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CultureOdds and EndsPart Time UFO Has A Very Good Dog Butt
Part Time UFO, the HAL Laboratory mobile game ported to Switch today, is a charming little project about an alien helping the people of Earth tidy up with its spaceship’s arcade-like claw. It also has a very good dog. I don’t really have much to say about Part Time UFO other than that. It makes…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureThe Project Trying To Put Every Single Super Nintendo Instruction Manual On The Internet
A lot is made, and rightly so, of the plight of retro video games once they succumb to the passage of time. But while we focus on preserving the games themselves, what happens to the instruction manuals that used to come with them? In some cases, they’re lost forever! Other times, we’re lucky to have…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureEverything We Know About The PlayStation 5
In June, during an 85-minute event called “The Future of Gaming,” Sony finally revealed the PlayStation 5. Between the presenters who may not have been human, we got a thorough look at plenty of video games (and some technical stuff, too). Following that, the info feed surrounding the PS5 was a slow drip through the…
By Ari Notis Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty Big
Call of Duty big now. Real big. 250 GB on PC big. Last year, Call of Duty was already big. This year, it is bigger. If 250 GB is too big for you, there are bigness options that make it less big, like a non-4k install that brings the big down to 175 GB or…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureCosplayMetroid Cosplay For The Ages
By day, Brenden McCormack is a developer at Wargaming, working on World of Tanks. In his spare time, though, he’s built (along with his wife Laura) one of the most impressive pieces of Nintendo cosplay I have ever seen. In addition to the power-up gif up top, here are a bunch of other photos of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryNo More Heroes On Switch Ruins My Favorite Part Of Its Loading Screens
I’m a simple man. Give me some rhythmic, monotonous task to carry out and I’ll be content. I think that’s why I found the loading screens in the original No More Heroes so engrossing, and why I’m now so bothered to find the recent Switch port screwed them up. I love games that give you…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureBorderlands 3’s ‘Arms Race’ Mode Is Apparently A Roguelike, Because Why Not
A few weeks ago, Gearbox announced a second wave of Borderlands 3 downloadable content. Among the offerings will be a new mode called Arms Race, which Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford said is “not a battle royale,” despite it exisiting on an isolated map and granting players progressively powerful gear over the course of a round.…
By Ari Notis Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureAnother Microsoft Game, Everwild, Loses Its Director
Everwild creative director Simon Woodroffe has resigned from his position at Rare, VGC reports In a statement to VGC, Rare studio head Craig Duncan confirmed these details, thanking Woodroffe and wishing him luck on future endeavors. Information on Everwild is still scarce. In previous teasers, Rare presented an open-world adventure game focused on the flora…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureEverything We Know About The Xbox Series X And Series S
Over the summer, information about Microsoft’s next-gen console came out slower than self-serve frozen yogurt. We knew the name (Xbox Series X), broad release date (“Holiday 2020”), and some specs. Then Labor Day weekend happened, and the floodgates opened. Now, we have a release date, a price tag, some detailed information about the long-unconfirmed disc-less…
By Ari Notis Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsCase Closed: Mankrik’s Wife Found In Shadowlands
The folks at Blizzard: SVU have finally put to rest a 16-year-old cold case—Mankrik’s wife has been found. As reported by Wowhead, Olgra, wife of Mankrik, can be found in World of Warcraft Shadowlands’s Maldraxxus zone, where vengeful and warlike spirits are sent to rest. According to Wowhead, reporting on the Shadowlands beta, Olgra is…
By Ash Parrish Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureWorld Of Warcraft: Shadowlands Is Launching On November 23
It had already been a long wait for World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, the afterlife-themed Shadowlands, when its expected release month of October rolled around, and then it got longer. Blizzard ended up delaying the expansion, citing a need for “additional polish.” Now it’s apparently polished enough to warrant a new release date: November 23. Blizzard…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureFar Cry 6 And Rainbow Six Quarantine Delayed
Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine have both been delayed until some time after April 1, 2021, Ubisoft announced today in its latest earnings report The publisher cited “production challenges related to work from home” during the covid-19 pandemic as part of the reason for the delay. “Benefitting from this strong momentum and despite…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureHere’s November 2020’s Xbox Live Games With Gold
November’s Xbox Live Games with Gold aren’t super exciting, but I’ll take any promise of small pleasures this upcoming month can give me. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold membership. November’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Aragami: Shadow Edition (November 1-30) Swimsanity! (November 16-December 15) Xbox…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 29, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsAmnesia: Rebirth Makes Motherhood Scary
The only scary thing in Amnesia: Rebirth is motherhood. The monsters are rare and dispersed enough to be manageable threats, and the atmosphere is less oppressive than other Amnesia games. Rebirth did not scare me the same way The Dark Descent or its far more terrifying older sibling Penumbra: Overture did. But it’s a game…
By Ash Parrish Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureJudge Sides With Dutch Government On Fining EA Up To $5.85 Million Unless It Ditches FIFA Loot Boxes
After a Netherlands District Court ruled in favor of the country’s Gambling Authority on banning loot boxes earlier this month, FIFA publisher EA has one week to remove loot boxes from the game or face up to $5.85 million in fines. The ruling, issued October 15 and published today, allows the Netherlands Gambling Authority (known…
By Ethan Gach Published October 29, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsSo Far, Watch Dogs Legion Is One Of 2020’s Most Fascinating Games
Watch Dogs Legion, out today for a bunch of major video game platforms, is one of the most elaborate anecdote generators ever created. So, before we get into how the game handles its ambitious design goals, its politics, and even its Ubisoft-ness, let’s start with an anecdote that could only have happened in Legion About…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicGet Equipped With Pretty Good Mega Man 9 Arrange Album
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s object of aural inquiry is not Mega Man 9, which I didn’t really care for. Its arrange album, however… Yeah, I bounced off Mega Man 9 (playlist / longplay / VGMdb). In my defense(?) I…
By Alexandra Hall Published October 29, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanMasahiro Sakurai’s Hardest Smash Bros. Challenge: Minecraft Music
When Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai introduced Minecraft characters in Smash Bros. Ulitmate, he discussed their in-game music. At that time, he said, “Unfortunately, due to various circumstances, it turns out we cannot use the song playing in the original Minecraft.” Continuing, he pointed out that for such a frantic game, many of the tunes…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureFirst Details About Final Fantasy XVI‘s Characters And World
When Final Fantasy XVI was first revealed last month, aside from a debut trailer, details were scant. Now, Square Enix has updated the game’s official site, providing info on characters and the in-game world. FFXVI producer Naoki Yoshida said Square Enix would be releasing said info before diving back into development. Final Fantasy XVI takes place…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 29, 2020
