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CultureMonster Hunter: World‘s Final Update Adds Fatalis Boss Fight
Monster Hunter: World will get its fifth and final major update in October featuring the long-awaited face-off against the powerful black dragon Fatalis. Capcom delivered the news in a final Developer’s Diary update on the game which laid out the content it will be getting over the next couple of months. Iceborne’s one-year anniversary will…
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CultureModder Turns Nintendo Wii Into A Slick-Looking Handheld
GingerOfMods has transformed a number of retro consoles into nifty-looking portables, but the Wiiboy Color is on another level. As technology improves, tinkers like GingerOfMods are able to revisit older gaming consoles and make them even more compact and efficient than before. It’s not easy though, and the recent Wiiboy Color mod is a testament…
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CultureDestiny 2 Shows Off Cool New Crystal Powers
We got our first look at Destiny 2‘s new Stasis subclass and its abilities in a new trailer during Gamescom today, and it looks absolutely wild. Stasis, which gets added to the game when Beyond Light comes out on November 10, looks like it’s all about crystals: creating them, smashing them, and otherwise wielding them…
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CultureTime Loop Thriller 12 Minutes Stars Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe
Murder mystery 12 Minutes re-emerged at Gamescom 2020 opening night with even more polish and an all-star voice cast that includes Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe. The game, an interactive thriller about a man trapped in a 12-minute time loop, has been in development for several years now, with previews dating back to…
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CulturePlayers Are Chasing Hurricanes In Microsoft Flight Simulator
Hurricane Laura made landfall over Louisiana last night, causing hundreds of thousands to lose power and severe damage to infrastructure like chemical plants even as the storm weakened over time. But from the safety of the virtual clouds, Microsoft Flight Simulator players spent the last day exploring the storm from a different angle. Flight Simulator…
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CultureHitman 3 Comes Out January 20, Next-Gen Upgrades Will Be Free
Hitman 3 will be out January 20 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Stadia and PC via Epic Games Store, IO Interactive announced today. It’ll also let players upgrade digital copies of the game to their next-gen versions for free. “Yes, we’re doing a next-gen upgrade for consoles and yes, it’s free,” the…
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CultureNetflix Confirms It’s Working On A Resident Evil TV Series
A new live-action series based on Resident Evil is in development over at Netflix, the livestreaming platform announced today on Twitter. The show will apparently focus on the “Wesker kids”, a possible allusion to Albert Wesker, a central antagonist in Resident Evil and one of several children who were part of a eugenics projects involving…
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OpinionMaybe Just Delay Next-Gen Already
The Xbox Series X comes out in November, probably around the same time as the PS5 if Sony ever gets around to announcing its release date. But they don’t need to come out then. In fact, maybe it would be for the best if they were just delayed until some time next year. Lately I’ve…
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CultureCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Out November 13
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a full campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies mode when it releases this November. The game, which was originally teased last week and has had several leaks since, was officially revealed today during a special event mode inside Warzone. It began by having players queue for a special…
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CultureSinking City Developer Says Game Was Pulled From Stores Because Publisher Stopped Paying Royalties
Search for The Sinking City on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Xbox One, or PlayStation 4 and you won’t find it. The Lovecraftian detective game released last year has been missing for a couple months now. Today, Ukrainian developer Frogwares finally revealed why: for the last year it’s been in a legal dispute with the…
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CulturePhew, Cyberpunk 2077 Will Let You Embiggen Its Tiny Subtitles
CD Projekt Red recently shared a screenshot of a scene from Cyberpunk 2077 with subtitles turned on, which immediately made the internet’s eyes hurt. Fortunately, the publisher now says players will have some options for that tiny text bigger. Here’s the shot CD Project Red tweeted out on Friday: “Those subtitles are next to impossible…
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Culture2000’s JRPG ‘Summer Of Adventure’ Saw Square At The Height Of Its Powers
Twenty years ago this month Square released Chrono Cross, a big, beautiful mess of a game bursting at the seams with style, atmosphere, and Japanese RPG minutia. But it wasn’t the only major game Square released that summer. The publisher also delivered Threads of Fate and Legend of Mana, two other games that riffed on…
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CultureBatman Arkham Developer Rocksteady Responds To Harassment Claims
Rocksteady Studios released a statement on Twitter today addressing recent claims that it failed to respond to concerns about sexual harassment at the studio, saying it “dealt with issues raised” in the past, and is committing to work with an independent third-party to address any new complaints that might come up in the future. On…
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CultureCrysis Remastered Comes Out In September, For Real This Time, Probably
After lots of leaks, confusion, and backtracking, Crysis Remastered finally has a new release date and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on September 18. The remaster, which is only of the first game in the series and doesn’t include any multiplayer, will have a number of graphical updates like ray-traced reflections and…
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CultureHere’s Everything Destiny 2 Is Losing Later This Year
Bungie went into more detail about what precisely will be disappearing from Destiny 2 later this year, when the studio begins vaulting content for the the first time in game’s history and…it’s a lot. The base game’s main campaign will all but disappear and most of its existing free-to-play content along with it. The Destiny…
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OpinionImpressionsChill Out, Battletoads
I’m not exactly sure what I’m supposed to call Battletoads 2020. A long-awaited sequel? A spiritual reboot? A love letter to an old classic whose most memorable quality was that hardly anybody could beat it? In any event, it feels good to play in short bursts, but its humor and chaos overshadow it. I wanted…
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CultureHow’s It Going? RIP Summer Edition
It’s cold where I am, at least too cold to take a swim. Which is good because our pool’s been empty since a tropical storm flooded the yard (and our basement) earlier this month. Do we clean it out and fill it back up? Take it down and admit this summer blew? I should probably…
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CultureSony Says PS5 Is Definitely Still Launching This Year
We still don’t know how much the PS5 will cost nor its exact release date, but in a new interview Sony executive Eric Lempel said the ongoing global pandemic hasn’t changed the company’s plans to launch the console later this year. “We will launch this year—that will happen—and from my end we will absolutely make…
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Ethan Gach
I'm a senior reporter who's been writing about games and internet culture at Kotaku for almost 10 years. I cover everything from company earnings and player boycotts to emerging trends in gaming like AI, creator economies, and the changing console landscape. You can share story and news tips securely and anonymously at [email protected] or over Signal at +12673263042.
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