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CultureSome Of The Art Behind Game Of Thrones: The Final Season
Kieran Belshaw is an artist who has worked on Game of Thrones for a few years now, including the eighth and final season, where he helped out on some of the series’ most iconic moments. He’s also worked on movies like the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans and Guy…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Buckles Down On Security After Artifact Page Gets Spammed With Memes And Porn
Earlier this week, the Twitch category for Valve’s card game Artifact made a miraculous resurgence—but not for the right reasons. A horde of slavering meme lords were laying siege to Artifact’s abandoned e-fortress, flooding the Twitch category with streams of other games, jokes, porn, and in one especially ugly moment, a recording of the Christchurch…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Whatever That Death Stranding Trailer Was
We now know when the highly anticipated Death Stranding comes out and what it’s about (kind of), which ends some of the mystery around this absurd and fascinating-looking game. But not all of the mystery has been unraveled yet, so we can all still make jokes about it. After Kojima left Konami in 2015, people…
By Gita Jackson Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Division 2 Replaced A Mystery With An Anticlimax
I don’t play games for rewards. I never minded much that collecting the flags in the first Assassin’s Creed gets you nothing, didn’t mind that grabbing all the stars in Mario 64 lets you talk to Yoshi but not ride him. The journey’s the fun and whatnot. There was, however, this one mission in The…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenDeath Stranding Is Going To Make No Sense And That’s Just Fine
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, how could we not dive into the delicious insanity of yesterday’s nine-minute Death Stranding trailer? First we talk about some video games we’re playing, from Dark Souls 3 to Observation, then dive into news of the week (29:00) including Death Stranding’s ridiculous new trailer (and 2019 release date!), Call of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureKFC Is Now Serving Chicken Skin In Indonesia
As far as ideas go, KFC serving bags of crisp, fried chicken skin is an excellent one. Who doesn’t love the skin? KFC is offering bags of chicken skin at six locations in Indonesia: MT Haryono, Salemba, Cideng, Kemang, Kalimalang and Kelapa Gading. One order is the equivalent of 95 cents. This isn’t a first…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureGato Roboto is a Metroidvania where you play as a cat in a mech suit. In space. However, there are locations that your mech suit—and I’m sure all the cats in mech suits out there can identify with this—is too bulky to traverse, forcing you to pop out and be a regular little kitty in…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 29, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sleep
At a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, the Pokémon Company announced some unexpected Pokémon-related games and services, mostly on mobile devices. Pokémon Home is a cloud service that allows players to save and transfer their monsters. Great! There’s also a new Pokémon Go peripheral called the Pokémon Go Plus+. It is pronounced “plus plus.” Sure!…
By Gita Jackson Published May 29, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryFeedback Makes Me A Better Gamer–When You’re Not An Asshole
I’ve begun to think of my weekly, local Super Smash Bros. tournament as a sort of doctor’s appointment for my ego. Regulars tell me that it’s normal to just win one or two games at these things, yet selection bias mandates that the people who attend a lot tend to be confident that they’re really,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published May 29, 2019 -
CultureStarbase is a ludicrously ambitious-sounding space MMO. Developer Frozenbyte (of Trine fame) describes it as “a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe,” which basically means ship construction in the vein of Space Engineers married to the scope of Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen. There’s even an in-game programming language. It’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch’s Artifact Category Is Porn-Filled Anarchy
There are, as you are probably already aware, not many people playing Artifact, the digital card game that developer Valve recently decided to take back to the drawing board. Just a hundred or so people are playing it at any given moment, as of this writing. There are, however, over 10,000 people watching streamers play…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureKonami Reveals Full Contra Anniversary Lineup, And It’s Pretty Great
Konami’s upcoming Contra Anniversary Collection will include the NES version of Contra, the Sega Genesis game Contra: Hard Corps, and most other 8- and 16-bit games in the classic run-and-gun series, including the Japanese and European versions of the games—some of which are quite different from what we got in the U.S. The collection still…
By Chris Kohler Published May 28, 2019
