Host Geoff Keighley announced the 2020 Game Awards nominations today, including Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us Part II, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Doom Eternal for Game of the Year You can checkout the full list here.  

Today on YouTube, Jupiter, developers of the Picross family of puzzle games, announced the arrival of Picross S5 for the Nintendo Switch on November 26th. Popular game modes like color, mega, and clip make their grand return and the game boasts over 450 puzzles for players to complete. The game will even shame you by…

Massive Pokémon GO Update Raises Level Cap, Adds Gen 6 Pokémon

Pokémon GO gets its biggest update ever on November 30. Niantic’s “GO Beyond” update raises the game’s level cap from 40 to 50, introduces seasons that change every three months, and introduces pocket monsters originally found in the Kalos region, including Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Fletchling, Pyroar, and more. They had me at Fennekin. Pokémon GO…

Ubisoft Removes Managing Director Of Its Skull And Bones Studio

Hugues Ricour, the man in charge of overseeing Ubisoft’s Singapore studio, which is currently developing Skull and Bones, has been removed from that position following the result of a “leadership audit,” according to a copy of an internal company email sent out earlier this week and obtained by Kotaku Ricour had been in that role…

Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity: The Kotaku Review

Lady Urbosa. You can play as Lady Urbosa. That’s it. That’s the review. We could end the discussion about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity right here and you’d have a pretty good understanding of the game. It has Lady Urbosa and you can play as her. She was my favorite character in 2017’s The Legend…

Gris’ Ethereal Soundtrack Fits Together Like An Extremely Pretty Puzzle

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Let’s start today off slow with the soundtrack from Gris, Nomada Studio’s ethereal, contemplative platformer. Maybe you’ve heard that playing through Gris is like playing through a poem, or a painting, or just a really, really…

A Poop-Based Game Released In Japan To Save Lives

There is a game called Unkore, and it features anthropomorphized anime-style versions of intestinal bacteria. While this might seem rather silly, it’s not. The goal is to help others, which is driven home with the game’s tagline: “There is a life that can save in the shit.” Unkore sounds like it could be a riff…

Track: Future Pop | Artist: Perfume | Album: Future Pop 

The Art Of League Of Legends’ K/DA

League of Legends’ fake girl group, K/DA, have some new music videos out, and recently got some new skins and events. Seeing as we haven’t taken a look at League of Legends for a while here on Fine Art, I figured tonight might be a good time to look at the work that went into…

How To Zoom In On Small Text In Any Xbox Series X / S Game

As the saying goes, nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and painfully tiny video game text. If you were lucky enough to beat the queues and snag a new Xbox Series X or S, know that you can zoom in on any game’s text at more or less any time. All you have…

Destiny 2‘s Season Of The Hunt Looks Promising So Far

Follow the trail of glowing green vapors, kill the monster at the end, and collect some new loot—that’s the basic structure of Destiny 2‘s new Wraithborn hunts. So far it’s a nice change of pace from the game’s past seasons. How deep and rewarding it will be after a few weeks, let alone months, remains…

Sackboy: A Big Adventure: The Kotaku Review

Ever since the launch of the original LittleBigPlanet back in 2009, I’ve wanted a full, proper game starring Media Molecule’s stitched-together mascot, without any of the building tools that are the main focus of the series. Now I have that in PS5 launch title Sackboy: A Big Adventure, a mostly non-threatening platformer with great music.…

PS5 Demon’s Souls Player Almost Glitches Past Mysterious Door

Over the weekend, Demon’s Souls players discovered a secret door in the PlayStation 5 remake that wasn’t in the original game. Abusing photo mode revealed that there’s an item beyond this door, but no one’s figured out how to open it yet. A speedrunner named Distortion2, however, very nearly reached this new area, only to…

How To Make Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Feel More Like Classic Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is not a subtle game. Ubisoft’s latest well-rendered history lesson, out now for basically every platform but the Switch, puts you in the shoes of a muscular Norse raider. You often wield weapons so large they’d make Cloud Strife blush. Stealth is almost always optional. Yes, Valhalla is as much a far…