Persona 4 Golden‘s Steam Success Has Sega Aiming For More PC Ports

Sega Sammy did not have a great first quarter financially. Most of the company’s businesses, which include pachinko, arcades and arcade machines, and resorts, suffered due to the covid-19 crisis. The surprise release of Persona 4 Golden on PC, however, was an overwhelming success, which Sega aims to capitalize on with more PC ports and…

Fantasy Miniatures In Battle-Ready Wheelchairs Please Me Greatly

First the outstanding Sara Thompson creates a set of rules for combat wheelchairs for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Now Strata Miniatures, makers of small role-playing figures, has created a line of wheeled fantasy heroes ready to roll into battle, with a portion of all sales going towards Ehlers-Danlos Support UK I have to admit, it’s…

Bionic Commando’s Got That Signature Capcom Sound

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to the unexpectedly great NES port of an arcade underachiever. A number of arcade-to-NES ports were outright superior to the coin-ops that spawned them, in gameplay if not technical aspects. Tecmo’s Ninja…

Anime Magic Spell Turned Into Covid-19 Barrier

To protect from the novel coronavirus, stores in Japan (and around the world) have installed plastic barriers. They might be effective, but they’re rather dull. Twitter user Takumi Armory, a company which specializes in fantasy-themed props, has created this anime magic spell-style divider that it says can “defend against viruses.” Priced at 15,000 yen ($143),…

Compile Heart has announced a Neptunia game for the PS5. Titled Go! Go! 5D Game: Neptune re★Verse, the game currently does not have a release date. However, the announcement was made on the tenth anniversary of the series. Can you believe it? Ten years of Neptunia 

Why Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Isn’t Available In China

Microsoft just released a new Flight Simulator. Players around the world are enjoying the game—save for China. The last Flight Simulator came out on Steam in 2014, and that version previously came out in 2006. But this latest edition hasn’t made it to China. As South China Morning Post reports, the game has not been…

The New Total War Is Not A Complete Mess

Total War is a series whose games can swing wildly between “all-time classics” and “oh no”. So a few years back, developers Creative Assembly had a very good idea: in between major releases, they’d work on smaller, more experimental games, where they could test new ideas and features before rolling them out into the bigger,…

Considerate Fall Guys Player Saves AFK Contestant From Elimination

It’s an inescapable fact that the world is full of assholes, and the same can be said of Fall Guys. But sometimes someone—or in this case, somebean—does something so wonderful that it makes you forget about humanity’s failings for a little while. Just check out this player safely guiding an AFK competitor around Perfect Match…

E3 Apologizes After Sexist Tweet Gets Ratioed

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was one of those times when the three gremlins in a trenchcoat controlling the E3 Twitter account tweeted something so insulting and ridiculous that all you can do is screenshot it and wait for it to be deleted. At 11:37 a.m. ET…

So Glad I Finally Discovered The Sci-Fi Puzzle Adventure Observation

“I am here.” You’ll hear that line often over the course of Observation, a puzzle-adventure game that came out last year for PC and PlayStation 4 and earlier this summer for Xbox One. (It’s also included in the Xbox Game Pass library.) If you’re looking for a short, satisfying adventure to help you weather the…

Baldur’s Gate III Delivers The First Actually Good Not-E3 Developer Livestream

Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream. I haven’t seen friends or family in any sort of natural or sustained way for months, the unemployment rate is only slightly below where it was during the worst months of the Great Recession, and hundreds are still dying every day of…

Oculus VR Devices Will Soon Require Facebook Accounts

Starting in October, new users of the Oculus virtual reality gaming platform will need to log in with a Facebook account, the company announced today. Current users will need to merge their Oculus accounts with a Facebook account within the next two years to maintain the “full functionality” of their systems after January 1, 2023.…

This Lion King Speedrunner Is A Queen

Damn! Damn! I don’t think you understand how difficult this is to execute. Mere mortals who play this game have about a 50/50 chance of grabbing onto any swinging rock, with failure almost always resulting in insta-death. And she just… does it. On the hardest difficulty with zero lives. Eight is a straight-up badass.

EA Play, the publisher’s recently rebranded subscription service, will finally be available on Steam starting August 31. Previously the only way to use it on PC was through EA’s own Origin client.

Superliminal Is My Favorite Game Of SGDQ So Far

God I love Games Done Quick. The biannual speedrunning charity event is like a video game holy week for me. I watch everything. It’s on when I work, when I’m eating (if I eat at all), it’s on when I sleep. I am always watching, which actually sounds kinda sinister. The 3D puzzle platformer block…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is entering early access on September 30. Developer Larian announced the date as part of a livestream today. As with Divinity Original Sin 2, early access players will get to try out the game’s first act. Difference is, BG3‘s first act is much larger than DOS2‘s. It’ll last around 25 hours, with…