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Someone Built A Working Plane In Minecraft And It Looks Terrifying

Over on the Minecraft subreddit, MrCatFace8885 has created a rather impressive and scary looking plane. Using Redstone, slime blocks and pistons, MrCatFace8885 was able to build a working plane in Minecraft without special mods. Though I’m not sure I would actually want to fly in this loud, convulsing contraption. According to MrCatFace8885, they built this…

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 14, 2019

CulturePokemon

Shedinja Is Just A Dead Corpse That Steals Souls

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Shedinja! Thanks for the suggestion GlydeBane! Shedinja Details Type: Bug/Ghost Average Height: 2’07” Average Weight: 2.6 lbs. First Added…

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 14, 2019

CultureMorning Checkpoint

A Telephone Pole Made Me Cry

Hello! This week we watch someone get killed by Minecraft creepers, discuss why gingerbread people need a toilet, get puked on, learn more about Apple Arcade, date Colonel Sanders and say goodbye to a telephone pole. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Why do they have a toilet? What is coming out of them?…

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 14, 2019

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Seems Popular At The Tokyo Game Show

In what should surprise absolutely no one, Final Fantasy VII Remake is drawing long lines at the Tokyo Game Show. I think people in Japan might be excited about this game. Call it a hunch! Today is the first public date for the 2019 Tokyo Game Show. As soon as the general public started being…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 13, 2019

Culture

Track: Keep Your Mouth Shut | Artist: Anthony Green (ft. Summer Swee-Singh) | Album: Would You Still Be With Strings

By Nathan Grayson Published September 13, 2019

OpinionImpressions

Extra ‘Realism’ Makes For A Slow-Paced Modern Warfare Beta

Activision kicked off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s multiplayer beta yesterday, letting PlayStation 4 players get hands-on with a softly rebooted Modern Warfare focused more on realism. Following up on last month’s alpha for Modern Warfare’s upcoming 2v2 Gunfight mode, the beta offers a taste of the standard multiplayer with 6v6 and 10v10 matches in…

By S.E. Doster Published September 13, 2019

Culture

The Secret To The Success Of Bastion, Pyre, And Hades: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations

It’s been ten years since Supergiant Games opened its doors. The team put all of their hopes into the studio’s debut game, Bastion, an action-RPG with a narrator. It succeeded with flying colors. Since then, the studio has released Transistor, Pyre, and Hades, every single one receiving critical acclaim and financial success. The team’s big…

By Nathan Grayson Published September 13, 2019

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Nobody Knows What’s Up With Tomb Raider‘s Eighth DLC

Back in April, players of the most recent Tomb Raider noticed something surprising. An in-game menu that was being used to list new downloadable tomb levels suddenly listed an eighth slot. The game’s publisher had only ever promised seven. At the time, there was still one more of the game’s seven announced bonus tombs to…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 13, 2019

OpinionImpressions

Six Hours In, Borderlands 3 Just Feels Like More Borderlands (And It’s Kinda Busted)

Borderlands 3 is almost certainly the game that you think it is. Six hours in, a lot of my feelings remain the same as they were when I first played Borderlands 3 at an extended preview last month. In a lot of ways it’s a time capsule, in some ways embarrassingly retrograde in its sensibilities,…

By Joshua Rivera Published September 13, 2019

OpinionImpressions

My New Favorite Way To Play Pinball On Switch

Today’s release of Zen Studios’ Star Wars Pinball for the Nintendo Switch gave me an idea. I’ve been playing my Switch docked and connected to this cool little portable 15.6-inch Viotek monitor, and Zen’s Switch pinball games support vertical play, so what if we turn the portable monitor on its side? Perfection. There are plenty…

By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2019

ReviewsMultiplatform

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers: The Kotaku Review

Shadowbringers, the latest expansion to Final Fantasy XIV, released two months ago, and I cannot begin to fathom the amount of time I have spent in the worlds of Eorzea and Norvrandt. Shadowbringers is one of Final Fantasy’s finest stories, buoyed by powerful music and sweeping gameplay changes that make job classes sleek and enjoyable.…

By Heather Alexandra Published September 13, 2019

ReviewsToys

I Have Several Issues With This Year’s Halloween Pokémon Toys

Pikachu as Mimikyu. Charmander as Cubone. Lucario and Celebi as live-action role-players. This year’s batch of special Halloween-themed “Pumpkin Parade” plushies from The Pokémon Company are adorable at first glance. But if you look closely, the cute facade begins to crumble. Let’s start with Charmander wearing another Pokémon’s dead mother’s skull as a costume. Depending…

By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2019

Culture

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going to my neighborhood block party, which will hopefully be full of sweet neighborhood gossip. It’s also for playing video games! It has been way too long since I checked in on Subnautica Below Zero. Hopefully you can pet the penguins by now. Stealth game The Light Keeps Us Safe also…

By Riley MacLeod Published September 13, 2019

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Joshua and I are streaming Borderlands 3 right now live on our Twitch channel! Come join us in the chat.

By Paul Tamayo Published September 13, 2019

OpinionImpressions

Kind Words Is A Game Where You Send Confessional Letters To Online Strangers

“I always read the stuff people send me the wrong way,” a stranger on Kind Words, a new PC game where you write and receive confessional letters. “I read it as if they are upset with me and don’t want to talk to me. They’ve always told me this isn’t how they feel, but I…

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 13, 2019

CultureKotaku Game Diary

I Never Got Into Real Hockey But I Love NHL Video Games

I couldn’t tell you the name of the cover athlete of EA’s NHL 20 off the top of my head. For that matter, I couldn’t identify the players on the cover of NHL 18 or 19 ,despite both games still being installed on my Xbox One dashboard. I have little knowledge of the real-life sport…

By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2019

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Mordhau Players Are Having A Great Time By Ignoring All The Rules

A player’s first experience in the popular PC game Mordhau will be Frontline. The 32-on-32 skirmish is the marquee player-vs-player mode in the game, and it embodies a specific grimdark fantasy of the high middle ages; two proud knighthoods, each defending a vague dynastic crest, cracking skulls with catapults, javelins, morning stars, and zweihanders. The…

Luke Winkie Published September 13, 2019

Culture

How To Play Long Video Games When You Have No Time

For a lot of gamers with demanding jobs, marriages and/or families, the excitement of reading good reviews for games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is tempered by the sinking realization that they’ll never have time to play them. How do you make time for a 60+ hour game when you have…

By Keza MacDonald Published September 13, 2019

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Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez posted a statement on Twitter last night in response to a Kotaku investigation into his racism and mistreatment of employees. Addressing the former but not the latter, he did not apologize but called his comments “indefensible and unacceptable.”

By Jason Schreier Published September 13, 2019

ReviewsSwitch

Daemon X Machina: The Kotaku Review

Daemon X Machina, out September 13 from Marvelous, is a game about gigantic customizable mechs. Here is another way to describe it: the worst filler episode of your favorite anime series. It is a mess of a game, with a story mode chock full of unintelligible cutscenes, repetitious anime tropes, and a core of mech…

By Natalie Degraffinried Published September 13, 2019