Disco Elysium: The Kotaku Review

The most important thing about Disco Elysium, an oddly titled role-playing game that came out last month for PC, is that it’s funny. Set in a beautifully ugly world of smudged watercolors and throbbing noir music, Disco Elysium appears at first to be the type of game that might take itself too seriously. It seems…

PSA: Get To Death Stranding Chapter 3 As Quickly As Possible

I’ve already laid out some Death Stranding tips alongside my coworker Tim Rogers. Travel light; build structures in smart places; have an extra pair of shoes. One tip stands above them all, though: Do not get sidetracked at the start of the game. Death Stranding drops players into a large world to complete tons of…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for finally throwing out all the takeaway containers that don’t have lids, because my tendency to think “I could use this, I’ll save it!” has tipped over into a frightening compulsion. The weekend is also for playing video games. I’m on the fence about playing Death Stranding: I have very little patience for…

How To Cover Video Game News When Everything’s A Mess

Last weekend, I immersed myself in the sights and sounds of a busy convention floor at BlizzCon in Anaheim, California. It was work—interviews, hands-on gameplay, meeting with contacts. It was also a chance to see friends. Through it all, I felt guilty. As controversies mounted, I was forced to navigate my guilt in the middle…

One Helpful Way To Cope With My Chronic Illness: Memes

A little under a year ago, everything I ate started making me feel sick. Even after removing the most obvious trigger, I still couldn’t get through a meal without stomach cramps, nausea, or diarrhea. Turns out I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS. At this point, the only thing that makes me feel better is…

Nintendo Just Released A Wacky Ambulance Game

A new Nintendo-published game, The Stretchers, just came out on the Nintendo eShop. It’s a co-op game where you and a friend load people onto an ambulance and take them to a hospital, and it looks very silly. The Stretchers comes from the same people that made Little Nightmares, Tarsier Studios, and it manages to…

Anime Eyes Still Look Horrible On Real People

Anime eyes might look OK in, well, anime, but on real-life humans, they look freaky as hell. Previously, we saw giant anime eyes brought to life with Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel.  This time around, big eyes are back, but as a pointed play on anime conventions like schoolyard renai (love)—and more importantly, a way…

Edible Japanese Gardens Turn Snack Time Into Zen Time

If you’ve ever been to Japan, maybe you’ve visited one of the country’s numerous gardens. They are wonderful places to enjoy nature and contemplate life. What if you could make your own Japanese garden? Out of candy? And then eat it? You can! As Netgeek reports, there are DIY candy kit versions of Japanese gardens.…

Iconic Anime Spacecraft Recreated In Straw

Each year, folks in the town of Chikuzen, Japan, create sculptures out of rice straw to mark the fall harvest. Previously, they made a Godzilla statue. This year, they’ve brought Space Battleship Yamato to life. According to Nico Nico, the rice straw version is over 54 feet long and at most 15 feet high. The…

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The Star Warrior

Jude Smith is an artist at Kabam, developers of mobile games like Marvel Contest of Champions You can see more of Smith’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Massive Scandal Hits FIFA Community As Cowardly Pros Avoid Playing Each Other

A huge scandal has hit the online FIFA community recently, as several of the world’s top players were caught in a secret Discord colluding to avoid playing each other, thus making their games easier, and their winnings more secure. There’s a lot to take in here if you don’t play FIFA—and if you want the…

GTA Online Players Are Having Fun As Animals

Grand Theft Auto Online has become a much stranger place since its latest update. The new update added peyote plants, which are found in the singleplayer mode of GTA V; eating these plants transforms the player into a random animal. From birds to dogs, to even Bigfoot, players are now getting up to all sorts…

World Of Warcraft Will Reduce Everyone’s Level To Avoid A ‘Grind’

After 15 years and seven expansions, World of Warcraft has become the content equivalent of a foot-tall (not -long) sandwich constructed by an overly ambitious stoner. At this point, it’s teetering under the weight of pieces that, in hindsight, don’t really fit. That’s why the World of Warcraft team has decided to cut the leveling…

Hideo Kojima Presents Death Stranding Starring Hideo Kojima As Hideo Kojima

Here, for your enjoyment this Thursday evening, is a Death Stranding trailer in which every single character is just Hideo Kojima. Made using Deepfakes, it’s basically the animated version of: It’s worth remembering that this tweet read differently in Japanese. It’s also worth remembering that this video is a joke, and a good one at…