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CultureHideo Kojima’s BFF Geoff Keighley Is Actually In Death Stranding
New York’s hottest club is Death Stranding. It has everything: bridges, fjords, invisible babies, and Geoff Keighley. While he’s actually voiced by Matthew Mercer, longtime Kojima stan Geoff Keighley has a cameo as a “prepper” in the upcoming game Death Stranding, which comes out November 8 on PlayStation 4. Kojima said that Keighley is easily…
By Gita Jackson Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureSony Buys Spider-Man Developer Insomniac Games
Sony has purchased the California-based game studio Insomniac Games, best known for last year’s Spider-Man on PS4. Insomniac will become an exclusive PlayStation developer, Sony says. Founded in 1994, Insomniac remained independent for 25 years, working largely with Sony on series like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance but also with other big game companies like…
By Jason Schreier Published August 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes to Switch October 15. The release date for the port of the Complete Edition was announced via a new trailer during the opening night of Gamescom. The Switch version includes all of the DLC and apparently, magically, won’t break your Switch the second it boots up.
By Ethan Gach Published August 19, 2019 -
CulturePlayers And Makers Of Apex Legends Resort To Name-Calling Over Microtransactions
Over the weekend, the frustrations of Apex Legends players percolating over the battle royale game’s microtransactions boiled over as a developer on the game called players who are rude to developers as “ass-hats” and called one player a “dick.” Understanding why a developer would do that means understanding why the community is so angry. Prior…
By Gita Jackson Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureCyberpunk 2077 And More Games Coming To Stadia
CD Projekt Red’s anticipated Keanu Reeves vehicle Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Stadia among other games, Google said today in its second Stadia Connect livestream. Orcs Must Die 3 is coming exclusively to Stadia. (Update, 4:07 p.m.: Robot Entertainment has now said that it will be a timed exclusive only.) The previous game in the…
By Chris Kohler Published August 19, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsUpcoming Exploration RPG Greedfall Has My Attention
When I was first asked to preview Greedfall, an upcoming RPG by Spiders, I didn’t really know what to expect. Its vast world, packed with ruins and frontier towns, captured a sense of discovery but also evoked a strange apprehension in me. Greedfall brims with potential, yet even after playing it, I can’t tell if…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureEverything Microsoft Showed On Today’s Inside Xbox
Microsoft showed off Gears of War 5‘s horde mode, NBA 2k20‘s career mode, and the new games coming to Game Pass during its latest episode of Inside Xbox The episode spanned over an hour and a half, and while it was mostly full of new trailers for games we already knew about, there were a…
By Ethan Gach Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryPlaying PC Building Simulator On My Switch Feels Weird
I’ve been installing motherboards, CPUs, memory sticks, hard drives, power supplies, and video cards into computer cases for nearly three decades. With last week’s console release of PC Building Simulator, now I’m putting together gaming rigs on my Nintendo Switch. It’s surreal. Demoed in 2017 and released in its final form on Steam earlier this…
By Mike Fahey Published August 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting crossplay on consoles During today’s Inside Xbox livestream, it was announced that crossplay between Xbox and Playstation players is on the way. The update is planned for late September on test servers and (hopefully) early October for live servers.
By Heather Alexandra Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureNintendo Switch Is Getting A Ton Of New Indie Games (Including Ori And The Blind Forest)
There are a bunch of indie games newly coming to the Switch, including the Microsoft-published Ori and the Blind Forest, which will be coming to the platform on September 27, Nintendo announced in its “Indie World Showcase.” It will join Cuphead, which released on Switch earlier this year and was also previously a console exclusive…
By Ethan Gach Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureMinecraft Is About To Look Much Better On PC
It turns out that Minecraft is getting a visual update after all, just not the one that was originally promised. Overnight, graphics card makers Nvidia announced a new update for the game that will add Minecraft to the growing list of PC games that support real-time ray tracing. “Ray tracing is one of the key…
By Ethan Gach Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Totally Rad
Yo, this upcoming week is totally tubular and rad. Like, you know it is just super rad. Very gnarly. Other 80s slang and phrases. Rad is coming out next week. I love the look of this game, but it doesn’t sound like it is very……rad. See what I did there? Moving on. Next weekend I…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 19, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Gucci Gucci | Artist: Kreayshawn | Album: Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 18, 2019 -
CultureRainbow Six Siege’s Next Operation Will Add A Cool New Grappling Hook And A Reworked Kanal
Ubisoft announced new details about the upcoming third season of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 were announced today at the Rainbow Six Major in Raleigh. A new operation is coming called Ember Rise. It will add two new operators, a revamped version of the map Kanal, a battle pass system and a series…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 18, 2019 -
CultureEvery Flavor Of Game Fuel Reviewed And Then Mixed Together
A few weeks ago I bought a can of Mountain Dew Amp Game Fuel and reviewed it. I hated it. It sucked. Evidently, this angered some people on the internet. I guess some folks really love Game Fuel? Between comments calling me names and people yelling at me for not liking an energy drink, some…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 18, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Happy Birthday!
In a few days, August 20th to be precise, I celebrate my birthday. I’m having a party, but maybe you wonderful Kotaku readers can help plan a second party. But as I write about video games, legally it must be video game-related. Them’s the rules. Your challenge this week: Throw me a party with video…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 18, 2019