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Omensight Is A Clever But Repetitive Murder Mystery

Like many time travel stories, Omensight relies on repetition. In the spiritual successor to the studio’s previous game, Stories: The Path of Destinies, you replay the same day’s events over and over from different perspectives and with new information. These loops eventually yield answers to a murder mystery, a lost relic, and a possible means…

PUBG Apparently Has Mysterious Golden Treasure Chests Now

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still working the kinks out of its new map, Sanhok, adding more and details with each new test period. The most recent test opened the map to all players, who have discovered strange golden chests lurking around the island. Sanhok started as a test map called “Savage,” a 4×4 grid island much…

Inside The Wild New Mash-Up Of Link To The Past And Super Metroid

Imagine: You’re playing Link to the Past, the seminal Super Nintendo action-adventure game, and you walk into a fortune-teller’s house, where you’d expect to find a soothsayer taking rupees in exchange for hints. Instead, the screen goes black for a few seconds. Suddenly you’re on Zebes, fighting aliens as a suited bounty hunter. Whoops, you’ve…

The Most Hated Strike In Destiny 2

Have you met Thaviks, The Depraved? He’s a jerk. If you’ve ever finished Destiny 2’s Exodus Crash strike, you’ve fought him, and probably hated him. Strikes in Destiny 2 are standalone mini-adventures designed to be taken on by three players. Each one usually lasts around 30 minutes or so (provided nothing goes wrong) and has…

If Seinfeld Were JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Classic sitcom Seinfeld has been mashed up with plenty of video games and anime, but fan project Jerry’s Bizarro Adventure takes it to another level by combining Seinfeld with the classic anime JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Jerry’s Bizarro Adventure is a nearly shot for shot recreation of the first opening theme of the JoJo anime, complete…

The People Behind Hyrule Warriors Have Two Dream Projects: Mario And Star Wars

If the president of Koei Tecmo had his way, the next couple of Warriors games would be Star Wars and Mario. You can’t fault the man’s taste. Koei Tecmo occupies a uniquely strong position in the Japanese video game market, thanks in large part to the evolution of its Dynasty Warriors series into a sort…

Hey, remember this puzzle from last Friday? If you’re still stumped and want to know the answer, click through and I’ll tell you. So the first (and probably easiest for Kotaku readers) logical deduction you’ll have to make is that this is a list of different characters from the Mega Man games. Most people made…

Forgotton Anne Is A Very Anime Platformer About Rebellious Household Objects

Puzzle-platformer Forgotton Anne plays like a side-scrolling Studio Ghibli movie. Without a health bar, an inventory or a weapon, Anne, who keeps peace in the Forgotten Lands, is Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle or Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service—only, it’s unclear whether she’s righteous or inhumanly callous. Anne’s home is another dimension, the one where…

Sea Of Thieves Finally Gets Private Crews

Sea of Thieves is adding some welcome features that will keep crews together and help them on their plunder-filled quests. The pirate game now allows players to make their crews private and sail even the biggest ships with only a few hands on deck. One of the most annoying things in Sea of Thieves was…

I Think I Like Game Patches Too Much

Upon turning on my PlayStation 4 most days, I hope to hear the telltale trill that one of my games has been updated. A patch! My game has changed! Hopefully for the better. I have bought into the idea that games are not unchanging things. I have embraced the concept that the games I buy…

Twitch now lets you filter PUBG matches by the number of players alive If you’re impatient and want to jump right down to the final 25, you can skip right to the action. And thus we are one step closer to a establishing a real-life Hunger Games TV channel.

Bethesda Announces Rage 2 [UPDATE: Gameplay Trailer]

After a week of teasing, viral leaking, and marketing plans, today it’s finally official: Rage is getting a sequel, out in 2019. UPDATE (5/15, 10am): Here’s the gameplay trailer: And here’s the Mad Max-ish teaser trailer: This one will be developed byAvalanche Studios, the studio responsible for the 2015 open-world Mad Max game. The first…

Japan Is Running Out Of Whisky

Today, Suntory announced officially that sales of the Hakushu 12-year-old single malt and the Hibiki 17-year-old blend would stop for the time being. The reason? Some of Japan’s most beloved whisky releases are vanishing. Yesterday, George Koutsakis at Forbes first reported that Hibiki 17 would no longer be on sale starting this September. Today, according…

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The Roots, Ariana Grande Can Sure Make Music With Nintendo’s Labo

We’ve already seen Nintendo’s Labo play some serious music, but here’s another example courtesy of The Roots, Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon. Yeah yeah, it’s a glorified commercial, but it’s still impressive work regardless. Please note that it has been ten years since Ravi Drums and Wii Music. We’ve all come a long way since…

Look At This Batman Ninja Action Figure

Good Smile has made a couple of Figmas based on the Batman Ninja anime, and they are absolute works of art. There are two available, a regular one and a “Sengoku Edition” special figure. Both will be out early 2019, and should set you back $80-100 from importers. I haven’t seen the anime, but the…

Doom‘s John Carmack Opens Up About Working With Steve Jobs

Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world. The iPhone has an install base of over 700 million people. And yet the company has always had a fraught relationship to gaming. Mac users know the pain of needing to run alternate operating systems to play popular PC games well. In a new…

Scoundrel is a side-scrolling roguelite mashed up with Thief-style skulduggery. It’s a “pure stealth” game in which you lighten showy Lords’ too-heavy pockets while avoiding guards, traps, and civilians. There are classes and character progression, but if you die, it’s back to square one. It’ll be out on PC this year.

If The Witcher 3’s Ciri Was In Overwatch…

A simple crossover idea, one that 3D artist Agelos Apostolopoulos is only too happy to indulge. I guess she could zip around like Tracer? Only instead of snappy British one-liners she’d just slaughter everyone, then break our hearts It’s not just that image either, he actually built the model: You can see more of Agelos’…

The New Total War Game Is A Complete Mess

As a decades-long fan of Creative Assembly’s Total War series, I’m still coming to grips with the state of the latest game, Thrones of Britannia. It’s at times the worst Total War game I’ve ever played, and yet at others it’s doing everything I’ve been wanting this series to do for years. Bad news first!…