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We’re Back, Baby!

Hot diggity daffodil! Ben, Narelle, and Peter have returned to run Kotaku for another weekend. We are all definitely qualified for this job and confident that nothing at all will go worng. Let’s see now. What do we have for you fine folks over the next two days… There’s some lovely retrospectives from Peter, interesting…

Monster Hunter: World‘s Devil May Cry Gear Is Worth The Grind

Monster Hunter: World’s wild crossover events are now ten times more stylish with the arrival of a quest to unlock armor and weapons from the pizza eating simulator Devil May Cry. The limited-time event quest has players fight some of the game’s best monsters and grants amazing gear that’s absolutely worth grinding for. Hunters looking…

Slay The Spire’s New Character Is Great

Months after it first hit Steam Early Access I still enjoy dropping into Slay the Spire to see what cards I’m dealt in its procedurally generated dungeon runs. With the addition of its newest character, The Defect, I can see myself returning a lot more often. Developer Mega Crit Games has been working on Slay…

The Switch’s eShop Is A Mess

Every week, a ton of games come out for the Nintendo Switch. While it’s great to have so many options to choose from, sorting through these titles on the digital storefront really sucks. It’s hard to find what you want, or what you should be interested in. Discoverability is a tough issue that seemingly nobody…

I Have Had It Up To Here With Voidlord

There is no objective way to measure whether something in a game is fun or not. But in the context of competitive online gaming, where empowerment for one player sometimes translates into abject misery for another, it’s much more common to encounter a mechanic so demoralizing, so soul-crushingly boring, that you simply know in your…

Far Cry 5, One Month Later

Far Cry 5 has been out for a month. Its big open world based in a fictional Montana has been picked clean by millions of people. Collectively they’ve caught lots of fish, thrown millions of sticks of dynamite, and been sprayed by a lot of sneaky skunks. Publisher Ubisoft has been contributing weekly live events,…

New Sanrio Netflix Anime Shows The Anger and Despair of Working A Shitty Job

Aggretsuko, the anime about a red panda who hates her office job so much she sings metal karaoke after work as an outlet for her anger, is almost crushingly real. Retsuko the red panda is one of the new Sanrio characters, introduced in 2016. Unlike the other sickly sweet characters like Hello Kitty and Kero…

God of War Players Uncover A Secret Hidden In The Collector’s Edition Map

Players are working their way through God of War’s endgame for every secret and bonus, and one has been found in an unlikely place: a cloth map that came with the game’s two collector’s editions. The map turned out to contain a particularly complex puzzle. If you don’t want to tackle it yourself, it’s all…

Battletech’s Character Creator Is About More Than Just Looks

Battletech’s character creator isn’t really about how your character looks; it’s about who they are, where they’re from, and what they believe. Battletech is a long established property and mainstay of tabletop wargaming. The original game came out in 1984 and there’s been a swath of spin off games like the MechWarrior series, lore sourcebooks,…

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Has One Of Action Gaming’s Most Peaceful Moments

In between the big, satisfying skirmishes in the new God of War, players can put gruff protagonist Kratos and his scrawny son Atreus in a boat and paddle across a lake while the father tells his boy a fable. The moments in the boat are among my favorite in the game. They reminded me of…

We Played Shadow of the Tomb Raider, And It Looks Like The Darkest One Yet

At a Square Enix event in London yesterday evening, I played through an hour of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the final game in a trilogy, which comes out September 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Though the action felt very familiar, the tone was a little different. The newest Tomb Raider game is…

Sony’s profit increased 18 percent during the 2017 financial year. According to Sony, this was due to increased PS4 game sales and PlayStation Plus subscribers as well as the foreign exchange rate. Console sales dipped slightly with Sony selling 19 million PS4s worldwide, which was a million less than the previous year.

Nintendo’s E3 2018 Schedule

Earlier this week, Kotaku announced the E3 2018 press conference schedule. At that time, Nintendo had yet to reveal its plans. Now it has. As in previous years, Nintendo is doing a video presentation, which can be watched live at e3.Nintendo.com. It will begin on June 12 at 9 am PT. There will be other…

Revealed earlier today, here is the first trailer for Dragalia Lost, the all-new RPG Nintendo is developing with Cygames. Well, what do you think?

Dragon Quest X Director Jin Fujisawa Is Leaving Square Enix 

Jin Fujisawa has worked on the Dragon Quest series for around two decades. Today on Twitter, he announced he’s leaving Square Enix. Fujisawa got his start as an assistant for DQ creator Yuji Horii in the late 1990s. He was the scenario assistant on Dragon Quest VII in 2000 and rose up the ranks to…

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Hellboy Board Game Kickstarter Raises $1 Million In About Five Seconds

A miniatures board game based on Hellboy—the comic, mercifully, not the movies—has launched on Kickstarter, and is already 6x over its funding target. Designed for 1-4 players, you take control of a BPRD agent and “explore gothic locations, hunt down clues, discover artefacts, fight horrific creatures and face off against terrifying bosses”. The terrain is…

Nintendo Releasing All-New RPG For Phones

Nintendo just announced that it’s working with Cygames on an all-new RPG for mobile devices. The game is called Dragalia Lost It’ll be released this Summer, first in Asia then in North America and Europe. It’s described as an “all-new original action RPG application”, which Cygames desgined and which Nintendo “has been co-developing and will…

Overwatch‘s Retribution Mode Uses AI Tricks To Make You Feel Cool

Overwatch’s Retribution PVE mode can make you feel so on-fire that you ought to be signed by an OWL team. Talon soldiers fall like bowling pins to your blade, shotgun, revolver, or alarmingly pointy hand. I almost hate to break it to you that Retribution’s AI is tricking you. Speaking with Variety, Retribution lead designer…

Bungie has explained how Exotic masterworks will function when they hit Destiny 2 on May 8. Each one is like a mini exotic quest that will require players to complete a series of sometimes mysterious challenges in order to unlock it. More info at the Bungie blog, along with details for a couple more exotic weapon…