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CultureSurprise! The Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning remaster is coming to Switch on March 16. That’s great news since Nintendo’s hybrid handheld feels like the ideal place to experience the pleasant 2012 action RPG, but bad timing since it’s just a week and change before Monster Hunter: Rise.
By Ethan Gach Published January 19, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsSomeone Turned A Terraria Map Into An Evangelion Holding A Warship
Terraria doesn’t get the same level of fanfare as Minecraft, but its two dimensional crafting is nevertheless responsible from some truly impressive player-made creations of its own. Behold the latest: an Evangelion lifting a warship over its head. The above screenshot, which has been blowing up on the Steam community pages and was first spotted…
By Ethan Gach Published January 19, 2021 -
ReviewsMultiplatformHitman 3: The Kotaku Review
Hitman 3 made me care more about its plot than crafting the perfect murder. The narrative, which I usually see as a flimsy excuse to play dress-up and cause globe-spanning mayhem, bleeds into the structure of its levels and creates some unexpected moments of emotion and vulnerability. Its dark story plays with the lie at…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 19, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsMan Folds One Piece Of Paper For 50 Hours, Makes Samurai
Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of 68cm x 68cm wafer-thin Wenzhou paper and folded it for fifty hours. The result? A samurai papercraft that is around 20cm tall. While some adhesive appears to be used in the process, according to Könkkölä, no ripping or cutting was used. This is all folding. Via…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 19, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsA Hand With Many Fingers Captures The Paranoia Of Cold War Conspiracies
Most mystery stories involve flashy detective work and sharp deductions, culminating in a dramatic reveal. In the novel Murder on the Orient Express, there’s a point where detective Hercule Poirot gathers everyone together and dives into a detailed breakdown of exactly how a murder occurred, and how deep its roots ran through every car on…
By Eric Van Allen Published January 18, 2021 -
CultureThis Bot Turns Reddit Arguments Into Ace Attorney Debates
Ever since there’s been more than one person on the internet, there have been arguments. Some forum debates have become so outrageous that they’ve been forever ensconced in the collective unconscious of the web. And now, they can be turned into Phoenix Wright debates. A new bot created by Micah Price can grab the text…
By Eric Van Allen Published January 18, 2021 -
CultureAuto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal Cycle
The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An Auto Chess MOBA is a…
By Eric Van Allen Published January 18, 2021 -
CultureMassive Fallout: New Vegas Mod The Frontier Is Finally Out
A mod years in the making launched just last Friday, and it was a launch so big it took Nexus Mods with it. Fallout: The Frontier is essentially a new game, built onto Fallout: New Vegas The Frontier has been kicking around for several years, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a fair bit…
By Eric Van Allen Published January 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsAnamanaguchi’s Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack Is Still Pop-Rock Pixel Perfection
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, after years of being stranded on old consoles, was finally re-released last week. I’m eager to hop back in, but more than just playing through it one more time, I’ve been digging re-listening to the game’s perfect pop-rock soundtrack. The tunes for Scott Pilgrim were made by pop-rock…
By Eric Van Allen Published January 18, 2021 -
AnimeDecades After Ban, Robot Anime Getting Live-Action Version In The Philippines
Robot anime Choudenji Machine Voltes V debuted on Japanese television in the late 1970s. Now, decades after being banned in the country, it is getting a live-action television show in the Philippines. Called Voltes V: Legacy, the series is directed by Mark A. Reyes, and if the teaser is anything to go on, it looks…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 18, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanDead Or Alive Creator Launches His Own Game Company
Tomonobu Itagaki made his name creating Dead or Alive and designing Ninja Gaiden games. After leaving Koei Tecmo, he founded Valhalla Game Studios, releasing Devil’s Third. Now, he’s back with a new company. Itagaki was interviewed for a larger Bloomberg piece on the Xbox in Japan. He was, of course, one of the first Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 18, 2021 -
CultureMan Fined $270 For Breaking Lockdown To Play Pokémon Go
Look, weren’t we only just warning people last week to be more careful playing this game in these strange and uncertain times? The BBC reportsa man in England—a nation currently in lockdown in an attempt to curb a rampant infection rate arising from a new, more contagious strain of Covid-19—has broken the country’s strict restrictions…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2021 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Agent 47 Is Back
Load up on expired cans of soup, flamingo costumes, and explosive golf balls. Hitman 3 is almost here and it’s time to kill some assholes. A few weeks back, I finally got around to playing Hitman 2 beyond the first level. I have no idea why I waited this long to get around to playing…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2021 -
CulturePC Players Will Have To Buy Hitman 2 All Over Again To Unlock Its Levels In Hitman 3 (Update: A Fix Is In The Works)
IO Interactive outlined how levels and progress will be carried over to Hitman 3 from the previous games in a complicated FAQ over on its website today, and it’s a mess for players on PC seemingly thanks to Epic Games Store and Steam not playing nice with each other. Update – 4:08 p.m. ET, 1/17/21:…
By Ethan Gach Published January 17, 2021 -
CultureTrack: Waiting On A War | Artist: Foo Fighters | Album: Medicine At Midnight
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2021 -
OpinionThe New York Times Is Worried Kids Are Playing Video Games Too Much During The Pandemic
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story that focused on how kids are spending too much time playing video games and using their phones during the covid-19 pandemic. Today, that story was on the front page of the paper. This seems strange considering how the world is falling apart and democracy is dying in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2021 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Potato CEO
Turns out, Taco Bell is run by some kind of sentient potato. Who knew? Though the reasoning behind removing potatoes from the menu now makes more sense. Your challenge this week: Spread this potato man. I expect he cried a lot after filming this promo. Being asked to go out and sell your own kind…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2021
