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Microsoft Ends Xbox 360 Production

After a successful ten-and-a-half-year run, the Xbox 360 is officially saying goodbye. One might even say it’s turning around 360 degrees and walking away. Announcing the news on the Xbox Wire today, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer wrote a few paragraphs about the console’s success. And it has indeed been successful, selling upwards of 78 million units…

Puzzle Game About Cooking Sausages Is Way Harder Than It Looks

During my first 30 minutes with Stephen “Increpare” Lavelle’s latest puzzle game, Stephen’s Sausage Roll, I felt like a complete idiot. Ten minutes later I felt like one of the smartest people on the planet. I am neither of those things (I hope), but that’s the ride Stephen’s Sausage Roll has been taking me on…

The PC version of Dark Souls is back online, though it’s unclear what knocked it offline for a week in the first place If you’ve already finished Dark Souls 3, the original game holds up very well!

What I Actually Call Dark Souls Bosses

From Software has a knack for creating some super weird boss names. I tend to completely ignore those names and just make up my own. You sort of have to, especially when talking about the game in person. Let’s face facts: Chaos Witch Quelaag or Booby Spider? Which makes more sense. Here are some of…

Every Big Video Game Coming Out This Spring

Spring has arrived, and with it, flowers, greenery, and the promise of games. We’re now more than halfway into April, and the past month brought us plenty of great games, like Hyper Light Drifter, Quantum Break and Dark Souls III, to name just a few. What else is coming? Let’s take a look. April 20.…

Shadow Complex Remastered—the updated version of Chair Entertainment’s 2009 action-exploration game— hits the PS4, Steam and Windows on May 3.

BioShock Looks Far More Crisp in Unreal Engine 4

BioShock came out nearly nine years ago and used Unreal Engine 2.5, so it’s no wonder the Unreal Engine 4 project it inspired looks so sharp. The map, a remake of BioShock’s Medical Pavilion in UE4, is a piece of university coursework made by UK-based environment artist Ross Littlejohn., who studies game design at the…

Kerbal Space Program Gets Its First Big Update Since Release

“Turbo Charged” is the name of the 1.1 update for Kerbal Space Program, the space rocket building/kerbal murdering sim released in late April last year. After a year’s worth of development, and a short hype-filled pre-release period this past couple months, the update is now fully released. Taken from the KSP discussion thread accompanying the…

Mother 3 Is Ten Years Old Today and Still Japan-Only 

Today, on April 20, 2006, Mother 3 was released on the Game Boy Advance in Japan. Ten years! Can you believe it? That’s good reason to celebrate. Oh, it still doesn’t have an official English release. Can you believe that? Fans in Japan and around the world have been uploading art and photos to the…

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, along comes a game blending “match 3″, RPG and turn-based strategy. It’s called Ticket To Earth, and it’ll be out later this year.

Still Dreaming Of An Ocarina Of Time Remake

Look, it’s fine to remake Zelda games for the 3DS, but in 2016 when people hear the word “remake”, they want a remake. So the next time we get an Ocarina of Time re-release from Nintendo, hopefully it looks something like this. We’ve seen plenty of CryZENx’s Unreal Engine work here on Kotaku before, and…

Never Change, Guile

When you’ve gotta write parking tickets at 12 but be Maverick’s wingman any time at 3. Guile is April’s DLC character for Street Fighter V

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Lighten Up, Dark Souls

I know that fans of From Software’s brutal action role-playing games love their darkness, but with the third game hitting shelves last week I am getting sick and tired of dreary screenshots. Let’s brighten ‘em up a bit, shall we? Update Tuesday 4/19: Four days left! Let’s make it light and fluffy, people! In this…

And Now For An Absurd Call of Duty Play

They thought they had the bomb covered. No way the other team could get to it. They didn’t count on flying ninja squirrel soldiers, of course. No one expects a flying ninja squirrel. All you really have to know to understand this play (via MLG) by Call of Duty pro Jared “Nagafen” Harrell is that…

Minecraft In Virtual Reality Is The Real Deal

Like chocolate and peanut butter, Minecraft and virtual reality go together about as well as two things can. This is easily one of the best things I’ve done in VR. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game: I’m playing a version of Minecrift that’s been designed to work with the HTC Vive.…

A NSFW Look At Every Game Twitch Has Banned

As of this morning, the website Twitch has banned 32 games from appearing on its streaming services. But just what kind of games are they? Let’s take a look. Out of sheer curiosity and maybe a dash of masochism, I’ve spent the past few hours scanning through all 32 games Twitch has deemed ban-worthy. Most…

The Joy Of Helping Other Players Survive Dark Souls 3

So much of Dark Souls is a lonely experience. There are fleeting glimpses of others in the same struggle, but you’re largely on your own. It’s why flipping the script and jumping into other people’s games is such a joy. There are two ways to interact with other players. You can invade worlds and kill…

Evil C-3PO Is The Best

It’s time for the Dark Lord of the Sith’s kill-crazy robots to get their own comics or TV show. Something, anything. They’re just too damn great. The Darth Vader comics series sports one of the best new additions to Star Wars lore, Triple Zero and BT-1, the malevolent automaton doppelgangers to C-3PO and R2D2. Revived…

Enter The Gungeon Is Scratching My Spelunky Itch

I’ve been waiting for another game to grab me like Spelunky did, and while it’s still early days, it seems like Enter the Gungeon might be up to the task. I fell in love with Spelunky for a few reasons: The game changed every time you played it. There was a sense of mystery to…

The next creation from the makers of Bastion and Transistor is Pyre, a party-based role-playing game where roving bands of exiles battle each other.It’s due out in 2017 but Supergiant’s bringing it to PAX East so attendees can play this weekend. You can find out more at their website.