An English website has popped up for Adventures of Mana, the upcoming Final Fantasy Adventure remake that was previously announced for Japan. There’s no official announcement yet, but the English screenshots pretty much confirm that the game’s coming west. Although the Japanese version of Adventures of Mana is planned for iOS, Android, and Vita, some…
In mid-2015, an intrepid modder called Obitus1 released one of the hardest Super Mario Bros. 3 hacks ever. Now, watch speedrunner mitchflowerpower absolutely kill it. Named Kaizo Mario Bros. 3. in honor of the infamous Kaizo Mario World series, this set of 19 levels is filled with near-impossible jumps, devious tricks, and items that you…
“So this is very, very stamina-intense,” said a commentator watching the Stepmania run at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 yesterday. “On really hard songs… you actually become mentally tired as well. It’s not just your hands. You actually get tired.” What followed was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen someone do with a…
London police today confirmed that voice actress Sian Blake, who played the character Yugiri in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, was found dead with her two children in their home this week. Blake, 43, had been reported missing last month, as the BBC reports. Police say they found signs that someone had attempted to hide the…
Is this truly the Year of Virtual Reality? Or just the Year That A Lot Of VR Devices Come Out? Find out on today’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen Join your friendly podcast hosts for an intimate discussion about the $600 Oculus Rift and how it’ll fit into our video game playing in the coming years.…
The original designers of Descent and Descent 2 are considering pursuing legal action against publisher Interplay for failing to pay royalties, they tell Kotaku Descent’s creators say Interplay owes them at least “tens of thousands of dollars” in royalties from sales of the two games. Because of this dispute, the online marketplace GOG.com has removed…
The Apple Store has long been full of apps that make money through cloning, copyright infringement, and other scammy techniques. Sometimes, thanks to Apple’s never-ending vigilance, these scams can even make it to the top of the iTunes charts. Take Minecraft: Pocket Edition 2, for example. Although this $7 app advertises itself as a sequel…
Psychonauts 2 is officially funded Double Fine estimates that it’ll be out in the fall of 2018. So, uh, now we wait?
The PC version of Final Fantasy IX, announced last week in Japan, will be out this month according to Steam. And, critically, it’ll let you turn off random encounters. Says the Steam page, which just went live today: Additional Features Achievements Seven game boosters including high speed and no encounter modes. Autosave High-definition movies and…
The first consumer model of the Oculus Rift will run you $599, the VR company announced today while opening up preorders for their fancy new headset. That’s five hundred ninety-nine US dollars. No word on whether it will come with giant enemy crabs. Oculus says the Rift is expected to ship in March. Buying one…
For a few hours, Undertale is a solid, charming game. Then you get to the ending—the real ending—and suddenly you get why everyone’s so obsessed. In fact, I’d argue that Undertale’s true final boss—which you can only see by completing the game as a pacifist—is on par with the best finales in RPG history, rivaling…
The Planescape: Torment successor Torment: Tides of Numenera will enter Steam Early Access on January 26, the developers said in the most recent backer update. This will be a beta release; still no word on the final release date.
Yesterday, the Xbox achievements leaked for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan. This is not unusual; achievements almost always leak before a game comes out. What’s unusual is that nobody has actually announced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan Info on this new TMNT game has been circulating since November, when intrepid database…
It’s official: Activision has indeed purchased Major League Gaming, as was rumored over the weekend. The most interesting part? They want to take esports to television. Speaking to the New York Times as part of the embargoed official announcement, Activision boss Bobby Kotick was as blunt as ever, saying he wants to take competitive gaming…
Every fall for the past six years, Ubisoft has released at least one big new Assassin’s Creed game. This year, the mega-publisher could be breaking tradition, skipping fall for the first time since 2009, according to a number of sources speaking both to Kotaku and others. The next big Assassin’s Creed, which we believe is…
It’s time already for the first delay of 2016. Platinum has pushed back their Xbox One-exclusive action-RPG Scalebound to next year. “This will give us the time needed to bring to life all the innovative features and thrilling gameplay experiences that we have planned.”
It is time again to go through my favorite games of the year. I promise they’re not all JRPGs. 2015 was a great year for video games by all accounts, but for some reason it was pretty easy to put together a list of the ten best. Maybe it’s because I haven’t yet played some…
At the beginning of 2015, I announced that my four-year-old JRPG column, Random Encounters, was coming to an end. The genre had thrived so much, I explained, that it would feel quaint to compartmentalize my JRPG writing in a single weekly column. [This post originally ran on December 22, 2015] Nearly a year later, that…
Let’s talk about Games of the Year. And by Games of the Year we mean literally every game that came out this year. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re going back through all of 2015 for a month-by-month breakdown of this year’s games, from Dying Light through Trails of Cold Steel. Although we didn’t hit every…
Ever wanted to play Pokémon on your PlayStation 4? You can’t. But at least you can watch someone else do it? Using an exploit involving the PS4’s web browser, the fail0verflowhacking team figured out how to crack open Sony’s console and install a full version of Linux, which they demonstrated this week by using it…
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