Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published November 8. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
This afternoon there was a special edition of the Inside Xbox show as part of X018, an event which is “a global celebration of all things Xbox,” and lots of things were announced for the Xbox universe of games. There were a lot of moving parts to the two-hour episode, so here’s a breakdown of…
The summoner Yuna is making her way from Final Fantasy X (and the criminally overlooked Final Fantasy X-2) to the arena brawler Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, and she’s bringing a big friend. Dissidia NT is a little bit of a complicated game, and despite putting a couple dozen hours into it I wouldn’t say that…
Hollow Knight developers Team Cherry have announced that physical editions of the game have been cancelled. The studio wrote in a blog post that producing physical copies was “more work than [they] could reasonably manage” as a team of three people.
Data digger Lance McDonald has released a new video about a discovery from deep in the game files of Bloodborne. It is a boss named Snake Ball, and it is scary. As McDonald explains in the video, the big snake thing is yet another unused enemy in Bloodborne, and yet it seems pretty darn complete…
The weird wasteland of Fallout 76 is coming to wide release soon, and I asked you all to provide me with some interesting things that the characters of that game might see during their exploration. You did not disappoint. The unknown is a scary thing, and while Fallout 76 seems to be delivering what we…
This week brings Lovecraftian nightmares, demonic entities on the Switch, and some hearty kingdoms. In the immediate wake of Red Dead Redemption 2, we’ve got a real mix of different games to check out. It’s a week of compilations, as the omnibus Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far is releasing alongside the LEGO Harry Potter…
Track: Ringleader | Artist: Public Memory | Album: Wuthering Drum Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
I love a good Cities: Skylines time-lapse video, and this cinematic depiction of a city springing up from its designed bones by YouTube user Ben Barton leans into everything that makes the game great. I particularly like the way that the video moves around the different spaces of a Skylines city that often show up…
Charity streaming event Games Done Quick Express is still happening, and it will continue through this afternoon and into the early evening The automated hijinks of TASBot and a speedrun of Super Mario 64 are still coming up, so check it out
In a new episode of the YouTube show Boundary Break, host Shesez explores Silent Hill 3 to show off some of the stranger parts of the game. While I have ceased to be truly astonished by the weird ways that games are put together, this episode of Boundary Break digs into some strangeness around Silent…
Fallout 76 is Bethesda’s upcoming multiplayer wasteland domination experience, and there’s going to be a number of great things to discover in it. Your task is to depict those things. We all have memories of great experiences in games. I have nearly perfect sense memory of where I was when I crested the first hill…
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published October 25. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
I’m trying my luck at a big Magic: The Gathering tournament next weekend, and I’m struck by powerful indecision. Even at this late hour, I’m undecided on what deck I am actually going to play, and that’s got me more stressed than the actual tournament play in front of me. There are a few big…
Track: Soak | Artist: Zola Jesus | Album: Okovi Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Games Done Quick Express is going on right now. Benefiting the TwitchCon Charity Plaza, GDQ Express is a speedrunning event where people get together to go very fast. The schedule is available here, and you can watch live on Twitch
In a new video dedicated to the Glucoboy and the Didget gaming peripherals, game historian Kelsey Lewin digs into some blood-oriented devices. In the video, Lewin walks through the history of two devices that were made for the crossover audience of “people who need to test their blood glucose levels” and “people who love video…
The Bloodborne community is hosting an event to encourage cooperative play in the game. Running until the 1st, The Blood Moon is geared at encouraging veterans to come back to the game and getting new players to check it out. You can learn more about the event here.
Luigi is often frightened, and now we know why. Last week I asked you to show me, exactly, why Luigi was so scared. You did, with many scares and an extreme amount of frightens, and now I am here to deliver a winner and lots of honorable mentions. After all, Luigi is someone who is…
It has been revealed that Nier: Automata’s robot protagonist 2B is headed to Soulcalibur VI. From the look of her fighting style in the video, it seems like a lot of the combat ideas from Automata are making their way into her move set. You can see a lot of floating swords, juggling combos, and…
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