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Tips & GuidesHow To Use The Switch’s Zoom Feature To Make Game Text Bigger
It’s great that the Nintendo Switch can play so many excellent games on the go, but some games have menus that can be as hard to read as the fine print on a food label. Thank goodness the Switch has a smartly-designed zoom feature. Nintendo added the zoom option in April, but it remains very…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2019 -
ReviewsToysMagic Meets My Little Pony In Ponies: The Galloping
Friendship is Magic. Magic is Gathering. Why not both? Going on sale today at noon Eastern from Hasbro, Ponies: The Gathering is a collection of special limited edition cards and Ultra Pro playmats celebrating the series finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Magic: The Gathering’s November 2 Extra Life charity event. Sold…
By Mike Fahey Published October 22, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformThe Outer Worlds Will Rattle Your Idea Of A Perfect Planet
The very first quest in The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s highly anticipated first-person RPG out October 25, asked me to make what felt like an impossible choice. On one side was a community of outsiders frustrated by corporate control. Their outpost was something like a worker’s paradise—they were well fed and mostly happy, surviving by relying…
By Gita Jackson Published October 22, 2019 -
ReviewsHeadsetsI Don’t Think I Need A Wireless Switch Headset
Bundled with a first-of-its-kind USB-C 2.4GHz dongle that fits nicely in the bottom of the Switch, SteelSeries’ $99 Arctis 1 Wireless gaming headset is the first truly wireless headset for Nintendo’s latest console. It’s very nice. I just don’t see myself using it a lot, at least not on the Switch. The Arctis 1 Wirelessly…
By Mike Fahey Published October 22, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Who Are You | Artist: The Who | Album: Who Are You (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 22, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanThe Zelda Theme Played On Musical Calculators Sounds Great
The AR-7778 is a calculator that makes musical notes when the buttons are pressed. Twitter user Atarime uses this neat calculator to play famous tunes. The Zelda tune, for example, sounds terrific: So do other tunes.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 22, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanMother Creator Shigesato Itoi’s Memories of Satoru Iwata
When Shigesato Itoi started work on Mother 2 (Earthbound), development hit a wall. Things were at a standstill, and the programming was apparently to blame. That’s when Nintendo suggested Itoi meet with another programmer who could help out. His name was Satoru Iwata. In an interview with GameCenter CX’s Shinya Arino, Itoi recalled how Iwata…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 22, 2019 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Old Japanese Websites Are An Internet Time Trip
During the late 20th century, Nintendo launched websites to promote games and hardware. At the time of writing, some of those websites are still live, providing an opportunity to visit the internet of yesteryear. The earliest sites date from the early 1990s during the Super Famicom era. It’s amazing that these websites are still live.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 22, 2019 -
CultureWhoso Pulleth Out This Carrot Of This Dirt Is Rightwise King Born Of All England
Iqnatius Budi is an artist and illustrator from Indonesia who has worked on games like Smite and Mobius Final Fantasy. You can see more of Budi’s stuff at their ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published October 21, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Filth Castle | Artist: Caustic Casanova | Album: God How I Envy The Deaf
By Nathan Grayson Published October 21, 2019 -
CultureUnpacking is a puzzle game about moving your possessions into a new home. And by “your,” I mean “somebody else’s.” By unpacking and arranging objects—all of which click and clack oh-so-satisfyingly—you’ll gain “a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told.” I, personally, was not a big fan…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedMansions Of Madness Is Still One Of The Best Co-Op Board Games Out There
After somehow avoiding it for over two years, I finally got the chance this week to sit down with the second edition of Fantasy Flight’s Mansions of Madness, easily my favorite of their line of Lovecraftian games. The big difference between this version and the first is that it gets rid of the role of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 21, 2019 -
CultureNBA 2K20 Combines The Worst Parts Of Buying Sneakers And Playing Video Games
The worst thing about playing video games in 2019 is the money-grubbing bullshit. The worst thing about buying sneakers in 2019 is that it’s almost impossible to get the shoes you want at retail. It does not surprise me even one bit that NBA 2K20 has managed to find a way to combine those two…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 21, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsMonaco Brings Good Old-Fashioned Thievin’ To The Switch
I love a good heist, and I wish more video games let me pull one off. Sure, Grand Theft Auto: Online lets you plot them if you have enough friends, there’s also Payday 2, and if you squint a little bit and don’t mind all the murder, Hitman is technically a heist game, sure. We…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 21, 2019 -
CultureWe Discuss HBO’s Unsettling New Watchmen TV Show
Like the graphic novel did over 30 years ago, HBO’s adaptation of Watchmen immediately surprises viewers with one of the most arresting takes on a comic book in years. As fans of good television and good comic books, Kotaku’s Michael Fahey, Gita Jackson, and Joshua Rivera gathered around the digital water cooler to talk about…
Gita Jackson & Mike Fahey & Joshua Rivera Published October 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedBlack Ops 4’s Battle Royale Mode Deserves to Stick Around
With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare releasing on Friday, most players will likely soon be walking away from last year’s game Black Ops 4. This yearly migration is nothing new, but this time it’s particularly unfortunate because it could mean the effective end of the excellent battle royale mode Blackout. Unlike other popular shooters Rainbow…
By S.E. Doster Published October 21, 2019 -
AnimeBomberman Anime Villain’s Music Is Basically The Seinfeld Theme
Mujoe, a blonde professional wrestler wearing sunglasses, has served as a foil to Konami’s bomb-tossing hero since 1996’s Saturn Bomberman. The villain really came into his own in theanime series Bomberman Jetters, where he got his very own theme music—well, Jerry Seinfeld’s theme music, anyway. The 2002 series Bomberman Jetters follows the adventures of White…
By Mike Fahey Published October 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedA Missing King Of Fighters Character Was Conspicuously Similar to Akira‘s Tetsuo
King of Fighters has one of the most extensive and unique rosters in fighting games, owing in part to its origins as a crossover between SNK franchises like Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. With dozens of playable characters introduced since the series’ inaugural 1994 release, fans can never really be sure which ones will…
By Ian Walker Published October 21, 2019
