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Studio Accused Of Installing Malware On Customers’ PCs

FlightSimLabs, a studio that specialises in custom add-ons for other company’s flight sims, has been found to be secretly installing a program onto user’s computers designed to check whether they’re playing a pirated copy of their software. The code—basically a Chrome password dumping tool— was discovered by Reddit user crankyrecursion on February 18, and as…

Developer Warhorse Studios published an explanation clarifying the patching process for Kingdom Come: Deliverance across all three platforms today. The Xbox One version is currently one update behind both PC and PS4, with a hotfix to resolve issues with the R2 button on PS4 currently going through certification.

Excellent snowy battle royale game The Darwin Project will have another PC open beta from February 23-26. If the patch notes are anything to go by, there’ll be a lot of changes from the last time. I’m excited to make new friends and lose spectacularly.

The Coolest Trick In Steep Is Hopping Uphill

I can’t get enough of the Winter Olympics, so I’ve been looking for video games that recreate the feeling of watching people risk their lives in the cold. I recently picked up Steep for its Road to the Olympics DLC. Steep nails the rush of speeding down a hill, but it’s better at capturing how…

A Gorgeous Game About A Monster-Slaying Family

In Children of Morta, I did not save a puppy. My family will never live it down. Children of Morta is a hack-and-slash game for PCs and consoles currently in development by indie studio Dead Mage and published by 11-bit, the folks behind This War of Mine. It focuses on the Bergsons, a family of…

Mouse VR game Moss (a genre we never knew we needed but have lived too long without) will be out February 27 for PSVR. Here’s an adorable trailer.

Mario Is Getting His Own Fancy Encyclopedia

Having had tremendous success withits trio of The Legend of Zelda reference books, Dark Horse Publishing sets its sights on the Mushroom Kingdom, chronicling three decades of Nintendo gaming in the Super Mario Encyclopedia. The Super Mario Encyclopedia is an exhaustive look at nearly every Super Mario game Nintendo’s made, from Super Mario Bros. in…

Yuzuru Hanyu Would Be A Good Final Fantasy Character [Update]

This weekend, Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu won Olympic gold. In Japan, people were excited and online, they quickly pointed out that Hanyu’s dramatic poses and intense stares look like something straight from Final Fantasy Update February 20 – 2:00am: An earlier version of this story included clips of Hanyu apparently skating to Final Fantasy…

In Dragon Ball Super, Goku Is Getting More Powerful Than Ever

Goku and Jiren are battling it out in the Tournament of Power, and just when you think things could get more intense, the preview for next week’s episode shows that, yes, they can. Note: This article has spoilers. As seen in the top image, the words “Limits Super Surpassed! Ultra Instinct Mastered!!” appears during the…

An Official Mega Man Bicycle 

To mark the 30th anniversary of Mega Man (née Rockman), Japanese bicycle maker KhodaaBloom is releasing a special set of wheels. According Cyclist, it went on sale February 17 and is priced at 290,000 yen ($2,720). Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China…

Nintendo Labo Packaging In The Wild

Nintendo Labo display kits are starting to appear in Japanese retail shops. The boxes themselves are good sized, which isn’t that surprising if you’ve seen the cardboard Nintendo Labo sheets. It’s up to you to fold the cardboard, not Nintendo! While the boxes are a decent size, they are not that thick. Kotaku East is…

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A Game Exhibition Where Everything Is Destroyed

Every year, BarSK in Melbourne holds a special event. It’s a game jam that runs for over half a day, from the morning to just past midnight. And when the clock hits 12.30am, something special happens. Everything that everyone has worked on, images, assets, source code: it all gets deleted, never to return. This story…

When Air Jordan Met Xbox

It’s been a poor generation for custom console designs, but I am very in for this official Xbox x Jordan collaboration. Only catch is that they’re for a competition, not a general release The three consoles are each based on an Air Jordan 3 colourway (“Black Cement“, “Free Throw Line“ and “Tinker Hatfield”), and each…

There Is Now A Tomb Raider Barbie

Barbie has had many jobs over the years. Raiding tombs and shanking dudes with axes are now being added to the list. IGN reportsthat Mattel is releasing a new doll in the line based on Alicia Vikander’s upcoming movie role, and while her clothes are bit cleaner and more stylised than we’ll see in the…

Dynasty Warriors Was Very Different When It First Started

Dynasty Warriors 1 didn’t involve large-scale battles or endlessly chained combos. In fact, it wasn’t anything like the modern series. Years before Dynasty Warriors would become known as the quintessential hack and slash games, players first experience with the name was in the form of a 2.5D fighting game. Omega Force developed the series for…

I’m replaying all of the entire Metal Gear series and kicking it off with the original Metal Gear right now on Twitch Infiltrate the enemy fortress, Outer Heaven! Destroy the final weapon, Metal Gear!

Witcher References Make Everything Better, Including Kingdom Come: Deliverance 

The Witcher 3 is by far my favorite game of the past decade and perhaps even beyond. As such, anytime another game wants to dip back into that well I’m incredibly there for it. Even if that game happens to be Kingdom Come: Deliverance The open world medieval period piece has prided itself on its…

Biomutant Shows Off Its Character Creator 

Biomutant is Experiment 101’s upcoming open world, anthropomorphic animal action RPG. Originally revealed at last year’s Gamescom, studio head Stefan Ljungqvist recently went a little more in-depth on some of what’s in the game, including its character creator, at a PC Gamer event. At the center of Biomutant’s world is a giant tree with five…

Someone Got Modern Video Games Running On One Of The Weirdest TVs Of All Time 

The JVC Videosphere looks like it’s from an alternate future despite being several decades old, but that didn’t stop one YouTuber from getting games from the Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, Nintendo Switch and an Alienware gaming PC all running on it. Vince, the proprietor of a “How To” YouTube channel specializing in DIY electronics…