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It’s hard to put into words why Fortnite—as repetitive as it can be as a game—has so immersed a huge number of gamers. “Fortnite Isn’t A Game, It’s A Place,” a new article by writer Owen Williams, described Fortnite’s appeal as a hang-out spot rather than as your bread-and-butter shooter.

Final Fantasy XIV Update 4.5 Brings The Blue Mages Next Month

Before Final Fantasy XIV players can move on to this summer’s Shadowbringers expansion, we’ve got to finish the story of last year’s Stormblood. Part one of the epic conclusion arrives on January 8 in update 4.5, A Requiem For Heroes. A week later, the Blue Mages arrive. Blue Mages, one of the most player-requested professions…

Hitman 2‘s second Elusive Target, “The Revolutionary,” is available in Santa Fortuna today until December 30. Players who succeed will get the casual tourist with gloves suit.

Kerbal Space Program Can Do Transforming Macross Fighters

Since I last played the game years ago, and even then only for laughs, I haven’t been 100% on top of just what was possible with Kerbal Space Program these days. Turns out it can do (with some help from mods) transforming anime fighters. These Valkyrie were made by Colonel Cbplayer, who has built both…

Imperial Settlers Is A Damn Good Card Game

After what feels like years of gentle pressure (the game was released in 2014), I finally got around to playing some Imperial Settlers the other day. I regret not playing it sooner. A simple card game built around the idea that you’re an ancient civilisation expanding into new lands, Imperial Settlers is nominally based on…

Hearthstone Just Got Some Of Its Biggest Nerfs Yet

Yesterday, Blizzard dropped a Hearthstone balance update that could easily qualify as the most significant set of nerfs the game has ever seen. The Druid class, which from Hearthstone’s launch has been defined by the ability to “ramp” up its Mana pool and play more expensive cards at a faster rate than the opponent, will see…

Smash Ultimate‘s Big Boys Finally Kick Butt

There was a time when a popular Smash flex was showing someone that you could even beat them with Bowser, the hulking, slow-to-move Mario monster. Before Bowser’s huge form had even initiated an attack, it’s likely his opponent had already gotten in a shot or two. It’s not that he wasn’t powerful—he was, when he…

Ryota “Kazunoko” Inoue took first place in four separate games while visiting CouchWarriors CrossUp in Australia last weekend. Competitors in Dragon Ball FighterZ, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and Street Fighter V fell before the Japanese player before his reign of terror was complete.

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe‘s Peachette Is Even More Interesting Than Any Of Us Predicted

Nintendo told us we could only stream New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch for exactly twenty minutes. So that’s what me and Paul did. You can relive our frantic act of improvised content-creation right here in this convenient YouTube archive. The game’s not out until January 11th, 2019, though we have…

FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites

Today, the FBI announced it took action against 15 domains that allegedly helped take down other people’s websites, game servers and other online services through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The seizures comes a week before Christmas, which, the FBI says, is “a period historically plagued by prolific DDoS attacks in the gaming world.” The FBI…

Toy Somehow Makes Overwatch‘s Lucio Even More Adorable

The folks at Japanese toymaker Good Smile Company continue their quest to chibify the entire Overwatch roster with the Nendoroid version of Lucio. Look at his tiny tats! As Overwatch characters go, Lucio strikes me as one of the more confident, fun-loving members of the group. Good Smile’s tiny version captures his self-assured swagger perfectly.…

This day in history: Kids play the Epoch Cassette Vision, an early Japanese home gaming console, in a Tokyo department store on December 20, 1981. Cassette Vision was the most popular game console in Japan until the Nintendo Famicom came along in 1983.

For Honor is getting a limited-time crossover event with Assassin’s Creed. It starts today and runs through January 10, and it’ll pit Assassins against Templar in a battle that will ultimately prove pointless because none of them are as cool as Kassandra.

Surprise: The ‘Sam Raimi’ Suit Is Now In Spider-Man PS4

In a last-minute holiday present to Spider-Man fans, publisher Sony said today that it is indeed adding the iconic ‘Sam Raimi’ suit—you know, the one from the Tobey Maguire movies—to the recently released PS4 game. It’s free for everyone with a copy of Spider-Man There’s a lot of drama attached to this one, as some…

Terrace House’s Perfect Couple Are Now In PS4 Ads

If Terrace House fans have been wondering what Shion and Tsubasa (aka the Greatest Love Story Of Our Time) have been up to since leaving the house, here is your answer: they’re making very long, strange PS4 commercials. Done for Oricon—think Billboard, but for Japan—the videos are for a variety of PlayStation games and hardware,…

GTA Online Players Find Easter Egg By Tipping Bathroom Attendant At Least 500 Times

GTA Online’s latest update, Arena War, added a new deadly reality show to the game, and with it some dangerous new vehicles and game modes. But this latest update is hiding a secret outfit that players have discovered back in their nightclubs. To unlock this secret, players will need to repeat a small action over…

Frostpunk’s Christmas Update Does Not Bring Good Tidings

In Frostpunk’s frozen apocalypse, there is little room for festive cheer. Which is why the game’s Christmas update, which could have been a chance for a rare moment of joy in the lives of the game’s freezing inhabitants, is instead just another chance for the developers to make you feel like shit. The Christmas Carol…

Something Ends, Something Begins

I guess everyone eventually writes one of these posts, and today it’s my turn. At the end of December, I’m leaving Kotaku. I’ll continue co-hosting the Splitscreen podcast, but that’s gonna be it. Starting next year, I’m getting back to my first great passion: competitive hot-dog eating. Kidding! It’s music. I actually never meant to…

Here’s Razer’s Xbox One Keyboard And Mouse Combo

When Microsoft announced keyboard and mouse support were coming to the Xbox One, it also announced that green and black gaming hardware maker Razer was working on something special for the console. This is that—the $250 Razer Turret wireless mouse and keyboard combo for Xbox One. Rather than design something completely new, Razer revamped its…

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