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CultureCosplayGalleryEvery Christmas, There’s A Cosplay Spectacular In Florida
Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December? Below you’ll find a selection of video and photos taken by Mineralblufrom the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Soldier 76 And His Ex-Boyfriend
Tracer is no longer the only canonically LGBTQ hero in Overwatch. Today, Blizzard released a new short story focusing on steely sniper grandma Ana and grumpy military dad Soldier 76. The latter, it turns out, used to be involved with a man named Vincent. In the short story, titled “Bastet,” Ana encounters Soldier for the…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureMiddle Eastern Fortnite Players Start Massive Protest For Dedicated Servers
Alaa “DvLZStaTioN” Ebrahim has been missing his sniper shots. The popular Fortnite YouTuber, who has three million subscribers, says it’s not his fault. Nor are the times when his opponents’ shots hit him even as he moves away from the rain of bullets. Ebrahim, who lives in Bahrain, a small island country in the Middle…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game Diary
The Eternal Castle Is A Great Throwback To Classic Cinematic Sidescrollers
The Eternal Castle is a love letter to old cinematic platformers of the late 80s and early 90s, a throwback to games such as Another World, Flashback. It capitalizes on their virtues without the weight of their technological limitations. It just came out on Steam over the weekend. I haven’t even finished it yet, and…
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 -
Culture
Warner Bros. Pulls LEGO Lord of the Rings Games From Steam, Doesn’t Say Why
Bad news for fans of LEGO, Lord of the Rings, and buying things: Warner Bros. has taken The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit away from us—possibly forever. The saga seemingly began when the two games were free on the Humble Store last month, sparking debate over whether new games were on the horizon—or…
By Kate Gray Published January 5, 2019 -
Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for going to Norway, to live out my bizarre lifelong dream of turning a birthday in the Arctic Circle. My boss dubbed it “a real-life The Long Dark,” which is pretty on-brand for a Riley dream. I will be unable to play very much The Long Dark before I leave, but I…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 4, 2019 -
CultureTwitch
Twitch Re-Suspends Alleged Domestic Abuser After Fan Outcry
Last month, Twitch streamer Luke “MrDeadMoth” Munday was arrested by Australian authorities after a Fortnite stream during which he seemed to be hitting his partner. Twitch suspended his account shortly after. At the start of this week, however, Twitch viewers were surprised to find that Munday’s channel was already back. His suspension, which some presumed…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 4, 2019 -
Culture
Wolf Is One Of Competitive Smash Ultimate‘s Most Popular Fighters So Far
Some of the winter’s biggest esports tournaments are still a ways off, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which ended 2018 on a Donkey Kong smackdown, begins 2019 strong with a handful more events taking place across the globe this weekend. Last weekend, I noted that the still-evolving meta around Smash Ultimate meant the Let’s Make…
By Ethan Gach Published January 4, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game Diary
How I Killed My Switch Charger
It was 11:54 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when people started screaming at me to put the big ball drop in Time Square on my TV. It’s sort of the “you had one job” of throwing a New Year’s party, and I had completely forgotten about it. Many gin and tonics deep, I made my…
By Ethan Gach Published January 4, 2019 -
Culture
The Deadly Japanese Food That Kills At New Year’s
During the New Year holidays, Japanese people traditionally eat mochi, which is typically translated as “rice cakes” and is incredibly dangerous for older folks. In the West, people might know mochi ice cream, which uses thin pieces of mochi, but in Japan during the New Year’s holidays, people might put bigger (and stickier) pieces of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 4, 2019 -
CultureThe Eternal Castle [Remastered] is a new game based on an old game lost to time. As a kid, one of its creators fell in love with a label-less game he found in his dad’s office, but then it broke. Eternal Castle is an homage to “what could be remembered” about that game, as well…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 3, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreen
Why I Now Have To Play All Of Bloodborne To Completion
Starting this weekend, I will be picking up the PlayStation 4 game Bloodborne and starting a new playthrough. For the next few months, I will be finishing it. I don’t really want to, but I must. For Kotaku Splitscreen It’s not that I don’t like Bloodborne. I played through the first few bosses when it…
By Jason Schreier Published January 3, 2019 -
Culture
The Fighting Game Capcom Tried To Get Pulled From Arcades
Capcom once filed suit in an attempt to get Fighter’s History pulled from arcades. And today, you can play it on Switch! So, clearly, the lawsuit didn’t work out. The explosion of the fighting game genre after the release of Street Fighter II in 1991 raised some legal questions. The avalanche of one-on-one martial arts…
By Chris Kohler Published January 3, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Sims Is Teaching Me To Appreciate Architecture
When I was in the suburbs with my family over the holiday, I saw my old hometown with new eyes. It has some fantastic architecture—lots of old Colonials and some fancy Victorians. Part of my change of heart has to do with getting older and no longer being resentful of growing up in a small…
By Gita Jackson Published January 3, 2019
