Today sees the launch of the latest seasonal update to Ubisoft's super-tense tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege; Operation Para Bellum goes live today bringing with it a host of new features and balance changes.Of course the best part of ea...

Publisher 2K games announced, yesterday, that Evolve Stage 2, the free-to-play variant of the game will be shutting down its servers on September 3, 2018. This will render the free version obsolete and close down all dedicated servers and l...

There's a lot riding on BioWare's shared-world shooter Anthem and I'm trying my best to keep an open mind that it'll all work out for the studio. It's tough, though -- there are so many unknowns. Anthem will make its second E3 appearance so...

Following on from yesterday's rumour that Epic Games' colossal success Fortnite could be coming to the Nintendo Switch, our old friend the Korean Ratings Board uploaded a new listing all but confirming that said port is happening.Online sho...

That bastion of early announcements, the Korean Video Game Ratings Board, have dropped a mystery in our laps. A listing went up yesterday for open-world shooter Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition for PS4 and Xbox One.However, said game i...

Humble Bundle is at it again with another enticing bundle to add to your backlog. This time, you'll be able to nab the entire Arma series for $20, though you can opt for a lower tier if you already have some of these games. What really swee...

Fractured Lands is a brand new, post-apocalyptic, battle royale game coming from developer Unbroken Studios (comprised of staff that previously worked on the Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield series). The game will task players w...

If you couldn't tell by now, I'm far more interested in wacky, goofy, and flat-out weird games than I am your typical AAA release. It's just more fun to see the strange afterbirth of a good old-fashioned mindfuck than it is to climb radio t...

Out of the blue (or out of the ground) Activision and Sledgehammer Games have launched a ghoulish new event in their hugely successful military shooter Call of Duty: WWII.The Attack of the Undead sees zombies invading several multiplayer ma...

[Update: Jason Schreier from Kotaku spoke with sources who wish to remain anonymous, confirming that "Fallout 76 is in fact an online survival RPG that’s heavily inspired by games like DayZ and Rust, according to three people fam...

Last week's Battlefield V reveal showcased a pretty exciting, solid looking game, the latest in a long line of titles from the Electronic Arts/DICE shooter franchise. However, a contingent of the Battlefield community took serious umbrage a...

If you bought into Far Cry 5 but find yourself longing to go back to simpler times, Far Cry 3 Classic Edition might just hit the spot. The re-release is available today for Far Cry 5 season pass holders ahead of its standalone release on Ju...

One look at World War 3 and you can tell it's an ambitious project. It's rife with the kind of explosion-heavy action we expect from the best-selling shooters. But World War 3 is coming from a relatively unknown studio out of Pola...

In the hour before I chat with Team Superhot lead Piotr Iwanicki, I go watch him give a talk at the Digital Dragons convention in Krakow, Poland. The topic is "Ideas that nobody is doing" and that's oh such a broad range of possibilities. I...

The General Data Protection Regulations, or GDPR, is a set of European laws that govern data protection and privacy for people and businesses operating in the European Union and European Economic Area. Due to the nature of the GDPR, it does...

Superhot is one of the better-received VR games, but virtual reality isn't where it started. Prior to releasing as a flagship title alongside the Oculus Touch controllers, Superhot was a traditional flat screen experience on PC an...

[Update: EA has confirmed to Kotaku that Battlefield V will not feature any loot boxes.] EA held a reveal event for Battlefield V today and confirmed a whole lot of details. For one, the game will be returning to World War 2 and giving us t...

Epic Games' first 3D title, Unreal, is 20 years old this year (and now I feel old). The game and its incredible follow-up, Unreal Tournament, played a massive part of my childhood and helped get me into PC gaming in a big way. I recommend t...

While unknown to most people, developers Tor Frick, Arcade Berg, Erik Gloersen and Jonathan Heckley have been making some great games over the last decade. Their combined portfolio includes the likes of Bulletstorm, Far Cry 3, Gears of War,...

[Image courtesy of YouTuber Nick Brick] A report from Business Wire has let out details of a deal between Activision Blizzard and LEGO and a second deal with HASBRO. While not specified, the deal indicates that a line of Overwatch LEGO prod...

Today, Blizzard begins its second-year anniversary celebrations for its immensely popular arena-shooter Overwatch. A new selection of unlockables will be made available for the duration of the event, although one fan got the party star...

Rec Room is a social app in which virtual reality owners can come together, hang out, play games, and just generally be weird with another. Soon, it'll have a new activity, one that takes cues from a burgeoning genre. Rec Room is getting Re...

After the massive legal battle between Vince Zampella and Jason West of Infinity Ward and Activision, a bunch of former Call of Duty developers left the company to form Respawn Entertainment. Their first new IP, a joint operation with EA, w...

Electronic Arts has just dropped a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Battlefield V, although the trailer itself is pretty uneventful and short, it does confirm World War II as the new setting. During a short sequence within the teaser its...

The second anniversary of Blizzard's online shooter Overwatch is just on the horizon, as part of the celebrations, the developer/publisher has released a wonderful new video, Trace & Bake, using stop-motion animations of some of the gam...