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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…

Destiny‘s Weekend Vendor Gets A World Of Warcraft Counterpart

Located conveniently next to the Bank of Dalaran in World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, Xur’ios stands ready to exchange your Curious Coins for rare recipes, weapons, mounts and more. Anyone need a Gjallar’s “Horn?” It’s easy to forget that both Destiny, a game that’s part of this complete breakfast and World of Warcraft are ultimately…

Pokémon Go Pisses Players Off Again By Making Pokémon Harder To Catch [Update]

Over the last week, Pokémon Go underwent a couple of mechanical changes that players really, really don’t like. The first, as has been widely reported by now, was a tweak in capture rates for Pokémon Go. If you’ve noticed that monsters are moving around more, and in general are harder to catch, you are not…

Yet Another Final Fantasy Game Comes To Mobile Today

Today marks the release of Mobius Final Fantasy, yet another ridiculously titled FF game that Square Enix is putting on iOS and Android. The game just went live, so I haven’t had much of a chance to check it out yet, but Square says it’s got “in-depth character customization, ongoing live events, and HD graphics…

Overwatch Fans Find New Clues About The Mysterious Hero Sombra

About 2,000 Overwatch fans are currently hard at work deciphering the game’s latest clue about the unreleased hero Sombra. Yesterday, Blizzard published a video announcing their Summer Games seasonal event, which, Redditors think, surreptitiously holds new hints about Sombra, allegedly a hacker hero whose name translates to “Shadow.” A day later, these “Game Detectives” have…

What’s Inside The Xbox One S

As they do with most shiny new gaming tech, the brave folks at iFixit have taken apart Microsoft’s smaller, slightly faster Xbox One S to see how repairable it is (very) and answer questions like “Is the hard drive easier to upgrade?” (hahahaha no). It’s surprising how few things go into assembling a system capable…

Inside, one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2016 so far, is coming to PS4 on August 23, Sony said today. It was previously only available for Xbox One and PC. Down to console exclusivity!

Playing The Elder Scrolls Legends, AKA Brown Hearthstone With A Twist

To be fair, it’s a pretty big twist. While The Elder Scrolls Legends beta has a whole lot of Hearthstone going on, it’s going on in two lanes at once, which is actually pretty cool. I just got into the beta test for The Elder Scrolls Legends yesterday afternoon, so I hopped on last night…

[New Warhammer 40K Game Announcement]

There aretoo many damn Warhammer games. Anyway, here’s one more, and it actually looks OK. It’s called Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach, and it’s a straight-up turn-based tactics experience. Classic 40K, basically, only without the painting. It stars Space Wolves, which is awesome. Also promising is that it’s a Slitherine joint, the same publishers behind games…

Overwatch, Hearthstone Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack (Update: Fixed)

Looks like some banned Overwatch players might be reacting a little more poorly than we’d first thought, with a DDoS attack knocking the game—and by extension a lot of other Blizzard titles—out of service this afternoon. UPDATE: Fixed: Original story continues below: It started with login issues: Then: And: Blizzard has since said that “Our…

Overwatch‘s New Rocket League Mode Is A Very Good Time

Today Overwatch got a new game mode called Lucioball. And by “new game mode” I mean that Blizzard has basically turned Overwatch into Rocket League. Do you know what’s pretty fun? An Overwatch version of Rocket League Lucioball is a new 3v3 mode that’s currently serving as the weekly brawl. It’s part of an Overwatch…

EA’s FIFA series used to do indoor and street soccer. It doesn’t anymore, so into that void comes indie effort Metris Soccer, which is out on PC on August 24.

Surprise, Telltale’s New Batman Game Is Busted On PC

The new Batman series from adventure game specialists Telltale starts out OK, but in technical terms—at least on PC—the game is a mess. At time of posting the game’s Steam reviews are a constant stream of complaints, users upset at everything from control woes to game-breaking bugs to performance lags. Here are some of the…

Pokevision Creator Pens Heartfelt Letter To Niantic About Pokémon Go

When tracking service Pokevision was initially shut down last weekend, Yang Liu, the proprietor, didn’t say much about what was going on. Today, he breaks his silence with a long letter that pleads Niantic to change its stance on Pokémon trackers. You can read the whole thing here, but one of the most shocking things…

Somehow, the anime and light novel series Sword Art Online is being developed into a live-action television show, Crunchyroll reports. Centered on a virtual reality MMORPG, Sword Art Online follows the story of protagonist Kirito, who is trapped alongside 10,000 other players in the virtual world. Skydance Television is taking on the task with Laeta…

When Catching Every Pokémon Is Interrupted By A Turkish Military Coup

Aras Scimemi has caught all 145 Pokémon currently available in Pokémon Go. He’s not the first to do so, but the story of how he got them is a little more harrowing than others. A 20 year-old computer science student at the University of Virginia, Scimemi started playing Pokémon Go as soon as it was…

Farewell, Kotaku

It is with a heavy heart that I begin to say my goodbyes, readers. It’s been an honor to be part of Team Kotaku for the last two years. Today is my last day at Kotaku. Tomorrow, a new journey begins. Though I can’t talk about where I’m headed yet, if you follow me on…

Paragon Unleashes The Ultimate Weapon Against Robots And Monsters: A Fairy Princess

To be fair, I’m not 100 percent positive that The Fey, joining Epic Games’ action MOBA today to battle against laser commandos, bunnies in mech suits, killer robots and mutant beasts, is an actual princess. I am completely positive she seems a little out of place. Or maybe she’s just an important step in establishing…

Lots More Destiny: Rise of Iron Details Emerge

Thorn is coming back to Destiny, a video game in which players convince themselves that it’s worth spending hours grinding for goddamn calcified fragments just so they can get a stupid emblem. Also in the next expansion, Rise of Iron, which comes out September 20: New types of artifacts! A big light level boost! And…

Overwatch Gets Rocket League-Like Summer Games Mode

Overwatch today launched its first seasonal event, and with it comes the new gameplay mode Lúcioball. As an introduction to Overwatch’s Summer Games, Lúcioball will have players battling it out on a “futuristic soccer field” in a Rocket League-esque seasonal soccer brawl set in Rio de Janeiro. Overwatch’s Assistant Game Director Aaron Keller elaborates on…