Sometimes in Japan, it feels like all the good retro game stuff has been snapped up by famous retailers. That, or it’s fetching a premium on internet auction sites. Yet, if you look, there are definitely neat finds. Just ask Twitter user Daitora While in the city of Ome for a local festival, Daitora popped…
Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan debuted in 2009. Now it is entering its final arc, hurtling the popular manga to a conclusion. Warning: This article has spoilers. This weekend, Isayama (pictured) was featured in the Japanese TV program Jonetsu Tairiku He was shown working on the manga that made him famous, and the program featured…
Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that a bunch of plush toys based on the first gen Pokémon plushies were going on sale in Japan. Twitter user Sekai bought all of them. The total cost? Roughly 180,000 yen or nearly $1,600. That, it seems, does include sales tax Here are more shots of Sekai’s collection:
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Krzysztof Piatek has been one of the revelations of the season so far, banging in 13 goals in just 11 games for Genoa. He might have been doing even better if he’d had any idea who his teammates were going to be before joining the club. In 2017-18 the young striker scored 21 goals for…
One of the few criticisms levelled at Frostpunk was that the city-building game only shipped with curated scenarios, not a more traditional (for the genre) sandbox mode. That’s about to change, with an “Endless Mode” due for release very soon. Coming as a free update for existing owners of the game, there’ll be two ways…
Track: You Know That I Love You | Artist: Jozef van Wissem | Album: We Adore You, You Have No Name Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
A group of co-op speedrunners have completed the Left 4 Dead 2 campaign “Dead Air” a record time of 7:53, and to do so they’ve used some interesting strategies. Runners burhác, LuckY, bill_play3, and JurasPatryk have claimed the world record in completing “Dead Air” the fastest in a thread on Reddit. Despite the lack of…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 added Nuketown to PS4 this week, and it is coming to all of the other platforms next week. People like that map. It’s free.
Some Battlefield V players are posting on Reddit and the official forums that checking the assignments menu while in a game session freezes their game. Assignments are functionally quests in Battlefield V, and they can be as simple as doing a certain amount of damage with a gun type and as complicated as doing several…
Final Fantasy VII Remake is apparently “progressing well” according to some key creators, but it isn’t going fast enough. So this week’s ‘Shop Contest is about speeding it up…by making it ourselves. As you can see up top, I have some ideas about what Final Fantasy VII Remake should have going on. If it does…
What does Stan Lee mean to hardcore comics fans? To answer that question, we brought old friend Evan Narcisse back for this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen First, Kirk and I talk about the games we’re playing, like Tetris Effect and Hitman 2, then jump into the news of the week (21:36) on Detective Pikachu,…
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 November 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published November 15. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
Last week, I realized that I had a problem. My Xbox Live Gamertag was tied to an EA Account that was not my primary EA Account. Worse yet, I no longer had access to the email associated with that EA Account. I took a deep breath and prepared myself for a Customer Service Experience. An…
Track: Red Rainbow | Artist: Public Memory | Album: Demolition Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
If you’ve played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, then you know that the game has a particular love of a single, solitary cuss: maláka. It means something between “jerk” and “asshole,” and it apparently fits in nearly any situation. And now there’s a supercut to show off the plenitude of the curse word. There might be some…
The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developers have posted the results of their Fix PUBG campaign. In a long post on the game’s Steam page, Executive Producer Taeseok Jang highlights the game’s improved stability and framerate while committing to a complementary dev roadmap in 2019.
Hidetaka Miyazaki was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award yesterday at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards that took place in London. Known for his work on From Software titles like the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne, Miyazaki was presented the award by game luminaries Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Miyazaki often credits the pair’s Fighting Fantasy…
Last week, there was a big ole Xbox celebration, and with that came my new favorite video game personality: Xbox In A Hat. I asked you to ‘shop up some things for Xbox In A Hat to do for its birthday, and you didn’t disappoint. What makes an Xbox with a hat so special? After…
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