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Kotaku EastChinaChina Building Full-Sized Titanic Replica As Tourist Attraction
At the end of this year, a theme park in Suining, China is slated to finish a full-sized version of the Titanic. Around $155 million has been spent on the replica, which is being built in a landlocked province. So no worries about it getting out to sea and meeting a grim fate! Xu Junnian,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureFinal Fantasy Has A New Brand Manager
For over a decade, Shinji Hashimoto was the brand director for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy. He has stepped down, and Yoshinori Kitase became his successor last month. Kitase, of course, has had a storied career at Square Enix, working as director on Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureRoblox Is Now Hilariously Pretending It Is Not A ‘Game’
Roblox is a place where you play games, right? It ticks all the boxes, it’s obvious, we all know it is. So why, I wonder, has one of the world’s most popular, uh, entertainment service platforms suddenly stopped using the word “game”? As The Verge reports, last week Roblox scrubbed almost all mentions of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureeBay Is Banning The Sale Of ‘Adult Video Games’
On June 15, global auction site eBay will be implementing a new “Adult Items Policy,” and it goes a lot harder on mature content than simply outlawing the sale of pornography. The site’s new guidelines take a huge step towards banning (or greatly restricting) the sale of all kinds of sexual content, from art to…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureNew Mass Effect Changes Tali’s Face
It wasn’t the biggest of Mass Effect 3’s missteps, so you’d be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, but BioWare’s trilogy did us all dirty when it spent 2.9 games building up the mystery of what Tali the Quarian looked like only to reveal…she looked like stock art of a sexy human lady. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureIGN Takes Down Article And Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups [Updates]
Following the most recent set of violent military strikes by the Israel Defense Forces that have leveled entire buildings in Gaza and left over 180 Palestinians dead, IGN posted an article linking to a variety of Palestinian charities and even gave a Palestinian flag prominence in its masthead. Sometime earlier today, all of that content,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: New PS5 Controllers
It’s nearly impossible to get a PS5 console these days. But don’t worry, you might be able to snag one of the new PS5 controllers. (Probably not.) However, let’s pretend we live in a better universe. Your challenge this week: Give folks the new PS5 controllers. I personally would love to get the black one.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureOver 500,000 Cheaters Are Now Banned From Call Of Duty: Warzone
Call of Duty Warzone developer Raven Software recently announced that over 30,000 new Warzone accounts were banned. According to the studio, that brings the total number of banned accounts to over half a million. Warzone has had a problem with cheaters since essentially day one. Since then, Activision and Raven Software have continued to fight…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureSunday Comics: Predators?
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 May 13. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 110. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 16, 2021 -
CultureAs Palestine Suffers, A Call For Action
Stop me if you’re heard this one before. The last week has seen an increase in violence by Israel against the people of Gaza, an area that should constitute the state of Palestine but is instead an open-air prison subject to apartheid conditions imposed by the fascist Israeli government. What started as a protest last…
By Ian Walker Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Baby Fallen, Winners!
Last week I asked you all to create some images featuring the adorable Fallen babies which were introduced during this latest season of Destiny 2. You all did great, but the cute Fallen baby helped a lot. Our winning image this week comes from KaputNoob who has recently become a powerhouse in the comments below…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureBabies Love High Kicks
This week on Snapshots get ready for some action! Get ready for some speed! Get ready for some… dead birds? Sure. That too. This week has some great screenshots from games like Resident Evil Village, New Pokemon Snap, and Far Cry 4. “KICK MORE! MORE KICKS!” Kid, I’m tired. Give me a moment to drink…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsDIY Device Zaps Your Balance Nerves To Simulate Real Motion
Large, arcade-style motion simulators (like Sega’s R360) can physically toss you around in response to onscreen action, which can increase the immersion and also just feel cool. But these simulators are big and expensive. YouTuber Mean Gene Hacks decided to use electrodes and a driving game to create his own hacked-together motion simulator for under…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsFans Have Translated All Of The Native American Dialogue In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Fans working with experts have translated all of the Kanien’kehá:ka dialogue that appears in the Vinland section of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Around the halfway point or so of the massive Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Evior takes a trip to Vinland, an area of coastal North America. During her time in Vinland she meets the Kanien’kehá:ka, or…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureWatch Dogs: Legion’s Next Update Will Add 60 FPS Performance Mode On PS5 And Xbox Series X
In its upcoming 4.5 title update, Watch Dogs Legion will finally get a 6o FPS performance mode on next-gen consoles. The news was teased by Ubisoft in a blog post covering the last update for the open-world action game. When Watch Dogs Legion launched back in October of last year, it was one of the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CulturePokemonImpidimp Gets More Powerful By Annoying People
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Impidimp! Impidimp Details Type: Dark / Fairy Average Height: 1′ 04″ Average Weight: 12.1 lbs. First Added In Generation…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 15, 2021 -
CultureFFXIV Endwalker‘s Second New Job Is The Scythe-Wielding Reaper [Update]
Revealed this evening during the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival keynote, the melee damage-dealing Reaper will join the previously announced healing Sage as the second new job introduced in this fall’s Endwalker expansion. Update: The release date is November 23 and playable bunny boys are included. It’s not a Necromancer, it’s not a Temple…
By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsQuick, Take A Dip In Animal Crossing Before Nintendo Fixes The Glitch
Animal Crossing New Horizons players just discovered a new glitch that lets them climb inside different objects, including pools and bathtubs. The glitch quickly grew popular and many players are asking Nintendo to leave it in the game. The most common use of the new glitch is to relax in the many inviting-looking pools that…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 14, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsMass Effect Legendary Edition Makes The First Game Required Playing
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is out today, remastering BioWare’s space trilogy with 4K HD graphics and other kinds of tweaks and twinges to bring the games into the current generation. Of the trilogy, the original Mass Effect stands out as the game benefiting the most from graphical updates and quality of life enhancements. From what…
By Ash Parrish Published May 14, 2021 -
CultureThat Time I Accidentally Started A Pandemic In Cities: Skylines
To all of the people who live in Ariberg, my Cities: Skylines metropolis, I am truly sorry. My intentions were pure, I swear. Like many other wide-eyed millennials, I set out to enact meaningful change, to prove that American cities needn’t rely so heavily on a car-centric framework. But in the process of trying to…
By Ari Notis Published May 14, 2021