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CultureOdds and EndsMortal Kombat 11 Datamine Uncovers New Voices From 1995 Movie Actors
It’s hard to hide anything in your game when thousands of players can search through it with a fine-toothed comb. The folks at NetherRealm Studios found this out recently when one fan uncovered a variety of unused Mortal Kombat 11 audio files that sound as if they were recorded by the stars of the 1995…
By Ian Walker Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureSo Much Work Went Into The Last Of Us Part II’s…Eyes
It won’t come as a surprise just how much work went into The Last of Us 2‘s characters. But you might appreciate knowing just how far Naughty Dog went to get the eyes — just the eyes — right. Naughty Dog’s Waylon Brinck and Qingzhou Tang gave a talk at SIGGRAPH, the global graphics technology…
Alex Walker Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsTurn Your Xbox Controller Into A Flight Stick
Hey, Flight Simulator is out, and Squadrons is on the way. What better time to be playing games that require expensive dedicated peripherals! Only the economy sucks and you’ll never use those flight sticks for anything else, so maybe try this cool mod that’ll do kinda the same thing, only for your Xbox controller. Designed…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureThe Witcher TV Show Loses Eskel’s Actor After Covid Rescheduling
Filming for season two of Netflix’s Witcher series had got underway earlier this year before, you know, everything went to shit. It’s since resumed production, but the delay has meant that one of the series’ key new additions, Geralt’s fellow Witcher Eskel, has had to pull out, despite already having done some work on set…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureSuper Mario 3D All-Stars Bug Helpfully Skips Boring Sunshine Level
Super Mario 3D All-Stars is pretty dang good, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways in which its games differ from the originals. Super Mario Sunshine, for instance, features a handful of new bugs, including one that lets players skip one of its more boring levels seemingly at random. This bug was first brought to…
By Ian Walker Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureAmazon Announces Luna, Another Cloud-Based Streaming Game Service
With two new physical gaming consoles less than a month and a half away from release, Amazon announces Luna, a new paid game streaming service aimed at allowing subscribers to play PC games remotely on computers, phones, and tablets. It’s sort of like Stadia with a slightly better controller. By subscribing to Amazon Luna, now…
By Mike Fahey Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureSega Wants To Make A Yakuza Movie
Sega is in talks to adapt the Yakuza games into a movie, according to a new report by Variety. What could go wrong? Variety writes that Sega is currently working to develop the adaptation with the production firms 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content, which I’ve never heard of before. The two firms are still…
By Ethan Gach Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Is Getting Snow Storms
Bungie announced yesterday that dynamic blizzards will be waging across the Jupiter’s frosty moon of Europa, and they’ll be so bad at times you might need a new thermal scope to keep enemies at bay. “We were brainstorming and Ed Brennan [Europa World Art Lead] proposed the idea of a blizzard to help sell the…
By Ethan Gach Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureXbox Series X Expandable Storage Costs $219.99
The price for 1TB of expandable storage on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles has finally been revealed and it’s a whopping $219.99. That’s based on a listing that recently went up over at Best Buy and was first spotted by The Verge. (Update – 11:34 a.m., 9/24/20: Microsoft confirmed the price over on…
By Ethan Gach Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicEndless Space’s Alien Music Makes Spreadsheet Management Feel Transcendent
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m here to sing the praises of Endless Space’s lowkey ode to micromanagement, which featured the only game soundtrack that’s ever made me feel equal parts noble and enlightened for spending hours fiddling with resource…
By Ethan Gach Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsAdidas Is Making Cyberpunk 2077 Sneakers
Normally sneaker collabs like to pay homage to things that have already established themselves as cultural forces, but when it comes to directly helping advertise an upcoming blockbuster video game, Adidas figures it can bring that timeline forward a little. While yet to be officially unveiled by Adidas, collector solebyjc—who often gets sample pairs early…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Gets Around To Announcing New Kirby Game
A day after accidentally announcing the game, Nintendo has gone ahead and provided some more formal information—and a trailer—for Kirby Fighters 2 on the Switch. First things first, it’s out now. You can go and buy it on the eShop. It’s $20. Next: there’s a single-player story mode, and also “up to four player” multiplayer,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureAmong Us 2 Cancelled One Month After It Was Announced
Among Us 2 was announced 36 days ago. Today, it is being cancelled so the developers of the latest very big thing on Twitch can instead focus all their energies on making the original better. In a blog post on the game’s site PuffballsUnited, one of the game’s co-creators, writesthat the surge in popularity of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureSquad, A Big PC Shooter, Is Out After Six Years In Early Access
Well, this is nice to see: Squad, a PC shooter made by the same team behind the excellent Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality, has finally been released after spending six years getting better in Early Access. If you’ve played Battlefield and ArmA, Squad sits very comfortably in the space between both, with the latter’s scale…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureMorrowind Completely Rebooted Your Xbox During Some Loading Screens
The latest episode of the official Xbox podcast features a discussion between Microsoft and Bethesda executives about the console manuracturer’s recent acquisition of the Elder Scrolls developer for a whopping $7.5 billion. While the video is mostly about hyping up a massive business deal, Bethesda’s chief software engineer Todd Howard did share a neat anecdote…
By Ian Walker Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureI Downloaded All Of Xbox Game Pass To One Hard Drive (And It’s Not Even Half-Full)
Western Digital’s WD_BLACK D10 game drive is a 12 terabyte, 7200 RPM, powered external hard drive for the Xbox One. In order to test the drive out, I downloaded every game available for the console on the Xbox Game Pass, somewhere around 250 games. It took a week and my ISP is pissed, but I…
By Mike Fahey Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDestiny 2 Honors Deceased Developer With Moving Piece Of In-Game Lore
When players log onto Destiny 2 this week they’ll be asked to go investigate some lost Golden Age tech on Mars as part of a special tribute to Matt Helsom, an artist at Vicarious Visions who passed away last year. Touching down on Mars there’s no objective marker for where to begin the Signal Intercepted…
By Ethan Gach Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureSony Confirms There’s No Free PS5 Upgrade For PS4 Spider-Man Players
There are still a lot of questions surrounding Spider-Man on PlayStation 5. The good news? We have answers. The bad news? Well, the answers themselves. As of now, there is no upgrade path to get the graphically upgraded Spider-Man Remastered on PlayStation 5 for players who already own the original Spider-Man on PlayStation 4, according…
By Ian Walker Published September 23, 2020
