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I Can’t Let Go Of Into The Breach’s Starter Squad

Into The Breach is a great strategy game, but I can’t seem to translate the skills I learned with the starting team into any of the more advanced ones. The basic game design of Into The Breach rewards you for learning general strategies. As you play through your first few attempts at the game, you…

Enjoy This Video Of A Small Simulated Airport

Slated for a release sometime in 2018, Sky Haven is an airport simulation game being developed by Real Welders. I’ve watched this video of a little simulated airport something like five times now, and it has made me absolutely crave the ability to plan and build my own airport. Like most people, I do not…

Magic Leans Into 25 Years Of Telling Stories With Cards

Magic: The Gathering has its 25th anniversary this year, and Magic has been using its upcoming Masters 25 set to pull together some really neat narrative threads from throughout the game’s long history. While it’s mostly understood purely as a competitive card game, Magic has a deep and complex narrative that stretches back to its…

We’re stomping bug and saving timelines in Into the Breach right now on Twitch. Everything will go smoothly and no one will die.

Wow, A New Weekend Editor Is Here!

Hello. I’m Cameron Kunzelman. I’m your new Weekend Editor. I guess this intro post is supposed to function like a dating profile in the 1980s. I write all sorts of deep personal details into a text document, I ship it off, and then I wait for those sweet, delicious comments to roll in telling me…

Battlegrounds Player Heroically Battles The Ground

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds forces all of us to make bad decisions sometimes. You might make a bad run for it when pinned between a wall and some enemies, or you might even drive a truck off a cliff to escape some pursuers. It’s a game about making choices that you never feel 100% about. Reddit user…

After The Loot Box Fury, The People Behind The Next Battlefield Are Being Very Cautious

The people who make Battlefield, just like many other developers across the video game industry, have heard the loot box furor loudly and clearly. The next Battlefield’s microtransaction plans remain in flux, as they are in many games until close to release, but it’s unlikely they’ll inspire as much anger as Star Wars: Battlefront II’s…

Introducing Kotaku XP, Our Weekly Video News Show

Hello! We are going to be doing a weekly news video show from now on. This is the first episode. The name is Kotaku XP. What does that mean? I can’t just tell you. It means whatever you want it to mean. Every week, we’ll pick 10 Kotaku posts. Gita Jackson or myself will talk…

Call of Duty: WWII’s Paint Jobs are still being tested and aren’t ready yet, Sledgehammer Games said in its last weekly update, calling the initial tease of the feature from former studio head Michael Condrey a “mistake.” It said it will reveal a new date when it is finished testing thegun customization feature.

The Switch Apparently Stops Counting Your Play Time After A Year [UPDATE]

Switch users are discovering that the console has reset their logged playtime a year after purchase. Although the Switch didn’t come out in the U.S. until March 3, 2017, players who received Switches prior to then have been noticing an unwelcome surprise next to their Legend of Zelda “Profile” entries. The Switch tracks users’ playtime…

Twitch has updated its controversial set of new policies surrounding community moderation and dresscode. In a new blog bost, the company clarifies that, among other things, dresscode will be judged contextually (so, say, a swimsuit will be OK if you’re at a beach), streamers should act as “role models” for their communities who should never…

The Makers Of Castle Crashers Have A New Game And It’s Great

Pit People is finally out of Early Access and officially released on both Steam and Xbox One and if you haven’t already tried it out you should. Pit People is part comedy show part tactical beat ‘em up. The Behemoth made it, the same studio that made Castle Crashers, one of those original XBLA indie…

Kotaku Reacts To Into The Breach

Since we’ve gotten our hands on Into The Breach over at Kotaku, we haven’t been able to stop playing and talking about it. Here’s a selection of our best tweets, stories, and screenshots. On February 8th, apropros of nothing, news editor Jason Schreier said this in Slack: He had gotten an advance copy of the…

The Butler Does Everything In This Ridiculous Free Murder Mystery

Looking for a good old-fashioned point-and-click adventure to while away a couple of hours over the weekend? How about the tale of an exasperated British butler attempting to prove the worst person possible innocent of murder? That’s The Adventures of Nick and Willikins, a very funny, very free PC game available now from Pinhead Games.…

How To Refund Digital Games

Back in the day, if a video game didn’t work or you just didn’t like it, you could take it back to the store and have the person behind the register laugh in your face when you asked for your money back. These days, getting a refund is a labyrinthine of web forms, logins, and…

The State Of Our Switches, One Year Later

On March 3, 2017, Nintendo launched the Switch, the miracle gaming system that’s a console and a handheld at the same time. Let’s see how ours are holding up. Stephen Totilo’s Switch: Safe Inside His Sock Date Acquired: I got my Switch in late February of 2017, directly from Nintendo, a week or so before…

I Flirted With Bartenders, Found An Ancient Temple And Got Cursed In The New Sims Vacation World

Jungle Adventure is the latest game pack for The Sims 4. It’s a vacation world, meaning your sim can go for a few days when they need a break from regular life. They’ll travel to Selvadorada, a South American-flavored country, where they can take in the local culture and also explore a jungle and its…

Hearthstone’s Ranked Mode is back online after extended maintenance and players will receive three Kobolds and Catacombs card packs as consolation for the downtime. Maybe you’ll get the extra Carnivorous Cube you’ve wanted.

One Of Arkham Knight‘s Investigations Blew Me Away

I’ve been playing Batman: Arkham Knight, a game about a billionaire who never says thank you to his employees. I’m really enjoying it so far. I expected to have a good time flying around Gotham and beating up thugs. What I didn’t expect was how good the investigations would be. Arkham Knight allows you to…

Ubisoft just scooped up the studio that makes free-to-play Smashlike Brawlhalla, amajorly fun platform fighter. It’s Ubisoft’s second acquisition this week after 1492 Studio, which makes mobile visual novels.