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Rejoice, For Crusader Kings III Cometh

Crusader Kings II, one of the greatest strategy (and family murder plot) games of all time is finally getting a sequel, publishers Paradox announced today. I’ve gone on at length on this website about how special CKII is, but the fact is, despite getting a ton of important expansions as recently as earlier this year,…

Dentist Acquires Treasure Trove Of Rare Retro Games For $1.02 Million

A dentist named Eric Naierman sunk a cool $1.02 million on some first-edition, sticker-sealed games in September, the Washington Post reported today. It was one of the biggest-money sales in gaming history. Naierman picked up about 40 factory-sealed Nintendo games in the million-dollar haul, all of which were assembled by three collectors who took 52…

Fortnite Trick Lets You Survive The Storm [Updated]

Players are still discovering all the changes in Fortnite’s chapter 2, which means of course they’re finding exploits. A newly discovered one lets you use the shield-granting waters of Slurpy Swamp to avoid taking storm damage. As reported by Dexerto, the trick works like this: go to Slurpy Swamp, a new area of the map…

Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch ‘Vows of Virture, Deeds of Cruelty’ releases on October 29th. The patch brings a new game plus option, a brand new crafting activity, and the first part of a raid series based on Nier: Automata. Also: Trick Attack doesn’t need to be performed from the back. You’re welcome, Ninjas.

Out of the 33 people injured in the Kyoto Animation fire, 27 of them have returned to work, Kyodo News reports. The tragic fire has left 36 dead. The 41-year-old man suspected of starting the blaze has been taken into police custody.  

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Leslie Rosique is a concept artist and illustrator from France who has worked at companies like Quantic Dream. You can see more of Leslie’s stuff at her ArtStation page

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Archipel (makers of the excellent Toco Toco TV series) ran a series of very cool little interviews after bumping into famous Japanese games developers, like Yakuza’s Toshihiro Nagoshi. 

Modded Witcher 3 On Switch Allows PC Graphics Settings, 60FPS

The version of The Witcher 3 that exists on the Nintendo Switch works, which is a miracle in itself, but it’s far from the ideal version of the game. Those with a modded Switch console, though, can play something that looks a lot nicer. The game by default runs at 720P and 30FPS while docked,…

At Last, You Can Dye Underwear In Sea Of Thieves

Sea of Thieves updates are usually pretty big. That can mean giant shark battles, massive PvP modes, or even grand story adventures. While the newest update does have a big addition—a difficult “fort of the damned” with rare loot inside—it also has a smaller, sillier feature: the ability to change the color of your underwear.…

WWE 2K Looks Worse Than Ever This Year

Ah, the WWE 2K series. The cobbled-together, glorified Playstation 1 ROM hack of annualized sports franchises. More traditional annual sports games may be criticized for a lack of substantive changes year to year, but at least they’ve advanced over time and look like they belong in the current generation. The WWE 2K games just…aren’t that.…

Fallout 76 Won’t Get Human NPCs Until Next Year

The next big Fallout 76 update, which will finally add human NPCs to the Appalachian wasteland, has been delayed to early 2020. Fallout 76’s “Wastelanders” update is set to address one of the biggest complaints from the community: where are all the people? The game is set shortly after the nuclear apocalypse wiped out the…

Studio Ghibli Films Will Finally Be Available To Stream, Exclusive to HBO Max

Studio Ghibli’s films, including classics like Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away, will soon be available for streaming. The legendary studio’s film catalogue will be available on the upcoming streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement today (h/t Deadline), HBO Max confirmed a deal that secured 21 Studio Ghibli films for viewing on HBO Max,…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a game I am desperate to play and which looked fabulous when I saw it earlier this year, is getting delayed. It will now release in later 2020 to “meet the ambitions that the developer and publisher share.”

Pokémon Sword & Shield Gigantamax Variants Are Getting Weirder

It’s official. Here are the Gigantamax versions of Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, and Meowth. Gigantamaxing bumps up their battle stats, increases their size and changing their appearance, making them all strange, big, and glowy. That version of Meowth sure is something! It looks like a nod to the long-cat meme, but glowing and with yellow eyes.…

Luigi’s Latest Parody Nintendo Console Is The Best One Yet

Luigi’s heading back to another haunted mansion (well, a haunted hotel) in Luigi’s Mansion 3 this Halloween, and he’s got many more tricks up his sleeve for busting ghosts, including one gadget that’s a wonderful reference to a classic Nintendo console of yore. Ghost-hunting tools that resemble old Nintendo hardware are a staple of the…

Here is a Gundam head that’s also…a glasses case. It’s called the Gundam Head Case and is priced at 39,980 yen ($368). Pre-orders start soon and supplies are limited! No word on an international release.

2500 Classic MS-DOS Games Are Now Free To Play

Remember, the Internet Archive is useful for more than just seeing how embarrassing your old Kotaku posts were. It’s also home to a ton of classic PC games, and 2500 new ones have just been added to the site’s catalogue. There’s obviously a load of crap among that number, but there are also some damn…

Call of Duty Mobile Is Fun Even For Hardcore Players

Call of Duty: Mobile is an addictive multiplayer game that even the most casual mobile player can enjoy, but also one that even hardcore console players like myself might find to be surprisingly compelling. Developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios, Call of Duty: Mobile launched worldwide on October 1 as a free-to-play game for Android and…

Shadow Of Tomb Raider Isn’t Getting A New Tomb, But Will Soon Be Free Of Unpopular Outfit Restrictions

There’s nothing like the announcement of a “definitive edition” of a game to wring some answers out of a game studio and their marketing team. And so, with the announcement of Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for November 5, we finally can stop wondering about two important Tomb Raider things. 1. Is there…

Baldur’s Gate And Planescape: Torment Still Tell Stories Like No Other Games Can

With today’s releases of Baldur’s Gate games and Planescape: Torment for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, some of the most influential video games of the last 20 years complete a very long journey to the kind of wide audience they’ve long existed just outside. They’re also very old games that have spawned newer,…