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Every Game Kotaku Splitscreen Played In 2018, Part One
It is now time forKotaku Splitscreen’s Game of the Year discussions. Except we don’t really want to pick a Game of the Year. We want to pick every Game of the Year. As has become annual tradition, this week we’re going back and talking about all of the games we played in 2018. Kirk, Maddy,…
By Jason Schreier Published December 23, 2018 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Wolf Elf
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 December 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 20. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Origins Composer Posts Unreleased Tracks
Composer Sarah Schachner, whose credits include Assassin’s Creed Origins, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and the upcoming Anthem, has released a number of previously-unreleased tracks from Origins on her Soundcloud page The tracks seem to mostly be songs that are in the game in some form but were not released on the official soundtrack for…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bethesda has announced on Twitter that anyone who logged into Fallout 76 during 2018 will receive a copy of the Fallout Classic Collection on PC. The collection contains Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. It is currently unclear how the collection will be distributed.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 -
UncategorizedModder Transforms Super Mario 64 Into Super Mario Bros.
The brain behind a number of Super Mario 64 mods has done it again by recreating lots of Super Mario Bros. levels inside of Super Mario 64. Modder Kaze Emanuar has taken the 2D level design of that older game and crammed it into the engine of Super Mario 64. Judging from the video that…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 -
UncategorizedDragon Quest XI is releasing for the Switch in Japan during 2019. It’ll be called Dragon Quest XI S, and while details are thin currently, it will have a significant amount of voice acting. There’s no word yet on a release date or whether it will release outside Japan.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Watch Out In Firewatch, Winners!
Last week I asked you to pitch some secrets for the Switch version of Firewatch, and you all delivered things that are better, and more secret, than I could ever imagine. Let’s dig in. Our winner this week really went for the massive, composite secret experience. I mean, they really just jammed this universe full…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - Culture
This Week in the Business: Gaming Is My Business, And Business Is Good
STAT | $134.9 billion – The total value of the worldwide video game market in 2018, according to market research firm Newzoo. Mobile platforms make up the largest portion of that ($63.2 billion), followed by console ($38.3 billion) and PC ($33.4 billion). STAT | 1.3 million – The Switch, PS4, and Xbox One all topped…
Brendan Sinclair Published December 22, 2018 -
ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Best Toys Of 2018
2018 was a dark time in the toy industry, as one of the biggest toy retailers in the country closed up shop, forcing collectors to stalk the shelves of Walmart and Target for their fix. But Toys’R’Us’ demise didn’t stop some outstanding toys from being released. Let’s play! Toys’R’Us will be back one day, making…
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2018 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for wanting to cook yourself some fancy food for the holiday, which will most likely mean pulling all your cookbooks off the shelf and then staring at them indecisively, giving up, and playing video games. I haven’t had the time to sit down with The Long Dark’s overhauled story mode this week,…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 21, 2018 -
ReviewsYear in ReviewThe Year In Relaxing and Stressful Games
With the year winding down, I thought it’d be great to look at three games you can chill with as the impending apocalypse—I mean New Year’s—rolls in. Or, if you’d like to prepare for the end times with some hectic games that get your heart rate up, Gita was nice enough to give me her…
Paul Tamayo & Gita Jackson Published December 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
With Activision’s Influence Growing, Blizzard Is Cutting Costs
Blizzard has spent the year taking big measures to cut costs as it prepares for a lean 2019. Those measures, as conveyed by people who work or have worked for the iconic studio, include employee buyouts in which workers are offered money to leave, a broadening of the finance department, and the limitation of budgets…
By Jason Schreier Published December 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Creates Official Catalog Of Overwatch Pros Who Break The Rules
We know who’s been naughty now, thanks to Blizzard’s new website outing Overwatch pros for violating the Overwatch League’s rules and code of conduct. The Overwatch League’s “discipline tracker” is a public list of players who broke league rules, such as by boosting other people’s accounts or being toxic. Next to their infractions, Blizzard lists…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 21, 2018 -
CultureRed Dead Online Is In The Holiday Spirit
I’m a sucker for some Christmas music, and now it’s following me from the real world into Red Dead Online Various videos have popped up on reddit of Red Dead Online players visiting local saloons to hear the piano player bust out some Christmas classics. I took a trip to Blackwater and checked it out…
By Paul Tamayo Published December 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Valve Walks Back Its Stance On Balancing Artifact Cards
Digital card game Artifact received some crowd-pleasing changes yesterday, and thank God, because players have been bleeding out of the game since its late November launch. The new update gives Artifact a leveling system, which comes with rewards like card packs, and independent skill ratings, which starts at one and caps at 75. “Over the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 21, 2018 -
Uncategorized2018’s Biggest Video Games, In Under Two Minutes
As he does every year, Malcolm Klock has put together a video running us through 2018’s best (and some of the worst!) video games in under two minutes. Blink and you might miss your favourite. Of course, some games get more screentime than others—it’s not every year we get a new Red Dead—but Yakuza is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
I Accidentally Made A Nightmare Coaster In Parkitect
My park was hemorrhaging money, and lines for my steel coaster were depressingly empty. The only thing to do was take out a loan and try to make my ride less terrifying so people would actually get on it. Parkitect is a spiritual successor to the old Rollercoaster Tycoon games that I used to pick…
By Gita Jackson Published December 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedUbisoft’s recently-released toy spaceship game is lovely, butit needed more enemies and activities. Today’s free holiday update for Starlink: Battle for Atlas adds more enemies and activities, as well as a photo mode to capture all that sweet alien flora and fauna action. I love it when an update gives me everything I want.
By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2018
