Black Ops 4‘s New Ad Campaign Is Actually Pretty Funny

In anticipation of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s release on October 12, the Call of Duty brand has launched a wave of commercials that lean into what the community has been doing during the various betas this year. They’re funny! These videos, tagged with #CODNation, are made up of community created content that has…

Arena’s Open Beta Is A Good Way To Play Magic: The Gathering, But It Has Some Pitfalls

Magic: The Gathering Arena is the venerable card game’s new entry into the digital space, and the free-to-play game is finally in open beta on PC after several months of closed beta. I’ve been playing it for those several months. I have some opinions. If you aren’t aware of Magic: The Gathering, it is a…

‘Shop Contest: Pet Distribution

Fortnite broke all the rules by giving everyone cute and fun pets this week, so we need to even the score: I need you to put pets in every game. Listen, I don’t care how you do it, but no one is going to buy any game without pets in it in the foreseeable future.…

Podcast: Telltale, PS4 Cross-Play, And The Nintendo Fandom

We covered a lot of ground on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, from studio closures to cross-console play to laughably large mousepads. Jason Schreier is off for one more week, so my Kotaku colleague Maddy Myers once again filled in for him. We spent the first part of the show talking about what the Telltale games…

Sunday Comics: Competitive Classics

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Dark Souls 3‘s Cut Environment Effects Look Amazing

Data digger Lance McDonald has worked through the game files in the original alpha for Dark Souls III and has discovered some radical environmental changes that were implemented then cut from the game. The key to changing environment effects in the game has to do with what is labeled in the game files as “ceremonies.”…

The Perfect Beer Pairings For Magic Cards

An Instagram account called “jokulhops” is pairing specific Magic cards with beers that seem to go with them. This is the kind of Magic content that I enjoy. As you can see in the header, the delicious peach fruit that the Spike Feeder is, well, feeding on looks juicy and amazing. What better way to…

Grand Theft Auto V Mod Lets You Become The Predator

The Predator has fascinated us since its film debut all the way back in 1987, and now, through the power of modding, you can play as this intergalactic hunter in Grand Theft Auto V The Predator mod is developed by JulioNIB, who created the amazing Magneto mod that we featured a few weeks ago. While…

Pandas are coming to Minecraft. Pandas are coming to Minecraft! Pandas! Are! Coming! To! Minecraft! They were revealed in a Minecon World stream today, and they are “lazy and playful.” They will appear in the holiday update coming to Minecraft later this year.

Minecraft: Dungeons Is The New Game Set In The Minecraft Universe

Minecraft: Dungeons, a new game set in the Minecraft universe, was announced during the Minecon Earth livestream this afternoon. While details on the game are slim, the developer interviews in a short video that played before the official trailer claimed that Minecraft: Dungeons is an adventure game where up to four players can team up…

‘Shop Contest: Make Sense Of Death Stranding, Winners!

Last week we got to see some new stuff from the upcoming Death Stranding, but it was confusing. So I asked you to ‘shop up some explanations for me, and you did a great job. Hideo Kojima, one of the key talents behind Death Stranding, has always leaned pretty hard on questions of “who the…

This Week In The Business: The Walking Dead

QUOTE | “We’re currently still working to find a way to hand off production of episodes 3 and 4 so that the season can be completed.” – Telltale Games reassures fans that it is still trying to finish the final season of The Walking Dead QUOTE | “By keeping the Company open in some capacity,…

Professor Layton On Mobile Could Really Use A Stylus (Or An iPad)

The first game in the Professor Layton series, 2007’s Curious Village, is now out in a beautiful HD version for smart devices. It’s a nice way to revisit this excellent puzzle game, but trying to play something designed to use with the Nintendo DS precision stylus on a phone with a finger can be annoying.…

Video Game Wikis Abandon Their Platform After Year Of Problems

After a year of issues, the Runescape wiki is leaving the Fandom platform, and more may follow suit. If you need to look up a video game factoid, you’re probably going to end up on a site owned by Fandom, which provides a free-to-use online encyclopedia framework called Wikia. Starting last year, these video game…