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Firewatch Developers Are Making A Game About Exploring Egypt

Campo Santo, the minds behind Firewatch, are working on a first-person game that appears to take place in Egypt, based on a trailer that premiered tonight during The Game Awards. Called In The Valley of the Gods, the game is slated to drop in 2019. Here’s the description: In the Valley of Gods is a sprawling…

In case you’re sick of movie adaptations and audio books, World War Z will be a video game as well. The game, based on Max Brook’s cult classic book, is developed by Saber Interactive and is“coming soon.” Hopefully, you’ll get to crowd-surf on those big zombie waves.

Watch The 2017 Game Awards Right Here

It’s time again for the annual Game Awards, which means a night full of video game trailers, big announcements, and awkward moments. Also, awards. The show starts at 8:30pm, and we’ll be covering all the news as it happens. You can also watch right here:

In the latest official Destiny blog post, Bungie says it intends to fix the hilariously overpowered Prometheus Lens in next week’s 1.1.1 update. “Damage output is higher than intended,” indeed. Trials of the Nine will still run this weekend, so that should be interesting.

Batman PS4 Controller Knows Where The Trigger Is

Kotaku regular Devin Smith, aka End of Line Designs, is back with another custom video game controller redesign, this time turning a DualShock 4 into something Batman would throw at a bad guy’s face. This pad has a retractable “cowl” for the touchpad, a busted-up finish to match Batman’s battle damage and some trademark spiky…

Look At This $1,400 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Replica

South Korean toy company Blitzway has created the perfect accessory for its line of 12-inch premium original Ghostbusters figures. The sixth-scale Ecto-1 replica is over 40 inches long, more than big enough to fit all four figures and accessories. Also, it costs nearly $1,400 dollars. Now before we go on and on about how expensive…

Rainbow Six Siege’s New Update Makes Up For A Rough Year

The last year hasn’t been great for Rainbow Six Siege, a game that, while hugely popular this year, has recently become notorious for game-breaking bugs and exploits. The latest update, which came out this week, adds powerful new operators that shake up the game in novel ways. Through these additions, Ubisoft has put Siege back…

The “Humanoid Species Pack” for Stellaris dropped today, offering new portraits, music, spaceships and voiceover. Grab it here and this sexy goat man can be yours.

Video Games As Told By The Simpsons

A picture is worth 1,000 words and a good Simpsons picture is worth one kwyjibo. Anintrepid Twitter user is turning still from The Simpsons into wonderful summaries of 2017’s top video games. “Thom Coldman” has assembled a great collection of images that mix and match classic Simpsons moments with games. From the truckasaurus standing in…

Nintendo Games Still Don’t Feel Right On Mobile

So far, Nintendo’s mobile offerings have been pretty good. They’re also frustrating. Nintendo resisted mobile games for a long time, but finally relented in 2016 when they released the app Miitomo. Though I deleted it long ago, I still have fond memories of it. You’d dress up a little Mii avatar, set a greeting, and…

Yesterday, Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth players got to play as Satoru Iwata The former head of Nintendo died in 2015. Every year since, he’s appeared in the game on December 6, his birthday. Afterbrith never made it to Wii U or 3DS, so was the first time the tribute was on a Nintendo platform.

Frustration Simulator Getting Over It Climbs Steam Best Sellers List

Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy is a nonsensical game that challenges players to climb a mountain with a hammer. The silly premise and highly animated reactions from streamers who take a tumble have launched it right to the heights of Steam’s best seller list one day after its release on the platform. It looks…

New Hearthstone Card Looks Suspiciously Familiar To Magic Players

Hearthstone’s latest expansion Kobolds and Catacombs launched today, featuring 135 new cards. One of them is called Violet Wurm, and as some players have noticed, it’s almost exactly like a Magic: The Gathering card that came out 17 years ago. Here’s the tale of the tape: Violet Wurm is a new Hearthstone card, a minion…

Overwatch Gets Yeti Boss Fight

The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means: new Overwatch stuff. And also family and celebration or whatever, I guess. In a new video update, game director Jeff “It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like” Kaplan announced that the game’s Mei-focused holiday event is returning. It’ll include everything from last year—skins, the…

My Splatoon 2 Match Became A Dance Party

Last night, during a match of Splatoon 2, everyone got fed up with our senseless land war. We all laid down our arms and came together for the one thing that matters most: having a kickass party. Last evening, I streamed Splatoon 2 on my personal Twitch channeland leapt into a turf war match on…

Ubisoft Says It Won’t Remove Russia From Its 2018 Olympics Game

Earlier this week the International Olympic Committee announced Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Despite that news, Russia is going to remain in the winter sports sim Steep Road to the Olympics, at least for now. Road to the Olympics is a new expansion to the 2016 winter sports…

Ubisoft has delayed three games, the publisher said today. Far Cry 5, previously scheduled for February, will be out March 27, 2018. The Crew 2 will be out later next year. And an unannounced game that was scheduled for FY18-19 (April 2018-March 2019) will now come out the following fiscal year. Sorry to those of…

The Devil May Cry HD Collection is coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 13th, 2018. It contains Devil May Cry, the oft-misunderstood Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition aka The Best Thing Ever. Better start practicing your moves so you can rock, baby!

GTA Online’s Doomsday Heists Takes Players Inside Mount Chilliad (With Jetpacks)

Jet packs, flying cars, underwater cars and a trip inside the mysterious Mount Chilliad—all that and more look like they’ll be part of The Doomsday Heist, a surprise “epic new online adventure” Rockstar announced today for Grand Theft Auto Online. It’ll be out on December 12. GTA Online players have spent years trying to unravel the…

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero adds a whole new adventure on December 12 with the $7.99 Friends to the End DLC. Players swap between three of Shantae’s pals—Sky, Bolo and Rottytops—as they travel through remixed game levels to save the half-genie from dark magic.