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Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Comes Out October 2

We’re less than four months away from the first numbered Crash Bandicoot game since 1998. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2,, picks up right where Crash Bandicoot: Warped left off, give or take a couple of decades. At the end of Warped (spoilers?), the villainous…

By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020

Culture

How’s It Going?: Priorities Edition

Welcome to another week, and welcome back to our daily open thread. This morning I made a list of all the things I need to do, from work stuff to various life things, and then tried to rank them in order of priority so I could figure out how to handle them. Because I’m me,…

By Riley MacLeod Published June 22, 2020

Culture

Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting A Small Crossover With Fallout

Vault Boy is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but not as a fighter. On June 29, the Fallout mascot will become available as a Mii Fighter costume for $0.75. Vault Boy is classified as a Gunner, meaning he’s slower than his Brawler and Swordfighter counterparts but a bit more versatile. Most of his attacks…

By Ari Notis Published June 22, 2020

Culture

Min Min From Arms Will Be The Next Smash Bros. Fighter

We knew the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter would be a character from ARMS. We just didn’t know who. Today, while broadcasting from his home, Masahiro Sakurai announced the new fighter for Nintendo’s crowd-pleasing crossover fighting game: Min Min. True to her source material, Min Min isn’t a great close-combat fighter. Her standard attacks…

By Ari Notis Published June 22, 2020

Culture

Free-to-play RPG Kingdom Hearts Dark Road launches today for iOS and Android devices. Explore Disney-themed worlds while exploring an original Kingdom Hearts tale. Players create their own character and team up with a teenage Xenahort in order to Xenahort all over the damn place.

By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020

OpinionImpressions

What Do You Know, Burnout Paradise Kicks Ass On The Switch

The left side of this image is the recently-released Switch version of Burnout Paradise Remastered. The right side is the same game running on a high-powered gaming PC. The difference? Doesn’t matter. Both are Burnout Paradise. Both are awesome. The sky and shadows are more detailed on the PC side of the image, but these…

By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020

Kotaku EastJapan

A Device To (Maybe) Help You Get Out Of Zoom Meetings

With people at home, enough more of our lives have gone online. In Japan, on-nomi, short for “online drinking parties,” are a way for people to gather in Zoom and drink. But what if you are ready to log out? This gag device might help. Maybe not! This is being referred to as an online…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020

Culture

Track: In Between Days | Artist: The Cure | Album: In Between Days / Stop Dead

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020

Kotaku EastJapan

The PlayStation PocketStation Makes For An Excellent Backpack

Remember the PocketStation? Released in Japan for the original PlayStation, it was a Memory Card peripheral outfitted with LCD screen and the ability to run software. Turns out the PocketStation’s shape works very well in backpack-form. Twitter user Yoshito created this PocketStation backpack. It’s not working or playable, of course, but does feature the white…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020

Kotaku EastJapan

A Kamen Rider Store Is Opening In Japan

In a country with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Gundam stores, it was only a matter of time before an official Kamen Rider store opened in Japan. On July 1, the Kamen Rider Store Tokyo will begin serving customers. It’s located on Tokyo Character Street, a hub of anime and manga related shops in Tokyo Station. As…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020

Culture

Welcome To Australia

Andrew Hamilton is an artist who has worked on games like Battlefront II and Battlefield V He’s also, while currently living in Sweden, Australian, and has made this tribute to his homeland about his “crystal clear memory of a sound, smell, or particularly calm experience as a kid growing up in the land down under”.…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020

Culture

Hard Lads, A Game About Shirtless Dudes Hitting (And Kissing) Each Other

Hard Lads is an adaptation of the now-famous internet video British lads hit each other with chair, in which…well, the title says it all really. Made by Robert Yang, creator of stuff like The Tearoom and Cobra Club, it’s a short, free (though you can pay what you want) game that “casts the player as…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020

Culture

Desert Golfing’s Sequel Is Out Now!

Here is the most pleasant of surprises: a full-blooded sequel to mobile time-annihilator Desert Golfing, one of the finest mobile games ever made, has been quietly released on both iOS and Android over the weekend. It’s not Desert Golfing 2 though, because really, for a game that felt like it literally never ended, we don’t…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020

Culture

Counter-Strike Is Now Old Enough To Drink

On June 19, 1999, Minh Le and Jess Cliffe released a humble little mod for the original Half-Life called “Counter-Strike”. In 2020, 21 years later, it is still one of the most popular video games on the planet. I remember playing the mod at the time—not right at launch, but sometime early in 2000—and finding…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020

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10 Questions I Have About This Weird Crash Bandicoot Mascot Photo

As today was wrapping up, video game hype man Geoff Keighley posted a photo of him and a giant Crash Bandicoot mascot in front of a large house. Both are wearing masks. I have some questions. Where did they get that mask? I can’t imagine you can just go to a local Walmart or even…