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Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed To December

Cyberpunk 2077‘s release is being pushed back three weeks until December 10, CD Projekt Red announced today on Twitter The studio blamed the delay on the difficulty of simultaneously shipping a game across so many different platforms. “The biggest challenge for us right now is shipping the game on current-gen, next-gen, and PC at the…

Destiny 2‘s Next Season Finally Brings Back Prince Uldren

Bungie revealed Destiny 2‘s next season today. It’s called Season of the Hunt and will revolve around helping self-absorbed Warlock Osiris track down Hive god Xivu Arath. Oh, and you’ll be fighting alongside Uldren Sov to do it. That’s right, after nearly two years of waiting, The Master of Crows is back, once again fighting…

Ubisoft’s subscription service Uplay+ is being renamed Ubisoft+ and heading to Amazon’s video game streaming platform Luna on November 10. The publisher said the service will also come to Stadia sometime later on.

Super Mario 3D All-Stars Is Getting Inverted Camera Controls

Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the bundled Switch collection of Nintendo’s first three 3D Mario games, is finally getting inverted camera controls. According to a tweet from Nintendo of America, an update on November 16 will add camera customization to all three rereleases: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy According to the…

Netflix Is Making An Assassin’s Creed Show

Netflix’s gaming binge continues, this time with a deal to adapt Ubisoft’s historical murder sim Assassin’s Creed Announced in a press release today as part of a longer-term agreement to “develop content” based on the franchise, Netflix’s first Assassin’s Creed show will be live action, but otherwise appears to be very early in development. Ubisoft’s…

Rayons de l’Air’s Gorgeous Remixes Retroactively Justify RayCrisis’ Existence

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll check out a game I respect more than like. But its remix album…yeah, that’s the good stuff. Musically speaking, Taito’s mid-’90s arcade trilogy of “Ray” shooters—RayForce, Raystorm, and RayCrisis—was a one-woman show, scored in…

Track: A Silly Symphony: The Skeleton Dance | Artist: Carl W. Stalling | Album: N/A

Alien: Isolation’s Pitch Was Developed In Secret After Sega Said No

Alien: Isolation was a dramatic departure for Creative Assembly, which before the game’s release in 2014 was best-known for its Total War series of strategy games. But the studio almost didn’t have a chance to expand its portfolio at all after parent company Sega initially rejected the idea for a new Alien game. “We sent…

U.S. Navy Tells Its Twitch Streamers To Respond Like Whiny Cowards When Asked About War Crimes

The saga of the United States military’s attempts to recruit young people by streaming on Twitch is full of twists and turns. Over the summer, the Army and Navy’s Twitch channels were flooded with messages about America’s copious war crimes, questions that almost always resulted in bans. But since these bans arguably straddled the line of…

Socially-Distant Cosplay In The Age Of Covid

There hasn’t been much cosplay to feature here in 2020 for obvious reasons, but have you ever wondered that when people do get together for a shoot, how it all works in an age of lockdowns and social distancing? This Watch Dogs Legion shoot by So Say We All got me thinking that exact question,…

Welcome to The Dungeon Experience, where a low-level RPG villain guides you on a tour of a fantasy game’s dungeons. It’ll be out on PC “Upon the four moons of Xogris align and the Messiah Khidrius returns”.

Let’s Celebrate The Silly Death Screens At The End Of Hades

Hades is a brutal game. That’s not just commentary on the Switch and PC roguelike’s difficulty factor. Zagreus, the main character, dies ad infinitum in some truly gruesome ways. But once you sink some time into Hades, those many, many deaths can start to lose their edge. Late into the endgame, in fact, Zagreus will…

Star Wars: Squadrons Is Getting Baby Yoda Bobbles And Not Much Else

True to EA Motive’s word, there doesn’t seem to be any big DLC on Star Wars: Squadrons’ horizon. Instead, the space fighter will be getting a handful of cosmetics later this week, including a Baby Yoda bobblehead. The new dashboard décor was revealed in today’s Mando Monday livestream, a digital showcase full of interviews and…

Magic: The Gathering Arena won’t come to phones until 2021, Hasbro’s CEO announced during an earnings call today. The digital card game had originally been slated to get its mobile version sometime this year.

Warframe Guilts Me Into Playing By Making My Dog Hate Me, And I Don’t Love It

You don’t really quit Warframe. When Hades, Baldur’s Gate 3, and a slew of other Extremely Me Games came out last month, I knew I’d be taking a hiatus from the cyber ninja space opera that’d taken over my life, but I also knew I’d be back. Last week, I returned after more than a…

Youtuber Memorializes Destiny 2 Campaigns Before They’re Vaulted

Destiny 2 will be a completely different game once Bungie vaults a number of its planets next month, so one dedicated player took it upon himself to create a cinematic record of each of the game’s campaigns before that happens. The idea came to YouTuber Jabonte immediately after he heard director Luke Smith announce Bungie’s…

PS5 Launch Game Destruction All-Stars Delayed To February

Destruction All-Stars, one of a handful of planned launch titles for the PlayStation 5, will no longer be available even close to day one. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, it’ll be available some time in February 2021. On the plus side, it’ll be available for two months at no additional cost to…

Celeste, the heartfelt platformer with one of the most satisfying jumps in video games, is coming to Xbox Game Pass on November 5. This one’s totally worth your time. Just read our review.

Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Streams Free-To-Play Mobile Games

Google’s got Stadia, Amazon’s got Luna, and now Facebook has its own cloud gaming service. But don’t expect to stream console and PC hits on Facebook Gaming’s cloud. At launch, it’s all about free-to-play, microtransaction-packed mobile games. Rolling out today in the U.S. in California, Texas, and the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, Facebook Gaming’s cloud…

The Week In Games: Bloody Hell, Let’s Hack The Planet

It’s time to hack the world, or at least London, in Watch Dogs Legion. The latest Ubisoft open-world game is out later this week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. I was a fan of the original Watch Dogs and an even BIGGER fan of Watch Dogs 2. I love how colorful, wacky, and open…