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Quake Champions will be free-to-play but charge players for characters, the game’s creative director told Polygon. While you can play the Ranger class for free, unlocking others will cost you. The game’s director said this was a way of compromising between satisfying stalwart fans and inviting newcomers.

Overwatch Glitch Lets Mercy Unleash Her Inner Phoenix 

In the latest version of Overwatch, using Mercy’s “hello” emote while floating through the sky can yield some wicked results The discovery was shared on Reddit by user Rosilia who was able to help the beloved healer nearly double her wing span and also make it glow bright green by quickly deploying the emote while…

Undead Cafe Game Necrobarista Was Made Out Of Frustration With The State Of Anime

Recently, a game called Necrobarista caught my eye. It’s about a cafe the dead return to for one last cup of coffee, and it’s got an art style that screams Persona. That’s no coincidence. Necrobarista’s developers told me the game arose from their “love-hate relationship” with anime and visual novels. “Back in the ‘90s, you…

A Musical Indie Game Starring A Teen With A Cosmic Guitar

Game designer Johnny Galvatron first doodled the monsters of The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti in his student math book, years ago. “I wasn’t a great math student,” he said, delightfully pointing out The Artful Escape ’s space whale and “suborbital jellyfish.” The short PAX East demo of The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti showed…

Kotaku’s Buffy Fans Pick Their Favorite Episodes

Today, Buffy the Vampire Slayer celebrates its 20th anniversary. To honor this occaision, the Buffy-likers at Kotaku talk about their favorite episodes. Spoilers for… Pretty Much Everything In Buffy Kirk Hamilton — “Hush” You may expect me to pick “Once More, With Feeling” for this, but oh no, I will not be so predictable. I’ll…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Full Of Amazing Little Details

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild manages to be both massive and unusually detailed. The sprawl of Hyrule will take weeks or even months for most of us to explore, not just because of its square mileage but because of how much there is to see and do in a given field or…

Richard Dawkins On Video Games, Brexit, And Trump

Games with what you could call celebrity endorsements are not unknown. But Richard Dawkins: Evolution is something of a different breed. Professor Dawkins is one of the world’s foremost scientists as well as perhaps its greatest populariser of science – fitting into a noble tradition of thinkers who went the extra mile to explain their…

Blaster Master Zero For Switch Is An Excellent Retro Remake

A good remake of a retro gaming classic has to evoke the feeling of playing the original while making the game feel fresh and new. Blaster Master Zero for the Nintendo Switch is a very good remake of a retro gaming classic. So good. You may have seen the name on release lists. You may have…

A Perfect Video Game Loading Screen

Thanks for the tip, Ghost Recon. I sure wouldn’t want to frighten any civilians.

Here’s the full recording of Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Satoru Takizawa, and Takuhiro Dohta’s talk about Breath of the Wild from last week’s Game Developers Conference.

Aloy Has Flawless Skin And Brows In Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is set in a far future, post-apocalyptic world. Can someone explain to me why Aloy looks like an ad for Glossier, then? Beauty trends in 2016 and 2017 have been gravitating to an idea of a “no make up” make up look. This doesn’t mean not wearing any make up—what are we,…

Players Are Making Art With No Man’s Sky New Photo Mode

No Man’s Sky was updated this week to add a new photo mode, and players are using it to make their procedurally generated planets and space battles look dope as hell. The new photo mode allows players free movement of the camera, a series of filters, and even the ability to change the time of…

‘Let Him Fix It’: The Battle Over Who Gets To Repair Your Consoles

In a gritty vintage video games store in Manhattan’s East Village, a man who would only be identified by GorillaStomp, his PlayStation username, firmly explained why he should fix your video game console. Long before it was his livelihood, it was his fascination, and one he’d never asked for permission to do. Now, as the…

We’re at PAX East—well, some of us and a lot of you! Kotaku reporters are in Boston to play some video games. Bonus points if you can find Waldo in this shot.

Twitch Is Marathoning 23 Seasons Of Power Rangers Next Week

Since its 1993 North American debut, the Power Rangers series has produced 23 complete seasons of television. In celebration of the upcoming live-action movie, Twitch is streaming every single episode in one massive 16-day marathon, kicking off Tuesday, March 14. You’ll want to start planning which of the 831 (they aren’t doubling up on the…

Hasbro And Harmonix Are Making A Music Card Game

Coming this September to whichever stores will have it, Dropmix is a collaboration between toy maker Hasbro and music game masters Harmonix that sees players using cards placed on a game board to create unique mixes of licensed music via connected mobile device. Huh. Dropmix, shown behind doors at both Toy Fair and GDC last…

Unlucky Zelda: Breath of the Wild Player Gets Blood Moon During Final Boss Fight

One Zelda player was surprised to find that the worst possible hiccup can happen while trying to save Hyrule. (SPOILERS AHEAD.) As many of you know, a “Blood Moon” is a mechanic in Breath of the Wild where the sky turns crimson, and all enemies respawn. It’s the game’s way of keeping the overworld stocked…

Action MMO Tera Coming To Xbox One And PS4

Remember Tera, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game with the really cool combat system that came out on PC back in 2012? The free-to-play game is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 later this year. It makes sense. I haven’t done much with Tera since I reviewed it five years ago, but the game’s…

Pokémon And Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness

The above image is not new. It’s been floating around online for a while, so it shouldn’t be surprising. What might be, however, is just how often Pokémon is used for STD awareness. The billboard is part of a free STD check campaign, which also ran another series of Pokémon themed notices last year in…

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