The question of when Baldur’s Gate 3 would release on Xbox, if ever, was uncertain until this week, not because of messy console exclusivity politics, but because of console gaming’s gradual transformation into a wonky kind of PC gaming. 

The problem was that Microsoft requires Xbox games run on the Xbox Series S, a cheaper version of its flagship Xbox Series X with less-powerful hardware and no optical drive, and Larian was struggling to get Baldur’s Gate 3 split-screen co-op working to its standards on the console. The studio previously said that although it was working on a Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox version, it wasn’t “confident enough” that it could solve the technical problem to announce it.

Today, however, Larian boss Swen Vincke announced that, after speaking to Xbox …

It’s become so common to see online games switched off entirely that we actually compiled a list of all the big games that shut down last year. It sometimes feels risky to get too attached to any kind of online multiplayer game these days; as soon as a line on an earnings graph dips too low, the servers get unplugged.

But Killer Instinct is bucking that trend (via Time Extension). The fighting game reboot that originally hit PC seven years ago has responded to issues with its legacy server infrastructure by, get this, migrating to new ones! A quality of life update for the game released last week that begins the process of moving Killer Instinct over to a new server backend.

“Over the last five years,” read the update, “it has become more challenging to deal with issues that…

Update: Sony has now backed down on its demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account.

Even as members of Helldivers studio Arrowhead Games say that discussions around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network sign in requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC are still ongoing, it looks like the publisher is doubling down on the move, halting sales of the game in countries where it doesn’t offer the service.

In theory, Helldivers 2 was always supposed to require players to sign into the PlayStation Network in game, but this was not required at launch due to network infrastructure limitations (remember Helldivers 2’s early server woes?). Two days ago, Sony announced that it would begin enforcing that requirement in a month-long rollout. 

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As our associate editor Tyler Colp recently put it, the fate of Disco Elysium 2 is uncertain, but other games might make up for it. One such potential plug for the Disco-shaped hole in our hearts is Sovereign Syndicate, a CRPG set in an alternate Victorian London. You can tell it’s an alternate reality because the menu screen shows it’s got zeppelins, as all alternate realities are required to have by law. The minotaur’s a bit of a giveaway as well.

While the final version of Sovereign Syndicate will have three player-characters to choose from—Clara the corsair, Otto the automaton, and Atticus the minotaur—the current demo is restricted to the minotaur. An alcoholic in a top hat, Atticus Daley is a small-time illusionist and big-time loser who begins the game in extrem…

First, a confession: I like my mice chonky. A heavier mouse makes me feel like I’m in control, and my trusty MX Master 3S, while not exactly Thor’s hammer, is a pleasing object to use on the day-to-day. One YouTuber, however, has created a mouse so small and light that I’d be prepared to give it a chance, not least because it looks so ridiculously cute that you can’t help but fall a little in love with it. 

And it can game! Sort of…

Weighing in at less than 10 grams and measuring at a volume of just 18 cubic cm, the miniature mouse was designed to explore the limits of size and weight in gaming peripherals, and looking at the results it’s certainly pushing those limits. YouTube channel Science Shack has posted a video showing off the details of the build, and the…

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A new indie will have you flipping burgers for astronauts, aliens, and space cats in a tongue in cheek sci-fi fast food restaurant. Galaxy Burger, the second game from developer Galactic Workshop, is a “relaxing cooking simulator” that’s desgined to be no-stress whether you’re playing alone or doing online or LAN co-op.

Galaxy Burger has burgers with all kinds of toppings—eggs, cheese, lettuce, pickles, alien pickles—and various states of toasted and un-toasted bun. But it’s also about the combos, having you put together sodas, iced coffees, juices, and other weird drinks alongside a variety of fried foods from onion rings and fries to calamari and shrimp.

While it’s clearly inspired by games like Overcooked; PlateUp; and Cook, Serve, Delicious; Galaxy B…

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One green, three yellows, and plenty of spare rows on the board. The perfect space to… dance around the actual answer for far too long even though it was staring me in the face the whole time. Wait, that wasn’t supposed to happen. It wasn’t a tough game today, but I almost wish it had been—at least then I’d have had an excuse for my poor performance.

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Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, June 18

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Ubisoft’s been having a rough time of it lately: Skull and Bones got delayed (again), the company cancelled three unannounced projects, and its share price has taken a hell of a bruising. But CEO and co-founder Yves Guillemot knows just whose responsibility it is to turn things around: His staff’s.

In an email seen by Kotaku, Guillemot told Ubisoft staff that “The ball is in your court to deliver this line-up on time and at the expected level of quality” after the company’s myriad delays had “weighed on our costs and decreased our associated revenues”. Guillemot told staff that he needed their “full energy and commitment” in order to make sure that Ubisoft “[gets] get back on the path to success”.

Guillemot, who was set to make €624,824 (around $675k/£550k) last y…

If you’re in the business of creating large language models you might already think Nvidia’s pricing for its H100 super-duper data center GPU, which sells for upwards of $30,000 a pop, is criminally expensive. Now Nvidia’s broader cloud computing operations in France are under actual legal investigation.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia’s French offices were raided on Tuesday morning by the local competition authority, known as the Autorité de la concurrence.

The French authority didn’t identify Nvidia by name, only stating that a company in “the graphics card sector” was under investigation and that the operation is part of a broader inquiry into the cloud-computing sector involving concerns that dominant cloud-computing companies may be excluding…

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Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, April 8

There are a few ways of defining today’s a…