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UncategorizedWe Played A Mystery Game While Trapped In A Coffin
The Alt.Ctrl.GDC exhibit at Game Developers Conference shows off a selection of games that use wild, weird, sometimes gigantic control schemes. Nathan Grayson and I took a tour of the booth this week, which all culminated in me getting inside an actual coffin. Well, an IKEA dresser on its side painted black. But still. You…
By Chris Kohler - Esports
Overwatch League’s Code Of Conduct Got Leaked [UPDATE]
Esports broadcaster Richard Lewis posted a scanned hard copy of what he says is the Overwatch League rulebook today—about two months after commissioner Nate Nanzer said he would but still hasn’t done so. What the 35-page leaked documents show is incredibly sweeping. If these rules are still in place, it means that Blizzard owns the…
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UncategorizedFar Cry 5 Has A Great Riff On Far Cry 4‘s Early Ending
This secret is neat, and you can experience it in the first 15 minutes. Spoilers. Far Cry 5 takes place in the fictional Hope County, a small town in Montana led by cult leader named Joseph Seed. You play as “The Deputy,” a cop who is heading into town to hopefully arrest Seed. Far Cry…
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You Can Play A Way Out Online With Only One Copy
The fantastic prison break co-op game, A Way Out, drops today. In order to play it, you’ll need to grab a friend, whether that be couch co-op or online. If you’re opting to play online, don’t worry. It’s hilariously simple. Your partner doesn’t even need a copy of the game. Heather Alexandra and I played…
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UncategorizedFar Cry 5 Changes A Lot More Things Than Just The Setting
We’ve heard a lot about Far Cry 5, and now we’ve finally played it. It doesn’t just offer a radically different setting from the series’ norm. It tweaks the Far Cry formula in some interesting ways—in terms of how you progress through its world, improve your character and more. We wanted to show all of…
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UncategorizedPUBG Bots And Pirate Crew Problems: The Week’s Hottest Game Topics
We’ve got Fortnite, PUBG, Luigi’s wiener, Star Wars, and more on this week’s video news roundup. There are a couple jokes in here. I’ll leave it to you to decide which of my words are jokes and which are just creatively worded facts. In Kotaku XP, Gita Jackson and I discuss the top Kotaku stories…
By Tim Rogers - Uncategorized
PixelJunk Monsters 2 Is Coming, And It Looks Gorgeous
PixelJunk Monsters 2, the sequel to Q-Games’ 2008 tower defense game, is coming May 25 to PlayStation 4, Steam, and Switch—and it looks gorgeous. Kotaku got a brief demo of the game at Game Developers Conference yesterday at the booth of its publisher, Spike Chunsoft. If you think the visual style looks nice in screenshots,…
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UncategorizedSea Of Thieves Is Better If You Also Use It As A Chat Room
I recently played the Xbox One’s new game Sea of Thieves for several hours with my colleague Paul Tamayo. I had never played the game, though I love pirates and boats so much that I felt like I’ve been playing it all my life. The game is as much a chat room as it is…
By Tim Rogers - Esports
Why Was The Pac-12 Esports League Killed Before It Started?
Tune in every weeknight to the University of Utah Esports Twitch stream and you can catch players from universities across the Pacific-12 conference competing in League of Legends, Hearthstone and Rocket League. It is the first league of its kind, an organization bringing together schools from a major conference for esports competitions. The Pacific Alliance…
By Jack Moore
