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CultureLeague Of Legends Is Coming To Consoles, Phones
After a decade of dominating on PC, League of Legends is finally launching a version of the game on both home consoles and mobile devices. It’s called League of Legends: Wild Rift, and makes some important changes to the PC version. It’s got a modified version of the map, a new user interface and dual-stick…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Eridium Event Only Highlights How Worthless The Currency Is
We’ve reached the third week of unique Borderlands 3 events, and this time around Gearbox has seen fit to tweak the numbers to make Eridium, a secondary currency that’s much harder to find than regular money, drop more frequently. The only problem is that there’s still very little on which to actually spend these purple…
By Ian Walker Published October 15, 2019 -
Uncategorized2500 Classic MS-DOS Games Are Now Free To Play
Remember, the Internet Archive is useful for more than just seeing how embarrassing your old Kotaku posts were. It’s also home to a ton of classic PC games, and 2500 new ones have just been added to the site’s catalogue. There’s obviously a load of crap among that number, but there are also some damn…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Switch Just Can’t Handle Overwatch
With today’s launch of Overwatch on Nintendo Switch, there is officially a worst way to play one of the best games of all time. There are a lot of sub-optimal things about this port. The timing is inopportune, for one. Overwatch is landing on Switch three and a half years after its original release, and…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureNew Paradox Game Steals Halo Artwork, Gets Pulled
Grand strategy masters Paradox today announced a new mobile take on their big space game Stellaris, which has already been taken offline after fans quickly discovered that the title featured art literally stolen from an artist at 343 Studios, the developers of the Halo series. Here’s the art in question, found within the game (it…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty Mobile Is Fun Even For Hardcore Players
Call of Duty: Mobile is an addictive multiplayer game that even the most casual mobile player can enjoy, but also one that even hardcore console players like myself might find to be surprisingly compelling. Developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios, Call of Duty: Mobile launched worldwide on October 1 as a free-to-play game for Android and…
By S.E. Doster Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedShadow Of Tomb Raider Isn’t Getting A New Tomb, But Will Soon Be Free Of Unpopular Outfit Restrictions
There’s nothing like the announcement of a “definitive edition” of a game to wring some answers out of a game studio and their marketing team. And so, with the announcement of Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for November 5, we finally can stop wondering about two important Tomb Raider things. 1. Is there…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedBaldur’s Gate And Planescape: Torment Still Tell Stories Like No Other Games Can
With today’s releases of Baldur’s Gate games and Planescape: Torment for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, some of the most influential video games of the last 20 years complete a very long journey to the kind of wide audience they’ve long existed just outside. They’re also very old games that have spawned newer,…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 15, 2019 -
Tips & GuidesDon’t Miss Out On This Optional Indivisible Party Member
Indivisible’s core conceit revolves around enlisting a wide array of party members, each with their own skills, to contribute to the Valkyrie Profile-esque combat. But there’s one recruitable character that’s entirely optional and pretty easy to miss in the game’s second major dungeon, which is a shame because his utility and damage output have since…
By Ian Walker Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedRed Dead Online’s Weekly Legendary Bounties Are Worth Trying
Back in September, Rockstar started adding weekly legendary bounties in Red Dead Online. These new legendary bounties have unique cutscenes, new voice acting and are designed to feel like big cinematic missions. The first two were great. The three since then have been as well, making legendary bounties some of the best content in the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureWoW Classic‘s First Big Content Update Adds Dire Maul Dungeons
Now that players have had a month and a half to get used to World of Warcraft as it was in late 2004, it’s time to scootch forward to early 2005. Today’s first major update to World of Warcraft Classic adds the three-part Dire Maul dungeon, filed with Ogres, elves, and assorted evil. Dire Maul…
By Mike Fahey Published October 15, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformThe Brilliant Outer Wilds Breaks Many Of Gaming’s Unwritten Rules
In the indie sci-fi exploration game Outer Wilds, you play as a four-eyed alien setting off in a rinky-dink rocket on an outer space mission. That’s all very exciting, at least until the sun explodes and demolishes your galaxy. That galactic destruction kicks off a mysterious time loop that brings you back to 22 minutes…
By Maddy Myers Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Witcher 3 On Switch Gives Us What We Always Needed: A Portable Geralt
The Witcher 3 is on Nintendo Switch today. I am a person who loves both The Witcher 3 and going places, so you’d think this would be the greatest day of my life. After a few hours with The Switcher, I have some hesitations, but ultimately, it’s a fine port, and if that gets more…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDestiny 2‘s New Grind Might Be Asking Too Much
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is made with the dedicated Destiny player in mind. It’s an expansion that foregrounds much of the math that Destiny has spent the last few years hiding, giving players more control over how they tweak and build their Guardians to play the way they want them to play. I enjoy this, but…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedOverwatch’s Dva features in a brand new Switch controller, which I had to grab the moment I saw it. While it looks great in the box, the Dva controller doesn’t feel half as high-quality as a Switch Pro controller, which is $20 more expensive. Thankfully, it has motion controls, so we’ll be able to take…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Hunger City | Artist: Cherry Bomb | Album: Howard The Duck
By Chris Kohler Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureI have never wanted a photo mode for a game more than I want one for Control, and it’s coming tomorrow It comes with ten different filters, as well as the option to hide Jesse and other characters. But why would you do that when you could turn the our humble Director into an Instagram star?
By Gita Jackson Published October 15, 2019
