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Cecilia is checking out Overwatch’s new hero Ashe on our Twitch channel right now. Come watch over her thrilling plays and daring maneuvers whilst yelling in the chat!

By Tim Rogers Published November 7, 2018

Culture

Castlevania‘s Netflix Showrunner On Humanizing Villains And What’s Wrong (And Right) With Games

Netflix’s Castlevania is a strong adaptation and expansion on Castelvania III: Dracula’s Curse. I spoke to showrunner Adi Shankar about why certain characters were added, which Castlevania stories he thinks could also make good shows, and his thoughts on the similarities between Hollywood and the video game industry. On creating the ‘Castlevania Cinematic Universe’: Adi…

By Heather Alexandra Published November 7, 2018

CultureKotaku Game Diary

One Of My Favorite Red Dead Redemption 2 Details Exists Outside The Game

Many a critic will discuss a game’s verbs: the things you do in the game. That’s too general an approach for me. I’m here to praise Red Dead Redemption 2’s present participles. If you’ve played Red Dead Redemption 2, you may have not noticed them. You may have not noticed them because you can’t see…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 7, 2018

Culture

Nintendo Says It Will Remove Racist Native American Animation From Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

In pre-release marketing materials for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, set to release on December 7, the character Mr. Game & Watch uses racist Native American imagery during one of his attacks. Nintendo now says it plans to remove that imagery from the game and has apologized to fans, saying the caricature doesn’t represent the company’s…

By Ethan Gach Published November 7, 2018

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Welcome To The Age Of Indie Game Cosplay

Soundfall, a “rhythm-driven dungeon crawler that’s procedurally generated to music”, looks cool as hell. It’s also doing some interesting stuff as far as cosplay is concerned. Rather than rely on just trailers and demos, developers Drastic Games decided to get two of the most well-known cosplayers in the US, Stella Chuu and Bindi Smalls, to…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 7, 2018

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My Bloody Hero Academia

When a cosplayer is also a photographer, things can get a little creative, as we see here in this pic by Deegan Marie This cosplay image of Toga Himiko, from My Hero Academia, is a composite, meaning multiple photos have been stitched together to obtain the effect. And while we don’t normally post edited pieces,…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2018

Culture

The Art Behind League Of Legends’ K-Pop Video

While the main event of the weekend’s League of Legends action might have been the Worlds, the star ended up being a K-Pop video that French studio Fortiche made for Riot. While ostensibly an ad for some new skins, it was also a banger, and the end result of a massive twelve months of work.…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2018

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Adidas Is Making Game Of Thrones Sneakers

One of the main criticisms levelled againstAdidas’ Dragon Ball collaboration was that the shoes were all trash, and didn’t feature the company’s more popular models like the Ultra Boost. Those, it turns out, were being saved for something else: a line based on HBO’s Game of Thrones Although teased/announced months ago, complete with supposed mockups…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2018

Culture

Blizzard Is Adding World of Warcraft References To Warcraft III: Reforged

At first glance, remastering 2002’s Warcraft III seems like a fairly straightforward task. Take the ugly bits and make them pretty. Overhaul the cutscenes. Give all the muddy terrain and building textures a 2018 makeover. Redo Arthas’ weird face. For Blizzard’s classics team, though, that’s just the beginning. Warcraft III, after all, opened the door…

By Nathan Grayson Published November 6, 2018

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Fallout 76’s Beta Framerate Is Now Capped, FOV Locked

Remember that issue with the PC version of the Fallout 76 beta where changing the framerate would break stuff? Bethesda has implemented a quick fix for that, and it was as easy as capping the framerate. As PC Gamer report, anyone in the beta now is going to find the framerate for the game capped…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2018

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Low-Angle Satellite Photos Look Like The Best City-Building Game Ever Made

Planet, a company that runs “the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites in orbit”, use those satellites to take hi-res, zoomed-in shots of the surface. Some of those are isometric, and that’s got me longing I know that Cities: Skylines is pretty and fun, and that even EA’s disastrous SimCity reboot looked good, but I look…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2018

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Some Switch Players Are Looking Outside Nintendo For Matchmaking

Nintendo Switch Online went live over a month ago. While the paid service is required for people to play games like Mario Tennis Aces online together, it still doesn’t include any way for players to easily meet and connect with one another. As a result, fans have tried to fill that void with their own…

By Ethan Gach Published November 6, 2018

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Current And Former Employees Sue Riot Games For Gender Discrimination

Yesterday, one current and one former employee of Riot Games filed a class action lawsuit against the League of Legends publisher, accusing it of endemic gender-based discrimination and fostering a “men-first” environment. The lawsuit comes three months after a Kotaku investigation into the sexist culture at Riot Games. The lawsuit alleges that, “like many of…

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 6, 2018

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, One Month Later

It’s been one month since Assassin’s Creed Odyssey released, allowing players around the world to live out their lifelong fantasies of fighting sharks and hunting down cultists. Between issues of microtransactions, canceled live events, and new quests, the game continues to generate discussion and grow bigger with each passing day. Here’s what’s happened since release.…

By Heather Alexandra Published November 6, 2018

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Shigeru Miyamoto is “front and center in the creation” of the upcoming Super Mario animated film, the studio’s founder Chris Meledandri told Variety. “I’ve rarely seen that happen with any adaptation where the original creative voice is being embraced like we’re embracing Miyamoto,” he said

By Chris Kohler Published November 6, 2018

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Tim and I can’t wait for Hitman 2, so we’re streaming one of our favorite game in the series: Blood Money Come watch us on Twitch and join chat for assassination and good times.

By Heather Alexandra Published November 6, 2018

Culture

The Case Of The Disappearing Nancy Drew Video Games

On March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite activity of the employees at the game development studio Her Interactive. That morning, they had something more pressing to think about, though: they couldn’t log into their computers. Server problems, some reasoned. They were confused,…

Elizabeth Ballou Published November 6, 2018

CultureKotaku Game Diary

I Don’t Want Fortnite’s Cube Monsters To Go

For the last couple weeks, cube monsters have been rampaging through Fortnite matches (don’t call them zombies or you’ll hurt Epic Games’ feelings). But on Sunday, they, along with their namesake, disappeared from the game. It was beautiful, but I was sad. Cube monsters have been my favorite thing to happen to the game since…

By Ethan Gach Published November 6, 2018

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Chef Andrew Rea of Binging With Babish has recreated a Red Dead Redemption 2 delicacy: bear stew Check out the video as he assembles a meal worthy of Mister Pearson himself.

By Heather Alexandra Published November 6, 2018

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NPR Is Very Worried That Gaming Is Going To Turn Kids Into Nazis

In journalism, no two things are more often and easily confused than “this wild thing is happening” and “this wild thing is happening, widely.” When the wild thing is, say, mad cow disease—an immediate threat to life— the problem of weighing particulars against a greater sense of scale is critical. Readers can gauge their threat…

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 6, 2018