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Landmark, the MMO formerly known as Everquest Next Landmark, is closing down next month

There Were Going To Be Rogue One Disney Infinity Figures [Update]

Seven months later, the sad stories just keep on coming out of Disney Infinity’s cancellation The title’s abrupt binning, brought about more through production mismanagement than any flaws with the game and its excellent figures, mean that many series and toys which were being worked on had to be scrapped and never released. One such…

Elite: Dangerous Players Have Finally Found Aliens

After years ofteases and winks and hints throughout the Elite: Dangerous universe, players are today reporting that they’ve finally made “first contact” with aliens in the game. And they are big DP Sayre, a player on Xbox One, was the first to share the discovery earlier today, when he was wrenched out of hyperspace then…

In Civilization VI, Nobody Expects The…

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Mass Effect 2 Is Free Right Now

Mass Effect 2, one of the all-time greats, is currently free on Origin for PC users as part of Origin’s “On the House” program. That’s a good deal! It was free for a time back in December as well. We’ve updated this post with the currently-working link.

Blizzard Says They’ll Punish Overwatch Players Who Use Mei’s Ice Wall Cheat

For weeks, an Overwatch exploit that lets players use Mei’s ice wall ability to get outside levels and become invincible has been wreaking havoc on 3v3. Good and righteous players who abhor cheating in all its ghastly forms are sick of it. After prolonged silence, Blizzard’s finally said they’re gonna do something about it. Blizzard’s…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Prompto Sure Is Good At Photography

One of the best features of Final Fantasy XV are Prompto’s photos. Every time you rest for the night, the game will show you a roll of photos from that day’s adventures which you can save and share on social media. These randomly generated mementos are mostly unique to your particular game, giving it a…

Let It Die‘s End of Level Replays Are Great

The world is confusing. No one tells you how to do a damn thing until it is too late. This happens in games too. It’s hard to know where mistakes were made. Let It Die’s end of level replays make it easy to grasp the big picture. Let It Die has been my major gaming…

Mega Man‘s New Mobile Ports Are Garbage

After weeks of being hyped on Twitter and Facebook, fresh mobile ports of Mega Man 1 through 6 have arrived on iOS and Android, and they are quite possibly the worst way to experience six classic NES games. Capcom Mobile posted a series of trailers to its YouTube channel to celebrate the release of the…

Smite Gets Celtic Gods And Another New Game

Hi-Rez Studios’ 2017 celebration of itself kicks off today in Atlanta, making it the perfect time to reveal one of Smite’s coolest gods yet, The Morrigan, and a third (that’s right, third) game in the mythology battles franchise, Smite Rivals. What began as the annual Smite World Championships has blossomed into a fan convention with…

The 100 Most Popular Kotaku Posts Of 2016

In 2016, Kotaku readers liked reading about Pokémon. And… Pokémon. And Pokémon. As is annual tradition, here were our most popular 100 stories of 2016, sorted not by quality but by traffic (on Google Analytics), brought to you by our wonderful data team. Fun fact: Fifty—50!—of these articles cover Pokémon in some way. Three are…

River-based survival game The Flame In The Flood: Complete Edition is coming to PS4 January 17. The console edition contains director’s commentary and various other tweaks. 

Dota 2 Player Compiles 4,000-Word List Of Bugs After Huge Patch

Dota 2‘s massive December 11th patch added a new hero, an HUD redesign and, apparently, loads of bugs. On Reddit yesterday, Dota 2 player DimitrijaT published nearly 200 bugs he personally encountered or learned of on the Dota 2 subreddit, PC Games News reports The post totals about 4,000 words and includes bugs like “neutral…

Ariana Grande Final Fantasy Remix Is Weird, But Not Bad

As if adding Ariana Grande’s likeness to Square Enix’s free to play mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn’t strange enough, her song “Touch It,” will also be given a fully orchestrated remix for the game. It’s kind of ….good? Music producer Nick Wood from SYN Productions, a music studio he co-founded with Simon LeBon…

Vlambeer’s Giant Book Is Fantastic

Vlambeer are best known for their video games like Luftrausers, Nuclear Throne and Ridiculous Fishing. I’ve been enjoying something else they’ve done recently, though, and it’s something a bit more tangible: this big book all about the team and their history. At 152 over-sized pages, it’s really two books in one: there’s a massive collection…

Razer’s Latest CES Showstopper Is A Laptop With Three Screens

It’s too bad Razer already used the name Switchblade for its CES 2011 micro laptop concept, as it’s would have been perfect for Project Valerie, a gaming laptop that expands from one to three displays with the press of a button. Multi-monitor desktop gaming is easy, but setting up a pair of additional screens to…

New Nvidia Service Will Let You Stream PC Games For A Ridiculous Price

Nvidia, picking up on the reality that most PC users don’t have the absolute latest in tech, have announced at CES a revamp of their Geforce Now service, which will let anyone with a PC or Mac stream games from “a Pascal PC in the cloud” (Pascal is the name given to the technology found…

Fuck This Touchpad

This is Samsung’s Notebook Odyssey, “designed specifically with gamers in mind”. It can take that off-kilter touchpad and get the fuck out of here. It also comes in white. White is worse.

Super Mario Adventure: The Kotaku Review

This is a Mario game, but it’s not a Mario video game. It’s a ball puzzle/game/thing I got for my kid for Christmas, and we haven’t been able to stop playing it since. We spotted it on Amazon trawling for Mario merch (kid is nuts for Nintendo stuff), and figured that because the box was…

Diablo III‘s Riff On The First Diablo Is More Homage Than Remake

Diablo III’s 2.3.4 update has hit the public test realm, giving PC players a chance to play through a 16-level retro dungeon packed with bosses from the 1996 original. It’s not quite a remake, but it hits all the right notes. Update: 2.3.4 is now live on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Originally run on…