It may not seem like the biggest deal in the world that the Valve Index isn’t available in Australia. But when you consider the fact that the headset launched in June last year, and the closest thing the world has seen to Half-Life 3 is launching in just over a…
Lenovo, a company more renowned for their business laptops, have been trying to branch into the gaming market for a couple of years. Now, a teaser on Weibo has unveiled plans for a Lenovo Legion gaming phone.
Marvel’s Dawn of X event began by establishing who the world’s most influential mutant power players truly were: people like Moira MacTaggart, whose gifts afforded them unique perspectives and insights about the past, present, and future. Moira spent multiple lifetimes searching for a way to ensure the mutant species’ eternal…
It’s one of the most iconic maps in all of video games, and soon Counter-Strike’s famous Dust stage will be playable in Fortnite’s creative mode thanks to the work of some expert modders.
Today on Highlight Reel we have weird body physics, smoke surprises, killer shots, and much more!
On Valentine’s Day in Japan, women traditionally give men chocolate. Each year, a group of protesters gathers to march, carrying signs that read “Pulverise Valentine’s Day” and “Making out in public is terrorism”.
We live in an age where pretty much any game you want is right at your fingertips, so long as you have an internet connection. That wasn’t always the case. If you wanted to try out games in the 1990s and 2002s, you played a demo disc. The Haunted PS1…
When I left the theatre after a private screening of Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the organisers walked up to me with a question. Would the movie please hardcore fans? I took a moment to think. It didn’t matter, I said, shrugging. It wasn’t a movie for them; it was…
Darksiders Genesis, the Diablo-style Darksiders spin-off starring War and Strife is out on consoles today. Here’s the best prices you can get on the game.
Noted World of Warcraft fan, Mortal Kombat character, person with bad opinions about trans rights, and also WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey is diving headfirst into the lucrative world of video game streaming. She’s announced that, beginning next week, she’ll be doing it exclusively on Facebook.
Released in Japan this past December, the soft reboot of Sega’s long-running steampunk mecha series, simply titled Sakura Wars, is set to release on PlayStation 4 on April 28. It’s an action role-playing game. And a dating sim. And a visual novel. It’s Sakura Wars, and Sakura Wars is great.
After everything that happened with Disney Infinity and The House of Mouse’s relationship with games in the past, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Disney were happy to remain a step removed from the video game industry. As it turns out, Mickey Mouse wants to get back into gaming.
While there’s not enough alcohol in the world to forget this scene, it’s my journalistic duty to remind you it exists.
Relic’s 2006 classic Company of Heroes, which I will remind you all is the perfect RTS, is about to be released for the iPad, and that is just the most wonderful news.
A question for the veteran trainers: Of all the Pokémon you’ve ever caught, across all versions and all generations, who’s been your favourite? If you could bring the Gen III Jolteon you beat Hoenn’s Elite Four with to Pokémon Sword and Shield, would you? Well, as of this week, that…
Someone like Geoff Keighley won’t have the same financial impact for E3 as, say, Sony refusing to buy booth space. But when it comes to the broader narrative about where E3 is headed, it’s not a good look.
StreamElements and Arsenal.gg’s ‘State of the Stream’ report for January 2020 has revealed that League of Legends is back on top of the games livestreaming charts, with a 27 per cent rise in viewership in January.
Actually, it’s always time to cosplay. But sometimes, it’s good to have an excuse to dress. This past weekend’s Wonder Festival figure expo provided just that.
In the wake of the international success of Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI, perhaps it’s time for publishers to take a look at some of their long-dormant JRPG series. Capcom’s Breath of Fire, which is packed with strong ideas and still in the hands of a financially healthy publisher,…
After announcing that Pokemon‘s first online transfer and storage system would go live in February, The Pokemon Company has launched Pokemon Home today (but only on Switch and Android).
Over the weekend, the Wonder Festival figure expo got underway in Chiba, Japan. There were lots of cool figurines and statues on display. Some were mass-produced, some were prototypes, and some were fan-made. Many of them looked fantastic.
Dead Cells is a satisfyingly complex roguelite with fast-paced combat, Metroid-style exploration, and gorgeously rendered medieval environments. It will also kick your arse in a thousand ways. This week, Dead Cells added yet another method of arse-kicking: Mama Tick.
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs Capcom (and Marvel vs Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one…
Living alone can be delightful, quiet, and great, but it can also give you a small sense of social dread as you get a little too used to your own company. Thankfully, the wonderful world of video games is here to help distract you from your troubles.
If you’re like me, you came across one of the basketball courts in Spider-Man’s New York City, spent some time failing to make a basket, and then moved on to fighting the next group of bank-robbing goons. But one YouTuber made it his mission to learn everything he could about…
Kindred Fates is an open world RPG on Kickstarter that aims to build on the steadily-growing popularity of the Pokémon genre, with a few key changes.
As a kid, I never liked camping. I went to a multitude of Boy Scout and church camps, but I could never escape an overriding feeling of anxiety, like the trees were going to close in and suffocate me with their bristly branches. Turns out, I was just doing it…
Riot’s Project A was billed as a game trying to intersect the worlds of shooters like CS:GO and Overwatch. And in a select hands-on preview with Riot’s shooter, a few gamers learnt a little bit more about the mechanics – and just how exactly the hero element functions in gameplay.
I’m not the most aggressive battle royale player, but I put a lot of effort into supporting my team. I stick close to my squad, share my loot, and heal my teammates whenever I can. In games where downed players can be brought back, like Apex Legends or Fortnite, I…
The Final Fantasy franchise has been many things to many people in the decades since the series debuted in 1987: a card game, an energy drink, and no less than three unpopular motion pictures. But the nucleus of the entire multimedia universe has been the 15 core games in the…
The only thing in Dead Cells’ latest expansion that gives me more pleasure than cleaving giant mutated fungi in half with a humongous scythe is having my own mushroomed companion fling itself at them with abandon and then explode upon impact.
BioWare will seek to “reinvent” Anthem’s gameplay in a “longer-term redesign” of the embattled online multiplayer action game, studio head Casey Hudson said today in a blog post. This confirms a Kotaku report from November.
As of today, the classic PlayStation 1 role-playing game Vagrant Story is 20 years old. It’s very good and, as ex-Kotaku staffer Joshura Rivera so eloquently wrote back in December, “still holds the heck up” two decades later. This article, however, is all about the main character’s exposed butt, just…
