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For Honor Headlines August’s Xbox Live Games With Gold 

August’s Xbox Live Games with Gold is pretty good this month. It features a few games I keep meaning to check out, like For Honor and Dead Space 3. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. August’s Xbox Live Games With Gold are: Xbox One Forza…

Ni no Kuni II is getting three downloadable content packs—first, a free Adventure Pack with new bosses and quests that’ll be out August 9; then, a paid new dungeon this winter and a new story pack in early 2019. The latter two will be included with the $20 season pass.

New No Man’s Sky Update Is Erasing Players’ Save Files [UPDATE 2: Fixed!]

The latest No Man’s Sky update has made huge improvements to the game, but it’s also causing players’ save files to be wiped. Update – 3:42pm, 7/27: This issue has been resolved on all platforms Some players across all platforms are finding that when they try to load their game, they’ll see their hours played…

Here is the teaser for the upcoming Evangelion: 3.0+1.0, which is dated for 2020 in Japan. As previously reported, the movie doesn’t yet have an international release date.

English Language School Recommends Studying Over Nintendo Switch

An advertisement for English language school Menten in China states that people have time to play video games, but don’t have time to learn English. The ad appeared on Chinese social networking site Weibo and was uploaded to Twitter by Chinese Nintendo (via Nintendo Soup). The ad reads, “They say: ‘I’m too busy every day…

Politician Made Anti-LGBTQ Comments On Dragon Quest Composer’s TV Show

Japanese politician Mio Sugita has made international news due to her anti-LGBTQ comments on a television show. The program is co-hosted by Koichi Sugiyama, who composes music for the Dragon Quest games. This was pointed out by Twitter user Shaun Musgrave (via Duckroll at ResetEra): The network is very right-wing. The show isn’t mainstream, nor…

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Look At This Glorious Box Art

This is what WWE 2K19’s collector’s edition looks like. Hang it in the Louvre. There’s a bunch of shit that comes inside that box, but since that junk includes a Funko Pop Vinyl, I am going to pretend none of it exists, and we live in a world where I can judge a game by…

League Of Legends’ Lore Finally Has A Proper World Map

In 2014, League of Legends trashed its own lore so it could start over and make it better. That process continues to this day, with League’s world of Runeterra finally getting its own full and official map. Previously just a fragmented collection of stories and sketches, Runeterra is now a place, and to help people…

Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same

The game industry is not exactly known for valuing workers. Big studios are rife with soul-destroying crunch and end-of-project layoffs. French studio Motion Twin, developer of the Castlevania-inspired roguelike Dead Cells, is trying something different: Workers own and manage the company. There is no boss. Motion Twin describes itself as an “anarcho-syndical workers cooperative.” What…

Renowned Hacker Arrested For Cracking Denuvo Anti-Piracy Tech

Denuvo’s notorious anti-piracy tech used to be seen as uncrackable. It held up against hackers’ best efforts for years, contorting itself into obtuse new shapes every time anybody broke through. In 2016, a Bulgarian hacker calling himself Voksi came along with a breakthrough that revitalized the whole Denuvo cracking scene. He’s been a pillar of…

Fortnite’s New Update Nerfs Fort Building [UPDATE]

Fortnite’s latest update has made the skill of building forts or any other structures less relevant to success, leaving some players to lament that the thing that makes Fortnite’s unique is slowly disappearing. Update V5.10, released July 23, nerfed the building materials used to make walls, floors and any other structures in the game. Stat…

Ronnie “Oni” Edwards, a member of popular YouTube channel The Game Theorists, has died by suicide. “His loss is one that comes after years of him bravely working to move beyond the trauma of his past, fighting an internal battle every day, a battle that eventually became too much for him,” The Game Theorists’ Matthew…

One FIFA player in the United Kingdom filed a GDPR request to get EA to send him all of the data they had on him, only to find that he had spent over $10,000 on the game in two years. Check out the full story on Eurogamer

Salt and Sanctuary, a darn good 2D Souls-like, is coming to the Nintendo Switch on August 2nd. Combined with Hollow Knight and Dandara, the Switch is becoming a titan of portable exploration games.

The Top 10 Zombies In Video Games

Zombies have been integral to horror games for decades now. Whether we’re doing a solo crawls through a haunted mansion, a fast-paced multiplayer kill-fest, or just side content in a first-person shooter series, the undead seem to be the one bad guy we can’t get enough of. Many of these zombies are variations of a…

Rogue Legacy‘s Latest Update Trolls A Four-Year-Old Steam Thread

Rogue Legacy is a great game, but, five years after release, a few things were missing from it on PC. Cloud saves, for one, as well as key rebinding for mouse. Yes, there was actually a person who wanted to play Rogue Legacy, a side-scrolling platformer, with mouse controls, and the developers have finally made…

The Many Reasons I’ve Taken More Than 1,000 Screenshots On My Switch

I’ve had a Nintendo Switch since its early 2017 launch and have taken 1,052 screenshots on it since then. I guess I can’t resist that wonderful camera sound that happens each time I press the screenshot button. That’s can’t be all of it, though. Why am I really doing this? I take shots whenever I…

No Man’s Sky Looks So Damn Good Now

After yesterday’s update, No Man’s Sky looks completely different. Players cannot stop sharing their beautiful screenshots. If nothing else, No Man’s Sky generates incredible desktop backgrounds. After the new update, every few minutes I want to stop and take a picture of the beautiful vistas. Other Kotaku staffers are doing the same. The community at…

Baldi’s Basics is becoming a full game and a brand new demo for it is out now. The demo sends the player on a field trip to the forest where you are tasked by Baldi to find firewood to keep the campfire going. If you fail to maintain the campfire, you will face Baldi’s ruler-slapping wrath.…