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CultureE3Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Gets The Anime Right, Down To The Unbalanced Showdowns
In the original Dragon Ball Z anime, fights are not balanced. Goku and his pals often end up in situations where they are outmatched by a far stronger and more experienced opponent. The series has had frequent fighting game adaptations, most recently Dragon Ball FighterZ, in which all of the characters must be balanced for…
By Maddy Myers Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Sues Trolls Who Turned Artifact‘s Page Into A Porn-Riddled Disaster
Late last month, the Twitch game category section dedicated to embattled Valve card game Artifact briefly rocketed back into relevance. That was almost entirely thanks to the concerted efforts of trolls, who created dummy channels and violated the heck out of Twitch’s terms of service with broadcasts that included anime, porn, and anime porn. Twitch…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenThe Outer Worlds Is An RPG About Controlling The Narrative
If you fall into the category of people who believe that 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas was the best game in the series, then The Outer Worlds might be for you. Last week at E3, I spoke to the game’s co-director, Leonard Boyarsky, for a bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen digging deep into this cyberpunky role-playing…
By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2019 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat 11’s Competitive ‘Kombat League’ Kicks Off This Week
“Kombat League” is an all-new seasonal ranked mode in which players compete over the course of four weeks to earn exclusive in-game items. Teased in Mortal Kombat 11’s multiplayer menu since the game launched in late April, the first Kombat League season starts *checks watch* tomorrow. Oh dear. Each Kombat League season will see players…
By Mike Fahey Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWhy I Left Breath of the Wild Unfinished
Some time before I actually finished The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I stopped playing. It wasn’t because I got carried away by other games, and it wasn’t because I was tired of it. I just stopped. New Zelda games are rare things that only come once or twice a console generation, and…
By Joshua Rivera Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureE3Luigi’s Mansion 3 Developers Promise Better Bosses And More Puzzles
Preventing one of the biggest shortcomings of the second Luigi’s Mansion from making it into the third is a high priority, the game’s top producers from Nintendo told Kotaku during an E3 interview in Los Angeles last week. Both Yoshihito Ikebata and his boss, Kensuke Tanabe, said that they’ve worked with Vancouver-based Next Level Games…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureThe Week In Games: If You Ain’t Outta Control, You Ain’t-A Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot and his crew are racing on to consoles soon when Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled releases later this week. Just remember: Speed kills, but you can always respawn. So when do we see a new Crash Bandicoot game? Not a remake of older games, but a brand new platformer using the new art style…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 17, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From MCM London Comic Con 2019
Twice a year, London plays host to one of the biggest nerd shows in all of Europe, as well over 100,000 fans cram into the ExCel convention centre in the British capital for panels, merch, parties and of course cosplay. Our previous coverage of the show has relied on the kindness of local photographers, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Super Incarcerated Brothers
Taking Bob Dob’s famous illustrations as his basis, Korean artist Roh Seung Hoon has got the Mario Brothers spending the night in the slammer for…well, either they both fought Bowser, or they fought each other. Please continue scrolling to see what’s under their hats. You can see more of Roh Seung Hoon’s stuff at his…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedCities: Skylines Is Becoming A Board Game
Last year, Paradox announced that a range of board game adaptations were on the way for some of their biggest titles. The first is Crusader Kings II, and the second will be Cities: Skylines While you’d expect a Skylines board game to be all about plastic buildings, that’s actually not the case; like the underlying…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedElon Musk Doesn’t Learn, Posts Uncredited Artwork, Deletes Tweet
We’re not even a year on from Tesla founder Elon Musk’s settlement in a case over using an aritst’s work without credit and we’re back here again, this time over some fan art of Nier Automata’s star 2B. The tech billionaire, who has over 27 million followers on Twitter, posted the art over the weekend…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedLightsabers In Video Games Are Too Weak
At E3 this past week we saw a good amount of gameplay from the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the new game from Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment. The game looks good and I’m excited to see characters like Saw Gerrera appear. But it has the problem that so many other Star Wars games…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 16, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Keanu Reeves
This isn’t the most surprising contest, I know. But look, what else was I going to do? The internet loves Keanu Reeves and he just appeared at E3 this past week. Let’s honor Mr. Theodore Wick Neo himself and add him to more video games. The world needs more Keanu. Your challenge this week: Put…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedMemory Card Icons Were Rad
Memory cards are already a strange and soon to be forgotten artifact from gaming’s past. How many kids growing up with consoles that include hard drives will remember or care about memory cards in a few years? Probably very few. But I bet even less will remember what strange things could be found on old…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 16, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: I’m Just Looking
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 13. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by Luis…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Clever Ways Game Developers Reuse Assets, Like Turning A Tank Into A Destiny Boss
Xavier Nelson Jr. is a writer and game developer, famous for his work on games like Hypnospace Outlaw. He recently asked devs and fans on Twitter to share different ways games have reused assets. The resulting replies are filled with some amazingly creative and ingenious asset recycling. Making games is really hard and takes a…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 15, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: E3 2019, Winners!
Last week was E3 2019 and to celebrate that giant convention of trailers and teasers I asked you wonderful people to create some E3 announcements of your own. Things got a bit…strange. Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who creates the perfect alternative to E3, E Tree. I’d be down for a week…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedSome LEGO Star Wars Fans Want More Grunting
At E3 this past week, WB Games and TT Games revealed the latest and possibly biggest entry in the popular LEGO Star Wars franchise. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is coming out next year and will be based on all nine films, including the upcoming Star Wars Rise Of Skywalker. But if you check…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 15, 2019 - CultureE3
Telling Lies Is An Eerie Virtual Invasion of Privacy
Telling Lies is an upcoming narrative-driven game that’s the successor to Her Story from creator Sam Barlow. Much like its predecessor, you’ll dig through hours of footage to piece together the mystery of why these four characters’ video conversations have been recorded by the NSA. Check out the video above to see what I thought…
By Paul Tamayo Published June 15, 2019
