XCOM 2 Getting New Story Missions, A Level Editor

More than two years since its release, XCOM 2 is still a behemoth of a strategy game, but things have been quiet out of developer Firaxis’ camp since the release of excellent expansion War of the Chosen last year. Today, the developer surprise-announced that it’s not done with XCOM 2 just yet. New additions to…

More Games Should Let Us Replay The Tutorial

Of all the many valid reasons I’m still playing The Witcher 3, there’s one that’s not related to the game’s quality. If I put it down for too long, I’ll completely forget how to play. It’s a problem that extends to every game I own. I recently discovered a game in my Steam library that…

Witcher Author Threatens CD Projekt Red With Legal Action If It Doesn’t Pay Him More

The creator of The Witcher books, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, has called on CD Projekt Red to pay him up to $16.1 million more in royalties following the success of the studio’s video game adaptation of the series. In a post on the company’s website, CD Projekt Red called the demands “groundless.” Lawyers for Sapkowksi…

What Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Changes From Origins

At a glance, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey looks a lot like last year’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. Despite swapping Egyptian pyramids for Greek temples, the surface-level similarities are numerous. There are plenty of subtle differences, however. (Note: This piece is based on the 14 hours I’ve played with the game as well as our reviewers’ 75 hours…

Leaked Video Seems To Show Open-World Harry Potter Game

A video, leaked this morning by a Reddit user who says they captured it from a focus group, shows an apparent big-budget Harry Potter game that looks fantastic. Publisher Warner Bros. has yanked the video from YouTube, but you can watch a mirror here. The footage shows, among other things: Wizards in Hogwarts academy casting…

Call of Duty: WWII, (Almost) One Year Later

On November 3, 2017, Call of Duty: WWII arrived to return the franchise back to its roots. It got off to one hell of a rocky start, but it’s improved quite a bit since launch. With Black Ops 4 arriving in just a few days’ time, let’s look back on how WWII fared after nearly…

Japan’s Crappiest Apartments 

Because Japan has lots of people and not as much space, interesting housing solutions are a necessity. Some of them are cool. Some of them are terrible. In the past, people have posted crappy real estate under the tag #クソ物件オブザイヤー2017 (#kuso bukken obu za iyaa 2017 or “shittiest real estate of the year 2017″) or…

Hollywood’s Monster Hunter Movie Still Sounds Kinda Eh

The Monster Hunter games are about people who track and hunt, well, monsters. The plot of the upcoming live-action film has monsters as well as the United Nations and a portal to another dimension. Because, Hollywood! As with the Resident Evil movies, the Milla Jovovich vehicle puts its own spin on the popular games. According…

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When Disney Meets Historical Fashion

Belle’s dresses in Beauty and the Beast are fancy, but they’re not exactly authentic to the place and time of the original 18th century French fairy tale that Disney adapted. Cosplayer Athena’s Adventures decided to address this with an adaptation of her own, taking Belle’s basic colour palette and turning her ball gown into something…

Final Fantasy VII Cosplay Is The Hero, Not The Villain Here

Natane Eklund works by day as an artist in the video game industry, but over the past year she’s also been toiling away on a gaming project of a different kind: a full 1:1 replica of Sephiroth’s Final Fantasy VII costume, complete with Jenova prop. It really is something else; you tend to see a…

The Ghostbusters Can Do It!

Here’s AlyCat with some Ghostbusters x Rosie the Riveter cosplay. Photos by Chiseled Light Photography, proton pack by GHOSTBUSTERS: OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The Great Cosplay Parade

I know, we’ve already run a DragonCon gallery, but this video from Legend of Micah covers the parties and giant parade that take place over the weekend, as cosplayers head down Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta.

Seattle Police Launch An Anti-Swatting Program

Swatting is pretty much the shittiest prank a person can pull, if you can even call an action that might lead to someone’s death a “prank.” Somebody calls the police and accuses somebody else—often someone who’s livestreaming—of an in-progress crime so heinous that a SWAT team shows up at their door, with unpredictable consequences. Late…

Cosplayer, Leeloo Dallas, Multipass

The instupituous Alyson Tabbitha becomes Mila Jovovich with this Fifth Element cosplay. We’ve covered Alyson’sincredible work loads of times here on Kotaku, but you can see a lot more at her Instagram page As a bonus, here’s some behind the scenes footage from this shoot (which actually took place last year) taken by photographer David…

Gearbox CEO Says His Former Assistant Stole $3 Million

In 2014, Randy and Kristy Pitchford found that they needed a personal assistant to help manage their busy lives. He was the CEO of Borderlands maker Gearbox Software, she the owner of the Dallas-area gaming-themed cafe Nerdvana. They hired John Wright Martin, who worked for the couple for two years. In 2016, they parted ways.…