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Kotaku EastJapanPeople Are Putting Mai Shiranui In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Since Nintendo isn’t including King of Fighters character Mai Shiranui in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, fans have started adding Mai any way they can. As previously reported, director Masahiro Sakurai said Mai would not be added to the game because, as he explained, “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is for good boys and girls of many…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 13, 2019 -
CultureIn The Future, Football Will Be Mechanized
Jake Woodruff is an artist at Playground Games, the developers of the Forza Horizon series. Below is a series of pieces for the National Mech League, an idea that in the future, when a bunch of military and service mechs are no longer needed, they’re put to work playing football. It’s a collaboration between Woodruff…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureTwitchEverything You Always Wanted To Know About The ‘Omegalul’ Emote (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Some memes explode into the collective consciousness with no remorse or regret, frothing at the mouth and daring hapless bystanders to remain out of the loop. One way or another, you’ll learn what they mean, and you’ll get sick of them in two weeks, just like God intended. Others, however, slink around in their own…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedRed Dead’s Giant Catfish Has Finally Been Caught (In The Game’s Files)
For years, well, one year, since ’18, there’ve been talk of a strange catfish lurkin’ beneath the waters of Red Ded Redemption 2’s channel. I ain’t never seen such a catfish, but folks playin’ the game on the PC reckon it’s there. You just gotta look harder Specifically, in the game’s files, where PC players—like…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureCosplayBehold, Japan’s Supernatural Cat Festival
Every year, the Tokyo neighbourhood of Kagurazaka plays host to the Supernatural Cat Festival, a celebration of feline friends that involves a whole ton of people dressing up as cats then marching down the street playing music. Among their ranks were cosplayers (Morgana!) and furries, and the whole thing just looks like the best day…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureTeenage Fortnite Pro Suspended From Twitch For Streaming With Banned Player
Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod has received a seven-day suspension from Twitch after he streamed on Monday alongside Zayn, a player who has been permanently banned from the service. It’s the second time this month a player has been punished for even associating with Zayn, after another Fortnite pro, Khanada, got a three-day suspension last…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureMajor Ghost Recon Breakpoint Update Isn’t Enough To Fix The Game
Today, Ghost Recon Breakpoint got its biggest update since launch. Besides the two new faction missions, there are a host of tweaks, some big, some small, touching on almost every aspect of the game. They might not turn Breakpoint into a game you need to play, but they are slowly turning it into the sort…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsLet Us Not Forget About The Ninja Saviors
Yes, yes, I know. Our Switch backlogs are huge already. Pokémon is about to come out. Nintendo’s even surprise-releasing games. But if you enjoy the side-scrolling beat-em-up genre, don’t forget that The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors is just sitting there on the eShop waiting for you. Much like 2016’s Wild Guns Reloaded, Ninja…
By Chris Kohler Published November 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedFairTube, a group pushing for YouTubers to unionize that has backing from the largest trade union in the EU, has commented on YouTube’s controversial new terms of the service The new terms give the company “sole discretion” to remove videos that are “no longer commercially viable,” which has led to renewed calls for unionization from…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To The Sonic Movie Redesign
Movie Sonic is back. After dying earlier this year so that we could be saved from his own sinful visage, Sonic has been reborn as a cutesy blue baby child who would not spit out a mouthful of human teeth if you reflexively punched him while recoiling in terror at the thought of how he…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureXbox One Is Getting A Shuffle Button To Let You Go Through Your Backlog At Random
A new “Surprise Me” button will be added to the Xbox One’s game library, Microsoft announced yesterday on Twitter. Rolling out first for players in the Xbox One insider testing program, the “Surprise Me” button will allow the indecisive player to select a game randomly from their library to play. The button doesn’t automatically launch…
By Ethan Gach Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureMinecraft Earth Is Now Live
There was a virtual sheep roaming around in our Times Square office today thanks to Minecraft Earth, the new augmented reality mobile game that lets players make, wreck and otherwise interact with life-size Minecraft builds. The game has been in beta in various regions, but went into wider early access release today. To get in,…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryIt’s Amazing That I Ever Finished My First Hardcore RPG
Inspired by the recent 10-year anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, I decided to revisit the BioWare role-playing game for kicks. I loved the game when I played through it in late 2009 and early 2010. It was my first BioWare RPG—I didn’t have a gaming PC growing up, and I generally came to a lot…
By Joshua Rivera Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureMetal Slug: The Ultimate History Is A Very Impressive Book
When the folks at Bitmap Books offered to send me a copy of Metal Slug: The Ultimate History, I was picturing something much slimmer than the massive, 452-page tome I received. Who knew SNK’s cartoonish run-and-gun shooter series had such a rich and colorful history? Officially licensed by SNK, Metal Slug: The Ultimate History walks fans…
By Mike Fahey Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Haul (feat. Mohna) | Artist: Christian Löffler | Album: Mare
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanTeenagers Spent Almost Two Years Making Unicorn Gundam Out Of Cardboard
High school students in Japan decided to bring the RX-O Unicorn Gundam to life. The statue is for the school’s cultural arts festival. Twitter user Tosshii and some classmates worked together on the creation, which took about two years to finish. Here is the front: And the back: As Kotaku previously reported, Bandai Namco built…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 12, 2019 -
CultureNew Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Trailer Shows His Redesigned Face
Well, it’s here. Let’s see what Sonic looks like now that the redesign is done To recap: When the first trailer for the upcoming movie was shown off earlier this year, reaction among fans (and everyone else) to Sonic’s weird face was…not kind. So Paramount went back to the drawing board, delayed the movie, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2019