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Ikumi Nakamura Talks About Her New Studio While Exploring Spooky Buildings

Ikumi Nakamura, the former GhostWire: Tokyo creative director who made a huge splash with her brief appearance at E3 2019, is finally ready to talk about opening her own game development studio after leaving Tango Gameworks in 2019. Fittingly, she did so while exploring some creepy, abandoned buildings. During her interview with Cutscenes, a new…

By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2021

Culture

Super Smash Bros. Devotes An Entire Update To Nerfing Wii Fit Trainer

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate balance changes tend to come in waves. Whenever the developers add new content to the game, players can expect to be greeted by a handful of character adjustments across the expansive roster. But in the latest update, the decision-makers at Nintendo set their sights on just one fighter: Wii Fit Trainer.…

By Ian Walker Published March 24, 2021

Culture

The WoW Classic Burning Crusade Beta Is Live, If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing

Look I don’t know why folks are excited to replay Blizzard’s first attempt at a World of Warcraft expansion, with its endless walking and “kill x of y” quests, but if you’ve opted-in for the World of Warcraft Classic Burning Crusade beta, now’s your time. I understand nostalgia. I also understand the urge to feel…

By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2021

Culture

Valheim Mod Lets You Do A Real Number On Your Character’s Bones

Do you want to turn your Valheim character into a chimera creature with a skyscraper torso and legs that resemble a barstool? Me neither, but, uh, now you can! An0nymooose’s “BoneMod” (via Rock Paper Shotgun) lets you customize the scale of your character’s bones via in-game chat commands. Whereas normally, Valheim character creation is a…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 24, 2021

Culture

A New Rocket League Game Is Coming To Phones

Rocket League Sideswipe is a new 2D mobile version of car soccer sim Rocket League coming to iOS and Android later this year, developer Psyonix announced today. Sideswipe matches will be two minutes long and feature 1v1 and 2v2 modes to accommodate people playing on mobile (the original game’s matches are five minutes and allow…

By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2021

Opinion

You Don’t Have To Run The Exclusive Reveal For The War Crime Game

Rebooted war crime simulator Six Days in Fallujah got its official gameplay reveal yesterday in a new trailer that seems to confirm some people’s criticisms of the game as one-sided propaganda for the U.S. war machine. The trailer was debuted exclusively by IGN, the same website that just days earlier ran an in-depth report on…

By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2021

Culture

Hitman 3 Is Getting DLC Based On The Seven Deadly Sins

Next week, Hitman 3 will receive downloadable content based on the seven deadly sins, developer IO Interactive announced in a blog post today. Just don’t expect it to be quite like the DLC from Hitman 2 Among all of the levels in the recent Hitman trilogy, two of the strongest were paid expansions for Hitman…

By Ari Notis Published March 24, 2021

OpinionImpressions

New Pokémon Snap Is Like Old Pokémon Snap, Only Much Prettier

Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 is a game about rolling through islands, leisurely taking pictures of pocket monsters. All the upcoming sequel needs to please fans of the original is more of that with nicer graphics. I am pleased to report New Pokémon Snap is exactly that. Nintendo recently held a preview event where…

By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2021

CultureMorning Music

Secret Little Haven Is 10 Minutes Of Weapons-Grade Vaporwave Nostalgia

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll take a trip back to 1999 by way of 2018 with a breezy 10 minutes of refreshingly chill cyber-vibes. Victoria Dominowski’s Secret Little Haven (Bandcamp / longplay / VGMdb / Itch.io) is a unique…

By Alexandra Hall Published March 24, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Japanese Company Creates “Monster Hunter Holiday” For New Game’s Release

Whenever a massive game is released, no doubt, diehard fans wish nothing more than to take the day off. Some may suddenly find themselves coming down with a cold and the only recipe for recovery is a day of gaming. But employees at Tokyo-based VR-studio Mark-On don’t need to feign illness. Exec Jack Masaki formally…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Konami Closes 16 Of Its Sports Clubs In Japan Due To Covid-19

In Japan, Konami doesn’t only make video games. It also has a major chain of sports clubs. Gyms have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and Konami has had to shutter a number of its locations. Konami’s presence in sports is why the company has developed exercise games and been a major sponsor…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Australian Government Official’s Anime Figures, Joker Statue Declared A “Psychological Hazard”

An Australian government official’s display of pop culture, comics and anime figurines in their office has been declared a ‘psychological hazard’, according to a statement from the Comcare government agency. The bizarre intersection of public servant and waifu figurines entered the national consciousness last year. Around 20 figurines were reportedly displayed in the office of…

Alex Walker Published March 24, 2021

Culture

1000s Of Steam Games Now Let You Play With People Who Don’t Even Have Steam Accounts

An update to Steam released earlier this week has, tucked away in its changelog, a very cool piece of news: if you’re playing a game that supports Remote Play Together, you can now invite anyone to play with you, even if they don’t have a Steam account. This won’t work for all Steam games, only…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021

CultureCosplayShowcase

Incredible Yakuza: Like A Dragon Cosplay Is Punching Me In The Face

The last time we saw Enyendabbling in Yakuza cosplay, it was as a solitary star of the gangster saga. This time, he’s back, and just like Ichiban in Like a Dragon, he’s brought some friends. This is most of the main crew (sorry Eri!) of Sega’s latest crime/wholesome adventure, with Enyen as Kasuga, Mr. G…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021

Culture

Epic Games Store Is Draining Some Laptop Batteries

My annoyances with Epic’s store are generally limited to Fortnite pop-ups and forgetting I even had games installed there, but then I play games on a big desktop PC. If you’re using a laptop, you might want to keep an eye on the store, and in particular what it’s doing to your battery. Some testing…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021

Culture

Blizzard Isn’t Making Any More Skins For Overwatch League MVPs

After this year, the Overwatch League will no longer create special skins to honor the League’s MVP. Earlier today, the Overwatch League announced the release of two special Overwatch skins celebrating the San Francisco Shock’s second championship win and Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim earning 2020’s MVP award. But tucked into the announcement on the Overwatch League…

By Ash Parrish Published March 23, 2021

CultureTwitch

Livestream Of Boulder Mass Shooting Raises Questions About What YouTube And Twitch Should Allow

Yesterday, a shooter opened fire at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado and killed 10 people. Not long after the attack, a streamer, Dean Schiller, arrived on the scene and broadcast to an audience that topped out at nearly 30,000 concurrent viewers. The resulting video has been viewed over 650,000 times. Despite the visible…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 23, 2021

Culture

GameStop’s Most Popular Earnings Call Ever Is A Bust

After weeks of record-breaking days on Wall Street thanks to a meme stock frenzy engineered by Reddit, people were hoping for some answers from GameStop’s executives during today’s call with investors. They got none. Today’s earnings call—the first since GameStop stock skyrocketed to the obscene value of over $400 a share earlier this year because…

By Ethan Gach Published March 23, 2021

OpinionImpressions

Mundaun Is Beautiful, Hand-Drawn Folk Horror

It was around the time the severed goat head in my backpack started bleating and then spoke that I truly began to understand the beauty of Mundaun, the new indie horror game from developer Michel Ziegler. Mundaun opens with a letter from your isolated hometown in the Swiss Alps. Your grandfather, a local parishioner writes,…

By Ian Walker Published March 23, 2021

Culture

Watch Dogs: Legion Will Be Free To Play This Weekend

Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft’s open-world hacker game, will be free-to-play on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC starting March 25, the developer announced today in a blog post. The trial will allow you full access to the game’s open world. While you can complete Legion’s critical path in less than 20 hours—plenty for one marathon of a…

By Ari Notis Published March 23, 2021