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UncategorizedThe Game Bakers, makers of the boss-rush game Furi, are back with a gameplay trailer for their upcoming project, Haven It centers on a couple who have escaped to a strange planet together and set out to explore it. Aside from looking gorgeous it’s also giving me major Gravity Rush vibes.
By Ethan Gach Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Can’t Stop Being A Reckless Moron In Fire Emblem: Awakening
I have spent most of the last week feeling incredibly hyped for Fire Emblem: Three Houses, one of a handful of games I’m most excited to play this summer. Whenever I’m feeling pumped for a new game, one thing I tend to do is go back and play or replay old games in the same…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureAssassin’s Creed’s Original Director Is Back With A Weird Game About Human Evolution
I was sitting in an interview room asking the ever-cheerful Patrice Désilets about the controls in his first new game since 2010’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and he lit up. He imagined an Xbox controller and rattled through the button assignments. “‘A’ is all about the reflexes,” he said. “‘B’ is about the communication, ‘X’ is…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 9, 2019 -
Kotaku EastAlleged Manga Pirate Arrested After Japan Launches Global Manhunt
Romi Hoshino, the manager of now-shuttered site Manga-Mura, has been arrested in Manila. The site, which was taken offline in April 2018, was frequented by around 100 million people each month and made around 60,000 manga available free of charge, reports AFP. The Japanese government created a special task force to find Hoshino, a Japanese…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureCuphead Is Getting An Animated Netflix Series
And so the hit hand-drawn animated video game spawns a hand-drawn animated Netflix series. Called The Cuphead Show, the series will chronicle Cuphead and Mugman’s adventures on Inkwell Isle, expanding on that bizarre 1930s animation wonderland. Though the official announcement gives scant details on the plot of the upcoming series, in an interview with IGN,…
By Mike Fahey Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureThere’s A New Turok Game Coming Out This Month, And It’s Super Cute
Coming to Steam on July 25, Turok: Escape From Lost Valley looks very different from thefirst-person dinosaur-hunting games of old, but the idea is the same. Turok and his brother Andar are trapped in a valley full of dinosaurs. Hunting ensues. Adorable hunting. While it seems to have come out of nowhere, Turok: Escape From…
By Mike Fahey Published July 9, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanThe Boy Band Anime That’s Drawing Crowds In Tokyo
Originally based on a smartphone game, Idolish 7 follows the adventures of a young woman who manages a boy band. Last week, a series of posters and digital ads went up in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station and fans came out in droves. So many people wanted to snap photos of the ads that the official Idolish…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureFans Can’t Get Enough Of Pokémon Shield‘s Spooky New Gym Leader
All of the new gym leader character designs for Pokémon Sword and Shield are great. One recently revealed trainer in particular has been racking up the fan art. Say hello to Allister. Here is the character’s official description: Allister is a talented Trainer of Ghost-type Pokémon who has taken on the mantle of the Ghost-type…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 9, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: On A Rainy Day
There are some artists who are inextricably linked to a state of mind, or some kind of inner voice. For me, Younha’s voice is rain. It is the pitter-patter of soft raindrops on umbrellas; the rhythmic gurgle of an impromptu brook as it flows down the cracks of the sidewalk; the melancholy that often accompanies…
By Seung Park Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureCosplayLook At This Spider-Man Cosplayer’s Mechanical Eyes
You see a lot of good Spider-Man cosplay, because it’s an easy one to do well. What’s not easy to do is get the character’s newer designs 1:1, since they’ve got fancy moving eyes, but Hong Kong cosplayer Cavin Creations has gone and done just that. What you’re seeing here is an incredible feat of…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 9, 2019 -
CultureMiyamoto Still Wants To Reinvent The Controller
While the standard buttons-and-joystick video game controller has made a fairly decisive return to Nintendo’s games on the Switch, that doesn’t mean Nintendo is done trying to reinvent the way we interact with video games. At the company’s annual meeting of shareholders late last month, one attendee asked the panel of Nintendo executives about the…
By Chris Kohler Published July 8, 2019 -
CultureHentai Sites Go To War, Leaving Animated Porn’s Future In Doubt
A transfer of power at the internet’s biggest free anime porn site was supposed to finally make its copyright-infringing operations more legit. Instead, the takeover of Hentai Haven has spurred a civil war within the hentai community. That conflict came to light yesterday after Hentai Haven’s anonymous founder, who goes by Papa HH, broke his…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 8, 2019 -
CultureIf Game Of Thrones Was An Anime
Carolina Oliveira is a freelance illustrator and concept artist working in the video game business. But tonight, we’re focusing on something outside of games: a two-year project to turn Game of Thrones into an anime. Since 2017, Carolina has been turning key lines/moments from the series into stills from an anime, with a style that’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2019 -
ReviewsBoard GamesStar Wars: Outer Rim: The Kotaku Review
When I was a kid, I had a dream video game. It was basically “Wing Commander: Privateer”, only bigger, and it was set in the Star Wars universe. I’m still waiting on the video game, but Fantasy Flight have this year delivered much the same experience, only in board game form. Outer Rim is the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2019 -
UncategorizedThousands Of Elite: Dangerous Players Died Trying To Cross The Universe
Six months ago, over 13,000 Elite: Dangerous players set out on a massive expedition to cross the known galaxy. As testament to how long and gruelling a trip that was, less than 4,000 survived the trip. One of the participants (Qohen Leth) has, via RPS, helpfully broken down some of the statistics involved in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2019 -
UncategorizedNike Is Making Nintendo 64 Sneakers
An upcoming colourway of Nike’s Air Max 97 doesn’t make an official mention of the console—gotta keep those lawyers at arm’s length—but its inspiration is clear: this is a Nintendo 64 sneaker. The colourway (which appears to be drawing influence from the N64’s logo and controller) matched with the sneaker’s vintage might have been enough…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 8, 2019