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I Didn’t Think The Surge Was For Me Until I Saw It In A Netflix Show

I had no intention of ever playing The Surge. It looked boring, overly familiar, and mostly desolate, like a dozen other third-person action games by studios I’d never really heard of in which some dude, always some dude, is on a mission to wreck shit up because that’s what’s supposed to make for a cool…

Breaking Down The Animation Of Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ

With games like Guilty Gear Xrd and Dragon Ball FighterZ, Arc System Works has managed to basically make playable anime games. It looks like hand-drawn animation even if it’s really complex 3D. Daniel Floyd of YouTube channel NewFramePlus took a closer look at how it all works. It’s a fascinating dive into some of the…

It’s Time To Bring Back Suikoden

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is full of political intrigue, massive wars, and multiple perspectives on the same conflict. As the narrative unfolds, I can’t help being reminded of one of the best JRPG series: the fantastic and long-absent Suikoden. Suikoden is a series owned by Konami. The first game was released in 1995 on the Sony…

Track: Sister Buddha | Artist: Belle and Sebastian | Album: Days of the Bagnold Summer

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Our Favorite Cosplay From Anime Matsuri 2019

Anime Matsuri is a huge show that takes place every year in Houston, drawing more than 40,000 fans through the doors. Despite serious allegations levelled against the show’s organiser in recent years, ranging from sexual harassment to financial impropriety, it was still held on the weekend of 13-16 June. The photos and video below were…

Transform And Roll Out, Comrade

Longque Chen is an artist who has worked in games, film and toys. You can see more of Chen’s stuff at his ArtStation page

I Wish To Inform You That Another Garfield Kart Has Been Made

Garfield Kart came out in 2013, was ignored, then reborn in 2018 as a thing, because the internet has taken the lazy cat and reshaped it in its image. The game is now getting a sequel on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Switch. It is once again a cart racing game, only starring Garfield, and…

How Over 25 People Got Scammed Into Working At A Nonexistent Game Company

Brooke Holden had all but given up on breaking into the video game business. She had gone to university in the United Kingdom to study game development, but realized partway through her degree that she hated coding. Holden had also come across horror stories about labor conditions in the game industry, where employees regularly work…

Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros. Challenge Record Broken After 14 Years

The original Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros. has a few challenge modes for players to test their skills. These include a mini-game to break small targets and a movement challenge to touch special platforms in a stage. The world record time for completing Pikachu’s platform challenge has stood since 2005—but after over a decade, it’s…

The Internet Reacts To Hero In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Earlier this morning, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai took some time to show off the game’s latest character, the Hero from the popular Dragon Quest roleplaying series. The presentation detailed what Hero will bring to the table once he is added to the game, and so far, several top competitive Smash players seem…

Gears Of War 4 Headlines August’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

August’s Xbox Live Games with Gold are a nice mix of action and racing. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. August’s Games With Gold are: Xbox One Gears of War 4 (August 1-31) Forza Motorsport 6 (August 16-September 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with Xbox One)…

Streamer Sparks Debate Over Whether Twitch Should Allow Breastfeeding

When a Twitch streamer breastfed her baby on stream last week, clips of the moment ended up getting removed from Twitch, and it sparked a debate about whether or not the practice violates Twitch’s terms of service, with some arguing that breastfeeding constitutes “sexual” content. Being a parent on Twitch isn’t easy. As independent contractors, parents…

It’s Awkward When Madden NFL 20 Characters Avoid Saying My Player’s Name

Madden 20’s new Face of the Franchise single-player mode lets you create a custom character and give them whatever name you want. I named my custom quarterback Madden Myers, because my actual name is Maddy Myers, and that’s the type of thing that I find funny. It was great to hear the in-game NFL commentators…

Sony Has Shipped 100 Million PS4s

The PS5 may be on the horizon, but the PS4 is far from dead. Sony reports that they have now shipped 100 million PS4s between the machine’s late 2013 launch and June 30 of this year. Sony’s most recent figure for the number of PS4s actually sold to customers is 91.6 million, through the end…

The Fortnite World Cup Was A Kids’ Paradise

The people who filled Queens, New York’s Arthur Ashe tennis stadium for this weekend’s Fortnite World Cup were people who love Fortnite, or at least those people and their parents. The bulk of the attendees I saw were young kids, swimming in soccer shorts and baggy Fortnite t-shirts. They performed the game’s emote dances. They…

Smash Ultimate Is Getting Its New Dragon Quest Fighter Today

Today, Smash daddy Masahiro Sakurai announced that Dragon Quest’s Hero fighter will arrive in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate today as part of the version 4.0 update. The Heroes, referred to as “Hero” in-game, are from Dragon Quest XI S, Dragon Quest III, Dragon Quest IV, and Dragon Quest VIII—each expressed as different skins for the base…

Track: Interzone | Artist: Joy Division | Album: ‘Unknown Pleasures: Reimagined  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Sonic Redesigned Evangelion

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