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CultureSpeedrunner Beats Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Early Access Version In 7 Minutes
According to Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Steam page, the long-awaited RPG’s early access version consists of “approximately 25 hours of self-contained content,” but you can tackle it pretty much any way you want. Most diehard fans take a completionist tack, trying to stretch the still-incomplete game as far as it will go. Not Cary “Professor Palmer”…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 15, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsKingdom Hearts: Melody Of Memory Demo Shows Off A Charmingly Simple Rhythm Game
The demo for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts rhythm game is live today for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch. Based on what I’ve played, it’s the most straightforward game the series has ever seen, so simple you can play it with just one button. In Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory’s Field Battles, which are the…
By Mike Fahey Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsViral Dance Video Recreated In Disco Elysium
Back in May of 2019, a video was uploaded to the internet. The video, titled “Get tf out of my way type way,” was perfect. It became popular, racked up millions of views, and went viral on Twitter and elsewhere. And now, that amazing video has been recreated in Disco Elysium by a developer who…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 Will Be On Stadia At Launch After All
CD Projekt Red confirmed in today’s latest Nightwire livestream that Cyberpunk 2077 will come to Google’s video game streaming platform Stadia on November 19. That’s the same day it will release on other platforms like Xbox One, PS4, and PC, but up until today it wasn’t entirely clear Cyberpunk 2077 would hit Stadia then as…
By Ethan Gach Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureSony Says It Isn’t Spying On Your PlayStation Parties
Yesterday, Sony rolled out system software update 8.00 for the PlayStation 4, which added new features, renamed some old things, and for the most part got the old console ready to interact with the upcoming PS5. A notification that party chats may now be recorded began appearing along with the update, upsetting many users who…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureBorderlands 3 Is Getting Another Wave Of Downloadable Content
Borderlands 3 isn’t over. Last month, the looter-shooter’s first season pass wrapped up with a meaty story campaign that sent Vault Hunters inside the mind of Krieg, a popular character from the second game. Today, Gearbox revealed that a second wave of add-on content is en route. The two new add-ons are called the Designer’s…
By Ari Notis Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2‘s Next-Gen Upgrades Come To PS5 And Xbox Series X In December
Destiny 2 will be backwards compatible on PS5 and Xbox Series X when the consoles launch next month, but the fully next-gen version of the game won’t land until December 8. Bungie outlined how these slightly delayed upgrades will work in a new blog post today: Destiny 2 will play in 4K at 60fps on…
By Ethan Gach Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureThere’ll Be 31 Xbox Series X/S Optimized Games On Day One
Between games built for the Xbox Series X/S and older games optimized to take advantage of the new consoles’ power, there’ll be a lot to play when the fourth generation Xboxes drop on November 10. This morning Microsoft listed 31 games ready for Series X/S level play on launch day, from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to…
By Mike Fahey Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureHere’s What The PS5’s UI Looks Like
Sony released a new trailer today showing off what it will look like to navigate the PS5. In some ways it’s a lot more streamlined, but in others it also looks a lot busier, with lots of extra information to digest depending on what you’re doing. Take a look: The PS5 will still have a…
By Ethan Gach Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicCreaky Monkey Ball Ancestor Tama Sounds Whimsical AF
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. I’m dialing up the obscure-o-meter a bit today with a weird 32-bit launch title from 1994. It’s Tama! Japanese players who ponied up ¥44,800 to own a Sega Saturn on its November 22, 1994 launch met…
By Alexandra Hall Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMonster Hunter Fans Point Out A Problem In The Movie Poster
If you had issues with the live-action Monster Hunter trailer, the movie poster might also give you pause. In it a Diablos looms over star Milla Jovovich, who is wielding fire dual blades. But… As Twitter user Xyless points out, fire is the least effective element against the monster. My Game News Flash reports that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanPokémon Go Is Leaving McDonald’s In Japan
Back in 2016, when Pokémon Go first launched in Japan, the popular augmented reality game began a collaboration with McDonald’s. As of tomorrow, that will end. When the tie-up first started, around 2,500 McDonald’s restaurants doubled as PokéStops, while another 400 or so were Pokémon Gyms. According to Nikkei, the result was store sales increasing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanIn Japan, Nintendo Delays Detective Game Remakes For Switch Until Next Year
In September 2019, Nintendo revealed that remakes of the first two Famicom Tantei Club games were heading to the Japanese Switch sometime this year. Today, the Kyoto-based game company announced the games would be delayed until 2021. The first in the adventure game series, Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Koukeisha, was released on the Famicom Disk…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureTrack: In The Air Tonight (2015 Remaster) | Artist: Phil Collins | Album: Face Value (Remastered)
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Root The Root 100: Most Influential African Americans in 2020 | Deadspin Actually, it’s LeBron who’s the G.O.A.T. | Gizmodo Do Not Buy an iPhone 12 Just for 5G | The A.V. Club Back to the drawing board: 14 TV shows that should do animated episodes | Lifehacker How to Preorder the iPhone 12…
By G/O Media Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureDark Souls Modders Are Building Their Own “Sequel”
A team of Dark Souls modders havegot together to announce Nightfall, a fan-made “sequel” that, while not creating any truly new models or environments, is still setting out to build an entirely fresh Souls game on the PC. Modders working on the project include Grimrukh (Daughters of Ash), AinTunez, Meowmaritus, Dane, Zullie and some others.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty Finally Lets PC Players Uninstall Over 100GB Of Stuff
For the longest time, Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PC has made players set aside increasingly—and hilariously—enormous amounts of hard drive space, up to 232GB at last count. This week, finally, players will be able to free up some of that space While it doesn’t sound like the biggest deal, increasing numbers of PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureSpider-Man: Miles Morales Lets You Wear A Cat On Your Back
Spider-Man: Miles Morales has a lot going for it. (Just to note, former Kotaku staffer Evan Narcisse was one of the writers on the game.) But everything—the visuals, the web-slinging, the pedigree of an extremely popular character from an extremely popular cross-media franchise—pales in comparison to one thing: the cat suit. It’s not a suit…
By Ari Notis Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureDoom Running On A Calculator Powered By Old Potatoes
If you’ve got 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator? That’s what YouTuber Equalo decided to do, spending almost a week planning out how many potatoes he would need and in what configuration they should be wired in order to get the appropriate number…
By Ethan Gach Published October 14, 2020
