Dril Wants Your Money To Finish Some Game

Dril, the famous online shitposter, philosopher, TV star, and Betsy Ross museum volunteer, is making a video game and is asking for some cash via Patreon to finish it. According to him, it will probably be, “pretty good.” Dril announced the game today on Twitter, confirming that the game is only for true and brave…

Nioh 2‘s PS5 Upgrade Is A Good Reason To Revisit One Of Last Year’s Best Action Games

Nioh 2’s free PS5 upgrade is out today, and with it there’s one less excuse for anyone to ignore last year’s best samurai combat game.

A 12-Year Dream

Let me tell you the best thing about being editor-in-chief of Kotaku There’s a writer or a producer on the team. They have an idea. It’s something real, something they need to tell people, something worth knowing. They write it. They post it. And the readers show up. Maybe I’ve helped make that space for…

You No Longer Have To Hear Hate Speech While Playing Destruction AllStars

Since Destruction AllStars released for PlayStation 5 a whole 72 hours ago, the game has been plagued by reported instances of verbal harassment, exacerbated by a voice chat that’s turned on by default. Today, developer Lucid Games released a fix that switches the default chat to “off.” Hotfix 1.2.2 “disabled multiplayer lobby voice communications by…

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Delayed Indefinitely

Ubisoft’s upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has had its release date pushed back again, now for the foreseeable future, according to the company’s latest update on the game’s progress. “[W]e have made the decision to shift the release for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake to a later date,”…

In Mass Effect Legendary Edition, BioWare Bounces Bootylicious Butt Shots

With the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the team at BioWare is working on updating graphics and textures and showing a little more love to the first game’s Female Shepard model, to bring her image in line with the rest of the trilogy. The team is also tweaking some camera angles to make things a little…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going through all the cool indie game demos available in the Steam Game Festival. I would suggest other activities, but there are more demos than there is weekend. The particular demo I am currently enjoying is Devastator by Radiangames, an indie developer we’ve been following since thedays of the Xbox Live…

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 will no longer leave your PC open to getting hacked CD Projekt Red announced this morning that it’s patched out the security flaw previously introduced through the game’s mod support.

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox’s Lush Metal Is Hitting Me Right In The Cloaca

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to dive into the first dungeon from Ys IX: Monstrum Nox to see why the latest game in the series rocks so hard. There’s a new Ys game out this week, and once…

The rebooted Resident Evil movie is slated for release on September 3, 2021. As Slash Film notes, it’s unclear if the movie will be released in theaters or streaming. Kotaku previously reported that Constantin Film is working with writer-director Johannes Roberts on the reboot. 

Track: Design as Reduction | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Film Music Europa

A Hat Generates Big Controversy In Latest Sky: Children Of Light Update

The latest update to thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of Light introduced a new hat that has stirred up controversy among the game’s Chinese and Korean fans, with both sides claiming cultural significance related to the cosmetic item and refusing to give an inch on social media. While accessories aren’t labeled in-game, the Sky community largely assumed…

Someone Actually Hit Every Target In Super Smash Bros. Melee’s Credits

As a game that’s been played both casually and competitively for almost two decades, Super Smash Bros. Melee is pretty much figured out at this point. But one thing has always eluded diehard fans, at least in terms of recorded footage: a perfect run of the credits sequence. That changed two days ago. It started…

How To Play A Single-Player Game With Two People

A co-op game doesn’t necessarily have to be a multiplayer game. You can turn any single-player game into a cooperative one by simply…taking turns passing the controller back and forth. What a concept! But before you start, keep in mind that there’s a code of etiquette at play. Stick to it as best you can…

WallStreetBets Mods Are Now Battling For Control Over The Subreddit [Update: Reddit Intervenes]

A couple weeks ago, most people hadn’t ever heard of WallStreetBets, the edgelord Reddit hangout for renegade investors and amatuer traders. Now it’s blown up to over 8.5 million users, and a war has broken out between the old mods and the new for control over the community and its future. “Big drama going down…

Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood Is Dumb Fun ‘90s Me Would Have Loved

A man walks into a room filled with armed employees of an evil corporation that profits off harming the planet. Heavy-metal music kicks in as the man transforms into a fur-covered whirlwind of claws and fangs. One murder-filled moment later the music fades and the beast reverts to human form, quietly exiting the now egregiously…