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The BestsThe Best Moments In E3 History, RIP Edition
The ESA has officially killed and buried E3, so let’s look back at the show’s brightest moments
Luke Plunkett & Levi Winslow Published June 7, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsGuilty Gear Strive Is Too Stylish For Its Own Good
I’ve been having a great time with Guilty Gear Strive, out this week on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam, but I feel like developer Arc System Works might have gone a little overboard in the aesthetics department this time around. I know how that probably sounds to longtime fans of the fighting game series.…
By Ian Walker Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsTerra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment
While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit. It’s still got green grass, of course, but your job…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureE3E3 Avatar Creator: The Kotaku Review
E3 is here. Registered participants will soon be able to log in to the E3 portal to connect with developers, industry professionals, and fans. Since the event is purely digital, the ESA is encouraging participants to create avatars so exhibitors who may or may not be there and who may or may not respond to…
By Ash Parrish Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureTwitchFacebook’s 100% Subscription Money Deal Turns Twitch Streamers’ Heads
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to lure streamers over from Twitch’s saturated pastures. Its latest salvo in the streaming wars? Full subscription profits for streamers for the next two years. Facebook Gaming partnerships manager Josh Maresca made the announcement today on Twitter “We’re doubling down on creators,” he wrote. “Facebook has waived…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village Glitch Gives Ethan A Finger Gun
Last week, a Reddit user shared a brief video on the Resident Evil subreddit demonstrating an interesting moment from their Resident Evil Village playthrough. While fighting the factory’s propeller-faced Sturm mini-boss near in the closing hours of the campaign, an apparent glitch caused the magnum to disappear from protagonist Ethan Winters’ hand, leaving him to…
By Ian Walker Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRainbow Six Quarantine Officially Renamed Extraction
The next Rainbow Six game is no longer named Quarantine, Ubisoft announced today Instead, the upcoming co-op shooter is now called Rainbow Six Extraction. Rainbow Six Quarantine was first revealedduring E3 2019,prior to the covid-19 pandemic. During an earnings call with investors in February 2021, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that the publisher was considering…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsDays Gone Mod Makes Zombie Hordes Ludicrously Large
It was only a matter of time until Days Gone’s newfound PC audience began to tear out its insides and refashion them into something gnarlier, and now that day has arrived. A new mod ups freaker (aka zombie) horde sizes to the point where they basically blot out your whole screen. Modder Aigmir created the…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsSuper Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis. Nearly a year later, the leak is still bearing fruit. As VGC reports,…
By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsRick And Morty Might Be Coming To Fortnite
Fortniteis teasing its next crossover and it seems to involve characters from Adult Swim’s popular show, Rick And Morty. In the lead-up to the reveal of the next season of Fortnite, developer Epic Games has been teasing various potential crossovers on Twitter, letting fans piece together the clues as they wait for the new trailer…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsKnockout City’s Best-Dressed Players Are Also Its Scariest
We often fear powerful things, because we can’t control them. A giant, unstoppable bear. A deadly bomb. An unfeeling, AI-controlled drone with missiles. Or even, a player wearing some sick threads in an online video game, indicating they’ve been playing longer than you and will likely kick your ass. Knockout City is a lot of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsFFXIV Artists Used Their Free Time To Get Bunny Boys Into The Game
When Final Fantasy XIV introduced female-only Viera and male-only Hrothgar as playable races for its Shadowbringers expansion, fans were not happy. It turns out the game’s graphics team weren’t happy either, so they worked in their free time between patches to get male rabbits and female bestial cats into Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. In a…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsThe Week In Games: Final Fantasy Rift
It’s the week before E3, so let’s look forward to some games we can actually play before we all get excited about games we can’t play yet. This week has a lot to look forward to, including Ratchet & Clank, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and Guilty Gear Strive. Here are the video games coming…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 7, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanFighting Game Legend Tokido Appears In BMW Ad In Japan
Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi isn’t only one of the greatest Street Fighter players ever, he would also like to tell you about the BMW 2 Series. Tokido was recently featured in a short Japanese TV segment called Go Next, which is sponsored by the German car company. In the program he talks about how there was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2021 -
CulturePokemonLogan Paul Wore A Pokémon Card To Mayweather Fight, Says It’s Now Worth A Million Dollars
There wasn’t a knockout in tonight’s Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather exhibition fight. One clear winner did emerge: Pokémon card collectors, Paul included. When the YouTuber entered the ring, he wore a Charizard card around his neck the way other fighters would wear gold and diamonds. The card is a first edition, gem mint 10-graded…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsNvidia’s DLSS Sorcery Is Coming To Linux
DLSS, a technology I do not want to understand because then it will no longer feel like magic, has until now been available only to folks playing Windows games. Thanks to some work from Valve and Nvidia, though, that’s about to change. As The Verge reports, Nvidia announced last week that it is working with…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2021 -
CultureNewsAn Entire Game Where You Have To Keep To The Shadows
And it’s got nothing to do with stealth! SCHiM is an upcoming game for the PC where you’re playing a human soul that moves like a frog (stick with me), and the entire thing is about navigating a landscape touching only the shadows. Sometimes the shadows are stationary, at other more challenging times they’re cast…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2021
