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CultureCoach, Michael B. Jordan Team Up To Sell You $95 Naruto T-Shirts
Take a deep breath before you read the following sentence: Coach has collaborated with actor Michael B. Jordan on a wildly expensive line of clothing inspired by the anime Naruto Go on a journey with me. Imagine you’re at work, busy working on something not at all related to the anime Naruto, which you mainly…
By Gita Jackson Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedEpic Hears Fortnite Players’ Concerns About Cross-Platform Matches, Is Doing It Anyway
Fortnite got skill-based matchmaking in a recent patch, a system that intends to put players of similar skill in games together. Players quickly noticed that the new matchmaking queued players up across different platforms, even though this wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes. Today, Epic addressed the issue and said that things are working as…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureEvery time I listen to the theme song for Succession, the HBO drama about rich people being evil and sexy, I feel pretty evil and sexy. It’s a little less sexy when done in Mario Paint Something about the “meow” sound effect doesn’t exactly call to mind the prestige of the Roy family, though perhaps…
By Gita Jackson Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedGearbox And Former Lawyer Agree To End Their Bitter Legal Battle
The messy legal battle in which Gearbox Software and its CEO Randy Pitchford have been embroiled with the company’s former lawyer Wade Callender for almost a year has come to an end, with both sides agreeing to apologize, drop the matter, and never speak of it again. In a court document first shared by Insider,…
By Ian Walker Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedRick Fox Files Lawsuit Against Business Partners Alleging Fraud, Drug Use, Racism
A civil complaint filed by Echo Fox co-owner Rick Fox on Monday details new allegations of fraud, deceptive business practices and racism against Echo Fox business partners that, he believes, merit over $10,000,000 in damages. Lawyers representing the complaint’s defendants claim that it contains numerous falsities and unsupported accusations. The complaint is the latest burst…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedComing next year from Kabam, the makers of Marvel: Contest of Champions, Marvel: Realm of Champions is a free-to-play mobile RPG for iOS and Android that has superheroes fighting for control over the territory of Battleworld.It’s a whole “Secret War” thing. The characters look cool. I bet we will be able to collect them.
By Mike Fahey Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedCrafting In Games Feels Less Like A Chore Now
For many players, video games are a chance to escape from work. You hop into a game, sliding into a fantasy role as a dragon slayer or superhero, setting aside the mundanities of day-to-day labor.But as I hop from monster hunting to military sneaking missions, I’ve found that my personal play time is filling up…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureApex Legends Players Are Trying An In-Game Recipe For Pork Chops In Their Own Kitchens
Apex Legends players have uncovered a new secret in the game’s lore: a family recipe for Mirage’s pork chops. One of the battle pass rewards for the third season of Apex Legends, which began yesterday, are new loading screens. Players have noticed that one of Mirage’s loading screens, which you can earn with the free…
By Gita Jackson Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureHigh School Redesigns Shouldn’t Remind You Of Taking Cover In Gears Of War
Play enough video games, and eventually you can tell when you’re entering an area where a digital shootout is about to happen. It’s kind of a joke at this point: see an abundance of chest-high walls for you to conveniently crouch behind? Walls that make zero architectural sense? An elevated vantage point or two? Odds…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureWhy Online Game Launches Are Often A Mess
Just after 4 pm ET on Tuesday, Destiny 2 players began to see a warning message. A red line stretched across the bottom of their screens, and the text below it stated: “Attention: contacting Destiny 2 servers.” Minutes later, huge numbers of players got booted from the massively-multiplayer online sci-fi shooter. At Kotaku, we lost…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Bite-Sized Link’s Awakening Is The Perfect Follow-Up To Breath Of The Wild
How do you create a follow-up to Breath of the Wild? The Switch launch game was a massive rethinking of the Legend of Zelda series, a colossal non-linear open world in which players could create their own journey. As it turns out, the perfect way to follow that was with a Zelda that is as…
By Chris Kohler Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedUnion Accuses Game Studio Of “Union-Busting”; Studio Denies Employee Was Disciplined For Activism
The UK’s Independent Workers Union accused Monument Valley and Assemble With Care studio Ustwo Games of “union-busting” in a statement today. Threatening legal action, the report alleges that senior Ustwo programmer Austin Kelmore—also the branch chair and founding member of the union’s Game Workers Unite branch—suffered “victimization” and “unfair dismissal” because of his union actions.…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedApex Legends Challenge Rewards Players For Thanking Others
Apex Legends Season 3 brings a new slate of daily and weekly challenges. Among the dictates to get headshots or play as certain characters, there’s a daily challenge that honors any gamer’s most important quality: politeness. A new daily challenge rewards players for thanking three teammates. A player on Redditnoticed the challenge shortly after Season…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureSilicon Valley And ‘Skepticism For Disruption’ Inspired This Futuristic Taxi Game
Patrick Ewing, creative lead for indie game Neo Cab, told me a story about how he once got an Amazon package delivered by a person with the license plate “Uber God.” The Uber God had actually been fired from Uber that week, he told Ewing, after five years and over 19,000 rides, following an anonymous…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 3, 2019 -
CultureIf You Like Comics, You Should Read Marvel’s House of X and Powers of X
For the past 11 weeks, I have eagerly awaited Wednesday mornings in a way I haven’t in a very long time. I’m a longtime comic book reader, and since Wednesdays are when new comics come out, I’m always a little excited—but this has been different. There’s something special going on in the world of X-Men…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedDo Not Underestimate The Power Of The PlayStation Lunch Box
In Japan, there is an official PlayStation 1 lunch box. It’s a crane game prize and comes in packaging that looks like the cardboard box for the first PlayStation. How cool is it? Very cool! While you might think here’s a difference in nuance between “lunch box” and “bento box,” the packaging reads ランチボックス (ranchi…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 3, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Wuthering Heights
As we slide our way into October, and the true beginnings of fall begin to coalesce, it feels only right to listen to a moody track today. Enter Wuthering Heights Lucia (real name Sim Kyu Seon) is a long-running artist who debuted in 2010 with Cat Waltz. She might be most familiar to mainstream K-Pop…
By Seung Park Published October 3, 2019 -
UncategorizedReturn of the Obra Dinn will be out on PS4, Xbox One and Switch on October 18.
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2019
