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CultureDestiny 2‘s Wild Corridors Of Time Puzzle Ends With Lackluster Reward
Destiny 2 players have spent the last week trying to crack a complex maze and earlier this morning the final pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, the reward waiting for them, an exotic weapon already publicized by Bungie, wasn’t what many had been hoping for. It all began when Bungie dropped a mysterious new quest into…
By Ethan Gach Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureAnother Big Game, Dying Light 2, Has Been Delayed
Dying Light 2 has been delayed until…sometime in the future. Originally planned for a Spring 2020 release the game now has no release date. It is yet another big game that has been delayed in recent weeks. In a letter announcing the delay, Techland CEO Paweł Marchewka explained the game needed more development time and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Here’s Your Re Mind(er) About Kingdom Hearts III DLC
This week one of the biggest releases is not actually a game, but instead some DLC for a game. The first big DLC is coming out this week for Kingdom Hearts 3. Recently, we showed a friend who has almost zero knowledge of Kingdom Hearts some footage and trailers of Kingdom Hearts III. Her reaction…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedTrack: The Woman That Loves You (Live) | Artist: Japanese Breakfast | Album: American Sound
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Seven Deadly Sins Anime Is Looking Pretty Rough
Damn. The latest season of Seven Deadly Sins features some iffy animation. No doubt it will get cleaned up for the ultimate Blu-ray release, but in the meantime, fans have to contend with some jarring art. Via 2ch, here are some of the most egregious examples. Granted, animators are overworked and rushed, but it might…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedKoei Tecmo has filed a lawsuit against Chinese mobile game company Hangzhou Jedi Technology over copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit (via ANN), Koei Tecmo alleges that the Chinese company has repeatedly used its game images and music in online app ads.
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanIn Japan, It’s Now Easier For Tired Workers To Sleep At Work
Japanese company Bauhutte, which specializes in gaming chairs and desks, is selling this “under-desk bed.” Is the fact that this product exists a good thing or a very bad one? Apparently, it’s aimed at white-collar workers. Famitsu describes it as a way for office workers to take a quick power nap while at work. When…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureNetflix Just Picked Up 21 Studio Ghibli Movies, But Not In North America Or Japan
The good news is that Netflix just got the rights to stream pretty much every major Studio Ghibli release, from Totoro to Princess Mononoke to Ponyo. The bad news is that, if you’re in North America or Japan, that news doesn’t apply to you. Ghibli’s homeland has its own rights deals, and in North America…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedThis is HyperSpace: Pirates of Atira, an upcoming co-op indie space game where players take control of different aspects of a starship and try to work together to keep everyone alive. This kind of thing has of course been tried before, but the division of labour here seems really cool!
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallRemembering The Witcher’s Terrible Phone Game, For Some Reason
The Witcher series has produced some pretty good games! Let’s not kid ourselves, though, and pretend every Witcher game has been an all-time great. Because that would mean you, like me, had forgotten all about The Witcher: Crimson Trail, released all the way back in 2007. It was a phone game developed by a third-party…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedDad Builds Custom Xbox Adaptive Controller So Daughter Can Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Xbox’s Adaptive Controller has done some amazing things as far as accessibility in video games goes, but the setup isn’t hard-wired to only work on a Microsoft console. It can, with a little work, also run on the Nintendo Switch, and in doing so bring an enormous smile to a little girl’s face. Rory Steel…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedRespectful Fighting Game Staredown Was Actually Just A Controller Issue
As Event Hubs report, this match last night between Guzman and SpaceDetectiveKH ends up stopping a few seconds in for what was assumed by all to be an intense staredown, born out of mutual respect between two fierece competitors before everyone realised that, oh, it was just a technical hiccup. Beautiful commentary in the lead-up,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedTrack: Back To The Lab | Artist: Prince Paul | Album: Dexter’s Lab: The Hip-Hop Experiment
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedSomeone Built An Extremely Accurate Recreation Of Their Apartment In VR
If you have played VR and bumped into your couch while in the middle of a zombie wasteland, you know how weird that feels. It breaks your brain and momentarily shatters the illusion. But what if every object in VR matched a real-world object and you could basically “feel” the game you were playing? That’s…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Goku Needs A Better Game
The new Dragonball Z game was released a few days ago. It’s not great! Poor Goku. The dude saves the world multiple times and yet he still stars in mostly bad or crappy games. Let’s help Kakarot out. Your challenge this week: Put Goku in better games! They can be older games or newer games,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDragon Ball Z: Kakarot Is Bad, But Collecting Orbs Is Good
I wanted to love the new Dragon Ball Z Kakarot game, but I just don’t. The quests are bad, the combat isn’t fun and the whole game feels like it is barely holding together. But I’ll keep playing as long as there are some orbs to collect. Collecting orbs in games is something I’m very…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2020 -
CultureSunday Comics: So Are They Magic?
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Jan. 16. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 13. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2020