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CultureGet Back You Eight-Legged Freaks!
This week on Snapshots, too many creepy hands in Hellblade, getting slapped in Red Dead, cool-looking space ships in No Man’s Sky, breaking glass in Mirror’s Edge and dealing with a really big spider in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Yes, I’ve featured a lot of Star Wars photos in these first few Snapshots and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 1, 2020 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: Water, Water Everywhere
Water levels often are terrible. But sometimes, if they are done just right, they can be…mostly not terrible. Let’s make some mostly not terrible or even good Mario levels using water! Your Challenge This Week: Create levels featuring large water sections or set entirely underwater. Don’t feel like you need to make the whole level…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 1, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsCook, Serve, Delicious 3 Is A Chaotic Cooking Game Set In The Back Of A Food Truck Driven By Cyborgs
Cooking food can be a relaxing or even therapeutic activity. But not in Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! That’s because you are cooking in the back of a moving food truck driven by two cyborgs in a dystopian future. In that case, things are a bit more…chaotic. CSD3 is the third entry in the Cook, Serve,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 1, 2020 -
UncategorizedPidove Is So Stupid It Forgets Its Own Name
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 Pidove! Pidove Details Type: Normal/Flying Average Height: 1′ 00″ Average Weight: 4.6 lbs. First Added In Generation V Intelligence…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 1, 2020 -
CultureMorning CheckpointWelcome To Hell, Garfield
Hello! This week we learn just how much money Ninja made switching to Mixer, play music using old TVs, learn more about Torchlight 3, watch a cool Cuphead fan video and see what Garfield is doing in Hell. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I understand WHY they aren’t making new singleplayer floors to…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 1, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Terminator Event In Ghost Recon Breakpoint Is Good
As many problems as Ghost Recon Breakpoint still has, it now also has Terminators. They’re actually a good addition to the game and part of a special live event week that kicked off on Wednesday and sort of ends on Thursday of next week. The event is fun, especially if you like the idea of…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureTemtem, As Told By Steam Reviews
Pokémon Sword and Shield were solid and all, but there’s a new Pokémon sheriff in town. And by “in town,” I mean “on PC.” Also, it’s not called Pokémon. Temtem is, instead, a carefully crafted tribute to Game Freak and Nintendo’s monster-battling monolith. Steam users, for the most part, love it. I’ve been dabbling in…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureSplitscreenSometimes Beating The Quest Is Its Own Reward (Because The Reward Sucks)
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk Hamilton and I brought on Kotaku staff writer Ethan Gach to talk about the state of Destiny 2. Players felt let down by the reward for solving the Corridors of Time puzzle, but hey, MMOs are always more about the journey than the rewards, right? Still, it’d be nice…
By Maddy Myers Published January 31, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsPlaying Coffee Talk Reminds Me Of The Quiet Joys Of Being A Barista
Life sometimes feels like it runs a mile a minute. Shit never stops, there’s always a new crisis, and your jaw is clenched in perpetuity. In those moments, it can help to focus on the little things. Like coffee. A trip to the corner shop or a dirty cup from the office kitchen is like…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureOne Of The Most Annoying Parts Of Death Stranding Has Been Fixed
A new patch for Death Stranding went live today that finally makes the extended animation that takes place when encountering BTs completely optional. Death Stranding is a long game made even longer by the repetition of bespoke animations. One of said animations revolved around the Odradek Terrain Scanner, the strange-looking piece of equipment that hangs…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureSurvey Has Players Dreaming About PlayStation 4 Remote Play On The Switch
Some players are salivating over the possibility, however unlikely, of one day being able to use their Switches to remotely play PS4 games after Sony asked about it in a recent feedback survey. The survey apparently went out in an email to PS4 owners, a screenshot of which was provided to Kotaku by Reddit user…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesThe First Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass Was Definitely Worth It
Earlier this week, Nintendo added a new fighter to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the company’s wildly popular Fire Emblem-themed fighting game. Byleth, the player character from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, is the sixth new fighter to join the roster since Smash Ultimate’s December 2018 launch. Starting with Piranha Plant, in January 2019, Nintendo has rolled…
By Ari Notis Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for being on a home decorating kick. I decided I needed more decor with colors, only to buy a bunch of stuff in shades of gray. Gray is a color, right? The weekend is also for playing video games while occasionally wondering if my monochrome apartment looks classy or sad. While chatting…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureMicrosoft’s Bug Bounty Program Will Pay Players To Find Security Flaws In Xbox Live
Xbox Live has never suffered a major hack, and Microsoft would like to keep it that way, in part by rewarding people who report vulnerabilities in the gaming network with cash. “The Xbox Bounty Program invites gamers, security researchers, and others around the world to help identify security vulnerabilities in the Xbox Live network and…
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Behemoth’s next project is Alien Hominid Invasion, an “all new re-imagination of the studio’s first game.” The studio, best known for Castle Crashers, announced its fifth game with a short teaser. If it’s anything like the original Alien Hominid, Invasion will be a coop arcade shooter reminiscent of Metal Slug
By Ethan Gach Published January 31, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Latest Magic: The Gathering Game Is A Decent Card-Based Tower Defense
If you want a pure Magic: The Gathering video game experience, stick with Arena. Netmarble’s Magic: Manastrike, out now for iOS and Android, has two players dropping card-based creatures and spells into a two-lane battlefield in order to destroy their opponent’s towers. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it. Call it tower defense…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2020 -
ReviewsToysLet Waddle Dee Have An Apple, You Monsters
I know Waddle Dees are Kirby’s enemies, minions of King Dedede, but that isn’t stopping my heart from breaking over the sad face on Good Smile Company’s new Waddle Dee figure. Like Good Smile Company’s popular Kirby figures, two of which are being re-released in conjunction with this latest addition to the line, Waddle Dee’s…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Keep Tryin’ | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Keep Tryin’
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Taipei Game Show has been postponed due to coronavirus. It was scheduled for Feb. 6 to Feb. 9 but now will take place this summer. “Considering mass gatherings like Taipei Game Show increase the chance of cluster infections,” the official site reads, “the organizing committee has decided to steer away from such unthinkable risks.”
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 31, 2020
