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Hackers Think They’ve Found Mario’s New Wonder Voice Actor
Fans believe they might have discovered who the new actor for Mario is in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
KotakuKotakuMortal Kombat 1 Switch Patch Attempts To Fix The Disastrous Port
The Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 released in an absolute state. It’s one of the widest gaps in quality we’ve seen between Nintendo’s device and its console contemporaries. But for better or worse, NetherRealm Studios and the port teams at Shiver Entertainment and Saber Interactive are still supporting it, and…
KotakuLords Of The Fallen Sounds Like 2023’s Most Divisive Soulsborne
Lords of the Fallen sounds like the best and worst parts of the Soulsborne genre all rolled into one. Hexworks’ grim action-RPG arrives in a year full of homages to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, and so far critical assessments run the gamut from high praise to exhausted disappointment.
KotakuThis ‘Playable Documentary’ About A 1984 Classic Is One Of The Year’s Best Games
When you first fire up The Making of Karateka, Digital Eclipse’s excellent interactive retrospective about Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s 1984 masterpiece, you’re greeted with this quote from his journals, written when he was just 18 years old:
KotakuNintendo Reveals Bowser Likes 'Em Thicc
Bowser is attracted to Princess Peach. We didn’t need Jack Black singing about it in the massively successful Mario movie to figure that out. However, according to official Nintendo marketing materials, it seems Bowser prefers his Princesses bigger and thicker.
KotakuPS5 Finally Gets Cloud Gaming Later This Month
Sony’s cloud gaming efforts are starting to ramp up. PS Plus subscribers will be able to start streaming big-name games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Resident Evil 4 remake directly to their PlayStation 5s in the coming weeks. The company also hints that PS5 cloud gaming might be coming to other devices, like…
KotakuPS Plus October Lineup Includes Disco Elysium And Gotham Knights
Halloween is fast approaching, and with it comes a new medley of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers that’ll become available Tuesday, October 17.
KotakuExcuse Me, They Gave The Overwatch Hamster Nipple Rings
Overwatch 2’s newest season is now live and suitably spooky, featuring demons, monsters, Diablo characters, and nipple rings on a hamster. Wait, what?
KotakuBaldur’s Gate 2’s Characters Were ‘Cardboard Cutouts’ Until Devs Played Final Fantasy VII
Lauded for its story, characters, and density of quality fantasy narrative, BioWare’s 2000 RPG Baldur’s Gate II is one of the most celebrated computer games of all time. An adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it aspired to digitize the rich experience of playing at a table among friends,…
KotakuNew Shooter Is The Duke Nukem Sequel We Deserve
The Last Exterminator might not be an official Duke Nukem 3D sequel, but its crunchy combat, interactive environments, and retro visuals provide a much better alternative to the actual Duke Nukem sequel we got back in 2011.
KotakuOverwatch 2 Players Raise Hell Over Moira's Pricey Lilith Skin
Overwatch 2’s Halloween-infused seventh season, Rise of Darkness, went live on Monday, bringing with it a swath of creepy new skins for its heroes, including a hotly anticipated skin based on Diablo IV’s Lilith for sardonic healer Moira. Unfortunately, players who eagerly dived into the season for a chance to acquire…
KotakuBaldur’s Gate 3 Players Found An Incredible Way To Keep Minthara Alive In A ‘Good’ Playthrough
Baldur’s Gate 3’s accommodation of players’ more esoteric choices continues to astound me, two months after it launched. Players have recently found a way to rescue and recruit Minthara—a secret companion character who you can normally only team up with by murdering a group of Tieflings and going down the “evil” path—w…
KotakuSomeone Used A Modded Game Boy To Play A Church Organ, And It’s Awesome
Modded consoles are pretty awesome, letting people tap into the raw computational power of gaming machines to run emulators, custom software, and more. But what if you combine a modded console with a modded musical instrument? And not just any musical instrument, but a modded pipe organ? Well, that’s what someone just…
KotakuDestiny 2 Offers Players $45 Credit After Banning Them By Mistake
Destiny 2 has been cracking down on cheating in recent years, and the sci-fi shooter is now riddled with players who claim they were banned by mistake. However, it seems at least some of them may have been telling the truth: Bungie recently contacted a few players to apologize for banning them by mistake, offering…
KotakuLet’s Fix Starfield’s Terrible Temples With Mods
Early on in Starfield you start becoming a galactic superhero, unlocking stellar abilities like suspending gravity, slowing down time, and peering into the future (though there isn’t one to make Chunks tastier, sadly). Less cool, unfortunately, is that the repetitive process of gathering all your superpowers can…
KotakuDashcam Footage Shows Cops Ignoring Robbery To Play Pokémon Go
Newly released dashboard camera footage shows two Los Angeles Police Department officers ignoring an active robbery in order to catch some rare creatures in Pokémon Go. The footage shows how the driver ignored stop signs, sped through quiet residential areas, and drove the wrong way down a one-way road. All this was…
KotakuCrab Soulslike Lets You Whip Out A Gun When Going Gets Tough
Have you ever wished you could exercise your Second Amendment right on a formidable video game boss? Well, one upcoming Soulslike will let you pull out a gun and one-tap bosses if it prove too impossible to “git gud” and vanquish them the normal way.
