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CultureFall Guys Reveals Inevitable Season 3 Theme In Laborious Manner
If you’re in the Northern hemisphere, you’ll likely have noticed it’s getting chillier. That’s because of a global phenomenon called “winter”. Winter, as they said on the popular soap opera Game Of Thrones, will be popping its icy head around the door any time now. And if you’ve ever played a video game, you’ll know…
By John Walker Published November 26, 2020 -
Kotaku EastReport: Saudi Arabian Investors To Acquire Stake In SNK
In 2015, game company SNK was acquired by Chinese investors. Now, it seems, the company has new investors in Saudi Arabia Eikichi Kawasaki originally founded the company in 1978 as Shin Nihon Kikaku. Famous for its hardware and fighting games, the company became a giant in the Japanese gaming industry. In its heyday, signs at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanWhat Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Thinks Of The PlayStation 5
“I was able to snag a PS5 on launch day!” Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai begins in his latest Weekly Famitsu column. He was fortunate enough to get a pre-order at a chain retailer, noting that the supply outweighed the demand and that it seems he was quite lucky. None of this should be surprising,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2020 -
CultureTrack: The Man Who Sold The World [2020 Mix] | Artist: David Bowie | Album: Metrobolist
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 26, 2020 -
CultureThe Art Of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Ah, this is always one of my favourite times of the year, the evening where we get to share a ton of artwork that went into the production of a game in one of my favourite series, Assassin’s Creed I’ve run Fine Art features on almost every major game in the series dating back to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhy Do Demon’s Souls Players Keep Falling Off This Ledge?
There are a lot of ways to die in the Demon’s Souls remake. Believe me, the transition to PlayStation 5 has not made this game any more forgiving. But I can’t help but wonder what’s up with this one ledge in the Tower of Latria from which players can’t stop tumbling. I first happened upon…
By Ian Walker Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureMy PS4 Was Fun, But It Was Also A Piece Of Junk
The Xbox 360 was as famous for its catastrophic hardware failures as it was its A-tier catalogue of video games. My PlayStation 4 is very close to being remembered in the same way. Let me ask you a question, and I want you to be 100% honest with me: if you have ever owned a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureTwitchWWE Crackdown On Wrestlers’ Twitch Accounts Is Causing A Lot Of Drama
Over the last few decades, numerous events have sparked talk that pro wrestlers in the United States might finally unionize. In 1986, Jesse “The Body” Ventura tried and failed to start a wrestlers’ union before WrestleMania 2. More recently, the financial hit wrestlers took from the 2014 launch of the WWE Network streaming service got…
By David Bixenspan Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureFallout 76 Camps Get Wheelchairs, Following Player’s Request
Almost two months ago, a Fallout 76 player who uses a wheelchair made a post on the game’s unofficial subreddit asking for the mobility aids to be added to the camp customization options. The latest Fallout 76 update, released today, honors that request. “It would make me so happy to have that little piece of…
By Ian Walker Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWorld of Warcraft: Shadowlands Manages To One-Up War Crimes in New Questline
I can’t imagine a fate worse than death, but thankfully, the writers of World of Warcraft don’t suffer from my same lack of imagination. In a new campaign introduced in the Shadowlands zone Bastion, the WoW writers have managed to concoct a scenario as horrifying to me as when Sylvanas Windrunner decided to do a…
By Ash Parrish Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Update Adds 60 FPS Option To All Next-Gen Consoles
The next Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update, dropping tomorrow, introduces an option to play the game in 60 fps across all next-gen platforms. While the game was already nearing that mark on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the Xbox Series S previously hovered around 30 fps, making this a pretty big deal for the budget…
By Ian Walker Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryIn Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Nintendo Refuses To Acknowledge BotW’s Darkness
I had high hopes for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, particularly for its story. As a prequel, it promised to tell a more in-depth tale of the fight against Ganon 100 years before Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But AoC failed that expectation in nearly every regard. What I didn’t expect, and what…
By Ash Parrish Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsYep, That Was A Baseball Cameo In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
The most fascinating characters in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are the bit players. There’s the unmistakable nod to a popular anime. There’s the cadre of musicians paying tribute to the Prodigy, an electronic band whose frontman, Keith Flint, tragically passed last year. There’s Axehead. But the one who’s most likely to make you go, “Wait, what?”…
By Ari Notis Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureWatch Dogs: Legion‘s Online Mode Delayed As Team Focuses On Fixing Bugs
It’s no secret that Watch Dog: Legion has been pretty buggy since it launched late last month, but Ubisoft sounds dedicated to tracking down these experience-ruining glitches and getting them sorted out. So dedicated, in fact, that the game’s planned online mode has been delayed to next year to give the team more time to…
By Ian Walker Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Streamers Are Opening ’90s Pokémon Card Boxes Worth Thousands Of Dollars
When many of us were kids, popping open a pack of Pokémon cards and flipping to a holographic Charizard meant bragging rights or a hypothetical hundred dollars if we chose to sell it on eBay (or, in my case, if an eBay-addicted aunt could pry the card from my cold, dead hands). But now those…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureHere’s December 2020’s PlayStation Plus Games
There are three games in December’s PlayStation Plus lineup. Last month also saw the lineup depart from its disappointing standard of two, though the third game, Bugsnax, was only available to PS5 owners. December’s three games are available on PS4 and PS5, since the PS4 titles are backwards compatible with PS5. As always, the games…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 25, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsBakugan For Switch Has The Most Boring Battles
Remember back in July when Nintendo teased a new third-party game for the Switch and it turned out to be Wayforward’s Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia? The actual game is nearly as disappointing as the announcement turned out to be. Not only does it have the most tedious Bakugan battles ever, we don’t even get to…
By Mike Fahey Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsGrab My Head And Fly, World Of Warcraft Angel
World of Warcraft’s newly-launched Shadowlands expansion takes players to Bastion, a world populated by angels who fly majestically through the sky, gripping our faces tight. Bastion, the first major questing area of the expansion, is basically where the white Magic: The Gathering cards live. It’s got rolling alabaster plains, gorgeous mythical creatures, and a race…
By Mike Fahey Published November 25, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicBorderlands 3’s Final Song Makes Me Miss The Heck Out Of Live Music
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’ve a very specific pick to share: the song that plays during the end credits of the fourth expansion for Borderlands 3 Borderlands 3’s string of downloadable content has been hit or miss. In fact,…
By Ari Notis Published November 25, 2020