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Podcast: Westworld’s Killer Finale And The Mysteries That Remain

HBO’s Westworld just put a cap on its terrific first season. Come talk about it with us, won’t you? Jason and I stayed up late to record a special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen focusing entirely on the Westworld season finale and the first season as a whole. Spoilers, obviously. At the end, we added…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ellie And Garfunkel

Poor Ellie. Six years after The Last of Us’s ominous ending, she’s set out to become a budding folk musician but can’t seem to find anybody to jam with. And those dead bodies littered throughout the cabin aren’t helping. So this week I want you to help Ellie find some band mates, or an audience…

Guy Buys PS4 Dev Kit Full Of Data From Closed Studio

You find the strangest things at bankruptcy auctions. Like, say, PlayStation 4 development kits full of stuff from the now-closed developers of Sleeping Dogs United Front games shut down in October, and on Saturday morning an auction was held to sell a bunch of their stuff. Among the server gear and office equipment and lamps…

Counting Down The Months Until Persona 5 Is Out

As sad as it is that Persona 5 isn’t coming out in the West until April 2017, here’s a new English-language trailer for the game. Course, for Japan’s Brian Ashcraft it’s already out, so you can check out his impressions (as a Persona newcomer, no less) on the final game here

Surprise, Mechwarrior 5 Is Coming

And it’s a big, proper, singleplayer Mechwarrior game. Not an online thing, not a strategy game,not a mod, but a full-blown, first-person, fifth Mechwarrior title. It’s being developed by a separate, dedicated team at Piranha, the same studio behind Mechwarrior Online Here’s the pitch: In MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries you will adopt the role of a…

The Week In Games: Hello Bird-Dog My Old Friend

First Final Fantasy XV arrived and now The Last Guardian. Within the span of just one week, two games that spent nearly a combined twenty years in development will have finally been released into the wild. In fact, I’ve spent so many years staring at the strangely feathered creature born of Fumito Ueda’s dreams that…

Final Fantasy XV Cosplay Gets It Right

Italian cosplayer Leon Chiro has been working as an official Final Fantasy XV cosplayer in Europe (yes, this is something that happens). His Gladiolus is as dreamy as it would need to be to score a job like that.

Hearthstone’s Latest Expansion Is Full Of Personality

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan came out last Thursday and I’ve been playing around with it for a few days trying to tease out some of its secrets. While it’s chaos in the world of Blizzard’s collectible card game at the moment, the distinct style and mood of the latest expansion has me enjoying this brief…

Rocket League Team Survives Lower Bracket To Become New World Champions

FlipSid3 Tactics just won the Rocket League World Championship in Amsterdam after beating grand final opponents Mockit Aces in two best-of-seven-series. After losing to Mockit Aces during the semifinals, FlipSid3 was sent down to the lower bracket where they managed to work their way back up to the top and earning a rematch. Since Mockit…

Two Years Later, Fans Have Cracked P.T. Wide Open

Horror game P.T. was released in August 2014, and canceled months afterwards. Fans kept digging for secrets a year later, but by 2016, most of us would assume we’ve found everything. Well, not quite. Over at the Xentax forums, user luxox18 posted a datamine of P.T. that was completed just a few days ago, revealing…

The Last of Us Part II Will Be A Game ‘About Hate’

During a panel discussion for The Last of Us Part II at this year’s PSX, the game’s director, Neil Druckmann revealed the whereas the first game was about love, the follow-up would be about “hate.” The game’s bleakness came through in its announcement trailer, which included a sobering conversation about the people she needed to…

Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite Gameplay Trailer Shows Us The Power Of The Infinity Gems

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was revealed during yesterday’s Keynote address at this year’s PSX, but now there’s also a gameplay trailer that shows how the game looks and feels in action. The new trailer dropped during last night’s Capcom Cup tournament for Street Fighter V and is all centered around the Infinity Stones, the powerful…

Sunday Comics: We All Lick Blood

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published November 29. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Postcard, Winners!

Too soon? What can I say, there were a lot of great entries for this week’s ‘Shop Contest, but I’ve had Final Fantasy VII on the mind and Lionheart227‘s entry hit me just right. It’s been a long journey for Noctis, Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto; one that’s taken them to many strange places, including the…