It’s long been an open secret in the video game industry that the prestigious developer Rockstar embraces overtime, and a new quote from company co-founder Dan Houser about Red Dead Redemption 2 caused controversy this morning by suggesting that it took 100-hour weeks to make. In a new elaboration to Kotaku, however,…
I’m playing SWERY65's strange, bloody platformer The Missing right now on Twitch. Come and join the chat! (Heads up: this game and stream will have in-game depictions of self-harm and body mutilation.)
The history of smartphone improvement has largely relied on companies cramming faster or more powerful components into the now ubiquitous glass slabs we carry around. But the Pixel 3 is something else. Instead of focusing on things like a brighter screen, tons of RAM, or multiple rear cameras, almost all of the Pixel…
Over the weekend, Warframe players discovered it was possible to break into one of the game’s Archwing missions, space levels that play like a flight sim, without donning a special jet-propelled exo suit. Instead they explore bugged out portions of space in their regular humanoid form..
Thanks in large part to God of War and the Final Fantasy Tactics iOS port, I’ve been gaming regularly for the first time in about a decade. As I emerged from my dumb hibernation to become a Gamer once again, I realized I could now fill a huge gap in my cultural literacy. I wanted to understand the game that enchants…
When Epic Games initially released Fortnite for Android earlier this year it made it exclusively available on Samsung devices. If you’re rocking a Galaxy S9 or Note 9, then that was great news. If you had any other Android phone on the planet, it was kind of a bummer.
Halloween costumes, LEGO’s incredible Apollo kit, and refurbished Sonos speakers lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.
2018 has been a pretty rough year. If you’re missing the good old days of AOL Instant Messenger, The Matrix and the iMac G3, check out this music video.
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Dominique “SonicFox” McLean competed in his first Mortal Kombat tournament in 2011 at age 13. Back then, his opponents didn’t know what they were up against. But SonicFox knew his own truth: he was queer, he was a furry, and he rocked at fighting games. Seven years later, the four-time Evo champion has shown the rest…
Apple’s about to get a big assist from Adobe when it comes to the company’s efforts to legitimize the iPad Pro as a productivity tool. Today, at its MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe confirmed that Photoshop CC—a full, un-compromised version of its photo-editing app—will be available for the iPad early next year.
If you have an Akira fan on your holiday shopping list, you won’t find a better gift than this stunning 35th anniversary hardcover comic box set. The 2,500+ pages are the most faithful recreations of the originals that you can buy:
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We’ve got a week of melee battles, Lego villains, and resonant fates ahead of us.
LEGO’s 1969 piece Saturn V Apollo kit is usually out of stock at major retailers, but Amazon actually has it on sale for $105 right now, or $15 off its MSRP right now. That’s a great price for a kit that size, let alone such a coveted one. The set lets you build and simulate an entire Apollo mission, from launch, to…
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: My Hero Academia, Season 3 - What Worked, What Failed, and Where To Next • 10 Random Pieces Of Advice You Should Probably Follow • Pinball Arcade’s Tables Through The Ages: The 90's (Pt 2) • TAY Retro: Atari 2600 Barnstorming [TV Commercial - NA]
Two Tokyo train lines will have Hello Kitty and friends covered carriages starting next month.
Yokai Watch 4, which Kotaku checked out at the Tokyo Game Show, has been delayed to next spring in Japan. It was supposed to be out winter 2018. Inazuma Eleven: Balance Of Ares, which was slated for this fall, has also be pushed back. It will be out this winter in Japan.
Honoka Omoto was a member of a local idol group called Enoha Girls that promoted Ehime Prefecture’s agricultural industry. This past March, Omoto died by suicide, and now her family is taking their daughter’s former production company to court for damages.
