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Despite reports that Ark: Survival Evolved runs crappy on Xbox One, the developers have announced it’s getting split-screen support, which is cool! It’s not clear when split-screen will be patched into the game, but hopefully it comes alongside some other performance improvements. More split-screen! Contact the author at [email protected]

Comparing How “Strategic” Strategy Games Actually Are

Strategy games can be exciting. They can be…strategic. They can be easy, they can be hard. You might not have ever wanted to see some of the biggest games in the genre compared across these metrics—I’d never thought of it—but seeing them mapped out is pretty interesting! Yes, this is one of those infographics-fronting-as-advertisement kinda…

Nintendo Removes Controversial Scene From English Version Of Fire Emblem Fates

When Fire Emblem Fates launched in Japan last year, there was controversy over a scene that was perceived as homophobic. Nintendo says that part won’t be in the English version. The aforementioned scene sees the player character (you) use a “magic powder” to make Soleil, a woman who’s into women, like men. Or rather, it…

The Five Nights At Freddy‘s RPG Is Now Officially Out

Though Scott Cawthon claims he’s done with his jump scare series Five Nights at Freddy’s, he’s not done with those characters. His most ambitious project yet, the RPG game Five Nights at Freddy’s World, just came out on Steam. Like Five Nights at Freddy’s, the game was released out of nowhere. It’s unclear how Cawthon’s…

Destiny’s next new event will be Valentine’s Day-themed. It’s called “Crimson Days” and it’ll be live for a week starting February 9, Bungie announced today. They’re also adding a new PVP mode: Crimson Doubles. No details yet.

How Sony Stopped A Vita Port From Being Canned

Stoic Games is a tiny developer. While their Viking-inspired strategy game The Banner Saga became a hit, they didn’t have the bandwidth to port it themselves, so they found another studio to handle the game coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Vita. Unfortunately, that studio went bankrupt. Back in December, Stoic technical director John Watson…

Ark: Survival Evolved On Xbox One: Looks Awful, Runs Terribly, Still Fun

A couple of days ago, technical experts confirmed that the Xbox One version of Ark: Survival Evolved runs like ass. The report came fromEurogamer’s Digital Foundry columnists, who recorded a video of the early access (aka unfinished) survival game and found the Xbox One version desperately wanting. You can watch that videohere, but I’ll summarize.…

Necropolis—Harebrained Schemes’ roguelike dungeon-crawler with the cool abstracted art style—will be hitting Steam on March 17. There’s going to be four-player co-op, too, so maybe you’ll all live a little longer. Contact the author at [email protected]

Westport Independent Is An Intense Game About Censoring The News

The name’s Narcisse. Yeah, numbnuts, I’ve heard all the jokes. I’m a newspaperman. No matter how hard I try every night, I can’t scrub the newsprint off my palms. Problem is, the bastard politicians running Westport are threatening to add bloodstains to all that ink. Out today from indie studio Double Zero One Zero for…

The Overwatch beta will be back next month, Blizzard says. They’re planning on adding a new game mode to the hero-based shooter that will launch when it returns

Mortal Kombat X’s PC Players Are Getting the Shaft

Mortal Kombat X was’t very good on the PC. While not the outright disaster that Batman: Arkham Knight was, it was still plagued with technical problems. A community still formed around the fighting sequel, but Warner Bros. and NetherRealm are cutting ties with PC players; there will be no more DLC for it. The PC…

Arkham Knight Adds A Cool Little Tribute To Fans

This week, Batman: Arkham Knight got a few challenge mode maps lifted from Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. The maps were selected by fans on the game’s forums, and those fans’ actual forum conversations have been transcribed into the game itself. The new maps, dubbed the “Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #6,” are now available on…

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime—the cute but frantic spaceship action game that came out last year on PC and Xbox One—will be hitting the PS4 on February 9. You can play it solo with an AI pet but, trust me, you really want a real person as a co-pilot. No offense, space-dog and space-cats. Contact…

What It’s Like To Work On A Massive Ubisoft Game

At Ubisoft, big video games like Assassin’s Creed are developed by hundreds of people at many different studios across the world. As you might imagine, this can be an organizational nightmare. Former Ubisoft technical architect Maxime Beaudoin, who quit the company late last year to work on indie games, wrote a candid blog post today…

Firaxis Hires ‘The Long War’ Modders To Make Mods For XCOM 2

The Long War is, far and away, the most popular mod for the 2013’s XCOM reboot. It’s a pleasant surprise, then, to learn Firaxis has partnered with its developers to have something similar available for next months’s XCOM 2 If you’re not familiar with The Long War, the short version is that it’s a much…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Fashiony

Inspired by both Louis Vuitton’s choice of virtual model and Venture Beat’s excellent response, this week’s ‘Shop Contest is too sexy for your games. The objective is simple. Take a video game character, turn them into a fashion model. It doesn’t have to be something high concept and high price like Louis Vuitton or Venture…

Nintendo sent out a press release this morning detailing how Amiibo will work with the upcoming Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for Wii U. In short: Wolf Link will unlock a challenge dungeon; Zelda/Sheik will heal you; and Ganondorf will—hilariously—double the damage you receive from enemies.

One-Punch Man’s Most Memorable Battle, Remade In Fallout 4

Fallout 4’s protagonist is transformed into Saitama, while a regular Deathclaw got a unique skin and is now posing as Lord Boros, leader of the alien invader group Dark Matter Thieves. EzPlays remade the memorable encounter (including the “OK” scene) we’ve seen in the last three episodes of the anime and those are some proper…

When World of Warcraft Mission Spawn Rates Go Out Of Control

Left Sharks are rewards for one of the rare Garrison Shipyard missions that you send your followers out on. It’s a rare mission, so you shouldn’t see it much and for months, that was the case. People however complained that these rare missions just won’t appear and they can’t even try to collect all the…

The Witcher 2 Can Now Run On Xbox One And Is Free Right Now

Got an Xbox One? Love The Witcher games? Well, you can now play the middle gamein CD Projekt’s beloved action-RPG franchise for free. UPDATE: This post has been updated to note that the free Witcher 2 download requires an Xbox Live Gold Account. The news of gratis Geralt came as part of Microsoft’s latest backwards…