Chantelle Schmidt
Crusader Kings III got a free update this week, introducing a new “ruler designer” that lets you completely customise the leader you begin the game with. From their beards to their sexuality to their statistics.
When it comes to PC deals during Black Friday, there’s a lot going on. Are you after laptops? Light up RGB peripherals? Internal SSDs? Gaming keyboards? Or all of the above? To help you narrow down your focus and take a weight off your shoulders, we’ve collected the best Black…
Black Friday 2020 is upon us, so it’s time to grab a bargain on some LED-clad gaming laptops and accessories. Razer are running some exclusive “Cyber Weekend” deals directly through their webstore, while Amazon is offering some big savings on Razer products. We’re talking almost $1,300 off gaming laptops big….
![Here’s JB Hi-Fi’s Black Friday Gaming Deals [Updated]](https://imgix.kotaku.com.au/content/uploads/sites/3/2020/03/doom-eternal-bosses-1.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=format&fit=crop&q=65&w=800)
There’s often no better time to swap your NBN plan than Black Friday, and one of the best providers in the country for gamers — Aussie Broadband — have got a killer deal available this week.
![Black Friday 2020: Everything Aussie Gamers Need To Know [Updated]](https://imgix.kotaku.com.au/content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/29/iStock-1251674297-dashek.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=format&fit=crop&q=65&w=800)
Imagine for a moment a precision platformer that is not only amazing-looking and smartly designed, but also accessible to regular human beings. Dizzy? It’s possible! I found it! It’s Super Cable Boy.
Esports match fixing has been on the rise in Australia, so much so that we’ve seen charges, arrests and direct accusations of links to organised crime. And in perhaps the clearest signal of how rife things are getting locally, one player has spoken up about how much they’ve been offered to fix CSGO games.
You would be forgiven for being dubious. Cyberpunk 2077 was originally due to come out in April 2020, and while some certified geniuses entirely correctly stated this would never happen, many were convinced. Come January the release date was enormously extended until September, then by June it was bumped to…
“I was able to snag a PS5 on launch day!” Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai begins in his latest Weekly Famitsu column. He was fortunate enough to get a preorder at a chain retailer, adding that noting that the supply outweighed the demand and that it seems he was quite…
Ah, this is always one of my favourite times of the year, the evening where we get to share a ton of artwork that went into the production of a game in one of my favourite series, Assassin’s Creed.
Over the last few decades, numerous events have sparked talk that pro wrestlers in the United States might finally unionise. In 1986, Jesse “The Body” Ventura tried and failed to start a wrestlers’ union before WrestleMania 2. More recently, the financial hit wrestlers took from the 2014 launch of the…
Their PC Steam codes might not be great value, but EB Games has much better offerings if you’re after some physical console games — and there’s a good amount of accessories discounted as well. But the biggest discount of all: Bioware’s Anthem for a dollar. It’s not officially tied into Black Friday or…
![Big W’s Black Friday Gaming Deals Include Nintendo Hits And More [Updated]](https://imgix.kotaku.com.au/content/uploads/sites/3/2018/10/1-full1.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=format&fit=crop&q=65&w=800)
Almost two months ago, a Fallout 76 player who uses a wheelchair made a post on the game’s unofficial subreddit asking for the mobility aids to be added to the camp customisation options. The latest Fallout 76 update, released today, honours that request.
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today I’ve a very specific pick to share: the song that plays during the end credits of the fourth expansion for Borderlands 3.
I had high hopes for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, particularly for its story. As a prequel, it promised to tell a more in-depth tale of the fight against Ganon 100 years before Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But AoC failed that expectation in nearly every regard. What…
When many of us were kids, popping open a pack of Pokémon cards and flipping to a holographic Charizard meant bragging rights or a hypothetical hundred dollars if we chose to sell it on eBay (or, in my case, if an eBay-addicted aunt could pry the card from my cold,…
Today, Nintendo announced that Super Mario Maker for Wii U is ending the game’s online course share function on March 31, 2021. So far this has only been announced for Japan and Europe.
2020 has almost slipped us by, but it’s left a whole lot of gaming goodness in its wake.
One of the Xbox’s biggest advantages is its support for variable refresh rate, a technology that allows a screen to eliminate tearing by adjusting your TV as the performance of a game varies. That’s not supported on the PS5 yet, but Sony has confirmed that it’s coming.
Demon’s Souls gets pretty creative with its bosses compared to the games that came after it, both in terms of gameplay and aesthetics, so here’s how I think they rank from best to worst based on various criteria:
PS5 owners can now use their PS5’s DualSense controllers to play PC games on Steam. Valve’s most recent Steam beta adds full compatibility for the DualSense in all controller-enabled games by default — no extra software to necessary, and no settings to configure.
As is Call of Duty tradition, the Nuketown mannequin Easter egg returns in Black Ops Cold War. The map originated in the original Black Ops as a nuclear test site mocked up as a 1950s American suburb with cars and mannequins styled to fit the era. Nuketown’s been reimagined for…
Like any massive open-world game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has its fair share of bugs. Most of them are slight (graphical hiccups, audio tweaks, things of that nature) or laughably irreverent (super-sized children), stuff you’d expect from a game of this size and scale. One, however, is worth raising the alarm…
A new year, a new expansion, a new Destiny 2. With Beyond Light, Bungie’s six-year-old loot shooter looks as beautiful and feels as good to play as it ever has, complete with small quality-of-life improvements and a satisfying story that delves into some of the series’ longstanding mysteries and even offers a few, uncharacteristically human answers.
It took me 20 hours to beat the Demon’s Souls remake on PlayStation 5, but speedrunners have already discovered a massive bug that lets them beat it in less than 20 minutes.
Rockstar is going to start selling Red Dead Redemption 2’s online mode as a standalone game for $7 starting December 1.
Overnight, the NC Dinos defeated the Doosan Bears, winning their first Korean Series championship. At the end of the game, the Dinos players gathered around the pitcher’s mound and celebrated the best way they could — with a giant video game sword.
Middle Mountain Trail is a quiet dirt road located in the middle of nowhere in Virginia, with nothing but trees surrounding it. But, according to some Grand Theft Auto fans, it might be a clue connected to GTA VI, the long-rumoured sequel to one of the best selling games of all time.
If you’ve been waiting all year and you’re wondering whether Cyberpunk 2077 has enough to keep you occupied over the holidays, good news: you definitely don’t need to worry.
A rare copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 for NES is the new king of video game auctions, selling last Friday for an incredible $US156,000 ($214,282).
I am not very surprised when Ubisoft announces that one of its big games will get piles of post-release expansions. It’s news when they don’t. But I am surprised at how interesting and unusual the recently announced expansions for next month’s Immortals Fenyx Rising seem to be.
It’s going to be a long winter as we wait for the Overwatch League to return in 2021. But to tide us over, the league released a video outlining some of the plans Blizzard has for this year’s off season and the 2021 season in general.
In gargantuan games full of quests and characters, it’s hard for any single moment to really stand out. Ubisoft has made a career out of this, with activity-dotted landscapes that lull you into a sort of dreamy adventure haze; when you come to, you know that something happened, but you’d…
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. The other day I mentioned to someone that I was going to write up Melty Blood, and they replied, “wtf is ‘Melty Blood,’ that’s such a metal name!” Well.
