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Here’s What It Looks Like To Play The New Quake

Quake Champions, Bethesda’s arena shooter for PC, is looking awesome. Its debut gameplay trailer just dropped, teasing some new champions and weapons. The game will enter closed beta in 2017. Take a look:

Our First Real Look At The New Prey 

During QuakeCon, Bethesda showed off the first gameplay footage of the new Prey, which has very little to do with the old Prey. Bethesda re-announced Prey during E3 this year with an unsettling, Groundhog-Day-esque cinematic trailer. In the new trailer, which features actual gameplay, the game’s main character frantically fires at wispy black creatures (including…

Bethesda Makes It Easier To Kill Fallout 4’s Most Hated Character, Fans ‘Celebrate’

Marcy Long is infamous for being the least liked character in the entirety of the Commonwealth. She also used to be marked as an essential character, meaning that the game wouldn’t let you get rid of her, no matter what you did. With the latest patch to Fallout 4, that’s changed. The full list of…

Q&A: I Am Setsuna Director Talks Feedback, Snow, And Why There Were No Inns

Why were there no inns in I Am Setsuna? What’s up with the lack of world map? And will the team’s next game have a bit more… variety? After finishing Tokyo RPG Factory’s debut game a couple of weeks ago, I contacted Square Enix in hopes of chatting with the folks who made it, and…

No Man’s Sky Already Has Erotic Fanfiction 

Exploring the vast endlessness of the universe just got a whole lot sexier (and maybe a little weird.) NSFW warning! For over a year now, one intense fan has been writing erotic fanfiction about No Man’s Sky, a game he has not actually played. Appropriately named “SeanMurrayInsideMe,” he is using sexy stories to satirize the…

11 Fans Who Love Overwatch So Much, They Got Tattoos

It’s no news that Overwatch is in vogue, but for some fans, the game is more than just the flavor of the week. Overwatch heroes’ elaborate backstories and compelling character design has led some players to identify with them on a deep, personal level. And what happens when people really, really like something? They get…

Every Big Video Game Coming Out This Summer

Summer is here, which means it’s time for going to the beach, taking a road trip—or hunkering down next to the air conditioner playing video games. We got a ton of awesome games over the spring; now let’s see what summer has in store. June 24. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE | Wii U | JRPG…

PC Gamer reportsthat Sean Bean has one of the most important jobs in PC gaming: narrating the tech tree in Civilization VI Course, he voiced the game’s debut trailer, but anyone could have been flown in and done that. Having him drone on for hours about pottery and the compass is a whole other level…

Overwatch Glitch Makes D.Va Appear In Lucioball

Lucioball, a new limited-time Overwatch mode clearly inspired by Rocket League, is named such because, well, it’s an all-Lucio deal. Somehow, though, D.Va showed up in one guy’s game. BlameTheController posted a video of his peculiar Lucioball match, and yep, that sure is D.Va on the field, complete with an arsenal that transforms her into…

Pokémon Go’s Battery Saving Mode Is Coming Back To iOS

One of the more puzzling decisions made recently in Pokémon Go was the removal of the game’s handy battery saving mode for iOS users. Turns out there was a very good reason for that: it was busted. Niantic have said today “We had removed this feature as several users were experiencing it to be buggy,…

No Trace looks like Hitman meets Hotline Miami It’s a stealth assassination game with disguises and gadgets, but it’s also got slick, blink-and-you’re-dead top-down combat. It’ll be out later this year.

Every Xbox One S Has A Tiny Master Chief Inside

Look at him. Cute as a button. Just don’t go trying to find him on yours, if you ever decide to pick one of these things up. That’s because, just like Sony’s nice little PlayStation screws, Master Chief is inside the computer He was discovered in this teardown of the new console by Ifixit, etched…

AMC’s Preacher: An uneven first season, but hopefully things will improve. What it is: AMC’s ambitious adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s comic book series Preacher What I’ve watched: Finished the first season last night. Is it good? Hmm. Mixed, I’d say. Some cool stuff, some very frustrating stuff. Quick thoughts: I’ve read some…

Why Does My PC Keep Freezing At Inopportune Moments?

Over the last couple of weeks, my gaming PC has started occasionally freezing up. It usually happens at the most inopportune moment possible, and always without warning. It sucks. I have to manually hit the “reset” button and everything. What’s going on? Why does my PC keep freezing at inopportune moments? It’s just tired, man.…

Watch Us Play Zelda: A Link To The Past With Randomized Items

Last Friday, Stephen Totilo and I played through a modded version of Zelda: A Link to the Past called the Randomizer. It randomizes the contents of every chest and item-giver in the game, which shifts things in some really interesting ways. As you can see in our playthrough (above), the results can be both funny…

Kotaku Is Hiring–Come Work With Us

Kotaku is looking to add some fresh voices to our ranks. Could that be you? Specifically, we’re hoping to hire a full-time staff writer who has a penchant for news, as well as a freelance weekend editor who specializes in competitive gaming. We want people who are fearless in their reporting and criticism. We want…

Blizzard Defends Overwatch’s Limited-Time Summer Games Loot

Overwatch’s new Summer Games event adds more than 100 new emotes, sprays, icons, intros, and skins to the game, but there’s a catch: they come in randomized boxes, and you can’t buy individual items no matter how many coins you’ve saved up. There’s been quite a bit of outcry about that, especially among players who…

The First-Ever Phoenix Wright Case Happens Today

When dreaming up Phoenix Wright back in the early 2000s, series creator Shu Takumi picked a date that seemed wayyyyy far in the future. Now we’re here. The first case of the very first Ace Attorney game, ‘The First Turnabout,’ takes place on August 3, 2016—15 years after Phoenix Wright made his debut on the…

Harsh.

Sweet, matchmaking found me a game! I guess the servers are working after all! I… oh. Damn.

Niantic Takes Away Legendaries From Pokémon Go Players

When news broke thata couple from Ohio suddenly had a legendary Pokémon yesterday, the most common response from other players was that something fishy was going on. Today, Niantic confirmed the shenanigans, and says it has rectified the situation. In a statement sent to IGN, a Niantic rep said the following: We recently noticed that…