What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for realizing that holy shit, the summer is almost over, the new Madden is out, nothing feels like it’s really happening anymore. Hooray. It’s that time of year again, somehow. The time when I set down a wonderful little puzzle platformer like Hello Games’ The Last Campfire, trading it for the sport…

Modder Turns Nintendo Wii Into A Slick-Looking Handheld

GingerOfMods has transformed a number of retro consoles into nifty-looking portables, but the Wiiboy Color is on another level. As technology improves, tinkers like GingerOfMods are able to revisit older gaming consoles and make them even more compact and efficient than before. It’s not easy though, and the recent Wiiboy Color mod is a testament…

Killer Cuts Was ‘90s Nintendo Failing To Be Cool

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s aural treat (of sorts) is Nintendo’s 1995 freebie album Killer Cuts, which was the soundtrack to Minoru Arakawa’s illegal, underground raves. If “game recognize game,” it follows that “nerd recognize nerd.” And as a…

Kojima Productions Is Now Promoting A Delivery Company In Japan

Makes sense, I guess? Kojima Productions developed Death Stranding, a game about delivering things, and now the Tokyo-based game studio is doing promotion for Kuroneko Yamato Transport, a Japanese delivery company. As My Game News Flash reports, a special website has been launched, with notes of encouragement for delivery workers that can be printed out,…

One Piece Will End In Four Or Five Years

Since 1997, Eiichiro Oda has churned out One Piece. It has become the most successful manga ever. And one day, One Piece will end—according to Oda, in the next four to five years. Recently, Oda appeared on Japanese TV and was asked how much longer the manga will run, reports Daily Sports. “Four or five…

The Japanese Town That’s Covered In Evangelion

Hakone, Japan is known for mountain views, hot springs, and Evangelion. The anime is set in Tokyo-3, a city constructed in Hakone. Earlier this year, it was first reported that the area would be teaming up with the iconic anime for an “Evangelion x Hakone 2020: Meet Evangelion in Hakone” collaboration that, most likely, hoped…

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Call Of Duty Trailer Recklessly Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s debut trailer—which has already attracted controversy—gives a lot of airtime to Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov and his views. Views which have, in recent years, become a dangerous rallying cry for far-right conspiracy theories and the people who peddle them. The teaser, which was released last week to hype…

Finally, You Cowards Put Yaddle In A Star Wars Game Trailer

And so, nearly two years after I first lamented the absence of the great Yaddle from ALL the Star Wars games, my suffering has ended. Finally, those cowards have released the first in-game footage of Yaddle from 2021’s LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. During Gamecom’s Opening Night Live event today, we got a bunch…

Everything Announced At Gamescom’s Opening Night

Summer Game Fest, the not-E3 months-long event created by Geoff Keighley, wrapped up today with a big, live event kicking off Gamescom 2020. This has been a strange year for video game announcements and reveals. With no E3 and many other shows going digital, publishers, websites, and developers have had to create their own online…

Here’s More Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Running On The PlayStation 5

We’ve seen glimpses of PS5 gameplay before—including in one seriously impressive tech demo from May—but today’s Gamescom “Opening Night Live” showed off a deeper look. Capping off the two-hour (!!) event was a lengthy gameplay demo of Insomniac Games’ PS5 exclusive, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Here’s a look: In an interview right after the…

Destiny 2 Shows Off Cool New Crystal Powers

We got our first look at Destiny 2‘s new Stasis subclass and its abilities in a new trailer during Gamescom today, and it looks absolutely wild. Stasis, which gets added to the game when Beyond Light comes out on November 10, looks like it’s all about crystals: creating them, smashing them, and otherwise wielding them…

Fall Guys‘ Second Season Is Medieval Themed

If you ever wished your local Renaissance Faire was more colorful, you’re in luck. Fall Guys’ second season will be themed after the medieval era, developer Mediatonic revealed today during Gamescom’s “Opening Night Live” event For those who’ve spent August under the rock or in the woods (hey, I wouldn’t blame you), Fall Guys is…

Time Loop Thriller 12 Minutes Stars Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe

Murder mystery 12 Minutes re-emerged at Gamescom 2020 opening night with even more polish and an all-star voice cast that includes Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe. The game, an interactive thriller about a man trapped in a 12-minute time loop, has been in development for several years now, with previews dating back to…

The good news, here’s a new trailer for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The bad news, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has slipped from a 2020 release to spring 2021. At least we know what gameplay looks like now, so we can hurt about the delay more. Yay!

Star Wars Comes To The Sims 4 September 8

Come September 9, scouring the mod scene to turn your Sims into Jedi and Stormtroopers becomes a thing of the past. The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu game pack will give players the chance to officially make their own Star Wars story. Your Sims will jump into the conflict between the Resistance and…