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I’m Obsessed With The Switch eShop’s Best-Seller List

Given that my Nintendo Switch contains about two dozen games that I’ve bought and downloaded but never played, I probably shouldn’t spend so much of my time with the system checking out its sales chart, but I can’t help myself. Since the Switch launched a year ago, I’ve been regularly checking the “Best Sellers” section…

Final Fantasy XV PC Handles Ultrawide Resolution Like A Champ

Some games don’t play well with ultrawide monitors, requiring mods or third-party programs to fill in the extra space properly. Final Fantasy XV PC’s ultrawide support is nearly perfect. As Jason Schreier reported yesterday, the PC version of Final Fantasy XV is looking good and playing good for both of us so far, but as…

There will be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 5pm Eastern focused on 3DS and Switch games coming out this year. Nintendo adds that the entire thing should run about 30 minutes and will also include new information about Mario Tennis Aces. And who knows, maybe we’ll finally get Mother 3.

The Next Call of Duty Is Almost Certainly Black Ops IIII [UPDATE: Yes, That’s The Logo]

It’s not quite official yet, but it’s a near-certainty that the next Call of Duty is Black Ops IV. Rumors have been swirling about this for a few weeks now (as first reported by Eurogamer), and Kotaku can confirm via our own sources that those rumors are true. Plus, there’s tonight’s assist from a future…

New Board Game Looks Very Darkest Dungeon

This is Brutality, an upcoming board game that pits two teams against each other in a medieval brawler. It’s giving off some very strong Darkest Dungeon vibes, if that’s your thing. Not in how it plays, necessarily, though it does involve teams of warriors doing turn-based battle. In Brutality (2-4 players), there are two sides…

The Harry Potter Games Of Our Wildest Dreams

Harry Potter has not had the most illustrious history when it comes to video game adaptations. It looks like things are going to start getting better, but there are still Potter games we’ve been dreaming about forever that we’d love to see one day before we die. Look, not all of the film tie-in Harry…

Overwatch‘s Nicest Players Are Giving Me Anxiety

“Hey Orisa, awesome tanking!” one of my Overwatch teammates typed into chat after we lost a match a couple months ago. “Our Mercy was great, too!” The first time I saw this happen, I was pleasantly surprised. These days, though, I find myself overcome with a different emotion when confronted with an egregiously kind Overwatch…

For Honor‘s Dedicated Servers Make A Big Difference

After a bit of maintenance earlier today, For Honor’s dedicated servers finally went live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Let me tell you: they feel good—real good—and it only took a year for that to happen. Previously, For Honor multiplayer relied on peer-to-peer hosting for matches. When the player hosting quit the match, whoever…

Final Fantasy XV Sure Looks (And Runs) Great On PC

Final Fantasy XV looks good on consoles, but on PC, it feels like the game that we were meant to play two years ago. The PC version of Square Enix’s boy band extravaganza launched today, and from some initial testing (with me on a GTX 1080 and Fahey on a Radeon Vega RX 64), it’s…

State of Decay 2 has a release date of May 22. The game will be coming to PC and Xbox One and cost $29.99.

Will God of War have any microtransactions? “No,” said Corey Barlog, the game’s director, in an email to Kotaku. “Not even a little.” The question came up today when a blurry picture leaked from a preview event. Barlog tweeted something similar when a fan later asked if the game would have paid outfits.

Machinarium Studio’s New Game Is A Comedic Point-And-Click Adventure

Chuchel is an adventure game set in a colorful world full of unique characters.You’re tasked with helping Chuchel, a tiny fuzzy black creature, and his little rodent friend get his sacred cherry back after it repeatedly gets stolen in a series of strange and hilarious ways. Made by developer Amanita Design, who previously created Machinarium…

Welcome Back To The West, DJMax

Of the 12 games in South Korea’s popular DJMax series of rhythm games released on PC and Sony handhelds since 2004, only three have made it to North America. Today, we got a fourth. The series’ console debut, DJMax Respect, is out on PS4 today in North America. Maybe I should have waited instead of…

Far Cry 5‘s Map Editor Sounds Totally Wild

The makers of Far Cry 5’s map editor are hellbent on giving the game a long and ridiculous life beyond its single-player campaign Ubisoft is calling the tool Far Cry Arcade. A new company blog post indicates that it will include approximately 7,000 different objects players can use to create new levels, some of which…

Every Game Could Use More Geralt Of Rivia

Marcin Momot, CD Projekt Red’s community manager, teased on Twitter today that Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher franchise would make an appearance in another game for the first time this year. We don’t know what game it is yet, but here are some suggestions. Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3 Geralt can date in the…

I Thought Fortnite Battle Royale‘s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Would Be A Good Idea

Among Fortnite Battle Royale players, there’s an oral culture of trading tricks: building zig-zag stairways along hillsides, searching every attic for hidden treasure, that sort of thing. It’s not all intuitive. Some things need to be taught. On Sunday, a buddy came over with his laptop and asked if I’d ever heard of Fortnite’s “Stairway…

Yesterday, Overwatch gamedad Jeff Kaplan shared the top ten most played heroes across all skill tiers. Guess what? D.Va’s number one. Also widely played are Moira and Roadhog. The people have good taste.

Mario Is Officially A Plumber Again

In September, Nintendo crushed hearts across the world by declaring that Mario was no longer a plumber. This week, the publisher has remedied that horrible mistake, changing Mario’s bio to note that he is, in fact, a plumber. Previously, as translated by Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft, the official Japanese Mario bio had read: “All around sporty,…

Music From The ’80s Transformers Cartoon Finally Gets An Official Release

As catchy as its opening theme was, music from the original Transformers cartoon has never had an official release. Hasbro and Legacy Recordings fix that grave oversight on March 9 with the release of Hasbro Studios Presents ‘80s TV Classics: Music from The Transformers. On vinyl, no less. People who follow me on Twitter may…

The open beta for the console version of action MMO Tera kicks off March 9 on Xbox One and PS4. Playing a PC MMO on console usually makes my head hurt, but developer En Masse has done a lot of work to make the game TV and couch friendly. Holy crap, I might play Tera…