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Destiny‘s New Update Bumps The Light Cap To 335

This spring’s big Destiny update will offer new bounties, quests, and a new mission set after the fall of Oryx. It’ll also take us all back for a ride on the Light treadmill, bumping the level cap up to 335. On a Twitch stream today, reps for Bungie talked about the new update, which goes…

Rumored NX Photos Show A Controller Without Buttons [UPDATE: It’s Fake]

A series of new photos, posted two different places and purporting to show the controller for Nintendo’s next console, reveal a controller without buttons, one that’s shaped like a football. Update – 10:39am, March 25: It was a hoax, as we noted it might have been. Sorry for wasting your time. Original story follows. I…

A Nasty Division Bug Is Locking Some Players Out Of The Game

A bummer of a bug has been completely locking some players out of The Division, and the developers at Ubisoft Massive say they’re working on a fix. The cause? Backpacks. The problem seems to involve players who craft high-end backpacks, only to find that those backpacks disappear from their inventory. Before long the players are…

We Wrote Two Kick-Ass Avengers Movies in Slack Last Night

Last night, a member of Kotaku’s editorial team grappled with the fact that Avengers: Infinity War is supposedly going to be stuffed to the gills with, like, 67 characters. This is what happened next. Superhero movies are now a staple of Hollywood’s output, with Marvel’s franchise success leading the way. They keep churning out blockbusters,…

Drama Ensues As Fire Emblem Fates Fan Translation Gets Canceled, Then Uncanceled

The team behind a nine-month-old fan translation of Fire Emblem Fates disbanded yesterday, appearing to cancel their project in the process. That decision prompted disappointment and anger, but there are reports a new team has picked up the project. I profiled this translation group a little while back, a group of fans both interested in…

Infinite Arms Takes Toys-To-Life To A Whole New Level

With a game by developers who’ve worked on Elite Beat Agents and Gears of War and toys—real articulated action figures—from one of Transformers’ most prolific designers, Infinite Arms is exactly where I wanted the toys-to-life genre to go. Infinite Arms is the creation Jumo, Inc., a new entertainment company run by familiar faces. CEO and…

Paws, a standalone story for Shelter 2, has a new release trailer for you to sniffle at. It says “out now,” but Might and Delight’s newest “have feelings at baby animals” sim releases March 24th for PC and Mac.

Pokken Tournament‘s Shadow Mewtwo Has An Infinite Blockstun Problem

The simple two-move combination being performed is this GIF? Shadow Mewtwo can do that all day in Pokken Tournament. That’s bad. Demonstratedon Twitter and captured on video by YouTube’s Shofu, the one-two punch of Shadow Mewtwo’s backward-Y ranged attack and the transformative power of its Miracle Eye move combine to form an endless attack combo…

Not sure yet how you feel about Battleborn? Folks all around the world can start figuring out what they think when it launches an open beta next month. The beta starts on April 8 for PS4, followed by an April 13 debut for PC and Xbox One.

Video Games Tell Stories That Live With You Forever

Many video games tell a story. But the stories we tell about games are often very, very different. The tales you tell and retell down the years (and decades) are more often than not those from around the game. Who you were, where you were, what you were doing and who you were doing it…

What Makes LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Different From Other LEGO Games

With 18 LEGO movie games released since 2005, the developers at TT Games are constantly finding new ways to spice up the standard stud-collecting adventures. The first gameplay trailer for LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows off the three they’ve come up with this time around. The game’s new Blaster Battles essentially add third-person…

Your Selfie Game Is Too Strong, Just Cause 3

Real-time cutscenes are much better when something unexpected happens. And since it’s Just Cause 3, JayGold’s footage, with a helicopter crashing into the ground in the perfect moment, doesn’t even seem like something that isn’t supposed to happen. via r/gamephysics To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Ten Great New Locations In World of Warcraft: Legion‘s Main City

The floating city of Dalaran is returning as the main neutral hub in World of Warcraft: Legion. A new expansion means a new, reconstructed city, with most of its environments redesigned and filled with goodies that fit the upcoming level 110 Broken Isles theme. The city’s layout, the intercrossing towers, bridges and halls all make…

Sega said today that Yakuza 0, the newish prequel to the Japanese gangster series, will be released on PS4 in the West in “early 2017″ (it was out in Japan in 2015). If you want to know why this is exciting news, just look at this

EA Apologizes To Muslim UFC Fighter For Giving Him Christian Victory Celebration

EA Sports UFC 2 is a game that does its damnedest to imitate every element of the UFC broadcast experience (except for the weird part where it pretends commentator Mike Goldberg knows what he’s talking about). By and large, it works. It’s in the particulars that EA falters. Khabib Nurmagomedov is a UFC lightweight fighter…

Obsidian’s Tyranny Is An RPG Where The Bad Guys Already Won

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: Tyranny is not Pillars of Eternity 2. It’s a different animal, a decidedly more sinister one. But the gulf between them is more than skin-deep. After dozens of hours, I still haven’t finished Obsidian’s classic PC RPG revival, Pillars of Eternity. Don’t get me wrong: it’s great.…

Maki Roll, a professional cosplayer and dancer, has written a fascinating essay about Microsoft’s recent GDC party controversy She examines the event from a dancer’s perspective, and takes a closer look at what the backlash says about an industry grappling with the increased visibility of women’s issues.

A Close Look at Uncharted 4’s Ridiculous Attention to Detail

The stubble. The wrinkles. The sweat. The hair. Nathan Drake’s model has gotten pretty incredible in Uncharted 4 and Naughty Dog took the time today to shed some light on how they nailed it. In a word, the PS4. In Naughty Dog’s latest dev diary, they talk about what the PS4’s power allows them to…

Fallout 4 Players Are Turning Codsworth Into A Monster In The New DLC

Here’s Codsworth, like you’ve never seen him before. As you might already know, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC is all about robots. You can build them, you can customize them, you can pit them against each other. It’s not just random bots, though. You can also outfit your loyal Codsworth, and the options are pretty ridiculous,…

The Skywalker Ranch Has A Treasure Trove Of Old LucasArts Games

In Northern California, Star Wars creator George Lucas has a sprawling complex called the Skywalker Ranch. If you found your way inside, you might stumble upon a big room full of concept art, design documents, and files for all sorts of old games. When working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Double Fine boss Tim…