So you’ve placed a pre-order for an item, only to have it be suddenly cancelled or, even worse, it hasn’t shown up by the expected delivery date. What rights do you have as a consumer here? Well, that all depends on the circumstances. What Happens If Your Pre-Order Gets Cancelled?…
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today we straight-up murder some people for the amusement of a sicko filming it all. But at least the soundtrack is good.
Flight Simulator pilots discovered a trippy glitch over the weekend that causes the earth to open up and warp space-time like a black hole.
There’s a bit of a Halloween theme to October’s Games with Gold, as you’d expect. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold membership.
We’ve mined the Isle of Armour for all it’s worth in Pokémon Sword And Shield, now it’s on to the Crown Tundra. The second half of Sword and Shield’s expansion pass arrives on October 22, giving players the opportunity to explore a mysterious frozen land, with the chance to capture…
The very best gamers have a chance to have their names immortalised in the Xbox Hall of Fame and, more importantly, win a trophy.
There’s a brand new Pokémon Direct tonight for the Sword and Shield expansions. Here’s everything you need to know about the presentation.
It was while rewatching 2009 space horror flick Pandorum over the weekend that I realised it’s essentially a Souls movie in disguise, released just a month before Demon’s Souls arrived in the United States.
Tell us how you feel about love and dating right now and you could go in the running to win a $500 Uber Eats voucher.
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today let’s give a listen to Lunar: The Silver Star, the marquee Sega CD RPG which kicked off the long-running series.
Spelunky 2 can be a violent experience. While searching for the main character’s parents is its ostensible goal, you sure do a lot of killing along the way. I’m doing my part to stem the tide of violence with a self-imposed goal: kill as few enemies as possible.
I have a new part-time job. The pay is terrible. I am the unpaid secretary and bookkeeper for my son’s game of Pokémon Go. I’m apparently a tutor for others, too.
It is a tough time to be in Melbourne. This lockdown has been going on so long we’re starting to forget what our families look like. We’re beginning to truly feel all the words to that ‘I’ll Be Home For Christmas’ song. Our nightlife is almost as quiet as Sydney’s…
Here’s everything you need to know about Xbox Remote Play on iPhone.
Starting from the ground floor in any industry can be tough. In voice acting, where that talent pool is deep and the competition is fierce, breaking in can seem at best daunting and at worst nigh impossible. Justice Washington, a voice actor from Memphis, sat down with us to chat…
The first entry into Marvel’s X of Swords event brought war to the X-Men, a mysterious new set of mystical swords to the larger world, and a demonstration of just how dangerous the mutant magic Apocalypse has been tinkering with can actually be when left unchecked. The X-Men’s latest, greatest…
Doom Eternal is coming to Xbox Game Pass on October 1 and that got me thinking about Doom. I like Doom a lot. I’ve written about it many times before on Kotaku and it seems like it’s about time I sit down and rank all the demons who have appeared…
Next year, a CG Resident Evil series is coming to exclusively to Netflix.
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today we look back at a game that is the exact opposite of 2020: the nice, soft, fun, and colourful world of Viva Piñata and its fantastic soundtrack.
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Kirlia!
Would you like to learn how to be an esports pro? Well, if you live in Japan, you can now pay Konami to teach you how!
When you find art you truly love, it doesn’t leave you. Its lessons and rhythms, its shapes and sounds, start to take up space in your mind while you’re away. You know it, you understand it, and if it’s the kind of art that gets a sequel, you just might…
It happened. Sega actually mentioned Virtua Fighter; not as part of some diversion in a Yakuza game, but as its own, like, thing.
Konami announced this morning that the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear Solid 2 are all headed back to PC via the GOG storefront, alongside the Konami Collector’s Series: Castlevania & Contra collection.
Both LEGO and Super Mario are capable of conjuring up powerful nostalgia in just about anyone in their 20s or 30s. Now they’ve joined forces to create the ultimate duo, LEGO® Super Mario™. As you can probably guess, LEGO Super Mario offers a physical way to play as the iconic…
3D Mark’s Fire Strike is one of the oldest and most common benchmarks in the gaming industry. If you’ve ever seen it, you’ll know that it features two hybrid rock-cyborgs fighting to the death. It’s riveting stuff, but is there more to this battle of wills?
The weekend is a sacred time, especially if it’s marking the beginning of a well-deserved break.
Innchanted is a new couch co-op game with plenty of heart and an important message.
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Filming for season two of Netflix’s Witcher series had got underway earlier this year before, you know, everything went to shit. It’s since resumed production, but the delay has meant that one of the series’ key new additions, Geralt’s fellow Witcher Eskel, has had to pull out, despite already having…
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today I’m here to sing the praises of Endless Space’s lowkey ode to micromanagement, which featured the only game soundtrack that’s ever made me feel equal parts noble and enlightened for…
On Tuesday, a listing for a new game, Kirby Fighters 2, mysteriously showed up on the Nintendo eShop. Almost as soon as it appeared, it disappeared. Then, last night, without the faintest splash of fanfare, Nintendo released the game into the world.
Yesterday I wrote about downloading the entire Xbox Game Pass library to one external Xbox One hard drive. According to today’s storage-centric Xbox Wire post, I’ll be able to plug that drive into an Xbox Series X | S come November and instantly access all of those games.
Let’s face it. Microsoft’s track record in Japan with the Xbox has not been good. In the past few years, Microsoft even stopped going to the Tokyo Game Show, but this year, the company is back.
