Report: Later This Week, EA Is Going To Decide If Anthem Lives Or Dies

EA still isn’t sure if it’s going to invest in massively overhauling its failed loot shooter Anthem, according to a new report by Bloomberg. Instead, executives from the publisher are set to meet this week to decide whether it will abandon the BioWare game or not. The studio announced last year that approximately 30 people…

I Want IO’s Upcoming 007 Game To Be Just Like Hitman‘s Train Level

The final level of Hitman 3 is an exciting and aggressive fight that moves across the length of a long cargo train filled with bad guys and guns. It’s also a bad Hitman level, but it might be our first sign of what an IO Interactive 007 game might look and play like. And that…

Disco Elysium Update Includes ‘Political Vision Quests’ That Permanently Change The UI

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, a “director’s cut” of the original game from 2019, will introduce the “political vision quest,” giving players a chance to further cement the protagonist’s ideological leanings. The Final Cut will come to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC, and Stadia next month, completing developer ZA/UM’s vision for the dialogue-heavy role-playing game.…

Would You Ever Get A Video Game Tattoo?

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take. This week we Ask Kotaku: Would you ever get a video game tattoo?  Ian Tricky question! I’m honestly wrestling with it. I didn’t blink when getting my Star Wars tattoo, as…

Epic Says Even More Epic Store Exclusives Are Coming In The Future

Epic pissed off a lot of people when it first revealed that big games like Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3 would be Epic Games Store timed-exclusives on PC. Now it says that even more exclusivity deals are on the way. “We have more exclusives coming in the next two years than we have published to…

Forza Horizon 4 Is Coming To Steam In March

Microsoft’s gorgeous British countryside racer Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Steam on March 9, the company announced today. It marks the latest in a long line of first-party Microsoft games coming to rival platforms, and the first time a Forza game has ever appeared on Valve’s storefront. The Steam version of Forza Horizon 4…

The First Character You Meet In Half-Life Is Gus The Forklift Driver

You probably know Gordon Freeman is, the silent protagonist of the Half-Life games. And I’m guessing you know other Half-Life characters, like Alyx Vance, Dr. Kliner, the mysterious G-Man, and Barney. But a recent YouTube video pays homage to the very first character you encounter in Half-Life: Gus the forklift driver. YouTuber MarphitimusBlackimus makes videos…

My Madden 21 Says The Chiefs Won The Super Bowl, And I Accept That Reality

This morning Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs were awarded the Vince Lombardi trophy after defeating Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36 to 20 in my Madden 21 simulation of Super Bowl XV. Sounds right to me. In my simulated game, which played out on my Xbox Series X console at 11…

Terraria Dev Cancels Stadia Port Over Being Shut Out Of Google Accounts

The sprawling 2D world-crafting game Terraria has been ported almost everywhere. One place it won’t be going? Stadia. At least according to one of its creators who recently took to Twitter to cancel the streaming version of the game after—he says—Google locked him out of all of his accounts. “I absolutely have not done anything…

343 Industries teased a “a new place and way to play” Halo: The Master Chief Collection in its latest development update. It could mean just about anything, like maybe MCC is getting VR support, or maybe it’s just coming to a new storefront.

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 Sets The Stage For Endwalker On April 13

There’s a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion coming later this year, but first we’ve got some loose ends to tie up. The third and final installment of the Nier-themed raid series and the first of a two-part story update leading to this fall’s Endwalker expansion arrives on April 13, alongside the open beta of the…

iam8bit’s Persona 5 Royal Vinyl Soundtrack Looks Pretty Sweet

Pre-orders for iam8bit’s three-LP vinyl soundtrack to Persona 5 Royal opened back in December, with fans dropping $75 on it without knowing what the album art or actual records look like. We’ve got an exclusive first look at the package, and, luckily for them, it’s a thing of beauty. The perfect companion to the unfortunately…

The Week In Games: Prepare For Bowser’s Fury

People like Mario games, I’ve heard. So it’s good to see Nintendo releasing another one! Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury releases later this week for Switch. I’m very excited about this port. I never owned a WiiU, so I missed out on this Mario game. It always looked like a lot of fun…

The Remade Demon’s Souls’ Soundtrack Is (Mostly) Good Enough For Me

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we take a trip into the Nexus to compare a classic’s iconic score with the newfangled revamp that attempts to build on it. For my money, the single brightest spot of the PlayStation 5’s aggressively…

Sony will finally release the PlayStation 5 in mainland China during the next quarter. As analyst Daniel Ahmad points out, players in the country have already been importing the console from abroad. 

Japanese Politicians Are Sorry For Ripping Off Anime Logo

Anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is box office smash in Japan. One politician was hoping some of its popularity would rub off, it seems, and borrowed the logo for a campaign poster. Demon Slayer, of course, is a massively successful anime and manga. Fukuoka politician Makoto Oniki (鬼木誠) copied the logo, substituting his name…

Promised Neverland Fans Aren’t Thrilled With Season 2

If you’ve read The Promised Neverland manga, you might have noticed something missing in the anime’s second season Warning: This article has spoilers. In anime’s second season has omitted the Goldy Pond arc, ditching all these chapters, and skipping ahead in the storyline. For many readers of the original manga, this arc is among their…

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