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The Internet Reacts To Bonkers Anime Crossover Game, Jump Force

Ever wanted to see Goku fight Naruto? Most of the internet does, and after seeing the Jump Force trailer, they can’t stop freaking out about it. The upcoming game Jump Force is a cross over fighting game featuring some of the most iconic characters from boy’s manga magazine Shonen Jump. In this announcement trailer, we…

The Week In Games: Big Dinosaurs

This week is E3, so the game offerings are slight, but it’s the perfect time to learn how to create your own dinosaur park. Jurassic World Evolution is coming out this week, and there’s nothing that gets me more excited about the game than the inevitable reality that I will create a nightmare scenario in…

Track: Hold Me Now | Artist: The Polyphonic Spree | Album: Together We’re Heavy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Everything Bethesda Showed At E3 2018

Bethesda capped off the second day of E3 press conferences by showing a bunch more Fallout 76, announcing Doom and Wolfenstein sequels, and teasing The Elder Scrolls VI as well as a new sci-fi game called Starfield The show got off to a slow start but picked up steam as it went, with an unexpected…

Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls VI

During today’s press conference, Bethesda briefly teased The Elder Scrolls VI It was just a brief teaser that showed a large landscape, and Todd Howard implied it’ll be coming after single-player sci-fi RPG Starfield, which he announced seconds beforehand. If I had to guess, Elder Scrolls VI will almost certainly be on the next generation…

Bethesda’s Next Singleplayer RPG Is Starfield, A Sci-Fi Game

Bethesda’s Todd Howard just announced on stage at E3 that the company’s next big singleplayer RPG is an all-new story set in an all-new universe. Here’s a very brief trailer: Your guess as to what it’s all about is as good as mine. Interestingly, he also described it as a “next generation” game. Maybe it’s…

The Elder Scrolls Blades Announced For Phones

Today Bethesda announced a new Elder Scrolls game called Elder Scrolls Blades Todd Howard likened it philosophically to Fallout Shelter as a “uniquely mobile experience.” It’s first-person ala traditional Elder Scrolls games, but with touch-screen based swiping combat. It features both handcrafted and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s not just a dungeon-crawler, though. There are outdoor…

Bethesda Confirms Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG

After a couple of teases and some inside information, we just got our first real look at Fallout 76, an upcoming survival RPG from Bethesda. As we told you last month, this isn’t a traditional Fallout adventure. While in the most immediate sense it looks like one, with its iconic visual style and first-person perspective,…

Prey‘s DLC Is Called Mooncrash, ‘Infinitely Replayable’

After a lot of teasing, Bethesda finally revealed Prey’s next DLC at their E3 press conference tonight, along with a bunch of new Prey stuff. Called Mooncrash, it’s available now. Mooncrash is a roguelike adventure on the moon in which enemies, goals, and loot will be different on each replay. You have to escape a…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is A Co-Op Game Coming Next Year

Today during Bethesda’s E3 press conference, Machine Games announced a new Wolfenstein game. The next Wolfenstein is called Youngblood. It’s set in the 1980s in Paris and stars series hero BJ Blazkowicz and love interest Anya’s twin daughters (!!!). It’s “a co-op experience” that you can also play solo. In the trailer, BJ monologues about…

Doom Is Getting A Sequel, Doom Eternal

Players eager to rip and tear are in for a treat. Bethesda announced Doom Eternal during their E3 press conference tonight, showing off a trailer full of demons. Bethesda rebooted Doom in 2016, offering a slightly different take on the classic first person shooter that was full of arena fights and melee executions. At the…

Our First Proper Look At Rage 2

As part of today’s E3 press event, Bethesda revealed footage of Avalanche-developed post-apocalpytic shooter sequel, Rage 2 The demo was preceded by a full-blown goddamn Andrew W.K. concert, which absolutely rocked and was completely wasted on an audience full of already-tired E3 attendees. I mean, look at this: Amazing! The actual game was cool, too.…

Podcast: We React To Xbox And EA At E3 2018

We’re two press conferences into E3 2018, and there’s already so much to talk about. Won’t you join us? On the first episode of Kotaku Splitscreen’s special E3 coverage, Jason Schreier and I talked about everything we liked (and didn’t like) about EA’s press conference yesterday and Microsoft’s conference today. Listen below, and download an…

We’re Liveblogging Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference [Update: We’re Done!]

It’s the second big press conference of the day with Bethesda starting at 9:30PM EDT. Hopefully we’ll get more specifics about Fallout 76 and who knows, maybe a new Elder Scrolls. Gita and I will have live commentary here for you in a few moments. You can watch the press conference here or follow along…

Watch Bethesda’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here, Live [Update: Over]

It’s time for Bethesda’s E3 2018 press conference, starting at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET. I am here to finally see what new stuff we’re getting for Prey. Everything else is just icing to me. You can watch Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo on Geoff Keighley’s stream below. Otherwise, Bethesda’s YouTube is here. There’s also Twitch

Skate 4 Was Not Shown At E3 Today

It’s been years since we got a good skateboarding game, and that fact—coupled with some runaway hope—led fans to expect a Skate 4 announcement at E3 this week. And for a brief few seconds, they thought they’d actually got one. Despite not being mentioned during EA’s E3 press conference, here’s the scene before Microsoft’s show…

Tunic, which was shown at last year’s E3, is back again and it still looks cute as hell. Imagine old Zelda games, only you’re a fox.

Tales of Vesperia is getting a definitive edition this coming winter. A spectacular role-playing game (and my personal favorite Tales) will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch with content “never before seen in the west.”

Everything Microsoft Showed At E3 2018

Microsoft just showed off a ton of stuff at their E3 2018 Xbox press conference, including new Halo and Gears of War games, Fallout 76, The Division 2, Dying Light 2, a shiny Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, and a new samurai action game from the makers of Dark Souls. Personally speaking, I’m most excited about that last…

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets A New Teaser Trailer

As part of today’s Microsoft E3 press conference, Witcher developer CD Projekt Red showed off a new teaser of its next monster-sized, but also monster-free RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 The trailer began with a male character saying that his city is the worst in America, referencing a “sky high rate of violence” and “more people living…