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CultureMorning MusicHades’ Godly Soundtrack Is A Natural Evolution For Supergiant’s Darren Korb
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool sounds they make. Today’s cuts are from a game that has much of Kotaku’s editorial staff in a vice grip: Hades, the story-driven roguelike from Supergiant Games, set in the underworld of ancient Greece. Wouldn’t you know it, the…
By Ari Notis Published September 23, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanJapan’s Latest Life-Sized Godzilla Is Coming Along Nicely
Last year, a new life-sized Godzilla was announced for Japan. Let’s check-in and see how it’s doing. Originally the giant Godzilla was slated to open in this summer, but it seems the global pandemic has slowed down construction. Below is a model of the intended work. While still under construction, it is shaping up quite…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Last Trip | Artist: Yonlapa | Album: Last Trip (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2020 -
AnimeLet’s Admire The Beauty of Studio Ghibli
This month Studio Ghibli launched galleries for some of its most famous films—a total of four hundred high-quality screenshots. On the official page Studio Ghibli writes that people are free to use the images “within the realm of accepted practice.” Meaning? The famed animation studio has uploaded them for fair use: You can likely upload these…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 23, 2020 -
CultureNintendo Accidentally Announces New Kirby Game
Without so much as a Direct or even a press release, Nintendo has listed a new Kirby game on the company’s website: Kirby Fighters 2 The original Kirby Fighters began life as part of2014’s Kirby: Triple Deluxe, before being beefed up as a standalone product for the 3DS eShop called Kirby Fighters Deluxe. This would…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureThe Art Of Marvel’s Avengers
While working with a licensed property like The Avengers means you don’t need to imagine everything from scratch, there’s still a ton of work that went into designing and fleshing out the setting for Crystal Dynamics’ latest game. Below you’ll find a cross-section of work that went into The Avengers’ development, from environment design to character…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsArt Of Rally Turns Driving Into Meditation
Art of Rally is what happens when you take driving—usually depicted in video games as a very loud and busy thing—and strip it back to its most beautiful basics. An incredibly minimalist effort from Funselektor (of Absolute Drift fame), it’s a full-blown single-player racing game described as “a stylized experience inspired by the golden era…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallHalo 3: ODST Is Back, So Let’s Remember One Of The Greatest Video Game Trailers Of All Time
Halo 3: ODST is out on Steam today, a fresh addition to the Master Chief Collection, letting a whole new generation of players take part in one of the defining games of the series’ golden age. But today, I don’t want to look forwards, I want to look back, to the game’s 2009 release. When…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureSix Months LaterAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, Six Months Later
Six months ago, life as we knew it changed. The covid-19 pandemic rippled through every corner of society. Millions were infected. Thousands died. Municipalities across the globe issued shelter-in-place orders. Overnight, social distancing turned from a polite suggestion into a mandatory directive. On March 20, Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It wasn’t a panacea,…
By Ari Notis Published September 22, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsBlack Athena: How Hades Gets Its Gods Right
I love Hades. It’s a great roguelike, has a cleverly-crafted story, and is stuffed with beautiful art and design. But what I like most about it is its commitment to diversity among its characters. Hades’ pantheon of Greek gods is diverse. Athena is a dark-skinned Black woman. Dionysus is south Asian. Hermes is east Asian.…
By Ash Parrish Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionAmazon’s Error Dogs, Ranked
The video game world spent a significant portion of the morning trying to score an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S. More often than not, folks were met with error screens telling them their efforts were in vain. While certainly frustrating, at least evil megacorporation Amazon gave folks some great dogs to look at…
By Ian Walker Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsA Return To The The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time Reminded Me Why It’s Special
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is widely considered not just one of the greatest games in the Zelda series, but one of the best games of all time. The 1998 Nintendo 64 game felt vast. It’s story was epic. It made controlling a character in 3D space feel intuitive. It was Zelda…
By Peter Tieryas Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureUbisoft Apologizes For Excluding Women From Assassin’s Creed Sizzle Reel
Ubisoft, which has spent much of the summer dealing with widespread reports of sexism, harassment, and misconduct at the company, put out a short video on Twitter yesterday highlighting all of the Assassin’s Creed protagonists who have mastered the hidden blade. Somehow it left out all of the women. “The blade is back,” Ubisoft’s Assassin’s…
By Ethan Gach Published September 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsPendragon Is A Strategy Game Where Conversations Are As Tense As Battles, And There’s Not Always A Difference
In most games, roadside villages are respites—hard-earned rests for weary travelers. In Pendragon, a narrative-driven turn-based strategy game about the fall of Camelot that just came out on PC, they are a wakeup call. Unlike many other turn-based strategy games, Pendragon plays out like a roguelike; you make multiple runs through a series of randomized…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureXbox Series X Pre-Orders Have Been A Debacle So Far [Update]
Despite advance notice, a set time, and links set up for all of the retailers who would be selling the Xbox Series X and Series S today, trying to pre-order Microsoft’s next-gen console has been a massive headache. Pre-orders in the U.S. were set to start at 11:00 a.m., which is also about the time…
By Ethan Gach Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Teases The Return Of Variks
“Destroy mines, yessss?” Long-time Destiny players have those words and other morsels of dry sarcasm etched into their brains from spending dozens upon dozens of hours fighting enemy mobs in the first game’s Prison of Elders. Now, that jail’s warden, Fallen scholar Variks, The Loyal, appears set to make a fresh appearance in the game…
By Ethan Gach Published September 22, 2020 -
CultureHere’s A Book Filled With Game Boy Box Art
Quality video game tome publisher Bitmap Books is about to launch pre-orders for Game Boy: The Box Art Collection, a 372-page volume of nothing but critiqued Game Boy game covers and green-tinged screenshots. I love the contrast between the gorgeous art adorning the outside of Game Boy boxes and the actual in-game screenshots. I like…
By Mike Fahey Published September 22, 2020
