Inject The Whimsy Of Balan Wonderworld’s Opening Directly Into My Veins, Please

As the U.S. barrels towards a history-shaping day of reckoning, I find myself craving lighter, happier things. The bright, colorful, and slightly creepy intro movie for Balan Wonderworld, the new game from the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog and Nights Into Dreams, is exactly what I need. Magic happens when director Yuji Naka and designer…

One Of The Best USB Streaming Mics, Now In World Of Warcraft Flavor

Blue Microphones’ Yeti X is one of the most caster-friendly high-end USB microphones going, with cool features like on-mic LED volume metering and an outstanding software utility for tweaking every aspect of your voice recording. The Yeti X World of Warcraft Edition is all that with a cool black-and-gold rune-etched look and entertaining WoW-themed voice-changing…

Final Fantasy XIV’s Grand Score Shows Masayoshi Soken Is Every Bit Uematsu’s Equal

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re talkin’ about how Final Fantasy XIV’s incomparably huge soundtrack manages to whip ass in so many different ways. So many When you think of Final Fantasy, one of the first names that comes to…

Track: Can I Believe You | Artist: Fleet Foxes | Album: Shore

Tips For Playing Ghost Of Tsushima’s New Co-Op Mode

On Friday, Ghost of Tsushima got a lot bigger. Alongside a raft of quality-of-life updates, the latest patch for Sucker Punch’s open-world samurai adventure also introduced a robust new cooperative mode called Ghost of Tsushima: Legends. It’s really two modes—a two-player narrative adventure alongside a four-player survival gauntlet, both of which are steeped in mysticism—but…

Western Empires: The Kotaku Review

Western Empires is a big board game. A very, very, very, very, very big board game. Designed for nine players (though you can go as low as five), and played over the course of around eight hours, it’s the setting for an entire day of expansion, science, trade and battle. You and eight friends/former friends…

Bungie Cracks Down On Destiny 2 Cheat Seller

The website PerfectAim no longer sells cheats for Destiny 2 after it says it received a cease and desist letter from Bungie. PerfectAim sells access to cheats that give players an unfair advantage in a whole range of games, but Destiny 2 will no longer be one of them. When you visit the site’s cheat…

World Of Warcraft’s Speedy New Leveling Experience Leaves Me Cold

I started a new World of Warcraft character last week, following the release of the Shadowlands expansion pre-patch that, among other things, reduced the game’s level cap from 120 to 50. I’ve only adventured in two different zones and I’m already level 32. It’s all going by so fast. World of Warcraft launched in 2004…

Have You Ever Lost An Important Saved Game?

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: Have you ever lost an important saved game? Fahey Perhaps you are familiar with a story I wrote in 2017 called “My Beautiful, Perfect Child Deleted…

Everything You Need To Know About Ghost Of Tsushima‘s New Update

Ghost of Tsushima’s latest patch is a lot more than a patch. For starters, it added a meaty standalone cooperative mode to the single-player action game. It also introduced a New Game Plus and the option to dress Jin Sakai up as some of the game’s most memorable characters. There are also two exciting quality-of-life…

The PS4’s New Party Chat System Is A Pain, But Sony Is Looking Into It

Sony says it will “keep you posted” about recent changes to party chat on PS4 after users complained about how much more restrictive they make the feature. “Hey folks – just wanted to let you know that we’re looking into your feedback on the recent changes to Parties on PS4,” PlayStation tweeted out over the…

Dear Double Fine, What The Fuck Dude?

Nope! Nope. Noooope. NOPE! NOOOOPE. NOPE. What the fuck? No really, Double Fine. What. The. Fuck.? Psychonauts 2 comes to Xbox in 2021 and I really hope they leave this part out. (Seriously. Leave it out.) Note: Former Kotaku staffer Heather Alexandra now works at Double Fine in comms and community.

Please Enjoy This Ridiculous FIFA 21 Glitch

No good FIFA game is complete without the occasional bonkers moment and FIFA 21 doesn’t disappoint. As spotted by Eurogamer, Reddit user BuschLatte146 kicked off their Squad Battle against the computer by trying to catch the keeper off guard with a shot from way downtown. The seemingly sticky crossbar had other plans though, leading to…

The Week In Games: Autobots Rollout! (When It’s Your Turn)

This week we get Transformers: Battlegrounds, a game that looks a lot like another game I’ve played before. It had aliens and turn-based combat… hmmm. I don’t want to talk about that new Transformers game, instead, I want to talk about Ray’s The Dead. When I was writing up this list I thought that name…

I Wanna Live In Burning Force‘s Gorgeous ’80s Anime Future

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to Burning Force, a 1989 Namco arcade shooter with an amazing sort of bubblegum sci-fi slash Dirty Pair aesthetic. While Namco’s 3D vehicle shooter Burning Force (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) was no…