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A Closer Look at The Witcher 3′s Most Outrageous Quest
The Witcher 3 is an astounding RPG full of countless quests. It ranges from sweeping epic battles to smaller, more intimate tales. I started playing the “Hearts of Stone” DLC recently and experienced a quest so wonderful, I had to take a deeper dive. This quest is so damn great that Kirk Hamilton also found…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 7, 2016 -
I Keep Going Back To The First Forza Horizon
Do you have a game you regularly return to, just because you like how it feels? For me, that game is Forza Horizon I love hopping into a car and zipping my way through Horizon’s Colorado to the tune of pulsing music and the roar of the engine. I also like zipping my way through…
GB Burford Published October 7, 2016 -
Aww, Voodoo Vince Is Getting An HD Remaster
2003 puzzle platformer Voodoo Vince is a game that deserved better than original Xbox exclusivity. Creator Clayton Kauzlaric agrees, so his independent studio is releasing an HD remaster for Xbox One and Windows next year. Between its colorful New Orleans setting and the concept of a living voodoo doll that hurts himself to hurt his…
By Mike Fahey Published October 6, 2016 -
Newest Madden Puts Sun On Wrong Side Of The Sky, EA Vows To Fix
The makers of Madden NFL 17, the most realistic football game on Earth, have confirmed to Kotaku that their latest game puts the sun in the wrong part of the sky. During evening games in Los Angeles, the sun appears to set in the east, a problem that probably won’t be fixed until next year’s…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 3, 2016 -
Two Wild Nights In GTA Online Finally Made Me A Fan
I’m finally into Grand Theft Auto Online. It took me a while. The game launched in late 2013, though I’m not sure I could have been excited for it sooner. What’d it take? Two nights of chaos and a revelation about what Rockstar’s multiplayer game actually is. For some time I have been a GTA…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2016 -
N64 Emulator Pops Up On Xbox One, Gets Removed
A Nintendo 64 emulator was briefly available on Xbox One earlier this week, but Microsoft yanked it from the store today. Sad news for people who yearn to play Paper Mario on an Xbox. The emulator Win64e10, which has been a Universal Windows App for months now, popped up Sunday on the Xbox One. Microsoft’s…
By Jason Schreier Published September 27, 2016 -
That Time Donald Trump Fired Fake PlayStation Employees In An Xbox Skit
Ah, 2004. It was a simpler time—a time of MySpace and Xanga, a time of American Idol and 7th Heaven. In games, 2004 was the year of World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2. George Bush defeated John Kerry. It was also the year Donald Trump appeared in an Xbox E3 ad spoofing The Apprentice and…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 27, 2016 -
Players Celebrate As Star Wars Battlefront Cuts An Amusingly Controversial Feature
It’s rare that the removal of a feature from a video game makes fans of that game happy, but fans of Star Wars Battlefront seem pretty happy that, thanks to a new update, anyone playing as a Stormtrooper in the game is forced to keep their helmet on. “No more wretched storm troopers without helmets,”…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2016 -
A lengthy new blog post from the developers of The Division outlines major changes being made to character stats, skills and gear as part of the big October 1.4 patch that’s intended to make the endgame fun. The update, including big changes being made to popular skills like Smart Cover, will be playable on a…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2016 -
The New Death Star DLC Makes Star Wars Battlefront More Interesting
The new paid Death Star expansion for Star Wars Battlefront won’t significantly alter the game’s reputation as a fairly casual shooter designed for quick, chaotic fun. But it does add an interesting three-stage mode that culminates with the possible destruction of the Death Star. That new mode at least makes a session with the game…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2016 -
The most recent Black Ops III DLC added more Gobblegum power-ups to the game’s Zombies mode. Here’s a snippet of a match we played with the Newtownian Negation Gobblegum activated: “Zombies killed fall straight up.” We’re still divided on whether Gobblegum is worth focusing on in Zombies. Thoughts?
By Stephen Totilo Published September 20, 2016 -
Body-Bending Video Game Perfect Woman Critiques Female Stereotypes
Womanhood can be a contortion act. Prospering is often a matter of stretching, compressing and jaggedly code-switching like artists’ jointed wood mannequins—the kind girls buy in middle school when a Cosmopolitan quiz augurs the life of a painter. Perfect Woman, a Kinect game released last Wednesday, is about those contortions and uses physical posturing to…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 20, 2016 -
ReviewsReCore: The Kotaku Review
Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 16, 2016 -
Microsoft Accidentally Sent An Xbox One To A Random Customer Two Months Before It Was Announced
In March of 2013, two months before Microsoft officially unveiled the Xbox One, they accidentally mailed one of their prototype units to a random customer. For years that story has remained quiet—until today. Over at Business Insider, my good friend Ben Gilbert tells the story of the time Microsoft lost track of top-secret hardware. Back…
By Jason Schreier Published September 14, 2016 -
Promising Microsoft-Published ReCore Hampered By Long Loading Times On Xbox One [Update]
It can take more than two minutes to respawn in the Xbox One version of the new open-world action game ReCore, though sometimes it takes just three seconds. Traversal inside the game’s handful of major zones is smooth, but transitioning from one to another, which players are encouraged to do, can take 30-60 seconds. These…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 12, 2016
