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UncategorizedShameless Animal Crossing Clone Coming To PC
Hey, if Nintendo won’t bring these games to PC, someone else will. Just as we’ve seen already this year with Temtem—which brought Pokémon in everything but name to the PC—now along comes Hokko Life, which is so Animal Crossing I’m surprised they didn’t just call it Animal Crossing for Personal Computers and cross their fingers…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureFan-Favorite ‘Rust’ Map Is Back For Modern Warfare‘s Season 2
New maps and fan favorites are coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s “Season Two” beginning on February 11. Activision and Infinity Ward have finally announced the roadmap that details the flow of content from day one until the upcoming weeks. Just like Modern Warfare’s inaugural Season One, this will be a steady release of…
By S.E. Doster Published February 10, 2020 -
OpinionTales From Off-Peak City Is The Bizarre Pizza Mystery Game You Never Knew You Needed
Your mission in Tales From Off-Peak City Vol.1 is simple: find and steal a precious saxophone from a pizza shop owner. It’s an undercover mission where you’ll masquerade as an assistant in the pizzeria. But something’s wrong. Everyone in the town is a little “off,” your boss is suddenly rushed off and gives you ownership…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 10, 2020 -
UncategorizedLeaving Fortnite Challenges Unfinished Stresses Me Out
Fortnite’s current season is coming to an end, at long last, on February 20. This means players only have a few weeks left to complete in-game challenges that earn them cosmetics and other rewards. I don’t want any new loot, but I can’t stop doing the challenges. Fortnite challenges are in-game activities you do to…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 10, 2020 -
EsportsWhy The Paris Overwatch League Team Is Based Out Of New Jersey This Season
After two seasons in Burbank, California, the Overwatch League has finally achieved its goal of scattering teams across the globe to their various home cities. Well, mostly. Paris Eternal, somewhat conspicuously, is operating out of New Jersey. New Jersey, in case you’re from a non-Earth planet, is not in France. A couple weeks before the…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 10, 2020 - Uncategorized
Splitscreen co-host and ex-Kotaku editor Kirk Hamilton has a mini-episode of his podcast Strong Songs about “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” from the Netflix Witcher show. In the episode, Kirk breaks down exactly why the song is so good. Give a listen if you need to get “Toss A Coin” stuck in your head all…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureJapanese Dragon Ball FighterZ Finals Competitor Wins Over French Crowd
The Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour finals concluded with a Big Bang Attack this past weekend in Paris, France, capping off a months-long season of competition in the popular three-on-three fighting game. The bracket was mostly decided beforehand, but one Japanese competitor was given an eleventh-hour opportunity to slip in by way of a last…
By Ian Walker Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureHackers Are Dropping Violent Two-Headed Skeletons Into Red Dead Online
It’s not Halloween, but already Red Dead Online is already getting spooky thanks to hackers who are releasing two-headed skeletons into online sessions. These aggressive skeletons have started popping up in random games over the last few days, surprising and attacking unsuspecting players. First reported by VG24/7, you can also find Red Dead Online players…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureBioWare Plans A ‘Substantial Reinvention’ Of Anthem
BioWare will seek to “reinvent” Anthem’s gameplay in a “longer-term redesign” of the embattled online multiplayer action game, studio head Casey Hudson said today in a blog post. This confirms a Kotaku report from November. “Over the coming months we will be focusing on a longer-term redesign of the experience, specifically working to reinvent the…
By Ethan Gach Published February 10, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHeads Up: You’ll Need To Manage The Bioshock Collection’s Limited Save Space
If you use up the BioShock collection’s limited space for making saves while playing BioShock 1, you won’t be able to save at all once you start playing BioShock 2 Yesterday was BioShock 2’s 10-year anniversary, and the remastered collection containing all three games is currently available to download as part of PlayStation Plus. As…
By Ethan Gach Published February 10, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Opening To Vagrant Story Still Holds The Heck Up
On a whim last night, I downloaded a copy of Vagrant Story to my PlayStation Vita (may it never, ever break). It’s one of those games I missed out on but always meant to go back to, especially since I’ve been digging into director Yasumi Matsuno’s back catalogue lately. Having played Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics…
By Joshua Rivera Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureSpace Channel 5 VR Comes Out Later This Month
It’s been 18 years since Sega’s dancing reporter starred in her own rhythm adventure. After nearly two decades of cameos, Ulala gets her groove back on February 25 with the release of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. As our own Brian Ashcraft learned last year in an interview with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Media Molecule’s ambitious game-building system, Dreams, is officially launching this week, which means we can all finally experience the immense pressure of being an indie game developer. The Dreams beta has been out for nearly a year, so there should be plenty to play around with once the game finally hits this Friday. There have…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallYoshi’s Island Glitch Causes 25-Minute Pause
There’s nothing funnier to me than enormous bugs being discovered in very old games, and so we come today to this Yoshi’s Island misadventure shared by the ever-wonderful Supper Mario Broth, which when triggered will simply stop your game for, oh, 25 minutes. The bug was first documented online (I’m sure someone out there ran…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureMother Reunited With Deceased Daughter In VR Show
Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a virtual reality recreation, complete with audio. You can see it below. Not only was the girl fully replicated…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedThanks as always Kotaku for letting us host the site for the weekend! Hope you enjoyed our thoughts on Animal Crossing, the Xbox, Starfleet, Trails, the Famicom, robot revolutions and more. While all good things do come to an end, sometimes they can come back in mysterious forms. Cing, the developers behind Last Window and…
Peter Tieryas & Ben Bertoli & Narelle Ho Sang Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedWho’s Your Favorite NPC In A Game?
NPCs can make or break a game. My PC introduced me to some of my first NPCs. In Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a variety of NPCs were there to test your morals and virtues so you could grow as an avatar; as a kid, I really thought I was helping people by giving…
By Peter Tieryas Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedA new video from Bandai Namco reveals both Ultra Instinct Goku and female Super Saiyan Kefla will be joining the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster this spring as part of FighterZ Pass 3. Kefla is a fusion of fan favorite Dragon Ball Super characters Caulifla and Kale. Hope you’re ready to eat your vegetables.
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Famicom’s Built-In Microphone Was Wonderfully Weird
There have always been slight regional differences between consoles, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System hit store shelves in the fall of 1985 it had been stripped of nearly all the form and charm of its Japanese counterpart. It was clear that Nintendo didn’t want the NES to be seen as a cheery “family computer,”…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020
