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A Video Game About Choosing The Right Greeting Card

In From Ivan, choosing the right greeting card could change your life. When I’m stuck in the greeting card isle of a pharmacy, I tend to freeze up. I know that my choice of card isn’t going to make or break my relationship with another person, but I still want to choose the right one.…

The Diablo-Style Action-RPG That’s Helping Me Fall In Love With Warhammer 40K

This week, action-RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr came out of Early Access on Steam, the latest in a long line of incomprehensibly titled games inspired by the Warhammer miniatures series. It’s a decent spin on the kill/loot/explore formula popularized by Diablo, but what it’s especially good at is making the complex and daunting lore-filled…

Heather and Paul are playing the physics-hell battle royale Totally Accurate Battlegrounds live now on YouTube. Come and watch the carnage!

Sims 4 Fans Are Mad About Snow

Sims fans are excited as hell for the upcoming Seasons expansion pack. It’s been long awaited, given that every game since The Sims 2 has eventually gotten it, and it has always been a fan favorite. Players have one big problem with what they’re seeing in previews, though: the depth of the snow. The Seasons…

Hitman 2 Is Coming Out This November

WB Games and IO Interactive announced Hitman 2 during a livestream today. The game brings back Agent 47 for new missions where a conspicuous bald chef takes the place of Steve, who stepped around the corner for a smoke break. Hitman 2 will feature locations like rainforests and a racetrack in Miami, which seem like…

Operation Para Bellum is now live on PC and console and brings with it a new patch which, among other things, has removed the ability to throw grenades back at enemies. In addition to new operators, this update also adds the Villa map, a mafia safe house on a country estate that looks absolutely lovely.…

Insomniac isn’t just making a new Spider-Man game. The studio is also working on their fourth VR game, which, like the others, will be for Oculus. It’s called Stormland. The Oculus blog describes the 2019 game as having “an open-world structure and an ever-changing environment bristling with unexplored islands, dangerous strongholds, and rare technology.”

The Division’s next big patch, 1.8.2, will be out on June 14, the developers said today in a livestream. It adds two legendary versions of missions, “reactivation caches” that contain three non-classified gear sets and “shields” which unlock things inThe Division 2 but won’t be unveiled until E3 next week. Also: “No weird doors have…

Days Gone, the zombie game where they aren’t actually called zombies, releases February 22, 2019. A new trailer and accompanying blog post that shares more details about the game including the existence of Rippers, humans who worship and dress up like the game’s zombies and are just as dead set on killing you.

One Year Later, Did Nintendo Keep Its E3 2017 Promises?

By the time E3 2017 rolled around, Nintendo Switch was barely three months old. Coming off the success of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, what other exciting things were planned for year one of Nintendo’s newest system? Going into E3, the company had the wind at its back, but it still had…

Hero shooter Paladins will be landing on the Switch June 12th. Maybe this is what will finally convince me to put down Overwatch and give it a whirl….

Those two new Persona dancing games Atlus announced last year will be coming West in early 2019 Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight and Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight will both be coming to PS4 and Vita. Catch me next year listening to this remix of “Last Surprise” until my ears fall off.

The Pokémon Anime Just Referenced Pop Team Epic, It Seems

The latest episode of the Pokémon Sun Moon anime was something else! It featured a couple different goofy expressions, one of which looked straight out of Pop Team Epic This has to be on purpose. See? Ha! Fitting because Pop Team Epic previously referenced Pokémon Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing…

Racist Twitter Comments Lead To Anime’s Cancellation

The Japanese light novel series New Life+: Young Again in Another World was slated to get a TV anime adaptation this fall. But in the wake of bigoted tweets its creator previously made, the show has been canned. The light novel’s creator writes under the pen name MINE. When the anime was announced, Twitter users…

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If you have any questions about the future, E3’s official Twitter account has been there, seen it and is reporting back.

Sources: Microsoft Delays Crackdown 3 To 2019 [Update: Confirmed For February]

First planned for November 2017, then delayed to 2018, the long-troubled open-world action game Crackdown 3 will now be out in 2019, according to two people familiar with the game’s release plans. It’s an unusual move and another blow to Xbox’s already weak first-party lineup for the rest of 2018. The third Crackdown game, developed…

Team Kotaku will be taking new Symmetra for a spin on Overwatch’s test server at 8:30 p.m. ET tonight! Say hello and namaste on our Twitch channel

The Best Video Game Art Of 2018*

It’s that time of year again, when the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) announce a range of pieces for their Into the Pixel exhibition, a collection of some of the best concept and promotional art in video games. A total of 16 works have been chosen this…

Asmodee Bringing Carcassonne, More Board Games To The Nintendo Switch

Your “port everything to the Switch” jokes might soon extend to board games as well, with publishing giant Asmodee announcing that the classic Carcassonne is headed to Nintendo’s latest console. It’s not the first board game to appear on the system—who could forget Monopoly—but Carcassonne is important for a couple of reasons. For starters, it’s…