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UncategorizedEvery Punch-Out!! Opponent, Ranked
I’ll make a deal with you, Nintendo: I will promise to buy any console that you release, if you will promise to release a new Punch-Out!! game on it. This post originally appeared 1/4/16. We’re bumping it today for the game’s release on the Nintendo Switch From a critical standpoint, there are games far superior…
By Kevin Wong Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedNew Street Fighter V Glitch Lets Chun-Li Float Off Into Space
A newly-discovered Street Fighter V glitch gives series mainstay Chun-Li the ability to float upwards and off the screen, putting her, for the most part, out of harm’s way. The best part? It’s super easy to pull off with just a few button presses. The first known appearance of the glitch happened during a competitor’s…
By Ian Walker Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedHyperbolic Tweet About Game Difficulty Turns Into Wonderful Internet Joke [UPDATE]
When you love something a lot, it can sometimes turn into a kind of passion that is overwhelming to other people. When you express that on the internet, it becomes fodder for jokes. Now, one man’s passion for not cheating in video games has become grist for the internet joke mill. The debate about whether…
By Gita Jackson Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedTrine 4‘s Developers Want To Take The Series Back To What Worked
The first time I played Trine, which came out in 2009, I found its combination of high-fantasy, 2D side-scrolling, and co-op puzzle solving to be such a perfect blend that I was surprised I hadn’t already played a dozen other games like it. Even since the release of Trine, there haven’t been many games like…
By Ethan Gach Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedMonster Hunter: World will be on Xbox Game Pass starting April 18. It’s one of six new games coming to the paid subscription service this month, the rest of which are Prey, The Golf Club 2, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Life Is Strange: Episode 2, and Resident Evil 5.
By Ethan Gach Published April 10, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryBaseball’s Excellent Video Game Isn’t Enough To Get Me Past The Sport’s Problems
I always keep a copy of MLB The Show on my hard drive, even though I rarely play it. It connects me to baseball, a sport I have increasingly complicated feelings about. The Show is one of the few places in video games full of Puerto Ricans like me, because baseball is a sport where…
By Joshua Rivera Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Weirdest Little Transformers Ever
Throughout the years, the Transformers series has made a lot of things transform into robots. Cars, airplanes, tape decks, animals, and more have sprouted heads and limbs accompanied by the signature transforming sound. So why not everyday household items, sporting goods, and food? Hasbro’s BotBots Transformers turn everything into ridiculous little robots. Who’s up for…
By Mike Fahey Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedAnother World Creator Éric Chahi Is Back With A PS4 VR Game
It’s been a few years since we heard much from Éric Chahi, the French designer most famous for his work on Another World and 2011’s From Dust. He’s back in 2019, though, with a monster game for the PlayStation 4 called Paper Beast I got the chance to interview Chahi ahead of the game’s announcement…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 10, 2019 -
UncategorizedSoon, Your Sims Will Be Able To Be Miserable Freelancers
This month, your Sims will be able to work as freelancers, and upon hearing this news I had a flashback to being broke and drinking beer for the calories. Careers in The Sims 4 are basically just watching your Sim get into a car, go to a location you can’t visit, and then waiting for…
By Gita Jackson Published April 10, 2019 -
CultureStarting Today, You Can Finally Change Your PSN Name
As first reported last fall, Sony is letting folks change their PSN names through their PS4 or web browser. The rollout out will happen later today. Below is a simple walk-through to explain the process. So, the first change is free, but additional changes will cost $10 each time (or $5 for PlayStation Plus members).…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 10, 2019 -
AnimeFirst Look At Weathering With You, The Follow Up To Your Name
Your Name was one of the best films of 2016. This summer, director Makoto Shinkai is back with a new anime feature. Here’s our first look. Called Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko, or “Weather Child” in Japanese), the movie once again features the music of Radwimps, the band that provided the memorable songs for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 10, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lazy
Something that I appreciate about the Korean language is its tendency to assign playful words to nuanced definitions of common thoughts and objects, and Son Ah Reum’s Lazy is a great example of that. The word “lazy”, directly translated, most often comes out as 게으름 (gae-euh-reum). However, the original title of the song in Korean…
By Seung Park Published April 10, 2019 -
CultureWet Noon
Lucas Staniec is a concept artist at CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 He’s also worked on games like Total War: Warhammer II, Dying Light II and Fantasy Flight’s board games. You can see more of Lucas’ stuff at his ArtStation page.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedYou Can Now Pet The Dog In Enter The Gungeon, Thanks To That Twitter Account
You can pet the dog in Enter The Gungeon, but it was not always this way. Until recently, nobody could pet the dog, and times were dark indeed. Then a humble Twitter account stepped in and saved the day, at what turned out to be the very last minute. Enter The Gungeon, originally released on…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedGreetings, Troubleshooter. Welcome to Alpha Complex, where happiness is mandatory. Developer Black Shamrock is making a role-playing game based on Paranoia, one of the greatest and silliest tabletop RPGs of all time. It’ll be out this year on consoles and PC, if Friend Computer approves.
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedDragon Ball FighterZ Player Overwhelmed After Winning Tournament He Lost Last Year
The fighting game community has expanded over the last decade, to the point where its competitive calendar provides a constant stream of tournaments to attend and watch online. While this can be overwhelming at times, it also lets players gauge their growth on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. A Dragon Ball FighterZ competitor came…
By Ian Walker Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedHearthstone‘s New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots
On its surface, today’s new Hearthstone expansion, Rise of Shadows, looks like just another batch of new cards. But paired with the Year of the Dragon rotation—a major rule change that also drops today and will make some of the game’s most powerful cards illegal in the game’s popular Standard mode—the set looks like it…
By Joshua Calixto Published April 9, 2019