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CultureOdds and EndsIt’s Super Easy To Make Kanye West In Demon’s Souls
Unlike the original Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 5 remake includes a fairly robust character creation system. While I was mostly content to make a generic, purple-skinned lady for my first playthrough, folks have been able to craft some interesting characters. Someone also figured out how to make a decent Kanye West, if you want to…
By Ian Walker Published December 8, 2020 -
CultureFacebook’s New Program Pays Black Streamers To Help Them Go Full-Time
Facebook Gaming is far from the biggest video game streaming platform out there, but it has at least shown a tendency to put its money where its mouth is—a practice Twitch and other industry leaders could learn from. Today, Facebook announced a program to aid Black creators in their pursuit of full-time streaming careers. The…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 8, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Avoid Burnout And Finish Any Open-World Game
Do you ever feel like there are too many open-world games, and too many of them take up too much time? Just consider some offerings from this year alone. There’s Ghost of Tsushima, the gorgeous samurai action game, which can take you more than 60 hours to check off every objective. Ubisoft released not one…
By Ari Notis Published December 8, 2020 -
CulturePrince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Pushed Back To March 18
The upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake won’t be able to make its original January 2021 release window, developer Ubisoft announced today. It will now arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 18, 2021. “2020 has been a year like no other,” Ubisoft’s official statement reads. “We believe this…
By Ian Walker Published December 8, 2020 -
CultureReport: Cyberpunk 2077 Causes Seizure, Doesn’t Contain Prominent Warning [Update]
Game Informer associate editor Liana Ruppert reported yesterday that she suffered a grand mal seizure while playing a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077, due to the game’s use of various flashing visual effects. She wrote an articlefor the site advising players on how to avoid similar experiences, which in some rare instances can be life…
By Ethan Gach Published December 8, 2020 -
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
