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CultureMorning MusicCrisis!! Super Street Fighter II Turbo Weird-Version Music Deathmatch!
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, a knock-down, drag-out brawl to the death between two little-heard arranged versions of Capcom’s most enduring fighting game. Fight! 1994’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) was the final form, at…
By Alexandra Hall Published December 8, 2020 -
Kotaku EastSouth KoreaHow One Retailer Is Fighting PS5 Scalpers
In South Korea, game retailer Gamewoori has a banner that reads, “Pre-Order Now” next to images of the PS5. The PS5 launched there on November 12, but like everywhere supplies are tight and hopeful customers still have to reserve consoles from future shipments. Some individuals, however, are trying to flip their PS5 pre-orders by selling…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2020 -
UncategorizedEl Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is in development for Steam. The game was originally released on PS3 and Xbox 360. According to Sawaki Takeyasu, the game’s director, the Steam version will have both English and Japanese subtitles and audio options. The release date is still TBA.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2020 -
Kotaku EastChinaMonster Hunter Movie Producers Apologize After Backlash In China
As Kotaku recently reported, a racist line of dialogue in the Monster Hunter movie led to thousands of negative online reviews in China, review bombing of the game on Steam, and calls to ban the film. The movie’s producers have now apologized. In the film, a soldier yells to another soldier: “What are my knees?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Blade Runner Blue | Artist: Vangelis | Album: Blade Runner OST
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 8, 2020 -
CultureRIP Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager, one of the United States Air Force’s greatest ever pilots and the first man to break the sound barrier, has died at the age of 97. Yeager was a decorated Second World War fighter pilot—famous for shooting down five Germans in a single day in 1944—and his exploits later became the subject of…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureHohokum Was Almost The Perfect PS4 Game
I’ve done a lot of big-picture stories for our Last Generation roundup, but tonight I want to zoom in a bit and talk about one game in particular: Hohokum, aka the most relaxing video game of the PS4 era. Released in 2014 for the PS4 (but also the PS3 and Vita), at first glance there’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 7, 2020 -
Culture40 Boxes Of RTX 3090 Graphics Cards Stolen From Warehouse In China
It’s bad enough that bots and scalpers are buying up all the stock of Nvidia’s new graphics cards, but some thieves in China have taken things to the next level and stolen 40 boxes of RTX 3090s, valued at around $340,000, from an MSI warehouse. As Tom’s Hardware reports (via a @GoFlying8 translation), the cards…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureSquare Enix’s Project Athia Is Console Exclusive On PS5 For ‘At Least 24 Months’
Project Athia, the next game from the team behind Final Fantasy XV, will be console-exclusive to the PlayStation 5 for “at least 24 months,” a new Sony demo reel of upcoming games revealed. Little is known about Project Athia (apparently a working title) apart from it being some sort of fantastical action game from Square…
By Ian Walker Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Warzone Players Are Hunting Glitchers Who Spawn Unlimited Juggernauts
The massive armored suit upgrades known as juggernauts are proliferating in Call of Duty: Warzone thanks to a new glitch, leading some skilled players to go out of their way to hunt down opponents who are using them. The glitch to spawn duplicate juggernauts is straightforward to attempt but can be difficult to pull off.…
By Ethan Gach Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWoW’s Revendreth Makes Me Question If Bad People Deserve To Go To Hell
I really didn’t want to have to think about my country’s carceral state while playing a video game and yet, while strolling through Revendreth, learning about its vampiric venthyr denizens and where they fit into the bureaucracy of Death that is the Shadowlands, my mind couldn’t help but make the connections. Revendreth is a miserable…
By Ash Parrish Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureMedal Of Honor Bigger
Call of Duty big. Medal of Honor bigger (depending on how you count). According to Polygon, EA VR shooter Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is 340 GB of raw bigness. It becomes less big—a mere 170 GB (giga bigs)—once you unpack and install it. For comparison’s sake, Call of Duty, the previous king of big,…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureQuick Resume Is Working For More Xbox Series X Games
Microsoft is slowly starting to roll out more Quick Resume support on Xbox Series X|S again, after it took the supposedly signature next-gen feature offline for some games right before the console’s launch last month. This is according to Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald. “As launch games were coming in, we identified some…
By Ian Walker Published December 7, 2020 -
OpinionAsk KotakuAre You Going To Play Cyberpunk 2077?
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: Are you going to play Cyberpunk 2077? Ethan The Witcher 3 is one of the best games of this generation and one of my all-time favorites,…
By Alexandra Hall Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Cancels Splatoon Stream After Teams Show Solidarity With Smash Community
Over the weekend, Nintendo quietly canceled a Splatoon 2 tournament livestream, and participants believe it’s due to the names of some of the participating teams. While Nintendo hasn’t publicly stated their reasoning, the result was a last-minute makeshift replacement tournament for the multiplayer Switch shooter. The fill-in event was a big success. Word of an…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 7, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Clean Up Your PS5’s Newsfeed
Like an untamed Instagram feed, the PlayStation 5 sometimes gives you updates about things you don’t care about. When you tap the PS button, you’ll see an “official news” card, which lists a handful of news blips—trailers, announcements, that sort of thing—about “your games.” Most of the games listed appear to be those you follow…
By Ari Notis Published December 7, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Original Fire Emblem Is A Weird Game For The Switch To End Its Year On
I’ve spent the last week, in odd moments here and there, helping Fire Emblem’s Prince Marth search for a legendary sword and defeat the forces of darkness to rescue his kingdom from an evil wizard. Throughout all of it, in good times and bad, one question kept bubbling up to the surface: why? Why did…
By Ethan Gach Published December 7, 2020 -
OpinionImpressions30 Hours With Cyberpunk 2077 Brings Mixed Feelings
Cyberpunk 2077, the most recent game from Witcher developer CD Projekt Red, was first announced in 2012. In the last couple years, it’s had an onslaught of hype and dripfed information, most of which I’ve ignored. The developers have promised unlimited freedom, unparalleled graphics, and cameos from celebrities like Grimes and Keanu Reeves. Much of…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 7, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicOnly One RPG Has Music From The Rocky IV And Transformers: The Movie Guy
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to music from an indie RPG composed by Vince DiCola and Kenny Meriedeth. DiCola of course, is best known for the synth-driven soundtracks to Staying Alive, Rocky IV, and (lest we forget) 1986’s…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2020
