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This Delightful Bird Rhythm Game Is Also An Entire Musical

Songbird Symphony is the touching tale of an orphaned chick who sets off on an adventure to find his true family, discovering a wonderful little combination rhythm/platforming game along the way. His name is Birb. It’s a good name. Despite his strong sense of rhythm and penchant for bursting into song, Birb’s adoptive peacock family…

By Mike Fahey Published August 1, 2019

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Amidst Controversy, Twitch Confirms That Breastfeeding On Stream Is Allowed

Last week, Twitch partner Heather “HeatheredEffect” Kent breastfed her baby while talking to a friend and streaming on Twitch. She didn’t try to draw attention to the act; she did it then and there simply because babies gotta eat, too. However, Twitch ended up deleting a clip of the moment, and the incident sparked a…

By Nathan Grayson Published August 1, 2019

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Wolfenstein: Youngblood: The Kotaku Review

I am generally suspicious of games that people say are “better with friends,” simply because most things are. Manual labor, paying taxes, repeatedly hitting your thumb with a hammer—these are all things that are “better with friends.” Humans are social creatures, and company can make both miserable and pleasant things a whole lot better. “Better…

By Joshua Rivera Published August 1, 2019

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Mechs Are The Latest Shiny Toy Shaking Up Fortnite‘s Players

Fortnite’s Season 10 launched this morning. Besides bringing back past location Dusty Depot and changing up the battle pass, the new season added mechs to the game. The mechs require two players to pilot, and they look big and dangerous. They’re probably a lot of fun to play, though I wouldn’t know—they keep wrecking me…

By Riley MacLeod Published August 1, 2019

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Mobile Game Lets You Build Gundam Models Without All The Clutter

Building Gundam models is an exciting hobby, but if you’re on the go or don’t have a shelf for all your giant robots, you’re in a rough spot. Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare is a new mobile game looking to make it easy to build and battle robots on the go. There’s some mobile game jankiness,…

By Heather Alexandra Published August 1, 2019

Culture

GameStop Lays Off Dozens Of Regional Managers As It Searches For A Future

On Tuesday, several GameStop employees took to Reddit to report that their regional sales supervisors had been laid off. These anecdotal reports, combined with tips to Kotaku about some layoffs, have since been bolstered by an email from GameStop management, whose authenticity Kotaku has confirmed, that surfaced stating more than 50 people had been let…

By Ethan Gach Published August 1, 2019

Culture

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep Delayed Two Weeks

There are some big changescoming to Destiny 2 with its next expansion, Shadowkeep, and those changes are going to take a little more time to get here. Today, Bungie announced that Shadowkeep and the new, free-to-play version of Destiny 2, New Light, are being delayed from September 17 to October 1. “Being independent means that…

By Joshua Rivera Published August 1, 2019

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Ninja To Stream Exclusively On Mixer, Not Twitch

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the patron saint of Twitch, announced today that he is moving his channel over to the significantly less popular streaming platform Mixer. News of the frankly shocking transition comes the day before Blevins’ Lollapalooza stream, which will now take place here on Mixer. “I know this may come as a shock to…

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published August 1, 2019

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The New Call Of Duty‘s Breezy Multiplayer Feels At Odds With Its Gritty Campaign

Earlier this week, the Call of Duty Twitter account tried to build hype for today’s Modern Warfare multiplayer reveal by announcing the return of killstreaks, which grant players access to tide-turning super weapons if they play well enough. Among these super weapons is white phosphorus, a chemical substance that can be used as a self-igniting…

By Nathan Grayson Published August 1, 2019

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Matoka tribe champion Nightwolf is the next character to join the Mortal Kombat 11 cast. He’ll be available on August 13 for folks who have purchased the Kombat Pack and August 20 for everyone else.

By Ian Walker Published August 1, 2019

CultureKotaku Game Diary

An Investigation Into Whether Two Statues In The Division 2 Appear To Be Having Sex

Video games can inspire us to do strange things. For example, there I was yesterday playing The Division 2, checking whether the shadow or reflection of an obelisk in the game fell upon the statue of a naked woman in a certain sexual way. It wasn’t my idea. It was in the game. This misadventure…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2019

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It Sure Is Tough To Be A Titanfall Fan Right Now

On Thursday morning, Titanfall was trending on Twitter in the U.S.—not because anything remotely Titanfall related actually happened, but because Fortnite’s new season added mechs. It’s a hard comparison to resist, now that Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment is running its own battle royale game in Apex Legends—a game that feels an awful lot like Titanfall…

By Joshua Rivera Published August 1, 2019

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The Nintendo Live Gaming Expo Will Be This October In Kyoto

This October, Nintendo will once again hold a dedicated game expo in Kyoto, Japan. It’s called Nintendo Live 2019 Kyoto Last year’s event was called Nintendo Live 2018 Tokyo and was held in, wait for it, Tokyo. The expo will have game tournaments, stage events and playable demos of new games. Included in the stage…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2019

Culture

New Fortnite Season Adds Titans (I Mean Mechs) [Updated]

The new season of Fortnite started earlier today and brought a new round of surprise changes. The most titanic one to drop? A new two-player mech called the B.R.U.T.E. The new vehicle is showcased in a trailer for Fortnite Season 10 (or X, as they’re calling it). An official blog post outlining the seasonal changes…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 1, 2019

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Sony is ending maintenance support for the PSP-3000 series in Japan. As of September 30, it will no longer accept the hardware for repair.

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 1, 2019

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K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Happiness

This week marks the fifth anniversary of one of my favorite contemporary K-Pop groups, Red Velvet. They arrived on the scene with Happiness in 2014. (Where does the time go?) Red Velvet’s debut wasn’t the smoothest. Happiness came when dissatisfaction with SM Entertainment’s management of their current artists was reaching a tipping point; this was…

By Seung Park Published August 1, 2019

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Cyberpunk Skylines

Alexander Dudar is an artist at CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 You can see more of Alexander’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page

By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2019

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Pioneering Open World PS1 Game Is Now Finally Playable In English [Update]

Mizzurna Falls, a Twin Peaks-ish open world game developed for the PS1 and only ever released in Japan, is now 20 years later available to play in English for the first time. While the script itself had been translated by Resident Evie a few years back—you can read more about that in this excellent Vice…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2019

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Kill la Kill Game’s Publisher Has “Prohibited” People From Streaming Its Story Mode

Kill la Kill the Game: IF, released earlier this week, is a fighting game with a story. And publishers Arc System Works are so protective of it that they’ve stated “all streams and uploads” of the game’s story mode “are prohibited indefinitely”. It’s not the first time the publisher of a Japanese video game has…

By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2019

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E. Honda, Poison, and Final Fight‘s Lucia Are Coming To Street Fighter V

A video uploaded to the Street Fighter V Steam page revealed that E. Honda, Poison, and Lucia are the three new characters that will be added to the PlayStation 4 and PC game. The trailer, which seems to have gone live prematurely in advance of this weekend’s Evo tournament, was taken down from the Steam…

By Ian Walker Published July 31, 2019