Sephiroth Is Coming To Smash

During tonight’s broadcast of The Game Awards, Nintendo announced that Final Fantasy villain Sephiroth will be heading to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Sephiroth is the latest character—after ARMS rep Min Min and Steve Minecraft—to join the massive Ultimate roster as part of the second fighter bundle, and the eighth post-release character overall since the game…

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Shitty Dragon Age Voice Actor Has Me Considering Deleting My Fanfiction Library

Last week, two prominent BioWare employees, Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah, announced their departure from the studio. Following this, Mark Darrah, now the former executive producer of the Dragon Age series, was attacked on Twitter by Greg Ellis, the voice actor for Cullen Rutherford in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Ellis took to his personal YouTube channel…

New Cyberpunk Bundle Includes Loads Of Cyberpunk Games That Aren’t Cyberpunk 2077

Interested in the cyberpunk genre but not willing to shell out money to CD Projekt Red for Cyberpunk 2077? Well, the “Be a Better Cyberpunk” bundle on itch.io might be right up your alley. This collection includes 29 different cyberpunk-style projects for a discounted $60 price point, the same amount of money you would be…

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Surprisingly Fine On Stadia

Cyberpunk 2077 is the biggest game of the year, but currently the game doesn’t look great or run well on consoles, especially the older base machines. But how does this big blockbuster game fair on Stadia? Surprisingly, the experience isn’t terrible and might even be better than playing on a console. Though it’s not perfect…

Seven Settings To Change In Cyberpunk 2077

After eight years, multiple delays, and 800,000 cumulative lifetimes’ worth of reported crunch, Cyberpunk 2077 is out in the wild. It’s a whole lot of game, brimming with gear, side-quests, and map icons that make you compulsively go, “Ooh, what’s that?” As with any massive game, there’s also an overwhelming amount of settings, many of…

Four New Short Stories Let Us Speculate About Dragon Age 4’s Plot

This year’s Dragon Age Day was a mess. Two of BioWare’s beloved executives quit, a voice actor for one of Dragon Age’s beloved characters personally attacked one of those executives on Twitter, and then went on an exceedingly unhinged rant on YouTube while performing as that character. The mess unfortunately overshadowed the only good news…

People’s Dicks Are Clipping Through Their Pants

Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it has some bugs, one of which includes players’ characters’ dicks popping out of their pants. Cyberpunk has two penis types, with a size slider for each. Apparently some of the dicks players have selected don’t play nice with their character’s clothing choices on the equipment screen, clipping out past…

Netflix is making a new Sonic cartoon. The streaming platform announced today that the blue blurr will star in a 3D animated series produced with Sega, the WildBrain media company, and writer collective Man of Action Entertainment, set to air in 2022. 

I’m Not Yet Sold On Paradise Killer, But Its Soundtrack Is Unforgettable

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, let’s dive into the OST from Paradise Killer, the deliciously weird puzzle-mystery game from developer Kaizen Game Works. Let me kickstart your day with some inside baseball: We plan Morning Music picks ahead of time, and…

A new Ao Oni horror game will be released in Japan this month as free-to-play on iOS and Android. It will connect with Ao Oni Online, but as of writing, gameplay details, as well as the title, are currently TBA. The first Ao Oni was released as a freeware game in 2007. 

Track: Platform Syndrome | Artist: Scandal | Album: Honey 

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Looking Rough On PS4 And Xbox One At The Moment

I’ve spent an hour playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One, and it hasn’t been pretty. Sometimes it’s been straight up ugly. Based on screenshots and footage other people are sharing online, I’m not alone. Cyberpunk 2077 began rolling out on console earlier today starting in the New Zealand time zone, which is what I set…

Funimation has purchased Crunchyroll from AT&T for over $1 billion, Sony announced via press release today. This move was reported to be in the works back in October. That’s a lot of anime figurines!