can confirm this report. UPDATE (7:33pm): And now it’s official: Original story follows: Rumors about the next…

In Cultist Simulator, Death Is Only The Beginning

The most fun thing to do in Cultist Simulator is die. Cultist Simulator is a new game about running a cult, interpreted as a virtual card-based board game. There are no instructions for what to do, really, so you begin picking up cards, putting them in different slots, and hoping for the best. Sooner or…

Console Repairmen Explain Why Cockroaches Love PS4s

First, there were snakes on a plane. Then, we had sharks in tornadoes. Now, there is a darker and more prevalent combination of pests and unlikely places they exist: cockroaches in your PS4. This piece originally appeared 4/17/17. I heard about the PS4’s roach problem at an independent console repair shop on the Lower East…

People Cannot Believe How Cute Neko Atsume VR Is

Today Neko Atsume VR was released in Japan. That’s right, cat-collecting in VR. Understandably, folks are going gaga. Priced at 1,944 yen ($17.84), Neko Atsume VR is a download game. It’s currently Japan-only. Check this out. Goodness. Here is the tutorial This might be the cutest VR game ever made Remember, you don’t need PlayStation…

CG Wasn’t Used To Create This Sorcery 

YouTuber Frisk P is quick to point out this effect wasn’t created by CG effects. Instead, this is the result of a modded Nerf gun and rotating LEDs. As Get News explains, the effect is generated by a 3D hologram display called the Phantom. Created by Tokyo-based Life Is Style, the Phantom is outfitted with…