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New History Novel Somehow Includes Breath Of The Wild Recipe

A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom is the latest historical novel from Irish author John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas). Telling tales from across the breadth of human history, it deals with a lot of stuff that was real and actually happened, as well as some stuff that has only happened if…

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Knight Zhang is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in California who has worked on games like DOTA 2 You can see more of Zhang’s stuff at her Instagramand ArtStationpages.

After Eight Years, Space Quest’s Spiritual Reboot Is Playable

Last week we had some bad news about a game that had a Kickstarter in 2012 and still isn’t out yet. Tonight, some better news! Fans of classic Sierra series Space Quest might remember that in 2012 the co-creators of the series, after a very long estrangement, reunited and pledged to develop an all-new sci-fi…

PS3 Emulator Can Now Play (Some) Online Games

RPCS3 has long been the best way to play PS3 games on a PC. It’s now also a place you can play some PS3 games online on the PC, with no need to use the PlayStation Network whatsoever. “Over the past year, developer GalCiv has been working on a private PSN server replacement called RPCN,”…

I Love Ghost Of Tsushima‘s Hot Springs

I tend to ditch the main story in open world games as soon as I can in favor of exploring, so I’ve barely made a dent in Ghost of Tsushima’s plot. I’ve parkoured my way to a lot of shrines and chased a lot of foxes. Mostly, though, I’ve been looking for more hot springs,…

How’s It Going?: Movies Edition

Happy Sunday, and welcome back to our daily open thread. I watched the film First Cowlast night, which I’ve been meaning to see for a while. I liked it a lot! I’ve mostly been rewatching stuff during the pandemic, so I found myself overly stressed out by this largely chill movie because I didn’t know…

Sunday Comics: Mad Worlds

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 30. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 27. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

2020 Is A Lot, But Japanese Food Dramas Are Helping Me Deal

I’ve fallen into a pop-cultural rut: Dunno why, but I feel incapable of ingesting new media that isn’t part of my work. There are shows I want to catch up on, comics I want to read, games I want to play, but getting myself to sit down and engage with them feels nearly impossible… with…

My PlayStation 4 Keeps Beeping But It’s Fine, Really, Whatever

Recently, my PlayStation 4 has developed the annoying new habit of beeping a lot. Not predictably, or consistently, but just enough that I’m always waiting for those next beeps. This is fine, I guess. I first noticed the problem while playing Ghost of Tsushima a few weeks ago. Every so often, my PS4 would let…

How’s It Going?: Joy Edition

Welcome to Saturday! I’m working this weekend, which I guess would feel weirder if weekends meant anything besides getting to sleep in a bit. As is, a work weekend basically means looking at the same browser tabs I looked at yesterday, instead of different ones. Despite this dour opening, and despite how down in the…

Rumored ‘Atlantis’ Area Appears In Fortnite

Fortnite’s water level has been going down throughout the season, unearthing old points of interest that are a little worse for wear. Dataminers have been finding hints of a new area, which players have named Atlantis. That area appeared on the map today, officially named Coral Castle Coral Castle (not “Carl,” alas, as an early…

Beyond Good & Evil Is Being Made Into A Netflix Movie

Ubisoft’s portfolio of TV and movie spin-offs continues to expand. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the developer will be working with Netflix on a Beyond Good & Evil movie that combines live-action and animation. The new project will be helmed by Detective Pikachu director Rob Letterman and produced by Ubisoft’s Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin.…

Halo Infinite Multiplayer Might Be Free-To-Play According To Store Listing [Update: It Is]

A now-deleted description for Halo Infinite on the Xbox Series X pre-order registration page at the Smyths Toys website said the game’s multiplayer would be free-to-play and operate at up to 120fps on Xbox Series X. Update – 4:43 p.m., 7/31/20: Microsoft says the information in the leaked store listing is true. “Halo is for…

Smoking Toad, F-Zero Beavis, And Other Weird Nintendo Gigaleak Finds

The recent “Gigaleak” of Nintendo assets has given us an inside look at the development of some of our favorite games. But as one might expect from a massive collection of prototypes and early builds that were never meant to see the light of day, there’s a good deal of weird and otherwise out-of-place stuff…

The Last Of Us Part 2‘s Stuntwoman Spent Several Days Pretending To Die

The first time stuntwoman Amy Johnston worked with Naughty Dog, she performed motion capture for Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Her task—to portray a mercenary who could kick Nathan Drake’s ass—was suited to her skill set. The daughter of a kickboxing world champion and a third-degree black belt martial artist…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for filling in for our usual weekend guy, which will be a nice chance to fill the blog with things I like. That doesn’t leave time for very many video games, so enjoy them in my absence, reader. I’m curious about Thousand Threads, a Steam open-world game my colleagues were excited about…

The New Battletoads Game Is Finally Coming Out August 20

The first new Battletoads game in over 25 years is coming to Xbox One and PC via Steam next month.  A new game in the series that originally began on NES, Battletoads is an animated beat ‘em up that’s doing everything it can to channel the love and nostalgia around the 1991 release. It’ll also…

Final Fantasy XI Is Still Getting New Story Content 18 Years Later

Final Fantasy XI’s producer announced yesterday that the game is getting a new storyline, in an incredibly lovely little August update letter to players. While Square Enix continues to maintain its first MMORPG through regular patches, Final Fantasy XI hasn’t gotten any new story content since 2015’s Rhapsodies of Vana’diel update, which more or less…

Track: Back on the Chain Gang | Artist: The Pretenders | Album: Learning to Crawl