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Beyond Good And Evil 2‘s Plan To Crowdsource Art From Fans Prompts Backlash
Ubisoft is asking fans to contribute art and music to its upcoming game Beyond Good and Evil 2, with the promise of monetary compensation if their work is chosen. Fans are already diving in with gusto, but critics quickly pointed out the issues with asking people to do work for only the possibility of payment.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 13, 2018 -
CultureE3Cyberpunk 2077 Is A Violent, Impressive Blend Of Deus Ex And The Witcher 3
The next game from the makers of The Witcher 3 is looking impressive, and perhaps most importantly, it looks like a real video game. A 50-minute behind-closed-doors E3 demo of Cyberpunk 2077 showed attendees proper gameplay, played live, that appeared like something we might actually see in the next year or two. Here’s the short…
By Jason Schreier Published June 13, 2018 -
CultureE3Ubisoft’s Starlink Is Surprisingly Cool, With Or Without Star Fox
Starlink: Battle For Atlas isn’t a Star Fox game. Nintendo’s furry pilot and his famous Arwing fighter are in the Switch version and—I hope you’re sitting down—not in the Xbox One and PS4 versions. It’s not even fully a toys game, a la Skylanders or Disney Infinity, because it turns out you don’t even need…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2018 -
CultureE3Overcooked 2 Lets You Crash A Restaurant Into Another Restaurant
The co-op cooking game Overcooked 2 was one of the featured third-party announcements during Nintendo’s E3 presentation this year. After playing it, I understand why. While others on the Kotaku team have been praising the first Overcooked for a while, I hadn’t had the time (or, sniff, the friends) to play it. At E3, after…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2018 -
CultureE3Mega Man 11 Is Exactly What I Hoped It Would Be
It’s been eight years since the last Mega Man game, and after the disappointing spiritual successor Mighty No. 9, it’s fair for us all to wonder: Is Mega Man 11 actually going to be any good? The answer, from what I’ve played so far, is yes. I played two full stages of Mega Man 11…
By Jason Schreier Published June 13, 2018 -
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Bungie Says You Won’t Have To Leave Year-One Destiny 2 Weapons Behind
Sure, everyone’s worried about Cayde. But what Destiny 2 players have really been worried about lately is that, come September’s Forsaken expansion, we’re going to have to say goodbye to all our hard-earned gear. Fortunately, today the expansion’s director told PC Gamer that won’t be the case. In Destiny 2, you spend a lot of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 12, 2018 -
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We Talked To The Last Of Us Part II‘s Director About The Game’s Violence (And More Treacherous Stealth)
LOS ANGELES—Neil Druckmann, creative director on the The Last of Us Part II, was nervous going into E3. “When you’re in it, when you’re working on something for so long you lost the forest from the trees,” he told me as we chatted at Sony’s PlayStation booth here at the LA Convention Center. He’d played…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3Some More Characters We’d Like To See In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
So,Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is going to feature every fighter to ever appear in Nintendo’s fighting game series. That’s fine, but it’s not enough. There could be, and should be, even more fighters. After all, why go back in time to rehash old favourites when there’s a whole world out there of characters who have…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 12, 2018 -
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Next February Is Gonna Be Lit
If you like playing a lot of big new video games at the same time, next February is going to be your month. As the flood of E3 press conferences washed over us these last few days, I and many others started to notice we kept hearing the same release month: February 2019. Seemingly every…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3The Division 2 Is Political, Despite What Its Developers Say
The Division 2 shifts the setting from New York City to a ruined Washington D.C. While the gameplay aims to fix issues players had with the original, statements from one of the game’s creative directors about the narrative are frustrating. The goal, we’ve been told, is not to make a political statement, but in this…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 12, 2018 -
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Cyberpunk 2077 Is A First-Person RPG
We got a peek at Cyberpunk 2077 during Microsoft’s E3 press conference, but other than verifying that the cyberpunk setting will, in fact, have mohawks and buildings that appear to have been smuggled out of Blade Runner while nobody was looking, we didn’t actually learn much. Today, CD Projekt divulged some real details. The open-world…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 12, 2018 -
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Podcast: We React To Sony And Nintendo At E3 2018
The E3 press conferences are over, and there’s a lot to talk about. Maybe not as much as we were hoping for, but still a lot. On this third episode of Kotaku Splitscreen’s E3 coverage, Jason and I talk through our feelings on Sony’s big show last night and Nintendo’s Smashstravaganza this morning. We also…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3Swinging Through New York City As Spidey Feels Effortless
The New York Insomniac created for Spider-Man is just about everything I’ve hoped for since the 2001 Sam Raimi movie with Tobey Maguire. The buildings are all very tall, divided between glass skyscrapers and old brick high rises. In between, there are alleyways bathed in the warm glow of a setting sun that never seems…
By Ethan Gach Published June 12, 2018 -
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Nintendo’s E3 Booth Is Full Of Amazing Smash Bros. Props
Nintendo’s E3 2018 booth is mostly full of increasingly-sweaty attendees playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but it’s also home to a veritable museum of real-life custom props drawn from Smash, and therefore from the company’s rich history of games. Kotaku EIC Stephen Totilo is on the show floor, and couldn’t help but snap a bunch…
By Chris Kohler Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3Forza Horizon 4‘s British Setting Makes It Feel Like Racing In A Witcher Game
The Forza Horizon games are great non-racing games. You try to drive really fast along a predetermined path, but they’re not about hugging turns or calibrating tire pressure the way the main Forza Motorsport games are. Forza Horizon 4 is no different, but it’s a little more beautiful. It’s better in some ways, as all…
By Ethan Gach Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3Fortnite On Switch Has Built-In Voice Chat, No App Required
Fortnite on Switch will support voice chat through the headphone jack and not through some stupid phone app, just like a normal-ass game. It’s not currently available in the Switch version of Epic’s popular battle royale game that launched today, but will be on Thursday. Competitive games like Fortnite benefit greatly from players being able…
By Gita Jackson Published June 12, 2018 -
CultureE3The Donkey Kong Expansion For Mario + Rabbids Is Tricky And Apparently Very Long
Donkey Kong can throw allies and enemies around, making for some interesting new tactics in the expansion to the Mario +Rabbids Switch crossover coming out near the end of the month. I played it and have footage of an early level for you all to watch. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle players are going to…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2018
