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Enter The Gungeon’s final update, “A Farewell to Arms,” will arrive April 5 on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch. It’ll add new weapons, items, another secret boss room, and two extra characters, the Paradox and the Gunslinger, perfect reasons to revisit one of this generation’s best roguelikes.

It must be springtime because Overcooked 2 just announced its new DLC: Campfire Cook Off. Players are headed to the woods with a new map, twelve levels and some new campfire-themed recipes.

Standalone Witcher card game Gwent is coming to mobile phones “later this year,” CDPR announced today. The game will come to iPhones first, while the Android release “will be announced at a later date.”

Black Ops 4 Goes Old School With ‘Barebones’ Multiplayer

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has finally received the multiplayer mode the community has been begging to play, one that takes away all of the Specialists’ toys. The March 26 update on PlayStation 4 adds big changes to League Play and more Specialist weapons to Blackout; also, the “Ancient Evil” Zombies map is now…

Track: Just Like Honey | Artist: The Jesus And Mary Chain | Album: Psychocandy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Visiting Cosplayers Arrested Over Visa Issues In Malaysian Police Raid

This weekend, a cosplay event in Kuala Lumpur was suddenly called off after 12 individuals were arrested, including the event’s organizer and cosplayers invited to the event. The event, called Cosplay Festival 4, was supposed to be two days at the Sunway Putra Hotel, but the second day was suddenly canceled. According to Alvinology (via…

Anthem’s New Update Adds More Loot And More Bugs

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Anthem gets a new update. The changes in the new update all look promising. Then, upon closer inspection, not all of the improvements are working as intended, and a few things that had previously been fixed are now busted again. Anthem’s been there before and after today’s…

She’s right I think, on both counts.

Another Terrific Persona 5 Figure

Good Smile Company is back with another excellent Persona 5 figure, this time for the game’s most misunderstood asshole, Ryuji Releasing in October, he comes with three different faces, pipe, shotgun, calling card and alternative hair piece. He’s retailing for just under USD$60

Metro Exodus received the “Ranger Update” today, which addsNew Game +, more audio tapes to listen to (some including developer commentary) and mouse + keyboard support for Xbox One edition.

RPG Publisher Says Chinese Government Burned Every Copy Of Their Latest Book

Sons of the Singularity, a small publisher of RPGs, ran a Kickstarter last year for a Call of Cthulu sourcebook, successfully raising over $20,000. Called The Sassoon Files, it was finally printed last week, only for the publisher to claim that the Chinese government then stepped in and burned every copy. Via Boing-Boing, here’s Sons…

Grand Heist’s DLC Maps Help Tell Black Ops 4’s Missing Story

Subtle story clues can be found within Black Ops 4’s multiplayer maps that you might’ve missed. I love Treyarch’s Easter eggs and attention to map detail, and the recent additions of multiplayer maps Casino and Lockup made available with the Black Ops DLC Pass leave behind even more to explore. Treyarch definitely created a very…

Looking Back On Super Meat Boy Creator’s Controversial 2008 Flash Game

Edmund McMillen—the guy who you might know from Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, or even just Indie Game: The Movie—used to make Flash games. I used to play Flash games. Lots of them, in fact. It’s been over a decade since my Flash game heyday, and I’m starting to realize how many of…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Sword From E3 2018 Finally Added To Game

Five months after the release of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a legendary sword first teased during an E3 demo is now finally in the game. An update out today adds a new quest line called “A Friend Worth Dying For,” the reward for which is the serpent-headed kopis-style blade players have long been awaiting. YouTuber JorRaptor…

EVE Online Player Is The First To Visit Every Star System In The Game

Exploring the entirety of space is impossible in the real world, but it’s now been done in EVE Online. A player by the in-game name Katia Sae is the first player to have officially visited every one of the game’s 7,805 star systems. Even more impressive, they did it without losing a single ship to…

The Walking Dead‘s Final Episode Is A Satisfying Ending

The Walking Dead: The Final Season started strong, with Telltale’s talented storytellers crafting a compelling new scenario for Clementine to navigate. After the company’s closure, the fate of the season looked shaky, and Skybound Games took over finishing it up. Ultimately, the finale sticks the landing, closing the book on one of gaming’s best stories.…

Twenty-Two Years Later, Nintendo Gets Final Fantasy VII 

It’s 1995, and the role-playing game rockstars at Square are trying to decide what to do with the seventh entry in their flagship series. They look over at the Nintendo 64, and then they size up Sony’s brand new PlayStation, and they decide to go with the latter, changing the video game industry forever. Today,…

On the first episode of its new web series, ID@Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft announced that Killer Queen Black, Outer Wilds, and Blazing Chrome will all be available on Game Pass the dame day they launch. All of them are due to release sometime before the end of 2019. 

I’m drifting all over the world in Xenon Racer with Chris, out today for PC, Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Come join me in the chat!

EA Lays Off 350 People In Marketing, Publishing, And More

The video game publisher Electronic Arts is laying off 350 people in marketing, publishing, and other areas, the latest move in what’s been a brutal year for the gaming industry. In an e-mail to employees obtained by Kotaku, EA boss Andrew Wilson said the goal would be to streamline decision-making in the marketing and publishing…