In the dying hours of my work week I desperately tried to blast my way through Yoku’s Island Express. It is the quintessential Game Pass game; released in 2018 to a sanguine reception, as enthusiasts everywhere marveled at Villa Gorilla’s ability to merge pinball dexterity with Metroid-style puzzle solving, and it’s…
As the pandemic stretches into fall, we have to face facts; We’re going to run out of TV and, Tenet’s tentative release notwithstanding, the only reason there will be tentpole movies in 2021 is because most 2020 film premieres have been canceled. Filming is delayed on new seasons of your favorite shows and film…
CD Projekt Red recently shared a screenshot of a scene from Cyberpunk 2077 with subtitles turned on, which immediately made the internet’s eyes hurt. Fortunately, the publisher now says players will have some options for that tiny text bigger.
Here’s how to avoid a painful onboarding experience and get to where the game really starts.
I don’t know about you folks, but my desk is protected by one of the Autobot’s greatest warriors. Welcome back to our daily open thread.
Speedrunners do some crazy things in order to skip levels and invoke glitches. In the first virtual reality speedrun in Games Done Quick history, runner Buffet_Time literally crawls on his hands and knees to shave precious minutes off his time playing Half-Life: Alyx.
2020 at times feels like the prologue of a post-apocalyptic game, so it seems like a perfect time for Wasteland 3 to release.
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, a dose of pure, straight-up, 1990 Technosoft. These folks could make the Sega Genesis sing.

Tokyo discount store Takeya has launched a “smile campaign” with staff wearing masks emblazoned with photos of their…
Maciej Rebisz is an artist at CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077.
Summer Games Done Quick has wrapped up after a week of streaming, and we got a week of very cool shit, some fun times, and over $2 million raised for Doctors Without Borders—also known by its better name, Médecins Sans Frontières.
Fall Guys, which has only just launched on PC and PS4, is also coming to mobile phones at some point in the future. Chinese publisher Bilibili announced they’ve secured the rights to the game’s release in the region.
IKEA’s new 2021 catalogue is out, and while it’s fine if IKEA catalogues are your thing, others might be more interested in the smaller, cuter Animal Crossing version instead.
While some of the sound effects in the original Doom were created just for the game, most of them actually came from sound libraries. This means dedicated fans with some time on their hands can actually dig around and find exactly where nearly every sound in the game comes from. Turns out camels are a very important…
Yesterday was a great day for King Shark fans, like myself. We got two different digital King Sharks. One from the recently announced game Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and one from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. This is a good thing. Let’s celebrate.
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Today, during a DC FanDome presentation, developer Rocksteady revealed Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, the first new game from the studio since 2015's Batman Arkham Knight. It will be released in 2022 on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC.
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