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CultureNo Man’s Sky Players Build Creepy Spaceship Recreation Of The Bermuda Triangle
Seven No Man’s Sky players came together to build an atmospheric location that they’re calling “Bermuda,” made up of a series of crashed intergalactic freighters. It’s a haunting reference to the Bermuda Triangle, the real-life location where many aircraft and ships have supposedly gone missing. It’s beautiful. Crashed freighters are already a feature of No…
By Gita Jackson Published October 16, 2019 -
CultureThe Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They’re Mapping You
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of their childhood to combat monsters and collect shimmering digital artifacts across their local neighborhoods. Niantic’s apps certainly encourage gamers to get outdoors and get active, but behind the scenes, Wizards Unite is quietly casting another spell:…
Cecilia D'Anastasio & Dhruv Mehrotra Published October 16, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Don’t Want To Grind For This Little Fox Person But I Will
It’s been over 12 years since I seriously worked on raising my reputation with one of World of Warcraft’s in-game factions. Those many years ago, I spent days performing repetitive tasks just to earn a special mount, and after that, I swore off grinding reputation for rewards. Then Blizzard announced the Vulpera, a new playable…
By Mike Fahey Published October 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedVampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a game I am desperate to play and which looked fabulous when I saw it earlier this year, is getting delayed. It will now release in later 2020 to “meet the ambitions that the developer and publisher share.”
By Heather Alexandra Published October 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedPokémon Sword & Shield Gigantamax Variants Are Getting Weirder
It’s official. Here are the Gigantamax versions of Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, and Meowth. Gigantamaxing bumps up their battle stats, increases their size and changing their appearance, making them all strange, big, and glowy. That version of Meowth sure is something! It looks like a nod to the long-cat meme, but glowing and with yellow eyes.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedLuigi’s Latest Parody Nintendo Console Is The Best One Yet
Luigi’s heading back to another haunted mansion (well, a haunted hotel) in Luigi’s Mansion 3 this Halloween, and he’s got many more tricks up his sleeve for busting ghosts, including one gadget that’s a wonderful reference to a classic Nintendo console of yore. Ghost-hunting tools that resemble old Nintendo hardware are a staple of the…
By Chris Kohler Published October 16, 2019 -
CultureTrack: This Letter | Artist: Belle & Sebastian | Album: Days of the Bagnold Summer
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanMan Arrested After Sending Death Threats To Hideaki Anno’s Studio
A 35-year-old resident of Okayama, Japan is in police custody after making death threats to Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara. Best known for the Rebuild of Evangelion anime series, Khara received threats over SNS that evoked the Kyoto Animation tragedy. According to Livedoor News, Noriaki Inukai was arrested for making the threats, to which he has…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanBadly Behaved Foreigners In Japan Discussed On Beat Takeshi’s TV Show
Japan is hosting the Rugby World Cup. Fans from all over the world are attending, and a percentage of them have been rowdy. On TV Tackle, one of Beat Takeshi’s television programs, the issue of poorly behaved foreigner tourists was once again a topic of discussion. There has been footage of rugby fans causing chaos,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 16, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Pokémon Studio’s New RPG Sets Itself Apart
Little Town Hero, out October 16 for the Nintendo Switch, is a Game Freak role-playing game about a young boy who’s charged with fighting a bunch of viciously powerful monsters as adults stand idly by. No, not that one. Little Town Hero is totally its own thing: a deceptively simple RPG-card-game hybrid with light tactical…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published October 16, 2019 -
CultureLeague Of Legends’ Creators Also Making An Animated Series, Card Game, Fighting Game And Shooter
In addition to the announcement that a version of the main game itself is coming to consoles and phones, Riot have also tonight said that there are a bunch of League of Legends spin-offs in the works, along with an animated series. First, the card game. It’s called Legends of Runeterra, and is a free-to-play…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureLeague Of Legends Is Coming To Consoles, Phones
After a decade of dominating on PC, League of Legends is finally launching a version of the game on both home consoles and mobile devices. It’s called League of Legends: Wild Rift, and makes some important changes to the PC version. It’s got a modified version of the map, a new user interface and dual-stick…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Eridium Event Only Highlights How Worthless The Currency Is
We’ve reached the third week of unique Borderlands 3 events, and this time around Gearbox has seen fit to tweak the numbers to make Eridium, a secondary currency that’s much harder to find than regular money, drop more frequently. The only problem is that there’s still very little on which to actually spend these purple…
By Ian Walker Published October 15, 2019 -
Uncategorized2500 Classic MS-DOS Games Are Now Free To Play
Remember, the Internet Archive is useful for more than just seeing how embarrassing your old Kotaku posts were. It’s also home to a ton of classic PC games, and 2500 new ones have just been added to the site’s catalogue. There’s obviously a load of crap among that number, but there are also some damn…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Switch Just Can’t Handle Overwatch
With today’s launch of Overwatch on Nintendo Switch, there is officially a worst way to play one of the best games of all time. There are a lot of sub-optimal things about this port. The timing is inopportune, for one. Overwatch is landing on Switch three and a half years after its original release, and…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 15, 2019 -
CultureNew Paradox Game Steals Halo Artwork, Gets Pulled
Grand strategy masters Paradox today announced a new mobile take on their big space game Stellaris, which has already been taken offline after fans quickly discovered that the title featured art literally stolen from an artist at 343 Studios, the developers of the Halo series. Here’s the art in question, found within the game (it…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2019