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Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking Both Microsoft And Nintendo

A 24 year-old man from England has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into both Microsoft and Nintendo’s servers, causing an estimated $3-4 million damages. As The Verge report, Zammis Clark—a former security researcher at Malwarebytes—went before a court in London this week accused of accessing servers at both companies, stealing user information, accessing files…

Now Jedi Knight Has HD Textures Made By An AI

First Doom, then Final Fantasy, now Lucasarts’ Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is getting a tasteful HD makeover courtesy of neural networks, which are able to take dirty old textures and get them looking closer to 2019 standards all by themselves. The work here is being done by ESRGAN, also known as “dark…

Fortnite Pros Still Don’t Have A Good Way To Practice

Fortnite’s World Cup begins April 13 and will be comprised of weekly online matches leading up to a final with a $30 million prize pool in July in New York City. The weekly tournaments each have a $1 million pool, which means there’s a lot of money on the table for would-be pros—if they can…

Control Is As Weird As Alan Wake, But Much More Open

In some ways, development studio Remedy’s upcoming action game Control has slid under the radar. After an announcement at last year’s E3, Control quietly simmered in the background of upcoming game releases. I played some of the game last week at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. It was an intriguing mixture of exciting…

And they say couch co-op is dead. Enter the Gungeon came out back in 2016, but its developers at Dodge Roll keep finding reasons to bring it back to PAX East. Of course, even back then it had local co-op, before getting ported to Switch made that sort of thing cool again.

Gita Jackson has been marrying and murdering people in The Sims 4 as part of the “Black Widow Challenge,” while I watch and make idiotic comments. We’re about to marry and kill yet another yacht-owning beardo live on our Twitch channel. If you don’t want to cheer us on, don’t click on this link

Apex Legends Players Are Suggesting Improvements For Mirage’s Useless Ultimate Ability

Mirage is my favorite character in Apex Legends. I’ve always loved rakish rogues, and I love Mirage’s snarky sense of humor. He can send out holographic decoys to trick other players, making it much easier to run down enemies before they know what’s hit them. Everything about him rocks, except his ultimate ability, which completely…

Gearbox Announces Borderlands 3 

The long-anticipated third Borderlands game is coming, Gearbox said today, following months worth of hints and teases. No word on platforms or a release date just yet, although publisher 2K Games has suggested that it’ll be out within this coming fiscal year (which ends next April). This is the fourth entry in the critically and…

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is coming April 3. The version marks the first time the first Borderlands will be on Xbox One and PS4.

Bulletstorm is coming to Switch this summer, Gearbox announced at their PAX East panel today. The Switch version will include all the DLC for the game. Bulletstorm is a shooter that came out in 2011 and in 2017 received a remastered version, called the Full Clip Edition, with a pre-order bonus that let players play…

PAX East has begun and Kotaku is here to check out the giant selection of indie games present and the best convention snack spread on the East coast. If you spot us (me) give a shout!

Smashing Punks Feels Great In Streets Of Rage 4

The first thing I noticed about Streets Of Rage 4 was the weight. As I walked series mainstay Axel down a familiar, darkly-lit street filled with ne’er-do-wells to beat up, I could feel the heft in his build, the impact of his punches, the thud in his steps. It felt good. The latest project from…

Dwarf Fortress’ Creators Have Very Cool Plans If They Make Millions

Zach and Tarm Adams, creators of the cult classic PC game Dwarf Fortress, have a new version coming to Steam, and there’s a chance that it makes them some money, which they could very much do with. But what happens if it makes them a lot of money? Inan interview with PC Gamer, Tarn was…

Minecraft Update Removes Mentions Of Notch, The Game’s Creator

The latest Minecraft update makes a few changes to the decade-old phenomenon, none more notable than the fact the game’s splash screens have removed all mention of Minecraft’s creator Markus “Notch” Persson. Previously, the game’s splash screens—the yellow text you see when Minecraft boots up—would display random messages, and some of them referenced Persson with…

In Fallout 76‘s Brutal New Survival Mode, You’re Either Level 100 Or Dead Meat

Yesterday’s new Fallout 76 patch added a new mode called Survival, which is currently in beta. It’s separate from the main game, which has now been retitled Adventure, though players can still explore it using existing characters—which they’ll definitely want to do if they don’t want to get torn to shreds. I made this exact…

Star Wars: Battlefront II’s New Mode Is Fun, When It Works

Yesterday, Star Wars: Battlefront II finally received its long-awaited new game mode, Capital Supremacy. It offers a large-scale battle set in the Clone Wars era modeled after the original 2005 Battlefront II’s Conquest mode. While it can be exciting to play, it’s currently held back by matchmaking issues and the fact that there’s only one…

Me (Tim) and Paul are about to experience the shrill thrill of some Flawful Victories and even worse failures live within the shrieking shark tank that is the Mortal Kombat 11 Online Beta over on our Twitch channel. Will Baraka Win? Or will he answer affirmatively to Scorpion’s cordial invitation? Yell and scream at us…

The Division 2 Gets Its First Notable Free Update On April 5

A major update hitting The Division 2 will add the Tidal Basin stronghold and an extension of the endgame to “world tier five.” The update was announced during the weekly State of the Game livestream. The new stronghold extends the endgame story and will help players learn more about what’s going on with the invading…

Conan Exiles And The Surge Are The PlayStation Plus April Lineup

PlayStation Plus continues with its new offering of only two games, both for PlayStation 4. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. April’s PlayStation Plus games are: Conan Exiles The Surge And…there you have it.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is Getting A Spinoff Tactics Game

The makers of Divinity: Original Sin 2, one of the best role-playing games in modern memory, are putting out a brand new spinoff. It’s a strategy game called Divinity: Fallen Heroes and it’ll be out later this year for “multiple platforms.” You’ll play as a cast of characters from Divinity: Original Sin 2—all six main…