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A Very Pretty Cyberpunk Video Game

We wrote about The Last Night back in 2014, when it was a very small but good-looking cyberpunk game. Now, in 2017, it’s back, and is looking incredible Odd Tales have been working on the “proper” version of the game for three years now, and are trying to really nail the kind of cinematic platforming…

Civilization VI Finally Has Proper Mod Support

Civilization VI has had a strong launch, but there’s been one thing holding it back lately: Steam Workshop support didn’t ship alongside the game in October, which means the modding scene hasn’t really taken off. It will now, because the game’s “Australian Summer 2017″ updateis now live. Alongside multiplayer teams (also part of the update),…

Play Banner Saga On Twitch And The Developers Get Paid

Streaming service Twitch and Stoic, creators of The Banner Saga, have a very weird deal going on right now where if you play either of the turn-based strategy games (which are very good), Stoic will get paid. Between Feb 23-28, Twitch Prime subscribers can download the original Banner Saga via Twitch for free. Starting March…

Elite: Dangerous Planets Turned Beige By Mistake

Last year, following the release of its 2.2 patch, Elite: Dangerous players started noticing something weird: some of the game’s planets, normally detailed and full of alien colour, had started looking a little more drab. While ice planets were unaffected, worlds with high metal content had turned beige everywhere you looked, and even some rocky…

Binding of Isaac Racing Is Back From the Dead

Back in 2013, Binding of Isaac fans turned the single-player game into a competitive pastime where multiple players raced against each other, live. Races involve two players facing off simultaneously, side-by-side, with each running through the game as fast as they can. That scene faded for a while, but now it’s making a big comeback…

Glitched Hannah Montana Wishes For The Sweet Release Of Death

Today on Highlight Reel we have Pharah from downtown, powerful sniper rifle shots, Cronenberg Hannah Montana, and 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! Watch Dogs…

Pixel Privateers Is Like Squad-Based Borderlands

Do you like loot? Do you enjoy having so much loot that you don’t know what to do with it? Does the thought of drowning in a sea of loot, images of loved ones scrolling like a credits sequence as a laser gun digs deep into your esophagus, appeal to you? Then yeah, you should…

The Man Behind Blinking White Guy Is Just Happy To Be Here 

Drew Scanlon is a video producer at Giant Bomb. He’s also a blinking white guy and the face attached to thousands of social media posts and jokes. What is is like to suddenly become the face of the internet’s latest meme? Scanlon sat down with Kotaku to talk about it. Scanlon’s journey to memedom started…

Street Fighter V Stream Loses Audio, Gets Saved By Commentator’s Own Sound Effects

Some competitive gaming events would fall apart if the audio from the game the competitors were playing suddenly cut out. Not last night. During a losers bracket matchup between Arturo “Sabin” Sanchez and local competitor Bryant “Smug” Huggins at the Next Level Battle Circuit in New York City, the audio for Street Fighter V abruptly…

One Month Later, Guy Recovers $10,000 Worth Of SNES Games That Were Lost In The Mail

Last week, I reported on Byuu, an emulator developer and game archivist who was trying to preserve every single SNES game ever made. He declared his plan “dead,” however, after $10,000 worth of rare games went missing in the mail. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. Today, Byuu finally received his package. A European…

The Next Dota Major Is Already Running Into Issues

The Kiev Major, the second and final major of the Dota 2 season before the next International (Dota 2’s world cup), is facing a raft of problems. Travel issues, ticket scalpers, and changing dates are dredging up ghosts of majors past. In December, it was announced that the Kiev Major would take place from April…

Welcome To Compete

Welcome to Compete, a joint venture between Deadspin and Kotaku dedicated to covering the best, worst, dumbest, most thrilling, most interesting, and, generally, the most stupefying—in the better and worse senses of the word—in esports and competitive gaming. We’re just getting started here, but hope to make this a destination for the kind of coverage…

Getting Started In Anarchy Online After A Decade Away

Norwegian developer Funcom has been making waves lately withConan Exiles, but for me they’ll always the studio behind science fiction MMO Anarchy Online. The 16-year-old game finally hit Steam this week, so I hopped back in to create my first new character in a long, long time. I first played Anarchy Online during its infamously…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: I Cheated And My Husband Might Never Forgive Me

Hello, all you wheel-eyed death lemmings. Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that’s the king of the luchadore ring. This week, I bring you tales of struggle. It’s hard enough to recover from a mistake in your relationship, but what if your partner refuses to let it go? On the other hand,…

YouTube’s Edgy Jokes Are Part Of A Bigger Debate In The Comedy World

The conversation surrounding what is or isn’t “over the line” in comedy isn’t new. More recently, the conversation has shifted from young comedians fighting for freedom of speech to older comedians decrying political correctness. The latest controversial jokes from Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg sit at the crossroads of that ongoing debate: is there a line you…

Surprisingly, Pokémon‘s Sandcastle Monster Has Become A Thing In Competitive Play

At the start of 2017, nobody really considered Palossand, Pokémon’s sandcastle monster, to be noteworthy for competitive play. Then, the top-four World Championship finisher Markus Stadter lost against a Palossand-centric team live on a Twitch stream. After that, Stadter decided try the Palossand gimmick using Pokemon Sun & Moon’s new QR “rental” feature, which allows…

Podcast: Hunting Robot Dinosaurs In Horizon: Zero Dawn

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about robot velociraptors, bows and arrows, and a bunch of other things related to the upcoming PS4 game Horizon: Zero Dawn First Jason and I discuss the news of the week, then we’re joined by our colleague Patricia Hernandez to talk about Horizon, which she reviewed and all…

GTA Online YouTubers Are Sick of Bigger Channels Stealing Their Ideas

There’s tension brewing in the GTA Online YouTube community, where competing creators often use similar ideas. The smaller channels involved don’t think it’s a coincidence: they accuse the bigger channels of stealing their creativity, profiting off their hard work, and in some extreme cases, shutting down channels that dispute anything. RZEDis a GTA V Youtuber…