Month: August 2018

This week saw the glorious masses of video gaming descend on the beautiful German cathedral city of Cologne, for the annual Gamescom event — Europe’s largest celebration of lovely games. Kotaku UK’s news editor Laura Dale has been reporting from the ground, alongside Kotaku Australia editor Alex Walker, and there’s been a hell of a lot of news and hands-on opportunities. We’ve published many dozens of stories while the conference has been ongoing and, now that things are winding down, here’s the highlights from one week in Cologne. News and reveals Saints Row The Third is coming to Switch. (!) During ... Read more

During Gamescom 2018, Bandai Namco revealed a new gameplay trailer for Tira, who’s day one DLC for the upcoming SoulCalibur 6. The company also unveiled a new trailer that details the game’s second story mode. First introduced in SoulCalibur 3, Tira has since become a veteran of the franchise and appeared in both SoulCalibur 4 and SoulCalibur 5. In both SoulCalibur 4 and 5, Tira’s fighting style was transformed to match how her personality unexpectedly changes. She has two different states, Gloomy and Jolly, with the former allowing her to dish out more powerful attacks at the cost of her ... Read more

After several years of waiting, Capcom has finally debuted its remake of classic survival-horror game Resident Evil 2. If you only watched its E3 2018 reveal trailer, chances are you have some questions regarding how it plays and how faithful it is to the 1998 original. There are still plenty of details that we don’t know, but Capcom has at least offered some clarity on its most curious changes. To ensure you’re kept up to date on everything there is to know about Resident Evil 2 remake, we’ve compiled all the information we have on the game so far: how ... Read more

It’s been a hell of a week, readers, but we’ve made it to the weekend. I have very big plans of doing nothing but running in the very nice weather, cooking (hopefully) tasty food out of the host of cookbooks I’ve bought recently, and playing a lot of video games. I finally caved and bought Yakuza 0 for PC. I only had a PC until pretty recently, and I still sometimes think like a PC-only gamer. So even though I could have played Yakuza at any time, I still waited until it came to my favourite platform. Will I like it, ... Read more

Image via FOX 5 San Diego. (Image: © FOX 5 San Diego) Popular CS:GO YouTuber Trevor “McSkillet” Heitmann is said to be the driver in a car crash that killed himself and two other people on Thursday. The crash occurred on a freeway in San Diego shortly after 4:30 pm local time Thursday. Heitmann’s 2014 McLaren 650s, traveling at more than 100 mph in the wrong direction, according to police, collided with a Hyundai SUV, killing its driver, a 43-year-old woman, and its passenger, a 12-year-old girl.  “The sports car was traveling southbound in the northbound I-805 carpool lane at ... Read more

Epic’s decision to bypass the Play Store and have users download an APK on the web was widely criticized from a security standpoint. That backlash was quickly proven to be warranted after Google discovered a flaw in the Fortnite install process. Fortunately, Epic Games was able to very quickly address the issue. Nintendo Switch Google this evening fully detailed (via Android Central) the incident on its issue tracker. To play the hit game, users must first get the Fortnite Installer that then proceeds to download the full application. However, a flaw with the Installer allowed a malicious app — that ... Read more

Looking at From Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, it’s clear that it’s built on the foundations of the team’s previous work on the Dark Souls series. Focusing on an uncompromising and stoic design sense that rewards patient players who learn from their mistakes, the developer’s next big title definitely channels some of the best of what their last ten years of games have to offer. However, Sekiro is a major shift away from the slower, and more cautious playstyle of action-RPG Dark Souls and even Bloodborne–moving further into the direction of what seems to be a traditional action game. In ... Read more

It only took two years, but Overwatch’s lean, mean esports queen D.Va — easily one of the game’s most popular characters — is finally getting some time in the spotlight. Alongside her CG short about being the world’s coolest workaholic who also happens to have PTSD, there’s also a new map set in the South Korean city of Busan. Its design lends itself well to fast-paced, nail-biting teamfights, but it’s also marred by a few odd design decisions. Busan is a control point map (think king of the hill) that is broken up into three sections: a mecha hangar, a ... Read more

Share. The battle is joined in Blizzard’s latest content-packed expansion. By Joseph Bradford The Horde vs. Alliance struggle has always sat at the heart of World of Warcraft, although it has at times faded into the background while the world banded together for a common cause. But now that the world-destroying threat from 2016’s excellent Legion expansion is diminished, Blizzard has once again rekindled the burning hatred these factions have for one another, bringing a welcome refocus on our character’s epic storylines and those of some of Warcraft’s greatest characters in the new Battle for Azeroth expansion. Legion left behind ... Read more

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