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Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee 

Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? As we did in 2014 and 2015, it’s time to dress up the Los Angeles Convention Center in it’s E3 clothes, or at least the E3 clothes we’d like to see it wear. Originally posted 6/5/2016 — We’re halfway there, living on a prayer and all that. Winners will…

Hey, It’s A . . . Oh, It’s Just A Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Trailer

Aqua demonstrates exactly how I feel when I see “Kingdom Hearts” from Square Enix in my inbox and it’s not about Kingdom Hearts III Not that I don’t mind getting a preview of the very-long-awaited third installment of the series via Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep–A Fragmentary Passage. Aqua looks pretty amazing in the…

Here’s a look at Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the spiritual successor to Castlevania. The game will be playable at E3, and is slated for a March 2017 release.

Sega’s Warehouse-Sized VR Shooter Looks Neat

Oh, you can use the Oculus Rift in one spot? And you can walk around a little square with the Vive? Sega, with plans for a virtual reality shooter that lets you run around inside a warehouse, thinks that’s cute. They’re working with Australian company Zero Latency on a giant co-operative shooter which, according to…

Some Fallout 4 Xbox Mods Are Being Stolen From The PC Version

Because users have been modding Bethesda’s games on PC forever, a functional community has evolved alongside the practice. On console? It’s the Wild West, and surprise, some people are being dicks about the finer points of mod creation and crediting. There have been numerousreports(see also: this Reddit thread) of mods—including parts of some of the…

GTA Online’s newest big free add-on is out today. Further Adventures In Finance and Felony adds the ability to serve as an in-game CEO as well as a “trading places” PvP mode that swaps you and the person you kill from one team to the other–if you were in the losing team. Sounds crazy! More…

Doom 64 Is The Most Underrated Doom Game

Though credits have rolled on the new Doom, I wanted to keep blowing up imps and pinkies. It seemed like the right time to revisit Doom 64 Doom 64 wasn’t actually developed by id Software; it was created by Midway Games. It picks up after the events of Doom 2: Hell on Earth, when attempts…

Overwatch Is Still Hiding Lots of Clues About A Mysterious Character

On the surface, Overwatch seems like just a wacky, brightly-colored shooter. Don’t let that fool you though. Overwatch hides some secrets which nobody has found yet according to Blizzard. Earlier this year, there were rumblings of a character named “Sombra.” As Eurogamer explains here, some of the maps in Overwatch contain mentions of Sombra in…

Naturally, Somebody Beat Dark Souls 3 With Their Feet

People beat the Dark Souls games in all sorts of ridiculous ways. This one might be the weirdest. People have beat Dark Souls with Donkey Konga’s bongo drums. Another person did it with the game flipped upside-down. The Souls games are hard enough on their own, but fans love one-upping each other. Celesterian Games has…

Paragon‘s Essentials Edition Is Paid Early Access In A Box

Having to purchase a special founder’s pack to gain exclusive beta access and special content for a free-to-play game like Paragon is quickly becoming the norm. Releasing a $60 physical copy of a free-to-play downloadable game that scores players the same sort of benefits is a bit odd. The Unreal Engine 4 (because what else…

Injustice 2 Is Coming, Suggest Retail Leaks

With Mortal Kombat X heading into the rear-view mirror, it’s about time for NetherRealm Studios to announce a new game. It looks like that game is Injustice 2, a sequel to the DC fighting game from 2013. The first word on Injustice 2 came from Twitter this morning, apparently part of a retail promotion arriving…

Vagina Video Game Devs: Apple Asked Us To Change Everything For App Store

La Petite Mort is a game about touching a pixelated vulva. There is technically no nudity in the game since everything is rather abstracted, but the general gist was still enough to get the game taken down from the app store. (NSFW warning.) Developers Lovable Hat Cult created La Petite Mort with the intention of…

Final Fantasy XIV Finally Gets An Optimize Equipment Button, And It’s Great

Final Fantasy XIV update 3.3 went live today, bringing the Dragonsong War story to an end and adding new raids, dungeons, trials and more. My favorite part of the update is that little Recommended Gear button up there. Call it Optimum, Best Equip, Optimize or Optimal, the ability to automatically assign the best equipment for…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft (And Friends) Keep Their E3 2015 Promises?

E3 2016 starts next week, and with it comes the opportunity to cheer or groan over teases about upcoming games and news. As we do every year, we’re checking back on the hype from last year’s show, to see what the big three platform holders actually delivered. Let’s start with Microsoft and see how they…

A Closer Look At Overwatch‘s Generous Headshot Hitboxes

Does playing Overwatch make you feel like there’s something in the water? Something that magically transforms you into a sniper demon, or conversely, a tottering watermelon with legs? You might be onto something. Force Gaming decided to test Overwatch’s headshot hitboxes (that is, the area in which something counts as a hit as opposed to…

XCOM 2 Coming To Consoles In September

The excellent turn-based strategy game XCOM 2 will be PC exclusive no more later this year. Publisher 2K announced this morning that the game will be coming to Xbox One and PS4 on September 6. Veteran studio The Workshop is handling the port of the Firaxis game.

The New Guilty Gear Makes Learning Fun

Pitting the player against a docile computer-controlled character is a fine tutorial mechanic, but it’s not very exciting. Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator has a bit more fun with fighting fundamentals. The latest game in Arc System Works’ fighting game franchise, available today on PlayStation 4 and PS3, replaces the boring old basic tutorial with a…

Odin Sphere’s HD Remake Runs Like A Dream

Odin Sphere for the PlayStation 2 is a gorgeous 2D masterpiece of an action role-playing game with a big slowdown problem. The high-definition remake, out today for the PlayStation 3, 4 and Vita, does away with the game’s one glaring flaw. Originally published 6/1/2016, updated for release day. I’ve been playing an awful lot of…

Persona 5 Won’t Be Out In North America Until February 2017

Sorry, Persona fans: you won’t be dating new waifus and husbandos until next year. Atlus announced today that Persona 5 will be out in North America on February 14, 2017. That’s five months after Japan gets the fifth Persona, and it might come as a bummer to North American gamers who hoped to go on…

Final Fantasy XII On The PS2 Compared With The Remastered PS4 Trailer

Via Siliconera, here’s a look at how Final Fantasy XII on the PS2 stacks up against the PS4 remastered version’s debut trailer. There are bound to be more in depth comparisons once Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is released, or at least once we have more footage. Don’t forget that Square Enix still has…