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ReviewsMultiplatformWolfenstein: 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 -
UncategorizedMechs 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 -
UncategorizedMobile 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 -
CultureGameStop 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 -
CultureDestiny 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 -
CultureNinja 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 -
CultureThe 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 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryAn 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 -
UncategorizedIt 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 -
UncategorizedThe 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 -
CultureNew 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 -
Kotaku EastK-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 -
CulturePioneering 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 -
CultureKill 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 -
CultureE. 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 -
OpinionImpressionsTrying To Please Everyone In Fire Emblem Is Turning Me Into A Sociopath
I knew I had a problem when I saw a timer appear and my first reaction was to immediately hammer my Nintendo Switch’s power button until it fell into a merciful slumber. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a feature called an “advice box” in which characters write you letters asking for aid. You’ve got to…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 31, 2019 -
CultureThe Original Diablo Is Now Playable In Your Browser
The sanctity of this place has been fouled! Released back in 1996, the original Diablo has never gotten as much attention as its successors. That’s one of the reasons a group of programmers took it upon themselves to reverse engineer the game’s source code to make it possible for others to port it to web…
By Ethan Gach Published July 31, 2019
