The Red Lantern, a “story-driven rogue-lite” about building a dog-sledding team, is coming to Switch and PC on October 22. Why does a life in the Alaskan wilderness sound so tempting right now

Destiny 2 Is Getting Some Wild New Exotic Gear In Beyond Light

Bungie teased a bunch of new exotic guns and armor coming to Destiny 2 in Beyond Light next month in a new trailer today. One of them summons a floating orb that shoots bullets from an alternative timeline. One of the biggest criticisms of Destiny 2 back when it first launched was the dearth of…

PlayStation Trophies Are Getting A Refresh Before They Move Over To PS5

Sony announced it’s expanding the number of trophy levels and changing how they’re calculated ahead of the release of the PS5. Currently, PlayStation Network users have a level from one to 100 based on the total number of trophies they’ve collected while playing games on the platform. Starting later today that will change, with everyone…

The Inevitable Funko Pop! Match-Three Mobile Game Is Here

Available as a free download today on iTunes and Google Play, Funko Pop! Blitz is a fast-paced match-three game in which players collect pop culture icons and play with their heads. So far it’s got characters from Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Kung-Fu Panda, Universal Monsters, and Shrek. Eventually, it will have all the…

Watch A Man Tear Down A PlayStation 5

The PS5 is a big console. Wonder what’s inside? Sure, the specs give us a very good idea, but that’s not the same as watching someone take the machine apart. In the seven-minute plus clip below, Yasuhiro Ootori of the company’s hardware design division gets out his screwdrivers and goes to work. Sony has not…

Let’s All Cry Because Final Fantasy IX Is Over

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to talk about Final Fantasy IX’s ending theme, an audio sponge that sucks up 40 hours of emotion-packed Japanese RPG and squeezes it out all over every time you listen. Opening themes set…

Goodness, Mario Themed Pancake Sandwiches Are Coming To Japan

While Super Nintendo World won’t open until next spring, Universal Studios Japan has a taste of Nintendo starting this month. What USJ is calling “the world’s first Mario Café & Store” will set up shop in the park’s Hollywood street starting October 16, serving up yummy treats and selling cute merch. USJ wants to offer…

Universal Studios Japan’s Super Nintendo World Opens Next Spring

Originally, Universal Studios Japan’s Super Nintendo World was scheduled to open this July. But due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Mario-themed area was delayed. As previously reported, in the park’s attempts to maximize social distancing and avoid congestion, it was decided opening the new area would make that too difficult. Today, according to Kai-You,…

Genshin Impact Is Censoring Words Like ‘Taiwan’ And ‘Hong Kong’

The chat feature in Breath of the Wild-style gacha game Genshin Impact has been found to censor a variety of words, including references to places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet. These details first gained prominence thanks to a video uploaded to Twitter by independent journalist Kazuma Hashimoto. The video, which Kotaku has reuploaded to…

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Blacktober Is A Hashtag Full Of Black Artistic Excellence

One of the first works of fiction I ever wrote was for my sister. She was a big Lord of the Rings fan and had the biggest crush on Orlando Bloom’s Legolas character, so I wrote a story starring a Black elf who fell in love with him. There were no Black people in Middle…

Watch Dogs Legion Will Include (Another) Assassin’s Creed Crossover

There’s a throughline in Ubisoft’s open-world games. You know, by now, to expect enemy outposts, tight combat, and roughly 99,000 points of interest. When you play one, you learn how to play them all. But two of Ubisoft’s biggest series have a bit more in common. Ubisoft revealed today that a member of the Assassin’s…

20 Years Ago Digimon: The Movie Premiered, And It Wasn’t Great

Two decades ago today Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids released Digimon: The Movie in theaters across the U.S. An extremely edited mash-up of three different Japanese Digimon short films, it wound up a mess of a movie with an awesome soundtrack. Let’s all get digital. In the late ‘90s, following the success of the first…

Overwatch will be free to play for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers October 13-20. This trial features everything the game has to offer, including the plethora of heroes and maps that have been released since launch.

Streets Of Rage 4 Elevator Skip Turns Into Dance Party

Sometimes, you just gotta dance. And what better time to work on your moves than when skipping a huge section of Streets of Rage 4? In a recent clip, speedrunner Greenalink demonstrates a new bug that allows Streets of Rage 4 players to bypass an auto-scrolling elevator section. While there’s still a bit of downtime,…