Sekiro Is Way Better When You Stop Playing It Like A Souls Game

Given that it is a FromSoftware game, I expected a lot of people would struggle with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I didn’t expect that I, a disciple of these games since Demon’s Souls, would struggle with it quite so much. Despite the superficial similarities—the graphics, the bonfire/altar save system, the rhythm of exploration and boss-fighting—Sekiro…

Baba Is You Is A Brilliant Puzzle Game

There’s a certain trick that smart game designers use to mess with their players. You’ll finish a level, all satisfied and cocky about it, and then the next stage will look exactly the same, with a twist. Maybe it’s missing the crate that was the lynchpin of your first strategy, or maybe there’s an extra…

SNK’s reboot of weapons-based fighting series Samurai Shodown, AKA Samurai Spirits, arrives on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in June, with a Switch version coming later this year and a PC port at a later date. The game will be playable at PAX East this weekend. Embrace death, everybody!

Not All Blu-ray Releases Overhaul Anime

It’s become expected that the disc release of an anime will go back and fix any spotty animation that the show let slide during the broadcast. That’s not always the case! As pointed out on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, the Blu-ray release of The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) didn’t exactly clean up some…

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Report: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models

Expanding on a rumour they first published last year, The Wall Street Journal now reportsthat Nintendo is planning on releasing two new models of the Switch, and both may be out in 2019. The first,they say, “will have enhanced features targeted at avid videogamers, although it won’t be as powerful as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4…

Nice Place Ya Got Here

Masahiro Sawada is a senior concept artist at CDPR, the developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 You can see more of Sawada’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Oh Hey Hawkman

Here’s the ever-excellent Knightmageas DC’s Hawkman, with photos by Gwen Graham. The very classical location is the President McKinley Library in Niles, Ohio.

Another Glimpse At The Future Of Video Game Visuals

Quixel is a company that sells textures and other assets (similar to the way games like Battlefront are able to achieve almost photo-realistic visuals). That’s amazing work for the present, but the future is obviously going to look even better. Rebirth is a short film made by Quixel that shows where we’re at in 2019.…

The Week In Games: Take Me Out To The (Digital) Ball Game

Swing batter, batter, swing! You’re out! Other baseball sayings and references! The time has come for the newest entry in the popular MLB The Show franchise. I’m not a big baseball fan, but these games always look so good. If I liked baseball I would play them a lot! Do baseball video games still do…

Speedrunner Tries To Complete GTA San Andreas While Viewers Activate Cheat Codes To Stop Him

Earlier this month, speedrunner Hugo One streamed himself trying to beat Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. But he made it possible for his viewers to, at any point, activate cheat codes using Twitch chat. The end result is a hilarious speedrun filled with some wild moments. GTA San Andreas, like all other GTA games, includes…

If I Can Get Everything, Choices Don’t Matter

I was only about 10 hours into The Division 2, a game that I expect I will play for dozens of hours when I realized something about the perks in the game. I was going to be able to unlock them all easily once I hit level 30 and the final perks became available to…

‘Shop Contest: Playing Labo VR Everywhere

Nintendo recently invited folks to come try out their new Labo kits. These kits turn the Nintendo Switch into a VR headset that you can take with you anywhere. Let’s do that! Your challenge this week: Put my boss, Kotaku’s own Editor-In-Chief Stephen Totilo, anywhere. I have provided two images featuring Totilo playing the Labo VR…

Sunday Comics: This Is The Future

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 March 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published March 21. Read more of Corpse Run  Clueless Hero by Luis…