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A studio helmed by StarCraft 2's multiplayer lead wants to create an RTS 'paradigm shift' with its unannounced game
Tencent studio Uncapped Games hopes to revitalize the RTS genre with a game that's not about "playing the piano as fast as possible."
No Rest for the Wicked isn't a Diablo, but it might be one of the smartest soulslikes I've played in a long time
A dark action RPG set on a mysteriously evolving island.
Game master Joel cuts an unprecedented deal with Helldivers 2 players: Pull off the 'Martale Gambit' and he'll liberate two planets for the price of one
Helldivers, get going to Martale ASAP.
Pokémon Go Bellsprout Community Day guide
Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Source images: Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokémon Company Use the Community Day to find a Shiny Bellsprout Continue reading…
Fallout show creators decided on their own to faithfully replicate the iconic power armor: 'Bethesda didn't know what we were doing'
Bethesda "never said" they had to make the power armor look like it does in the games, but it's so cool they did it anyway.
Help, the Rebel Moon franchise has fallen and it can’t get up!
Image: Netflix Where does Zack Snyder’s Netflix franchise go from here? Continue reading…
Dune: Part Two, Netflix’s Rebel Moon Part Two, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures The sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic finally arrives on VOD this week Continue reading…
LittleBigPlanet Server Apocalypse Wipes Hundreds Of Thousands Of PlayStation Players' Creations Without Warning
Sony has indefinitely decommissioned the PlayStation 4 servers for puzzle platformer LittleBigPlanet 3, the company announced in an update to one of its support pages . The permanent shutdown comes just months after the servers were temporarily taken offline due to ongoing
World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true
Microsoft has already made some pretty high-profile changes since acquiring Blizzard in 2023.
Where To Find Fool's Gold In Final Fantasy 16
Just like Echoes of the Fallen, Final Fantasy 16’s The Rising Tide DLC adds quite a few new pieces of gear for Clive to use. Among these is the Tonberry Knife, which uniquely deals low HP damage in exchange for inflicting high Will damage. Whether you want this blade for its
Meet The Guy Who Spent $90K On One Of The Rarest Copies Of Castlevania In The World
Tom Curtin had just secured the video game of his dreams: a factory sealed first run copy of Konami’s original 1986 Castlevania for NES with a rare hang tab on the back of the box. There are only six currently known to exist and Curtin, together with his childhood friend, paid
If you can’t touch grass for Earth Day, a Planet Earth 4K can help
Image: NASA Blu-rays of these BBC shows are their lowest price yet through April 22 Continue reading…
Fallout 3's Reveal Led To Death Threats And Bethesda's First Security Guard
Fallout is currently one of the biggest things in the world thanks to Amazon’s hit TV show . However, before all that, there was a time when Fallout as a franchise seemed dead. Then Bethesda stepped in, bought the IP in 2007 , and announced plans to make Fallout 3 , reviving
OG Fallout lead Tim Cain defends the show's lore changes in a glowing full review—'Not that it matters, I'm not in charge of this anymore, and neither are you'
"Lore drift is inevitable in big IPs."
The Fallout TV Show Is Way Sexier Than The Games
Spoilers for the Fallout show follow. Read more...
Hades II Is The Kind Of Hot We Need Right Now
Hades , Supergiant Games’ award-winning 2020 roguelite, was renowned for its excellent combat, beautiful art style, entrancing music, and very, very hot characters. You’d expect a game about Greek gods (who were purposefully attractive so that the normies of Ancient Greece had
The Sony Inzone buds are on sale for their lowest price ever
Credit: Sony Electronics For a limited time, the Sony Inzone gaming earbuds are discounted to just $179.99 Continue reading…
The long-awaited sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters hits its crowdfunding target in less than four hours, and they're not kidding about that $4.4 million stretch goal
Free Stars: Children of Infinity is off to a roaring start.
Does The Rising Tide DLC Impact Final Fantasy 16’s Original Ending?
