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Kotaku EastJapanCompile 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
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2020 -
Kotaku EastChinaWhy 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsLord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth Is Being Remade By Fans, And It Looks Fantastic
Back in 2018, we first got word that a group of Lord of the Rings fans were remaking the cult classic Battle for Middle Earth in Unreal Engine 4. If you were expecting that to be the last you heard of the project, sorry, two years later there’s now a very comprehensive gameplay update, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe 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,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureThe Worst Warzone Gun Is Now The Best (But It’s Still Broken)
One of Warzone’s worst guns is now so broken that, thanks to exploits, it’s actually the best gun to use in Call of Duty’s battle royale. The standard version of the FR 5.56 assault rifle is a weak choice for Warzone matches, but players have discovered that the gun is almost unstoppable with the right…
By S.E. Doster Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsConsiderate 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…
By Ian Walker Published August 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsEA UFC 4 Has Some Clever Surprises, But It’s Mostly More Of The Same
Sometimes, when an MMA fighter takes a couple years off, they come back transformed, throwing out so many new looks and techniques that it’s like they spent their entire time away in an extended training montage. Other times, they’re pretty much the same as before, but a little creakier, a little rustier, and a lot…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureE3 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…
By Ethan Gach Published August 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsSo 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…
By Ari Notis Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’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…
By Ethan Gach Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOculus 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.…
By Ian Walker Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsThis 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.
By Ash Parrish Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsSuperliminal 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…
By Ash Parrish Published August 18, 2020 -
UncategorizedBaldur’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…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureKiller7 Isn’t Coming To Switch After All [UPDATE]
Update (8/18/20, 1:23 p.m. ET): Sadly, my hopes for a Switch port of killer7 have been dashed. Speaking to Kotaku, Engine Software vice president of development Ruud van de Moosdijk said that his company had discussed porting killer7 to Switch with Grasshopper Manufacture while development on the PC version was ongoing, but Grasshopper eventually decided…
By Ian Walker Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureEverything Announced During Today’s Nintendo Indie World
Did you catch Nintendo’s Indie World presentation today on YouTube? Nintendo showed off more than 20 indie hits on their way to the Switch, including a handful that are out later today. Don’t worry if you missed it, we kept track. First off we’ve got the big news. Supergiant’s Hades, that silly Epic Game Store…
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2020 -
CultureUntitled Goose Game Is Getting Multiplayer
Untitled Goose Game, the game about a goose on the loose, is about to become a game about geese on the… leese? Today during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, developer House House announced that co-op is coming to Untitled Goose Game on September 23 as part of a free update. In just one week, you and…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 18, 2020