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CultureThere’ll Be 31 Xbox Series X/S Optimized Games On Day One
Between games built for the Xbox Series X/S and older games optimized to take advantage of the new consoles’ power, there’ll be a lot to play when the fourth generation Xboxes drop on November 10. This morning Microsoft listed 31 games ready for Series X/S level play on launch day, from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to…
By Mike Fahey Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureHere’s What The PS5’s UI Looks Like
Sony released a new trailer today showing off what it will look like to navigate the PS5. In some ways it’s a lot more streamlined, but in others it also looks a lot busier, with lots of extra information to digest depending on what you’re doing. Take a look: The PS5 will still have a…
By Ethan Gach Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicCreaky Monkey Ball Ancestor Tama Sounds Whimsical AF
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. I’m dialing up the obscure-o-meter a bit today with a weird 32-bit launch title from 1994. It’s Tama! Japanese players who ponied up ¥44,800 to own a Sega Saturn on its November 22, 1994 launch met…
By Alexandra Hall Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMonster Hunter Fans Point Out A Problem In The Movie Poster
If you had issues with the live-action Monster Hunter trailer, the movie poster might also give you pause. In it a Diablos looms over star Milla Jovovich, who is wielding fire dual blades. But… As Twitter user Xyless points out, fire is the least effective element against the monster. My Game News Flash reports that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanPokémon Go Is Leaving McDonald’s In Japan
Back in 2016, when Pokémon Go first launched in Japan, the popular augmented reality game began a collaboration with McDonald’s. As of tomorrow, that will end. When the tie-up first started, around 2,500 McDonald’s restaurants doubled as PokéStops, while another 400 or so were Pokémon Gyms. According to Nikkei, the result was store sales increasing…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanIn Japan, Nintendo Delays Detective Game Remakes For Switch Until Next Year
In September 2019, Nintendo revealed that remakes of the first two Famicom Tantei Club games were heading to the Japanese Switch sometime this year. Today, the Kyoto-based game company announced the games would be delayed until 2021. The first in the adventure game series, Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Koukeisha, was released on the Famicom Disk…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureTrack: In The Air Tonight (2015 Remaster) | Artist: Phil Collins | Album: Face Value (Remastered)
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Root The Root 100: Most Influential African Americans in 2020 | Deadspin Actually, it’s LeBron who’s the G.O.A.T. | Gizmodo Do Not Buy an iPhone 12 Just for 5G | The A.V. Club Back to the drawing board: 14 TV shows that should do animated episodes | Lifehacker How to Preorder the iPhone 12…
By G/O Media Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureDark Souls Modders Are Building Their Own “Sequel”
A team of Dark Souls modders havegot together to announce Nightfall, a fan-made “sequel” that, while not creating any truly new models or environments, is still setting out to build an entirely fresh Souls game on the PC. Modders working on the project include Grimrukh (Daughters of Ash), AinTunez, Meowmaritus, Dane, Zullie and some others.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty Finally Lets PC Players Uninstall Over 100GB Of Stuff
For the longest time, Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PC has made players set aside increasingly—and hilariously—enormous amounts of hard drive space, up to 232GB at last count. This week, finally, players will be able to free up some of that space While it doesn’t sound like the biggest deal, increasing numbers of PC…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureSpider-Man: Miles Morales Lets You Wear A Cat On Your Back
Spider-Man: Miles Morales has a lot going for it. (Just to note, former Kotaku staffer Evan Narcisse was one of the writers on the game.) But everything—the visuals, the web-slinging, the pedigree of an extremely popular character from an extremely popular cross-media franchise—pales in comparison to one thing: the cat suit. It’s not a suit…
By Ari Notis Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureDoom Running On A Calculator Powered By Old Potatoes
If you’ve got 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator? That’s what YouTuber Equalo decided to do, spending almost a week planning out how many potatoes he would need and in what configuration they should be wired in order to get the appropriate number…
By Ethan Gach Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureSomeone Actually Beat Spelunky 2’s Daunting Cosmic Ocean
Spelunky 2 is a massive game, even more so than the original. While most of us are just trying to survive the first couple of biomes, the best players can follow a variety of intersecting quest lines in pursuit of several unique endings. The holy grail of Spelunky 2 runs has been traversing the Cosmic…
By Ian Walker Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureAvengers Patch 1.3.3 Eliminates Some Of The Game’s Biggest Nuisances
Along with planting the seeds for new story content with the addition of a new remote S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost, tomorrow’s patch 1.3.3 for Marvel’s Avengers does away with several annoyances players have been complaining about since day one. For example, it adds remote faction terminals to outposts, increases the radius in which items are automatically picked…
By Mike Fahey Published October 14, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsMinecraft‘s Steve Is Super Weird In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Earlier this month, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai revealed the latest fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It wasn’t Crash Bandicoot, as rumors suggested. It wasn’t Master Chief, as hopes and dreams did. It certainly wasn’t the long-clamored-for Waluigi. It was Steve, from Minecraft. Last night, Steve officially joined the Ultimate roster as the…
By Ari Notis Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureSega Is Releasing A Mashup Of Yakuza And Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Kamurocho is Streets of Rage 2 starring Yakuza’s Kiryu and Majima and will be free-to-play on October 17 as part of Sega’s 60th Anniversary event on Steam. In addition to iconic Yakuza characters, the remixed beat ‘em up, created by Empty Clip Studios, will also feature levels inspired by the games and will…
By Ethan Gach Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureTwitchTwitch’s Latest Horror Sensation, Phasmophobia, Has Streamers Screaming (At Each Other)
It’s not uncommon for horror games to take off on Twitch. Usually they’re flashes in the pan: The janky P.T.-alike du jour grabs eyeballs for a few days and then quickly descends back into the poorly-lit pits of obscurity. Phasmophobia is different. Sure, it’s inspired by P.T., and yes, it’s janky as all get out,…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureHere’s The Trailer For The Monster Hunter Movie
Less fantasy than sci-fi, the new Monster Hunter movie is giving me major Stargate vibes. Instead of taking place completely in the world of Monster Hunter, the movie sees a military unit commanded by Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) transported through a magical portal while out on patrol. The place they end up in is full…
By Ethan Gach Published October 14, 2020
