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CultureValve Changes Steam Sale After Widespread Complaints From Developers And Players
After a period of stagnation, Valve has gone back to its well of Steam sale meta games—something users have enjoyed in the past, even though they’re ultimately just a means of incentivizing people to spend more money. This time, though, Valve may have taken things too far with a game that’s caused widespread confusion. After…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 27, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenHow To Get Into Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds may be the best game we’ve played this year, but it can be tough to get into—allow us to offer some tips on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen We start off the episode with some ranting and raving about Outer Wilds before talking Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the Xbox Elite controller, and Bloodstained. Then…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedLoot-Starved Black Ops 4 Players Finally Get A ‘Contracts’ Mode
Players finally have a better way to earn more rewards in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, besides the game’s unfavorable microtransactions system. This week’s update marks the introduction of Contracts on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Contracts serve as a series of rotating challenges that can be completed for in-game rewards. This system…
By S.E. Doster Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedThere’s A Flappy Bird Battle Royale Game Now, And It’s Good
Flappy Royale, released today in beta on mobile and PC by game designers Orta Therox, Em Lazer-Walker, and Zach Gage, seems like a lot of things: clever, opportunistic, a joke. But it’s also fun. Inspired by the 2013 mobile sensation Flappy Bird, Flappy Royale has you compete against 99 other poor souls to see who…
By Ethan Gach Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedA Leviathan Might Crush You In Apex Legends Season 2 [Updated]
Apex Legends developer Respawn released a Season 2 trailer today, in which we get to see upcoming new character Wattson and an EMP exploding in Kings Canyon. Leaked trailers on Reddit, one of which has now been officially released by Respawn, reveal even more changes coming to the game when Season 2 launches on July…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedAnother Alien Faction Is Waging War In EVE Online
EVE Online’s players are in a panic: All across the game, player controlled facilities are under siege by powerful NPCs known as Drifters. Drifter vessels have been in the game for years, but they’ve never attacked player structures in an organized force before. Developer CCP has not confirmed whether this is an intentional part of…
By Lee Yancy Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedTrials Of Mana Has No Manual, So Here’s How To Play It
The good news: Seiken Densetsu 3, the sequel to Secret of Mana, is finally available outside Japan for the first time, and it’s now called Trials of Mana. The bad news: Collection of Mana, the Switch game that includes Trials, doesn’t have a manual, and Trials is a complicated game. Here’s what you should know…
By Chris Kohler Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedIn its latest ID@Xbox showcase Microsoft announced a bunch of indie games that will soon be coming to Game Pass including Bad North, Gonner, The Banner Saga 3, and Yoku’s Island Express It also announced that others, like Undertale, Timespinner, and For the King, are headed to Game Pass on PC.
By Ethan Gach Published June 27, 2019 - Uncategorized
David Kushner’s fantastic book Masters of Doom, about John Romero and John Carmack founding id Software, is getting a pilot on USA, to be produced by the Franco brothers and executive produced by prolific writer Tom Bissell (who, full disclosure, is a good friend of mine). Here’s to video game books turning into TV shows!
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryGames Are Better With Double Jumps
Last night, after hours exploring Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, I unlocked the ability to double jump. It was such a simple thing—one jump, another jump—but I suddenly felt a rush of possibility hit me. That’s because of all the video game-y tricks, double jumps might just be the best. Whenever I think of game…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedPokémon Masters Brings Real-Time Team Battles To Mobile This Summer
Announced last month and due out on iOS and Android this summer, DeNA’s Pokémon Masters has players forming teams of famous Pokémon trainers and their partners for three-on-three battles on the artificial island of Pasio. Fresh details on the game highlight its strong focus on the trainers behind the Pokémon. Pokémon Masters is not about…
By Mike Fahey Published June 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedSony Announces Live-Action Final Fantasy XIV TV Series
Today, Sony Pictures Television and production company Hivemind Entertainment (the company behind Netflix’s forthcoming adaptation of The Witcher and Amazon’s The Expanse) announced a partnership with Square Enix to develop a live-action Final Fantasy TV series based on the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV. The live-action television series will tell an original story set…
By Joshua Rivera Published June 27, 2019 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Samurai Shodown
It’s been said about a million times before, but one more won’t hurt: Fighting games are hard. Stupid hard. If you weren’t lucky enough to be born during the arcade’s heyday, when fighting games ruled the world, you’re already at a disadvantage. Samurai Shodown, which launched earlier this week, only exacerbates the issue by carving…
By Ian Walker Published June 27, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanLife In An Iconic Tokyo Building
This is Nakagin Capsule Tower. Built in 1972, it was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and a prime example of the Japanese architectural movement known as Metabolism, in which the concept was to design buildings that are organic and not static, making them reminiscent of living beings. The Nakagin Capsule Tower consists of a series…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 27, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Uh-Oh
(G)I-DLE, the winners of the ignominious Worst Group Name Ever Award, is back with Uh-Oh, and it’s a total 90’s nostalgia trip. From the record scratches to the percussion beat to the choreography, Uh-Oh is a love song to that decade when we as a collective society determined that, when it came to highlights, the…
By Seung Park Published June 27, 2019 -
CultureStar Wars: The Last Youngling
Jordan Lamarre-Wan is an artist at Respawn, where he’s currently working on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order He’s also worked on games like Metal Gear Online and Epic Mickey. You can see more of Jordan’s stuff at his ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published June 26, 2019 -
CultureTwitchLongtime Twitch Streamer Is Thrilled To Be Teamfight Tactics‘ Best Player
Rumay “Hafu” Wang’s record is nothing to sneeze at. She’s won multiple major World of Warcraft tournaments, and she’s dominated Hearthstone’s rankings month after month. Still, she feels as though people don’t hold her accomplishments in the same regard as those of some of her male peers. That’s why she was thrilled to close out…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 26, 2019
