It’s been almost five years since the release of Dark Souls, and most people have moved onto other games. But a group of hardcore fans aren’t letting the game die without a fight, resulting in today’s Global Restart Day. The idea began on the Dark Souls subreddit, which recently passed a 100,000 subscribers milestone. Global…
Will World of Warcraft legacy servers ever happen? Are content updates going to drop more frequently? And when are we getting that ship expansion? During a recent Blizzard event in Irvine, California, I had the chance to sit down with some of the team behind World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Legion, which comes out on…
Sony has finally acknowledged that it is indeed building a more powerful version of the PlayStation 4, as Kotaku first reported in March. PlayStation chief Andrew House told the Financial Times that the codenamed Neo is “intended to sit alongside and complement the standard PS4″ and that “”We will be selling both [versions] through the…
Blizzard is making a series of World of Warcraft: Legion animated shorts called Harbingers. Website Blizzard Watch reports that they center around Illidan Stormrage. Footage isn’t currently online, but PCGamesN, however, was told the clips will be available on YouTube in the near future.
Uh. Well. Okay, then. Note: This article might contain spoilers as well as content some readers find objectionable. Previously, Kotaku reported what you could expect with the game’s upcoming story mode. Now, ten minutes of footage seems to have popped up online. The footage shown below looks totally bonkers. The first minute is, well, especially…
I’m not normally one for clips of developers talking over the top of their video game, but this 17-minute Deus Ex video has Adam Jensen taking a very sad shower, so it gets a pass.
While other studios craft games about fighting robot dinosaurs or piloting spaceships, a small group in Poland is making one about being a cop in 1980s New York City. It’s called Beat Cop, and it has you pointing and clicking to make a police officer patrol a few blocks of Manhattan. He walks past a…
Space dogfighting fans are in for a treat this week, as House of the Dying Sun, previously known as Enemy Starfighter, has emerged on Steam early access. Man, it is pretty damn good. House of the Dying Sun is another indie PC game made by one person—in this case Mike Tipul, a Bungie vet who…
Not much new in Bungie’s Destiny stream that didn’t already leak The Rise of Iron DLC will cost $30 and will only be on PS4 and Xbox One. There’ll be a way to port your character if you’re trading up from last-gen. Everything else leaked last night, so you can find all the info in…
Though multiplayer is the main draw for games like Street Fighter V, people have come to expect those games to have story modes for solo players. At the end of the month, Street Fighter V gets one for free. Capcom has been teasing Street Fighter V’s story mode for a while now, but as development…
Despite being somewhat limited compared to traditional modding, Doom’s SnapMap feature has helped produce everything from demonic farming simulators to demonic MOBAs. And now, it’s given us a demon fashion show. Demons are nothing if not well-rounded individuals. Kyle Pena put together a SnapMap scenario that’s all about stylish demons strutting their stuff. There are…
Nothing beats getting that one legendary Overwatch skin you’ve been eyeing for days. Most of the time, though? God do loot box drops suck. Blizzard are a devilish bunch. I can only imagine how long was spent on designing the loot box, its animation, and what it sounds like when you expand one. Just the…
The Division’s post-pandemic streets are about to get a lot less forgiving for cheaters. The game’s developers say that starting now, anyone using cheat software will be banned forever, no second chances. In a new post on the game’s official blog, the Division’s dev team say that the new cheat detection measures they introduced at…
Nintendo’s digital events have become a highlight of E3—pre-recorded presentations, as opposed to live stage shows, that are full of fun and filled purely with games. There’s no planned Direct this year, but let’s see if they kept their 2015 promises. The theme of Nintendo’s June 16, 2015 E3 digital event was transformation. At the…
When people say Doom is awesome, they’re usually talking about the game’s single player campaign. Multiplayer? Not so much. It’s bland. But in an interview with Eurogamer, developer id Software claims changes are coming. id Software oversaw Doom’s multiplayer, but Certain Affinity actually built it. Now that the game’s shipped, however, id Software is taking…
If the actual Uncharted 4’s a little too white-knuckled for your gaming tastes, but you still want to get a feel for what everyone’s been talking about, you could always try this brief little text adventure version Know that, if you haven’t worked it out by now by the genre itself, it’s not an official…
Sony’s beginning to unveil PlayStation VR’s lineup for this October, and there are some interesting games coming. The week before E3 is when companies do one of two things: try to capture attention during a slow news week or announce smaller games that might get buried by bigger ones. I’m pretty interested in the latter!…
Over at Kotaku UK, Keza MacDonald reported on how Fable Legends took down Lionhead It’s an in-depth look at why Lionhead was both an innovative studio and one Microsoft was willing to risk. Give it a read!
Is this the greatest video game roster of all time? The folks behind the Lego Dimensions just unveiled the characters and series they’re featuring in the game’s second year, starting in September: Sonic the Hedgehog, Adventure Time, Mission Impossible, the A-Team, the Goonies, Knight Rider, the Powerpuff Girls, Gremlins, Beetlejuice and ET. All in one…
A trailer for the new Destiny DLC Rise of Iron has leaked out a little early, and it contains something that’ll twist the knickers of everyone who played the game back in its launch year: the rocket launcher Gjallarhorn is back. It’s sporting the same design, only now you can get it in “Iron Black”.…
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