Final Fantasy 16 ’s (presumably) final DLC, The Rising Tide, is a fascinating case study on how fan speculation can wildly shape an audience’s expectations. On one hand, Square Enix and the folks at Creative Business Unit 3 never promised this DLC pack would impact the main
Target Confirms It Will Stop Selling Some Physical Media In Stores, Like Movies
The future of physical media took another blow as Target confirmed previously reported plans that it would stop offering physical DVDs in store and transition to only carrying a select number of films in brick-and-mortar locations during specific, limited times. However, the
Dragon’s Dogma 2's Dreaded Dragonsplague Will Be Easier To Deal With
Capcom’s high-fantasy RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 will get a new update on all platforms this month that makes some much-needed changes, including one that makes Pawns more reliable, less dumb, and less talkative. We love Pawns that do their job silently, but one of the most notable
What we want to see in Fallout season 2: Deathclaw fights, aliens and a lot more Norm
Our hopes and dreams for the second season.
That Time Space Ghost Narrated A Cartoon Network-Themed Smash Bros Clone
This next sentence might make you feel very old and I’m sorry: Earlier this week, Cartoon Network’s first original show, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, turned 30 years old . And while many have spent the week celebrating the strange series, its best bits, and funniest episodes, I
Fallout’s bloody wedding continues one of fiction’s longest-running tropes
Image: Prime Video Weddings have gone dangerously wrong throughout the history of storytelling, from the Bible to Kill Bill Continue reading…
Helldivers 2 CEO says after success, the goal now is simple—'make this the best live game you've ever played'
Now that's patriotism.
Does Fallout 76 Have Crossplay?
Fallout 76 , the online multiplayer game set in the long-running post-apocalyptic series, has seen a surge of players due to Amazon Prime’s hit TV adaptation . And if you’re thinking about giving it a shot, you may be wondering if you can easily hop into games with your friends
Kabam is taking Marvel: Contest of Champions to 'alternative' app stores
Ahead of its 10th birthday, Marvel's mobile fighting game is leaving the iOS/Android playground to hang out in other app stores.
Prison Architect 2's release delayed due to 'new technical challenges', has its sentence extended until September
Parole denied.
Telltale shares new images from The Wolf Among Us 2, says it's 'been heads down' on the game
The long-awaited sequel to the 2013 narrative adventure is currently expected out sometime in 2024.
Twitter users have been confusing Elon Musk's Grok AI with fake news and it's all rather amusing
You almost feel sorry for it, don't you? Almost.
Why I Make Myself In Every Video Game Character Creator
On the day I started here at Kotaku back in 2022, the very first post I wrote had an image of a character who looked like me right at the top. It was my custom V from Cyberpunk 2077, and he’s appeared more than a few times on this site as I’ve covered the game and its Phantom
Team Fortress 2 joins us in the modern age as Valve updates the 17 year old shooter to 64-bit
Should result in performance improvements for "most users".
Spy x Family Code: White fails the mission by serving every fan
Image: WIT Studio/CloverWorks You will enjoy half the movie Continue reading…
The Six Stages of Player Rationality
To understand the impact of your mechanics, you need to know how people will react to them. This means that you have to have some kind of mental model of player behavior. The question is, in your model, how much rationality do you assume?
Taylor Swift Namedrops Grand Theft Auto On Latest Album
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 hours or so, pop superstar Taylor Swift unleashed a double album on the world, and as a Swiftie, it is my moral obligation to be deeply annoying about it. I’m not here to review the album though, but instead highlight a
Developing Disaster Golf
Hippo Havoc’s Disaster Golf demonstrates the power a little guidance can have in an industry flooded with indie games competing for a piece of the pie.
Which Hades 2 character is your favorite?
Graphic: Ana Diaz/Polygon | Source images: Supergiant Games via Polygon I’m obsessed with Selene Continue reading…
Cities: Skylines 2 Botches Beachfront DLC So Badly Players Are Getting Their Money Back
The makers of Cities: Skylines II have pledged to focus on fixing the base game after fans revolted against a disappointing paid DLC. The $10 Beachfront Properties pack scored a stunning 96 percent negative rating in Steam reviews and now the companies behind the urban planning
