Snowy battle royale The Darwin Project will be closing all but its EU and NA East servers on January 5, developer Scavenger Studio announced today. The game won’t get updates, tournaments, or bug reporting. It’s a charming free-to-play game, and though I haven’t played in a while, this news paradoxically makes me want to jump back…

Tips For Getting Started In Destiny 2: Beyond Light

With Beyond Light, Destiny 2 is a lot more straightforward than it was just a week ago, in part due to all the content that just left the game and the existing loot that was just sunset. Still, there are some things that are easy to miss as you settle into exploring Jupiter’s second moon…

Vaping Trick Makes It Look Like New Xbox Is Blowing Smoke [Update]

Viral videos are circulating on Twitter showing the newly-released Xbox Series X seeming to billow smoke. While this would certainly be cause for concern, others have pointed out possible causes besides the console burning up, and Spanish Twitter news account Xbox Studio demonstrated how easy the effect is to recreate using an ordinary household vape.…

Diablo-lite Minecraft Dungeons is finally getting cross-play on November 17. Players on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC will all be able to matchmake with one another to loot mobs together.

Gears Tactics On Xbox Is A Lot Like Gears Tactics On PC, Which Rules

Gears Tactics finds itself in an interesting position: In the absence created by Halo Infinite’s delay, Gears Tactics has become one of the major first-party games seeing an Xbox release this month. It’s a neat game that’s well worth your time. It’s also not exactly a system-seller. The short version is this: Gears Tactics on…

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review: 6-Core Gaming Beast

It’s time we finally check out the Ryzen 5 5600X, the most affordable Ryzen 5000 series processor announced to date. Positioned as a mainstream part, it’s coming in at $300, a 20% premium over the Ryzen 5 3600X. However this third-gen processor already didn’t make sense as it cost 25% more than the R5 3600…

World Of Warcraft Had The Perfect Playlist To Kill Hogger To

Good morning children of the Alliance and welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make.. Today we’re vendoring trash, cleaning out our bank tabs, and disenchanting for dust as we prepare for the launch of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands with a musical nostalgia roadtrip…

Voice actor Kenyu Horiuchi, who voices Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden in Japan, has tested positive for covid-19. The 63-year-old is asymptomatic, and thus, not showing signs of a fever or cough. Horiuchi also voiced Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Track: I Know The End | Artist: Phoebe Bridgers | Album: (Seth Meyers Live Performance)

The Brotherhood of Steel officially arrives in Fallout 76 on December 1. The game’s Steel Dawn expansion will include new story missions and player-vaults called camp shelters.

They Brought Back Destiny’s Loot Cave, But Not The Loot

Destiny’s prodigal cave has returned and it comes bearing, well, not much. Back in 2014 when Destiny 1 first launched, the loot cave was all folks could talk about. Bungie invested years and millions into making a vast shared world scifi game and all anybody wanted to do was aim their gun into a dark…

Michael B. Jordan Wants Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 On PS5 And I Can’t Argue With That

Creed and Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan already has a PlayStation 5. Such is the life of a celebrity. In a recent Instagram post, Jordan wrote that while he thinks the PlayStation 5’s gameplay and graphics are “🔥,” he also wants to see a certain old-school fighting game make a resurgence on the next-gen…

PS5 And Xbox Series X Loading Times, Compared (They’re Close)

So far we’ve shown you how PS5 loads games very quickly and Xbox Series X and S load games very quickly. Long story short, both systems load next-gen games at ludicrous speeds while giving older games a little push. But in order to gauge how ludicrous is ludicrous, we needed to get a couple of…

I Really Like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s Easily Readable Lore Screens

I like a lot of things about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I like the setting. I like the new quest system. I like the changes to the loot system that frees my character from hauling dozens of the same sword. What’s also great? I can read the game’s lore text from my couch with ease. Too…

Three All Elite Wrestling Games In Development

Three separate games featuring the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) brand are currently in development, the organization announced today. This lineup of upcoming AEW games includes an as-of-yet untitled wrestling game for current and next-gen consoles helmed by former WWE 2K developer Yuke’s, mobile general manager simulator AEW Elite General Manager, and virtual gambling game AEW…

World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands’ Pre-Launch Event Is A Nostalgia Road Trip

The pre-launch event for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, now live, serves as the story lead-up to Shadowlands’ main event. Key leaders of the Alliance and Horde factions have been kidnapped on the orders of Sylvanas Windrunner. But before adventurers can rescue them, they must deal with a Scourge invasion. The pre-launch events detail your efforts…