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OpinionImpressionsThere’s A New Type Of Fall Guys Jackass
I would like to offer a sincere apology to my Fall Guys squad. I fell into the slime. I thought we were out. So I quit. I didn’t realize how much that screwed you (fall) guys! It won’t happen again, I promise. Yesterday, as part of the platformer royale’s season four update, Fall Guys received…
By Ari Notis Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureSerious Sam 2 Gets Massive Update 15 Years After Release
Croatian studio Croteam has partnered with independent developer Nathan “DwK” Brown to release a huge update to Serious Sam 2 today, more than a few years removed from the first-person shooter’s late 2005 launch. “It’s been five billion years since the last proper update for Serious Sam 2,” Croteam explained on Steam. “In the meantime, we…
By Ian Walker Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureMagic: Legends Open Beta Is Go
Cryptic Studios’ free-to-play Magic: The Gathering-meets-Diablo action card-playing game has launched into open beta via Arc Games and the Epic Games Store, giving players all over the world the chance to play the game Kotaku’s Ash Parrish said several nice things about. Magic: Legends is colorful spells versus hordes of creatures, with that signature Magic…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2021 -
OpinionSo-Called Pirates Are Doing The Work When Publishers Fail To Preserve Their Games
Yesterday, TheGamer reported that Sony has plans to shut down the online PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores that service those older consoles. While this has yet to be confirmed, and Sony has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment, the internet discourse around this potentially troubling news immediately began to swirl. If these stores…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureAmazon Doubles Down On Trying To Make Games With New Studio Led By Ex-Rainbow Six Siege Developers
Amazon is opening a new game studio in Montreal led by former Rainbow Six Siege developers to work on a new multiplayer game, the company announced today. The new studio, which joins the company’s existing ones across Seattle, Orange County, and San Diego, will be led by Ubisoft veterans Luc Bouchard, Xavier Marquis, Alexandre Remy,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 23, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsI Can’t Wait To Play Monster Hunter Rise With Other People
The review embargo for Monster Hunter Rise has lifted, and while I’ve been having a heck of a good time battling beasts with my AI dog and cat friends, online play is still a couple of days away. And everybody knows Monster Hunter is more fun with other people. The majority of the several days…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsModded GameCube Keyboard Is The Controller Of My Dreams
In 2002 Nintendo released a ridiculous-looking GameCube controller with a keyboard embedded in it so that Phantasy Star Online players could type to their friends. In 2021 someone’s modded it into an equally impractical but much prettier custom keyboard that I wish I could use to type all of my shitposts. “Y’all thought the gamecube…
By Ethan Gach Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureReport: Upgraded Switch Will Use New Nvidia Chip To Upscale To 4K
Outputting native 4K graphics is hard. Upscaling to 4K is a little easier. According to a Bloomberg report posted early this morning, Nintendo’s long-rumored upgraded Nintendo Switch will leverage a new Nvidia system-on-a-chip to upscale its docked graphics to 4K. The current Nintendo Switch model is powered by a Nvidia Tegra X1+ system-on-a-chip (SoC). An…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanJapanese City Features Slowpoke On Postal Truck And Mail Box
Slowpoke might not exactly be the image postal carriers are going for, but in Japan, the sluggishly cute Pokémon is known as Yadon, and… well, let me explain Since the character’s Japanese name sounds like “udon,” the character has been promoting the famous noodle dish in Kagawa Prefecture since 2015. If you ever visit the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMobile Game Final Fantasy XI R Has Been Canceled [Update]
For the past few years, Square Enix has been co-developing mobile game Final Fantasy XI R with Nexon. The game was dubbed an “MMMRPG” or “Massively Multiplayer Mobile RPG.” But now, apparently, it’s no more. Originally announced in 2015 as Final Fantasy XI Mobile, the game was promised to be a mobile version of, you…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2021 -
AnimeOnline Hate Took Evangelion Creator Hideaki Anno To A Dark Place
Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion, is an anime icon. He says he’s done with the series. With its fame and popularity came haters, who took him to a very dark place. At one point, twisted online comments made Anno contemplate dying by suicide. In a recently aired NHK program, Anno opened up to film…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureTrack: Train Radio | Artist: Pterodactyl Squad
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureReport: Microsoft Wants To Buy Discord For “Over $10 Billion”
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is one of several companies “in talks” to purchase chat and community platform Discord, for a price said to be in excess of $10 billion. The report says Microsoft is “in the running”, but that talks are continuing and no deal has yet been made. It’s not clear who those…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsHalf-Life & BioShock Come Together In A Very Strange Mod
Return to Rapture is a “campaign” made for Half-Life: Alyx that takes Valve’s star and drops her into the completely unrelated first-person world of 2007’s BioShock There’s a “plot” to explain this—basically, the Combine have found Rapture—but in essence you’ll be using the same controls and VR stuff you did in Alyx, against the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
OpinionMy New Xbox Elite Controller Has A Long Shortcoming
Having used an Elite controller on my PC almost every single day for years, it finally started showing signs of serious wear and tear, so last week I got an Elite Series 2 controller. I am mostly happy with it, but there’s one bizarre shortcoming with its interchangeable sticks that has me stumped. The original…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureA Pikmin Game Is Coming To Phones
Nintendo and Niantic, the same pair behind mobile juggernaut Pokemon Go, are going to release a new augmented reality game later this year that’s all about Pikmin It’s going to launch “globally later in 2021″, and doesn’t even have a name at this point. Indeed all we know is that it’ll use Pikmin and augmented…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureGlobal Chip Shortage, Affecting Everything From PS5s To Graphics Cards, Is Becoming A “Crisis”
While anyone reading this will know it has been hard finding a PS5 lately, loads of other markets are experiencing shortages as well, thanks to a global “crisis” affecting the supply of semiconductor chips to—well—anything that uses them. And that’s a lot of stuff. As The Guardian reports, while the supply of chips should be…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureRIP, Xbox Live (2002-2021)
The name “Xbox Live” is dead. You’ll still be able to play Xbox games online, but the suite of Xbox’s online services will now be known as “Xbox network,” Microsoft confirmed today to The Verge This morning, many Xbox users noticed a small change on the the Xbox dashboard. While uploading a screenshot to Xbox…
By Ari Notis Published March 22, 2021 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryGenshin Impact Won’t Let Me Spend Money Anymore, And I’m Finally Free
I have a complicated relationship with Genshin Impact. I adore its vast, lovingly handcrafted world and charming characters. I hate how its intertwining systems whisper to me in a million different voices: “Spend money.” But there’s no denying that the system works; to date, I’ve probably spent around $60 on the technically free game. Now,…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 22, 2021 -
OpinionAsk KotakuHave You Ever Successfully Returned To An Ancient Save File?
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take. This week we Ask Kotaku: Have you ever successfully returned to an ancient save file? Ethan Short answer: No, it’s never worked. Long answer: Last summer I tried to go back…
By Alexandra Hall Published March 22, 2021