The western release of SINoALICE, the smartphone game from Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro scheduled to launch worldwide today, has been delayed indefinitely, publisher Nexon announced on Facebook. For now, the game remains exclusive to Japan.
Amazon Game Studios announced a new Lord of the Rings free-to-play MMO is in the works for PC and consoles. Details, per Entertainment Weekly, are scant, but the game is being developed by the same studio behind Amazon’s New World MMO.
Rare Replay is coming to Xbox Game Pass. Subscribers will be able to download the 30-game collection when it arrives June 20, alongside Resident Evil: Revelations.
The R-Type Final 2 Kickstarter met its funding goal of $416,267 today. The estimated delivery window is December 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Ouya, the tiny, Kickstarted Android console, is officially dead. Razer announced that all services will be shut down June 25, 2019. So long, Ouya, and thanks for Towerfall.
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Codemasters is rebooting Grid, the pro racing series that’s been dormant since 2014's Grid: Autosport. The new Grid arrives September 13, 2019.
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG developer Ackk Studios will add a “works cited” section to the game’s credits after Ackk was accused of plagiarizing novelist Haruki Murakami. Full story here.
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Here’s your first look at gameplay footage for Oddworld: Soulstorm, developer Lorne Lanning’s rebooted sequel to Abe’s Odyssey, returning the series to its platforming roots.
Phew! Good thing Ariana Grande got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe multiplayer sorted.
The excellent Fortnite Thanos event ends on May 15th, Epic Games announced. If you haven’t terrorized your rivals with the Infinity Gauntlet yet, you have one more day to do so!
The second Gintama movie will be released in Japan on August 17. It’s current—and temporary title—is Gintama 2.
Rockstar has officially announced a new GTA Online mission that will unlock a gun in Red Dead Redemption 2, as we reported yesterday. Read more
Riot Games has laid out a tentative road map for League of Legends updates coming in 2017. In a new “Riot Pls,” lead producer New001 goes over the checklist, including changes to runes and phasing out the old Adobe Air client.
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If you woke up this morning thinking “Hey I want to watch Jason talk to Kinda Funny’s Colin Moriarty for like two hours,” you are in luck. Last week in San Francisco, I went on Colin’s show to talk about Kotaku, journalism, and all sorts of other video game subjects. Enjoy!
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Gears of War 4's new Horde 3.0 mode looks sick thanks to new classes, enemy types, maps, and even vehicles (!). It’s been too long since we’ve had a Gears game with this type of co-op goodness, eh?
Just Cause 3's Mech Land Assault DLC arrives June 3 for season pass owners, June 10 for folks that would rather pay piecemeal. The barrage of videos depicting gravity gun-based carnage will follow immediately after.
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Necropolis’ 4-player co-op is lookin’ pretty cool. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a tiny bit longer to play it in full, as the the roguelike dungeon crawler has been pushed back to summer 2016.
We’re bringing back our regular “Video Game Industry Layoff Stories” feature, where we round up layoff stories from the volatile game industry. If you’re a game dev who wants to share a story—totally anonymously—e-mail me.
Microsoft has created a nifty little Year in Review page for Xbox One and 360 gamers to check out their stats for 2015. Make sure you’re logged in to your Xbox Live account and hit up the page to see how you rank. Then share your findings here!
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Learn how to take down a TIE Fighter in a single shot, where to shoot an AT-AT for massive damage, and more with jackfrags’ quick tips for Star Wars: Battlefront.