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UncategorizedPokémon T-Shirt Contest Winners Are The Very Best, Like No One Ever Was
The Japanese clothing company Uniqlo has announced the winners of its Pokémon-themed T-shirt design contest. While the first-place design will be included in this year’s Pokémon Sword and Shield games, the rest are really cool-looking as well, and already have me searching for my old Game Boy Color and link cable. Each entry was judged…
By Ethan Gach Published May 21, 2019 - Uncategorized
As some fans have been requesting, the developers of The Division 2 have decided to add the player names of the first teams to beat the game’s tough, first raid on PC, PS4 and Xbox one in the game’s virtual White House. The developers had originally planned to only do it for the world’s first…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedU.S. Senator Says His Anti-Loot Box Bill Has The Video Game Industry Worried
Is Republican senator Josh Hawley an advocate for video game players or an ambitious politician with a savvy staff who know a win-win argument when they see one? The freshman senator from Missouri, who plans to soon introduce a bill that will ban loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions, spoke to Kotaku yesterday about his plans.…
By Jason Schreier Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedSony is working on a Twisted Metal TV show The chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tony Vinciquerra, confirmed it was in production during a Q&A with investors earlier today. Hopefully it’s a reality TV mockumentary about a contest where everyday people battle in deadly car duels in pursuit of the American dream.
By Ethan Gach Published May 21, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryStop Quitting Magic: Arena Games Before I Can Beat You Properly
Magic: The Gathering is a game about slowly (or quickly) squeezing the life out of your opponent until they’re demoralized, defeated, and feeling the weight of their many, many mistakes. That’s why I am unhappy with the lot of you serial conceders depriving me of that. I’m not a great player of Magic Arena, the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe short, excellent 2013 game Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons is coming to Switch on May 28, according to its publisher. The game’s unusual control scheme assigned control of one brother to one analog stick on a controller, the other brother to the other stick. The Switch version will also support co-op.
By Stephen Totilo Published May 21, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformTeam Sonic Racing: The Kotaku Review
While it’s true that kart racing clashes with the idea of a character who runs super-fast, Sonic the Hedgehog is less likely to trip up when he’s driving a vehicle. Developer Sumo Digital proves that statement true a third time with Team Sonic Racing, a very good kart racer with a game-changing co-op twist. This…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsPersona Q2 Has Me In An Extremely Fun Feedback Loop
Persona Q, a 2014 turn-based role-playing game for the 3DS, put Persona 3 and 4 characters into an extended “what-if” scenario where they had to band together and navigate gigantic labyrinths to escape an abandoned high school. It’s easily one of my favorite 3DS games, so you can imagine I was pretty hype for Persona…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedTokyo DisneySea Is Getting A New Area Called Fantasy Springs
Is Tokyo DisneySea the best Disney Park? Perhaps! It’s going to get better—and bigger. NHK and Mainichi News report that construction has started for a DisneySea expansion known as Fantasy Springs. It will have three areas based on Peter Pan, Tangled and Frozen. There will also be three restaurants and a new hotel. “We’d like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanSega’s Judgment Going Back On Sale In Japan
This past March, actor and musician Pierre Taki, who voiced yakuza Kyohei Hamura in Judgment, was arrested for alleged illegal drug use. Sega decided to cease sales of the game in Japan. It will go back on sale this July with another actor playing Hamura. Kotaku previously posted a screenshot of the new Hamura. Voice…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanAkihabara Recreated As Realistic Miniature Diorama
Tokyo’s geek mecca of Akihabara has been reproduced perfectly on a small scale. This is the work of Chiba Keizai University’s model building club, which recently displayed its impressive diorama. The detail is incredible. Excellent work!
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedSony Shows Off PS5 Loading Times
We’re still a while away from getting an official look at Sony’s next PlayStation console, but the company has provided an early glimpse at some of its capabilities today during a meeting in Japan. The Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki is there tweeting about the meeting, and captured this footage showing the same scene being…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedVery Fast Walk Across Skyrim’s Map Is Literal Fast Travel
These videos are so soothing We saw Enigma do a couple of them last month, taking a stroll across both The Witcher 3 and Red Dead 2, but there’s something about Skyrim—perhaps its age, perhaps the sheer amount of time we’ve spent trudging its frozen wastes—that makes this particularly relaxing. It’s not one of those…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
CultureCosplayThe Sharpest, Shiniest Cosplay
Cosplayer Polygon Forgespecialises in polygonal representations of video game characters; so imagine if every game ever made had come out on the PS1 and you’ll be getting pretty warm. This is her take on an original design for an action figure, done by artists R-one studio and Hui Zou, which looks like this: And after…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019
