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Elite: Dangerous Players Band Together To Save Cancer Patient’s Expedition From Griefers
Since January 12, a group of Elite: Dangerous players has been journeying across the galaxy to reach Dove Enigma station, named for a member of the expedition, Brandon “DoveEnigma13” Keith. Keith is fighting terminal cancer. The trip, a relatively leisurely sightseeing tour and charity drive assembled for the benefit of both Keith and his five…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 31, 2018 -
UncategorizedAccomplishing As Much As Possible Before Dying Miserably, The Game
Jason Rohrer once buried a titanium board game in the Nevada desert, and then handed out hundreds of pages containing printed-out GPS coordinates, one of which indicated the game’s true location. According to Rohrer, it will take 3,000 years for anyone to ever find that board game. Jason Rohrer once put a Minecraft mod on…
By Tim Rogers Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Slay The Spire Is A Roguelike Card Game, And I’m Hooked
Slay the Spire, a roguelike where you try to deckbuild your way out of brutal dungeons, went into Early Access on Steam last November and has since been slowly winning over unsuspecting players who go into it with low expectations. I am one of those recent converts. Developed by Mega Crit Games, Slay the Spire…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Wolfenstein 2 Finally Gets Good Stealth With New DLC
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus featured stealth sequences that didn’t always work out. The game’s latest piece of downloadable content, The Diaries of Agent Silent Death, provides the sort of sneaky backstabbing that the main game was missing. The Diaries of Agent Silent Death tells the story of Jessica Valiant, a former British secret agent…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Which New Nintendo Stat Is Most Impressive?
We reported earlier that Nintendo is doing well. No kidding. The Switch is on fire. The company posted a bunch of sales numbers overnight, and we at Kotaku HQ have been discussing which is the most stunning. Let’s just say that we’re not all in agreement. Which is your pick? (Please say it’s the Splatoon…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Dragon Ball FighterZ, As Told By Steam Reviews
According to Steam reviews, Dragon Ball FighterZ is one of the best fighting games out right now. Don’t worry, the reviewers also made some “over 9,000″ jokes. Dragon Ball FighterZ was a highly anticipated game, and it seems like fans got what they asked for. They say it’s well balanced for beginners, faithful to the…
By Gita Jackson Published January 31, 2018 -
UncategorizedMy Quest To Find A Special Tree In The Witcher 3
One Sunday morning a few weekends ago, I opened up my computer to play some video games. I had a mess of games to review, but I ended up in The Witcher 3. There was this tree I wanted to find. I had finished the story of The Witcher 3 a week or so before.…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Trump’s State Of The Union Donation Stunt Feels Straight Out Of Twitch
Prior to last night’s State of the Union speech, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign contacted the President’s supporters to ask them for small donations. Unlike in the past, however, anyone who donated the day before the speech would get their name added to a ticker running at the bottom of the campaign’s livestream of the event.…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2018 -
EsportsThe Counter-Strike Boston Major Is Fake War Presented By Real War
Watching Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in a 7,000-seat arena for 24 hours over the course of three days made me feel like I was 19 years old again. I don’t miss it, especially after being surrounded by fans around that age at Eleague’s CS:GO major in Boston. When my 19-year-old friends and I argued about the…
By Maddy Myers Published January 31, 2018 -
OpinionYou Should Play Nuts
Nuts is a puzzle game where players must set up a series of surveillance cameras to hunt down a squirrel and find their hidden stash of food. Wandering through a hazy maze of trees to find the perfect space to drop a camera is a surprisingly tricky mind teaser that challenges memorization skills. The game’s…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
EA CEO Defends The Publisher’s Recent Slate Of Games
From an outside perspective, the past half-decade has looked rocky for Electronic Arts. A string of flops and PR disasters like Star Wars Battlefront II and Mass Effect: Andromeda, combined with moves like the shutdown of Visceral Games, has led to a lot of outrage toward the mega-publisher. EA’s perspective, however, is a little different. Yesterday…
By Jason Schreier Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
The First Third-Party Wireless PS4 Controller Is Missing A Few Things
Hori’s Onyx, available now in Europe, if the first officially-licensed third-party wireless controller for the PlayStation 4. It’s got its good points, like the Xbox-style staggered analog stick layout and one piece d-pad, but the lack of a headphone jack and other key DualShock 4 features might be a dealbreaker. I’ve been playing with the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Gwent‘s Latest Card Art Continues To Look Beautiful
A new open PTR (Public Test Realm) has gone live for Gwent, CD Projekt Red’s card game based on The Witcher. Players have already collected some beautiful new artwork for potential cards from it. Gwent has some amazing artists working on it, and the latest batch of files culled from the PTR bear that out.…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
GDC Pulls Award After Outcry Over Atari Co-founder Nolan Bushnell [Update]
A day after saying it would give Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell its 2018 Pioneer Award, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference have pulled the award, saying they will now award it to no one. The quick change followed 18 hours of outcry about Bushnell’s alleged unsavory behavior toward female Atari employees. Those stories have…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 31, 2018 -
UncategorizedHere’s February’s PlayStation Plus Lineup
February’s PlayStation Plus lineup has you covered if you missed Rime or, like me, heard the jokes about Knack but never actually played it. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. February’s PS Plus lineup is: PlayStation 4 Knack Rime PlayStation 3 Spelunker HD Mugen Souls Z…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 31, 2018 -
UncategorizedWatch Us Play Yakuza 6: The Song of Life With One Of The People Behind It
Last year, Yakuza 0brought gaming’s best crime thriller and cabaret management series to a new group of fans. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life wants to be accessible to veterans and newbies alike. We took a closer look at the game alongside senior localization producer Sam Mullen to get a sense of what’s next for…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 31, 2018 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Hardware Wizard Will Get Lifetime Achievement Honors
Genyo Takeda might not be a familiar name to Nintendo fans, but he’s been the driving force behind the company’s iconic game console hardware and revolutionary controllers, and a few classic games besides. And now, he’s getting a well-deserved lifetime achievement award. The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has told Kotaku that it will…
By Chris Kohler Published January 31, 2018 - Esports
BlazBlue Comeback Reversed In Stunning Fashion At Evo Japan
The Evolution Championship Series (colloquially “Evo”) wrapped up its first trip to Japan last weekend. It was full of incredible moments highlighting the best of competitive fighting games, including a mind-blowing moment during the BlazBlue: Central Fiction tournament that saw one entrant completely reverse his fortunes in an extremely dire circumstance. As the BlazBlue bracket…
By Ian Walker Published January 31, 2018