KotakuNice! Xbox Actually Has Games This Year
Last year was a strange one for Xbox. While Game Pass continued to be a big win for Microsoft, it failed to release any big exclusive, first-party games. But as we enter the final months of 2023, this year has been different. Microsoft has actually released games, including some big, popular ones. It’s a sign that…
KotakuDetective Pikachu Returns: The Kotaku Review
Detective Pikachu Returns, the new Switch adventure from Nintendo, is not great at a lot of things. It’s incredibly simple for an adventure game, only looks about as good as the original 3DS game did seven years ago, and even when it has its own take on things, a lot of its big twists have been undermined by 2019’s Det…
KotakuRocket League Will Ban Item Trading, Nuking Market For Secondhand Skins
A major shakeup is coming to Rocket League’s player community. The popular car soccer game will turn off the option to trade items starting in Season 13, destroying the vibrant market around buying and selling cosmetics in the process. Fans appear universally shocked, confused, and frustrated by the move.
KotakuPopular Fantasy MMO Ditches Battle Pass After Players Revolt
The just-introduced RuneScape battle pass has nowhere near the longevity of the 22-year-old game to which it belongs: after debuting the pass on September 4, developer Jagex plans to terminate it on December 3, it wrote in an October 6 update post.
KotakuLegend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Director Spills On MIA Sheikah Technology
Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, finally shed some light on what happened to all the Sheikah technology that was practically ubiquitous in Breath of the Wild but strangely absent in its sequel.
KotakuSony Raising Price Of All-Digital PS5 By $50
Sony revealed the long-rumored “slim” models for the PlayStation 5, and while they are a lot lighter than the existing consoles, the specs haven’t really changed. What has changed is the price, however. The company announced the new all-digital PS5 will be priced at $450 instead of $400.
KotakuSony Announces New, Smaller PS5 Launching Next Month
After some previous leaks, Sony has officially announced a new, sleeker version of the PlayStation 5. The smaller console comes out in November and will have the same specs as the current PS5 consoles already out on store shelves.
KotakuUbisoft Indefinitely Delays CoD Clone Because Of ‘Inconsistencies’
Ubisoft announced on October 9 it was indefinitely delaying Call of Duty-like XDefiant’s preseason, adding to the ever-growing list of issues standing between the free-to-play arena shooter and a release date.
KotakuJack Skellington And Michael Myers Coming To Fortnite This Halloween
Fortnite’s annual Halloween-themed “Fortnitemares” event is here, bringing all sorts of spooky characters and cosmetics to the popular online battle royale shooter, including slasher Michael Myers and Disney character Jack Skellington.
KotakuThe Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Lords Of The Fallen
KotakuOverwatch 2’s New Patch Has A Lot More Than Sombra’s Rework
Overwatch 2’s seventh season is upon us, and while a new battle pass, new map, and the questionable Sombra rework headline the season, we’ve also got a lot more to unpack in the latest patch notes.
KotakuOne Of Gaming's Most Hated CEOs Says Goodbye, Again
CEO John Riccitiello has retired from game development software company Unity after possibly its worst month of bad headlines ever. The tech company that’s slowly morphed into an in-game advertising firm announced a confusing and seemingly predatory new set of fees for game makers in September, only to walk the policy…
KotakuThe Best October Prime Day Deals On Storage Upgrades For PS5, Xbox, Switch, And PC
Larger install sizes and the diminishing role of physical media in modern games means that you can almost never have too much storage. Fortunately, adding another terabyte (or two) to your console’s capacity is way more affordable than it once was.