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Track: Oakland Nights | Artist: The Lonely Island feat. Sia | Album: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Early Designs Of PS3 Exclusive Infamous Included Motorcycle Parkour

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Infamous, the PS3 superhero game starring electrically charged Cole MacGrath. In honor of this anniversary, developers Sucker Punch have revealed new information about the early versions of the game. It turns out, Infamous was very different in those early days. For example, Cole could do motorcycle parkour and…

Vader Immortal Finally Makes Alderaanian Wolfcats Canon

The first episode of VR game Vader Immortal was released earlier this week and I’m happy to share this news with Star Wars fans around the world. Finally, Alderaanian Wolf-Cats are truly canon, once and for all. What a relief. Also, some other Easter Eggs and references are in Vader Immortal’s first episode too. The…

The first Star Ocean game is coming to PS4 and Switch. Square Enix announced Star Ocean First Departure R on Twitter today, which definitely sounds like either a remake or remaster of the 2008 PSP game, which was itself a remake of the original SNES JRPG which never released in the US. 

Upcoming Pupperazzi Is Like Pokemon Snap With Dogs

Pupperazzi was announced yesterday by indie studio Sundae Month and it looks to be a game where players will run around and just take photos of cute, cool and funny looking puppies. Sounds like we need to start game of the year discussions a bit earlier than usual. Players will share the photos in-game via…

Modder Explains How He Created That Cool Bloodborne Mod That Lets You Control Enemies

You might have recently seen a cool Bloodborne mod floating around Twitter early this week. The mod allows a player, using a modded copy of the game, to take control of enemies by locking on to them. The creator of this mod explained to me how they created it and their future plans for it.…

“Gaming Disorder” Now A Recognized Illness According To World Health Organization

The World Health Organization has decided to add gaming disorder to its list of recognized illnesses. The 194 members of the group made the decision today at the 72nd World Health Assembly. WHO agreed to adopt the eleventh revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, which is also known as…

Warframe Players Love Their New Space Roombas

Warframe is an online game all about cool cyborg-ninjas, acrobatics, and weird aliens. However, something new was added in a recent update: Space Roombas. These small little cleaning-bots have quickly become beloved by the community, with players spending in-game currency on them and figuring out ways to create more of the little robots. The new…

These Rage 2 Characters Have Amazing Names But No Backstories, So I Made Some Up

I’ve met some real characters during my time playing Rage 2. And by characters, I mean glorified quest dispensers. There’s old guy, cool lady, and of course—who could forget?—third main story person. These folks get functional speaking parts, but I honestly can’t remember a word they’ve said. They’re bland potato people in a perfunctory post-apocalyptic…

Dauntless Struggled With Online Issues In Its First Week, But Things Are Finally Improving

Dauntless, an online multiplayer game inspired by Monster Hunter that officially released earlier this week, has been slammed with matchmaking issues and server problems in its opening days, but its developers say things will get better. After launching in alpha in 2017, Dauntless finally came out of Early Access on May 21, arriving for the…

Black Ops 4‘s Long-Promised Zombies ‘Factions’ Feature Is Still Missing

Black Ops 4’s Zombies still doesn’t have all the content that Activision promised prior to its launch last year. In fact, the undead survival mode hasn’t really seen a proper content flow or substantial rewards. Seven months since Black Ops 4’s launch, and the Zombies community is still left speculating about the Factions feature that…

Adorable Little Discord Bot Is Actually A Devious Game In Disguise

When my Discord server first added Smilebot, everything seemed normal. It was a little widget that spewed emojis and told you what your mood was. When I returned to my Discord after a plane flight, competing corporate factions in our sever were at war with each other in a competition to craft materials and please…

Reigns: Game Of Thrones Is Giving Me New And Better Ways To Kill Everyone

After the end of Game of Thrones, I was mostly OK with how things went down. Like many fans, though, I still had complaints. After I’d run my course tweeting about them, I decided to open up Reigns: Game of Thrones and try my hand at sitting on the Iron Throne. Reigns: Game of Thrones,…

Missing Game Dead Island 2 Is Still In Development, Publisher Says

In the zombie apocalypse, no corpse is ever truly lifeless, and the same is apparently true of zombie video games. Dead Island 2, the long-missing sequel to Polish studio Techland’s 2011 zombie survival game, has seemingly stumbled back to its decayed, undead feet. In a THQ Nordic interim report first spotted by PC Gamer, Dead…

Anti-Trump Resistance Figures Who Got Banned From Twitter Were Also Big Ouya Advocates

Yesterday, prolific tweeters Brian and Ed Krassenstein were banned for life from the platform for allegedly operating fake accounts and trying to buy clout. The two brothers then took to The Hill Reporter to plead their innocence and mount a defense, which relied in part on their past enthusiasm for the Ouya. The Ouya was…

The next episodic expansion for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, The Fate Of Atlantis – Torment Of Hades, will be out June 4, publisher Ubisoft announced today. That’s the fifth of sixth promised paid multi-hour add-ons spanning two three-chapter arcs.

Capcom has decided to ban Daigo Umehara’s custom hit box controller from this weekend’s Street Fighter V competition at Combo Breaker after all. Full story here

Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed To 2020 To Fix Sonic’s Look

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been delayed from November 2019 to February 14, 2020 in order to tweak the design of the CG Sonic character, according to a tweet from director Jeff Fowler. Fans were unhappy with Sonic’s design in the movie’s trailer released in April, which prompted Fowler to respond earlier this month.…

The Next Call of Duty Is Called Modern Warfare (Yep, Really)

The first Modern Warfare was called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, so it’s only natural that the fourth Modern Warfare is called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Confused yet? That’s video games for you. News of this year’s strangely named Call of Duty leaked out via YouTuber LongSensation this morning. Activision has been showing…

Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida outlined tons of game changes last night in a Twitch broadcast Among other things, TP is getting removed and tanks will only have one (enmity generating) stance. I played a sneak peek of Shadowbringers this week and will have more information on Wednesday.