I’d like to start this review off with a tale of Goofus and Gallant and hope to God the Highlights people don’t sue me for doing so. One day, Goofus and Gallant decide to buy the new toys-to-life game Starlink: Battle for A...

Three months later, I'm still not sure which of the 12 mechanical fighters in Override: Mech City Brawl I should call dibs on. One of 'em uses a bow (!), but another looks like a T-Rex. Decisions, decisions... Today's trailer runs through t...

When EA promised that Star Wars Battlefront II would get Obi-Wan, General Grievous, and other Clone Wars content, my mind immediately got to work envisioning how everything would look and sound in the game. In particular, fans of the animat...

The elusive target system from 2016's Hitman will be making a return in the upcoming sequel. For the first target, IO Interactive has announced a man that you'll likely have seen die numerous times: Sean Bean. Famous for his roles in which ...

By way of V-Jump we now know of a new mode coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, which is amazingly still being updated two years later in the wake of FighterZ. Titled "My Raid Mode," the gametype pits a raid boss against five players. Th...

Ubisoft has launched Marching Fire, a major update to online multiplayer battle title For Honor, bringing a glut of new content, characters, modes and balance tweaks to the sword-clashing title.Marching Fire mixes both paid and free content...

The Xbox One can run Crysis. It's a long-running meme in video games to ask if something can run Crysis, a game that was infamously resource-intensive when it released 11 years ago. Now, Xbox One has the opportunity to run Crysis --&nb...

Your cat could be an official Minecraft cat if your cat is exceptionally cute and cool. (All cats are exceptionally cute and cool, so I am of the opinion that all cats belong in Minecraft.) The Minecraft team is making a blocky in...

Physical strategy guides might still be a thing in 2018, but they typically don't cost more than the game they're covering. Bethesda's upcoming Fallout 76, though, is getting a "Platinum Edition" guide from Prima that will run you around $1...

You Don't Know Jack has always been an innovative property. The very first YDKJ game in 1995 was one of the first titles to take full advantage of the storage space offered by then-new CD-ROM technology, and there's been plenty of...

Hollow Knight is basically done (its last DLC launched recently for free and developer Team Cherry has noted that this is the end of the road), so a postmortem is definitely in order. Speaking to Game Informer, Co-Director William Pell...

For those of you picking up Battlefield V next month, are you going to bother with the single-player offering or are you heading straight into multiplayer like usual? Today's trailer might change your mind. Considering I liked Battlefield 1...

It's flying in a bit under the radar, sandwiched between some of the biggest games of the year, but the new Ubisoft toys-to-life franchise Starlink: Battle for Atlas launches today for Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Our final rev...

We are literally days away from the return of legendary fighting series Soulcalibur, as Bandai Namco prepare to launch the franchise sixth entry on PS4, PC and Xbox One, bringing back a cast of classic fighters to do battle once again on th...

Remedy's upcoming sci-fi shooter Control will feature the talents of Max Payne and Alan Wake's lead actors. Both James McCaffrey (Max) and Matthew Porretta (Alan) will be featured in roles that play alongside that of the main character. The...

Activision, without divulging any actual numbers, has told us that Black Ops 4 sold very impressively on its launch day. In a press release, Activision says this year's Call of Duty had the series best day one digital sales on all plat...

I Am Bread isn't exactly a staple of the larger speedrunning community. Maybe it should be, though. I Am Bread is one of the sillier takes on the "Simulator" genres, wherein the player has to finagle a piece of bread onto heat so...

Destiny celebrates Halloween tomorrow, as its Festival of the Lost event runs October 16 through November 6. That's a long time to push through the Haunted Forest and to earn unsettling masks. Last week, we detailed everything we knew...

The recent release of Shenmue I + II for PS4, Xbox One and PC has left many wondering what a full remaster/remake of the legendary title would look like. Was Sega ever working on such a project? Turns out it was. As uncovered by Euroga...

Nintendo and Blizzard are partnering with GameStop to release Nintendo Switch bundle for the upcoming launch of wicked dungeon-crawler Diablo III, which launches on the hybrid console next month.The Diablo III Eternal Collection Switch bund...

I remember the first time I played a title in the Skylanders series. It was the first game for the Nintendo 3DS. I found it on sale at Best Buy and decided to pick both it and three figures up. When I got home I ended up beating the ga...

This isn't going to come as a surprise to anybody, but Activision's multiplayer military shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is number one with a bullet, having debuted straight into the premier spot of the UK Charts this week. Particularly o...

[Update: Kotaku has received this quote recently, attributable to Dan Houser: "There seems to be some confusion arising from my interview with Harold Goldberg. The point I was trying to make in the article was related to how the narrative a...

Treyarch is a trendsetter. They codified that the zombies mode was a Call of Duty staple in World at War over a decade ago, and despite the fact that Sledgehammer and Infinity Ward tried their own thing: they eventually fell victi...

We are just a couple of weeks away from the biggest video game release of 2018, Rockstar's wild west sequel Red Dead Redemption 2. Once again players will step into the past to explore an enormous open-world, filled with activities, quests,...