Yakuza 0 and Part Time UFO Are Giving Me My Crane Game Fix

Crane games are sinister, alluring bedevilments with their bright flashing lights and happy jingles that tempt suckers like me into feeding them money. For just a few dollars you too can own this ugly yet endearing horse plushie you have no space for but look how precariously it’s perched and how its long neck is…

Skullgirls Designer Worked On Guilty Gear Patch Despite Sexual Harassment Accusations

Lab Zero Games developer Mike Zaimont has been suspended from work on an official Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R netcode patch, Gamasutra reports. The fact that the former Skullgirls designer was working on this patch as recently as October 24 is surprising, given recent accusations by both fans and fellow employees of sexual…

Not All Assassin’s Creed Games Will Be Backwards Compatible On PS5 (Update: Ubisoft Pulls Listing)

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and a few of the series’ spin-offs won’t work on PS5, Ubisoft announced today Update – 9:06 p.m. ET, 10/30/20: Ubisoft has since taken down today’s support page announcing the backwards compatibility exceptions for PS5, and it now links to an earlier announcement about Ubisoft Connect. “We have pulled the Ubisoft Connect…

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Has An Into The Spider-Verse Suit

Much like its predecessor, Spider-Man: Miles Morales will feature a variety of spider suits for its titular superhero when it arrives on November 12. That said, it’s going to be hard to top the one modeled after Miles Morales’ appearance in Into the Spider-Verse PlayStation announced today that Miles Morales includes a gorgeous homage to…

‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition, Winners!

Last week, Microsoft announced an option to recast Marcus Fenix in Gears 5 as former-wrestler Dave Bautista. Taking a celebrity and dropping them into a video game is sort of OUR thing, so it felt right to ask you all to do just that with Bautista. Our winning image this week comes from Villings who…

Overcooked! All You Can Eat is coming to PS5 at launch and Xbox Series X/S sometime after that. Part compilation, part remake, the game includes both Overcooked 1 and 2, all the DLC, and visual improvements including 4K at 60 FPS.

Let’s See How Accurate Watch Dogs Legion’s London Really Is

Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near-future central London, and unlike so many other games supposedly located in the United Kingdom’s capital, it often actually looks—and sounds—an awful like the city. While there are unquestionably some odd mistakes, some assumptions that don’t quite work, and something not quite right about the overall atmosphere, it’s…

Surprise: Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s Epilogue Is Some Of The Best Pikmin Ever Made

Twenty-two days ago, I wrote: “If Nintendo has hidden some amazing twist at the end of Pikmin 3 Deluxe, if the epilogue really delivers, the joke will be on me.” Today I am here to tell you there is no twist, at least not a plot twist at the end of the new Switch port…

Destiny 2 Director To Players: ‘Delete All That Shit’ Taking Up Space In Your Vault

This week we got another heads-up on several changes coming to Destiny 2, both in its next expansion and beyond, including that players won’t need to keep copies of all their favorite-looking armor in order to take advantage of the upcoming stats-preserving transmog system. “You’re not going to have to have the copy in your inventory,”…

Lunar’s Beloved Composer Scored A Game About Angels Fighting Alien Dicks

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll fly with angels, which in Gynoug is far, far grosser than it sounds. Early Sega Genesis was weird Sega Genesis, at least until Sonic raised the system’s profile in mid-1991. Western development, particularly from…

Track: Anata | Artist: Hikaru Utada | Album: Hatsukoi

Part 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…

The 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…

Everything 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…