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CultureHow’s It Going?: Books Edition
Good morning! We’re back with our daily open thread for you to share, vent, and celebrate the good you can find going on around you. Last night I texted the other people living in my building to let them know I’m around if they need anything. I’d put it off for a while because it…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 18, 2020 -
UncategorizedWhile the original MapleStory gets an official chair, the Japanese version of MapleStory 2 gets shut down. A post on Nexon’s Japanese website (via Siliconera) informs players the 3D sequel will be ending service on May 27, just short of a year after launch. The English version of the game is safe for now.
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2020 -
CultureThere’s An Official MapleStory Gaming Chair And It’s Precious
Everybody deserves a fancy gaming chair. That includes players of a 17-year-old side-scrolling 2D Korean MMO. Nexon America has partnered with gaming chair maker DXRacer to create this adorable $380 pink, purple, and white seating surface based on MapleStory’s Pink Bean. Think all gaming chairs look like they rolled off the same assembly line? The…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2020 -
CultureHearthstone Adds First New Class Since Launch: Demon Hunters
After six years of card-battling Mages, Priests, Shamans, Warriors, Rogues, Hunters, Warlocks, and Paladins, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft-inspired trading card game finally gets some new blood. The Demon Hunter arrives on April 7 as part of the Ashes of Outland expansion. The first new class added to Hearthstone since its 2014 launch, the Demon Hunter…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2020 -
UncategorizedToday in Kagawa, Japan, the local government passed a rule about underage gaming: For those under 18 years old, gaming is limited to sixty minutes a day. Minors can play for 90 minutes on holidays. The government cannot legally enforce this ruling but is asking parents to
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2020 -
Kotaku EastCapcom’s Human Anatomical Reference For Artists
Over 20 years ago, Capcom created an anatomical reference guide that is apparently still in use today when bringing characters to life. According to Gamasutra, Capcom art director Toshiyuki Kamei discussed the guide at GDC in 2017. (Capcom Japan published it online.) Kamei said that the guide dates back to the mid-1990s and was overseen…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2020 -
UncategorizedJapanese Idol Says Selling Bathwater Was Her Management’s Idea
In January 2019, pop group the Banana Monkeys offered their bath water for 100,000 yen ($930) online. It went under the listing “Leftover hot water from an idol bath,” and two members of the group appeared in a YouTube clip, fully clothed in the tub. Member Tenka no Chanyuki says this wasn’t the group’s idea…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2020 -
CultureAnimal Crossing: New Horizons Doesn’t Care If Boys Wear Skirts, Whatever, It’s 2020
Despite being pretty good about letting players do what they want, the Animal Crossing series only recently made clothing gender neutral. New Leaf, released on the 3DS in 2012, was the first game to allow players to wear clothes traditionally meant for a different gender, and New Horizons takes that a little further by removing…
By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsGDC Is Cancelled, But This MMO Lets Everyone Attend A Bizarre Parody Of It
Like everything else, this year’s annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco has been postponed. But now it’s been resuscitated. Sort of. If you consider a really weird MMO to be an adequate substitute. Crows Developers Conference is a free game from development studio Crows Crows Crows, which previously made Accounting+ in conjunction with Rick…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedCanceled Soccer Game Played In Front Of 60,000 Fans (On Twitch)
Spanish sides Real Betis and Sevilla were supposed to play each other in real life on Sunday night, but La Liga’s covid-19 lockdown put paid to that. Not to matter, since both sides just picked one player each—their champion—and had them play the match on FIFA 20 instead. As Eurogamer report, Sevilla chose on-loan defender…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition comes to Steam tomorrow through March 23, Geoff Keighley announced on Twitter today. It will feature demos and other highlights of over 40 games that were supposed to be shown at GDC. The event goes live at 1pm ET/10am PT.
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedRebuilding A Virtual City As The Real World Crumbles
It’s a very strange time in the world right now, to say the least. As the world’s governments address covid-19, there’s one major nation that’s been dragging its feet: the United States of America. As Wall Street receives cash injections while workers worry about losing their jobs, it’s fallen to local communities to look after…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureThe Best Part Of Destiny 2’s New Exotic Quest Is The Mixtape In Zavala’s Office
Today’s Destiny 2 weekly reset marks the return of the Fourth Horseman shotgun from the original Destiny. Instead of grinding for it, though, I’m currently sitting in Zavala’s office getting pumped up on his workout mixtape. The first part of the “In Rides A Pale Horse” quest has you visiting the Vanguard titan’s personal workstation…
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureAll The Announcements From Today’s Nintendo Indie Direct
Today’s indie-focused Nintendo Direct was chock full of timed Switch exclusives. Here’s a quick rundown of what you missed if you were spending your quarantine time staring at a wall in anticipation of Animal Crossing instead of staring at Nintendo’s YouTube channel in anticipation of Animal Crossing Today’s Direct was a rapid-fire machine gun blast…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureGameStop Cancels Midnight Release Events For Animal Crossing And Doom
GameStop will be canceling midnight release events, like those for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal, for the foreseeable future and shutting down demo stations in their stores, according to an internal memo sent to employees this morning and obtained by Kotaku “Until further notice, late night launch events are suspended,” the memo reads.…
By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureUbisoft CEO Sends Comforting Note To Employees About Coronavirus
In a world where video game publishers frequently mistreat their workers, where companies often seem more concerned with profits than people, here is a refreshing note from one top executive about the covid-19 pandemic that has upended all of our lives. Ubisoft chief executive officer Yves Guillemot recently sent this message, obtained by Kotaku, to…
By Jason Schreier Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?
Good morning! We’re doing something different, starting today: every morning, Kotaku will be running an open thread where you can talk about what you’re playing, how you’re helping each other during this tough time in the world, and how you’re doing. I run the site’s weekly “What Are You Playing This Weekend?” post, where you…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureNo Man’s Sky Is Getting Bobbleheads
Party like it’s 1999 by adding one of No Man Sky’s new custom bobbleheads to your spaceship cockpit. In Hello Games latest development update the studio announced the figurines will be a new exotic collectible sold by the Quicksilver Bot and can be installed in in any spaceship. The first two to be added to…
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020
