Bethesda Announces ‘Creation Club’ For Fallout 4 And Skyrim

Remember paid mods and the fiasco that ensued after they launched? Well, Bethesda wants you to know that Creation Club—coming this summer to Skyrim and Fallout 4—isn’t that. But it does sound kinda similar. The basic idea is that developers within Bethesda as well as “some with external partners who have worked on our games,…

Bethesda Announces Quake World Championships

The first world championship for the upcoming Quake Champions will take place on August 26 in Dallas, Texas at the eponymous QuakeCon. Competitors will play for a piece of a $1 million prize pool, sure to draw out Quake talent both new and old. In the same trailer, Bethesda showed off three new maps for…

Skyrim Switch Has Amiibo Support, Lets You Dress Up As Link

The Nintendo Switch version of Skyrim will come with some special goodies and JoyCon-specific control schemes, as we can see in this new footage released by Bethesda tonight. Granted, PC players have been able to dress up as Link for ages, but hey! For the rest of us, this is pretty cool.

Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider Announced, Stars Billie Lurk

Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider is the next story in the Dishonored universe and it’s coming September 15. The standalone adventure (meaning you won’t need to own Dishonored 2 to play it) will see Daud, Empress Jessamine Kaldwin’s murder, and his former second in command from the first game’s The Knife of Dunwall DLC, Billie…

Vault Dwellers will be able to explore the Commonwealth in virtual reality later this year, as Fallout 4 drops for VR / HTC VIVE on October 2017.

Doom Is Coming to VR

There hasn’t been much VR news to talk about this E3, but Bethesda just changed that. They’re bringing 2016’s Doom to virtual reality headsets.

We’re Liveblogging Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference [Update: We’re Done]

Bethesda’s about to begin its highly anticipated and extremely late E3 2017 presentation. Seriously, a 9 PM Pacific start time? You’re up late, we’re up late, let’s do this. What will the maker of Fallout and Dishonored have up its sleeves for this year’s big show?

Watch The 2017 Bethesda Press Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

It is time for sequels to Wolfenstein and The Evil Within. And maybe some other things. Come on down for a very late night with the folks at Bethesda. Bethesda’s E3 presser starts tonight at 12am Eastern (9pm Pacific), and you can watch it all live right here (or on Twitch if that’s more up…

E3 Day One Podcast: Microsoft, EA, Xbox One X

Jason and I kick off our Kotaku Splitscreen E3 coverage with reactions to EA and Microsoft’s press conferences. Is Xbox One X a good name? Was Janina Gavankar enough to carry EA’s disappointing show? Are we more stoked about BioWare’s Anthem than Destiny 2? (The answers: No, no, hard to say.) Listen here: As always,…

Let’s Just Appreciate Sea Of Thieves’ Water For A Second

Sea of Thieves is a game about pirates, so if there’s one thing developers Rare need to get right, it’s the water. I have a thing about video game water. Whether it’s waves lapping the shore in Total War or the rolling seas of Assassin’s Creed IV, I’ve always been fascinated by the work that…

Here Are The Xbox One X’s Specs

Xbox One X Specs has a nice ring to it. Maybe that should have been the name? Whatever, here are the new console’s specs, handily compared to those of the Xbox One S and original Xbox One. You’ll see that most of the improvements come in terms of raw performance; aside from some new video…

The Xbox One X Sure Will Be Hard To Market

Today, Microsoft revealed its latest console upgrade: the Xbox One X. Sure, it’s powerful. Yes, that design looks sleek. Still, I think the new hardware is going to make things confusing for a lot of people. The most superficial complaint we can make is that “Xbox One X” is not a good name when compared…

Take A Look At The Xbox One X

There’sa new Xbox in town. There wasn’t that much of the actual hardware on show in the company’s E3 presser though, so here’s a better look at the Xbox One X’s design. As you can tell by the size of the controller there, this thing is pretty small! For an all-around look (including the back,…

Xbox One X And Everything Else Microsoft Showed At E3 2017

Microsoft kicked off their E3 2017 press conference by officially revealing their beefy new console, the $499 Xbox One X. WITNESS. The new console may have been Microsoft’s big hardware announcement, but they actually didn’t spend too much time talking about the device itself. With the announcement out of the way, their focus quickly shifted…

BioWare Shows Off Six Minutes of Stunning New Shooter, Anthem

After years of teasing it, BioWare’s next big game, Anthem, was shown off during Microsoft’s E3 press conference in LA today. In the world of Anthem, you are a freelancer who lives within the walls of a city that is protecting humanity. It looks dope. In classic BioWare tradition, conversations with other people are cinematic:…

Xbox One Will Get Compatibility With Original Xbox Games [Update]

Microsoft is expanding Xbox One’s backward compatibility program to the first Xbox, it said today at its E3 media briefing. Original Xbox games will begin appearing on the platform later this year. “OG games will look better and play better across the Xbox One family,” said head of Xbox Phil Spencer. For the time being,…

Microsoft Announces Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

As part of its E3 2017 press conference, Microsoft announced a sequel to painterly platformer Ori And The Blind Forest. It’s called Ori And The Will Of The Wisps. It looks extremely pretty! I feel bad for the blind forest, which presumably cannot see itself. The game doesn’t have a release date yet, unfortunately.

Life is Strange: Before The Storm’s First Episode Drops In August

Get ready for a hella teen time in Life is Strange: Before the Storm, a prequel starring Chloe and Rachel before the events of the first game. There will be three episodes total, with the first one releasing on August 31st. Here’s the very dramatic first trailer: The question is: will there be time travel…