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The Nintendo Switch’s Online Service Will Launch In September

Nintendo Switch Online, the console’s long-delayed premium monthly subscription service, will finally launch in September 2018, the company just announced. The service, originally supposed to launch last year, will cost $20 a year, which will allow users to play Switch games online (they are only free until the service launches). Subscribers will also get access…

Murderous Pursuits Is A Game About Murdering People Having A Party On An Airship

The team behind The Ship: Remastered, a remake of a very good 2006 game about walking around a party and murdering people, are back with a new game called Murderous Pursuits. It’s basically the same deal as The Ship, except this time it’s set on a steampunk airship. There’s a Dishonored influence to the art…

Oh, This Is From An Adventure Game, OK

You don’t normally associate Telltale’s games with fast-paced, hard-hitting action, but their Batman series has a bit of combat in it. Which had to be choreographed in real life, with two stunt fighters beating the crap out of each other. In an entertaining look behind the scenes (studios: this is way more interesting than twitch…

There are too many Warhammer games, but one of the better ones of the last few years was the space-based RTS Battlefleet Gothic Armada. Which is now getting a sequel.

With the recent release of Monster Hunter: World, we’ve put together a video full of tips to help get newcomers started and veterans brush up a little. Check out our tips post for more in-depth hints. Monster Hunter: World is available now for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and is scheduled for PC later this…

Elite: Dangerous Players Band Together To Save Cancer Patient’s Expedition From Griefers

Since January 12, a group of Elite: Dangerous players has been journeying across the galaxy to reach Dove Enigma station, named for a member of the expedition, Brandon “DoveEnigma13” Keith. Keith is fighting terminal cancer. The trip, a relatively leisurely sightseeing tour and charity drive assembled for the benefit of both Keith and his five…

Accomplishing As Much As Possible Before Dying Miserably, The Game

Jason Rohrer once buried a titanium board game in the Nevada desert, and then handed out hundreds of pages containing printed-out GPS coordinates, one of which indicated the game’s true location. According to Rohrer, it will take 3,000 years for anyone to ever find that board game. Jason Rohrer once put a Minecraft mod on…

Slay The Spire Is A Roguelike Card Game, And I’m Hooked

Slay the Spire, a roguelike where you try to deckbuild your way out of brutal dungeons, went into Early Access on Steam last November and has since been slowly winning over unsuspecting players who go into it with low expectations. I am one of those recent converts. Developed by Mega Crit Games, Slay the Spire…

Wolfenstein 2 Finally Gets Good Stealth With New DLC

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus featured stealth sequences that didn’t always work out. The game’s latest piece of downloadable content, The Diaries of Agent Silent Death, provides the sort of sneaky backstabbing that the main game was missing. The Diaries of Agent Silent Death tells the story of Jessica Valiant, a former British secret agent…

Which New Nintendo Stat Is Most Impressive?

We reported earlier that Nintendo is doing well. No kidding. The Switch is on fire. The company posted a bunch of sales numbers overnight, and we at Kotaku HQ have been discussing which is the most stunning. Let’s just say that we’re not all in agreement. Which is your pick? (Please say it’s the Splatoon…

Dragon Ball FighterZ, As Told By Steam Reviews

According to Steam reviews, Dragon Ball FighterZ is one of the best fighting games out right now. Don’t worry, the reviewers also made some “over 9,000″ jokes. Dragon Ball FighterZ was a highly anticipated game, and it seems like fans got what they asked for. They say it’s well balanced for beginners, faithful to the…

My Quest To Find A Special Tree In The Witcher 3

One Sunday morning a few weekends ago, I opened up my computer to play some video games. I had a mess of games to review, but I ended up in The Witcher 3. There was this tree I wanted to find. I had finished the story of The Witcher 3 a week or so before.…

The Mashup Of WarioWare and Pornhub You Never Knew You Wanted

There are some things you never know you need until the moment you realize their existence, a fundamental truth that is responsible for almost every infomercial and episode of Shark Tank ever created. Note: This story contains NSFW imagery. I wasn’t expecting to find one of those on itch.io, but here I am, on the…

Trump’s State Of The Union Donation Stunt Feels Straight Out Of Twitch

Prior to last night’s State of the Union speech, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign contacted the President’s supporters to ask them for small donations. Unlike in the past, however, anyone who donated the day before the speech would get their name added to a ticker running at the bottom of the campaign’s livestream of the event.…

Hero shooter Gigantic’s servers will be discontinued on July 31st, the developers announced today. Most of the studio behind the game was laid off in November

EA CEO Defends The Publisher’s Recent Slate Of Games

From an outside perspective, the past half-decade has looked rocky for Electronic Arts. A string of flops and PR disasters like Star Wars Battlefront II and Mass Effect: Andromeda, combined with moves like the shutdown of Visceral Games, has led to a lot of outrage toward the mega-publisher. EA’s perspective, however, is a little different. Yesterday…

The First Third-Party Wireless PS4 Controller Is Missing A Few Things

Hori’s Onyx, available now in Europe, if the first officially-licensed third-party wireless controller for the PlayStation 4. It’s got its good points, like the Xbox-style staggered analog stick layout and one piece d-pad, but the lack of a headphone jack and other key DualShock 4 features might be a dealbreaker. I’ve been playing with the…

Gwent‘s Latest Card Art Continues To Look Beautiful

A new open PTR (Public Test Realm) has gone live for Gwent, CD Projekt Red’s card game based on The Witcher. Players have already collected some beautiful new artwork for potential cards from it. Gwent has some amazing artists working on it, and the latest batch of files culled from the PTR bear that out.…

GDC Pulls Award After Outcry Over Atari Co-founder Nolan Bushnell [Update]

A day after saying it would give Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell its 2018 Pioneer Award, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference have pulled the award, saying they will now award it to no one. The quick change followed 18 hours of outcry about Bushnell’s alleged unsavory behavior toward female Atari employees. Those stories have…

Here’s February’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

February’s PlayStation Plus lineup has you covered if you missed Rime or, like me, heard the jokes about Knack but never actually played it. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. February’s PS Plus lineup is: PlayStation 4 Knack Rime PlayStation 3 Spelunker HD Mugen Souls Z…