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You’ll Need A Powerful PC To Pull Off Fallout 4‘s Hi-Res Texture Pack

If you want the power armor in your PC version of Fallout 4 to look this gloriously scratched and rusted, you’d best bring the hardware. Bethesda’s official high-resolution texture pack features some weighty recommended specs, including an AMD card that isn’t even out yet. Available next week along with aPlayStation 4 Pro update that adds…

Sources: Eidos Working On Guardians of the Galaxy Game, Future of Deus Ex Murky

We may be waiting a long time for the next big Deus Ex game. The developers of the iconic franchise have moved on to other big franchises, according to sources speaking both to Kotaku and other outlets. Sources say Eidos Montreal has cancelled a planned sequel to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which came out last year.…

Hitman’s January Update release notes are out, which hits on January 31 to coincide with the physical release of the game. The January Update will feature a new difficulty mode, Professional Difficulty, and will make Hitman’s soundtrack and “making of” documentary available for all players.

The Sword Art Online Mobile Game Is Worth A Try

The latest game based on Japan’s popular trapped-in-an-MMO light novel series is a free-to-play mobile game in which players collect and upgrade characters as they advance through the story of Sword Art Online anime. It’s formulaic, but it works quite well. Licensed character collecting mobile games are all the rage right now. Players gather or…

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Maybe THIS Will Be A Good Aliens Shooter

For a movie so famous for its frantic gunplay, we haven’t had a good shooter based on Aliens in a long time. So hey, if professional game studios can’t get the job done, maybe this upcoming mod can. Aliens: Legacy is a new project born out of a partnership between two existing Doom mods, with…

UnDungeon Takes A Jackhammer To Late 90s Role-Playing Games

Take the alien aesthetic of Independence Day and set it to Massive Attack’s Mezzanine and you’ll have something in the neighborhood of a roguelike RPG being developed by a small German studio called UnDungeon Currently undergoing a Kickstarter campaign that recently hit its threshold to get funded, Laughing Machine’s freshman project seems easy enough to…

Valve Cracking Down On Team Fortress 2 Gambling

Last year, Valve started dropping a hammer on gambling sites selling Counter-Strike items. This week, the same process has begun for Team Fortress 2 In a short statement released online, Valve say that following the ban on CS stuff in 2016, “some gambling web sites [have] started leveraging TF2 items. Today we began the process…

Game Makers Are Pushing Back Against Trump’s Travel Ban [Updated]

The company behind mobile games Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co doesn’t usually speak directly to its players about what’s going on in the world, but following President Trump’s Friday executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries, Playdots, Inc. decided to push out an update asking its audience to support the ACLU. The…

Hand-Drawn Indie Game Gorogoa Gets A Beautiful New Trailer

Jason Roberts’ game Gorogoa has been teasing players with the promise of its trippy visual puzzles for almost five years now. With a new reveal trailer and a planned release for spring of 2017, the wait it almost over. Designed and drawn by Roberts, Gorogoa tells a story whose action is driven by the way you…

Geralt Of Rivia’s Voice Actor Says Doing Witcher 3 Sex Scenes Was Like ‘Being Caught Masturbating’

Doug Cockle, the voice behind The Witcher’s Geralt, recently described his experience working on the series, including how awkward it can be to record intimate lines when he’s the only one present. An American actor who now resides in coastal English city of Bournemouth, Cockle told Eurogamer he more or less stumbled voicing CDProject Red’s…

Auschwitz-Themed Escape Room Stops Selling Tickets Amid Backlash

In a move surprising almost no one, an escape room inspired by the Auschwitz Nazi death camp has decided to stop selling tickets amid public outcry over its apparent exploitation of one of the darkest chapters in the world’s history. According to a report by CNN, the company, Dostaň Se Ven, located in the Czech…

For The First Time In Almost 20 Years, Team Rocket Beat Ash In The Pokémon Anime

Team Rocket has had a rough career. Giovanni, their leader, doesn’t always appreciate them. They’re usually broke. And they usually lose. Well, not this time. The official Pokémon Sun and Moon anime continues to delight with its antics, and that is especially true in this week’s installment. The set-up seems run-of-the-mill: Ash and co have…

The Sims 4 Celebrity House Update: Vampire The Weeknd

The Celebrity House has a new neighbor, and he’s tryna to put them in the worst mood. Tilda Swinton hasn’t been feeling great for the past few days. She keeps passing out and waking up in strange places, and her neck is hurting all the time. But that’s all okay, because she’s made a new…

Top World of Warcraft Guild Boots Raider Over Sabotage Scandal

In World of Warcraft, major guilds race to pull off world firsts in new raids. It’s serious business. There are, however, limits. One member of a guild called Method thought it would be cool to sabotage another top guild’s efforts. It was not. Jadelolz, a member of Method, hatched a plan to prevent a rival…

A Normal Lost Phone Tries To Explore Queer Identity And Falls Short

A Normal Lost Phone bothers me. As an adventure/puzzle game, it is experimental and intelligent. Players must learn more about a lost phone and its owner. But as the game begins to explore LGBTQ themes, it takes a turn for the uncomfortable. The set up is simple. You have found a phone. Examining text messages…

Flappy Bird Creator Releases Cute, Frustrating New Game

The creator of Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, is back after over three years with Ninja Spinki Challenges, which was made in conjunction with the publisher Obokaid’em Games. The new game is absolutely adorable. It’s also very hard. Like Flappy Bird, Ninja Spinki Challenges works with limited controls to create surprisingly complex puzzles. But instead of…

Four Must-Watch Anime of Winter 2017

Winter 2017’s anime selection is a desert. Out of the nearly 50-title lineup Kotaku East’s Brian Ashcraft detailed in his seasonal guide, I found only four anime I can recommend. It’s disappointing. There’s a special pleasure in breathlessly telling your friends, “There’s this new anime and it will blow your fucking mind.” Over the last…

A Small Detail You Might Have Missed In Mass Effect: Andromeda’s New Trailer

Yesterday, we got to meet some of the new squadmates introduced in Mass Effect: Andromeda. One of them, pictured above, is named Cora Harper. Harper is your second-in-command on the Pathfinder mission to find a new home for humanity. “To be brief, I am a biotic, the team’s operation’s specialist in charge of ground missions,…

What We Love And Hate About Overwatch‘s Chinese New Year Update

On the latest episode of our semi-regular Overwatch show, Let’s Break It Down, Cecilia, Heather, and I discuss the pros and cons of the Year Of The Rooster update. Pro: Roadhog’s new hook is actually kinda cool. Con: his new skin makes him look like a Texas chainsaw massacre. Also, capture the flag? Not super…