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CulturePersona 5‘s Joker, A Stage Builder And More Are Coming To Smash Bros. Ultimate Tomorrow
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s 3.0 update will be out on Wednesday and will add a lot to the game, even if you aren’t buying the game’s paid DLC. Those who do pay for the $5.99 add-on will be able to play as the Persona 5 character Joker and summon his persona, Arsene. A 15-minute video…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 16, 2019 -
EsportsOverwatch League Player Fined One Month’s Salary For Inappropriate Comment To Streamer
An Overwatch League player who told a 17-year-old streamer that she was his teammate’s “second wife” has been fined one month’s salary and denied a bonus payment, his team announced today. The streamer in question was Aspen, a successful Overwatch player who is partnered with esports organization Cloud 9. During a match streamed on Aspen’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedReport: Sony Has New, Stricter Guidelines For Sexual Content In PS4 Games
The recent toning down of sexual games on the PlayStation 4 is not an accident or a coincidence. Sony has a new set of guidelines for regulating the sexually explicit content in the games sold on its platform, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal “A Sony spokeswoman confirmed the company has…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2019 -
Uncategorized9-Year-Old Dragon Ball FighterZ Player Faces His Own Dad In Tournament
Most fighting game tournaments do very little to curate tournament matchups. Sure, the biggest events will do some seeding to ensure that big names and regional rivals don’t play against each other right out of the gate, but for the most part, competitors need to be ready for whoever is thrown at them. Tsuyoshi, a…
By Ian Walker Published April 16, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformHeaven’s Vault: The Kotaku Review
“Stories don’t have tidy beginnings,” says the main character of Heaven’s Vault, outer space archaeologist Aliya Elasra, at the beginning of the game. “The past is always present.” I was immediately enthralled. I often see people hyper-simplifying history in bad faith and weaponizing it as propaganda, so I was excited to play a game that…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedNew Disc-Less Xbox One Coming In May, Will Cost $250
Microsoft officially announced a new, all-digital version of the Xbox One S during the latest episode of Inside Xbox today, confirming previous rumors. It will have a 1 TB hard drive and be priced at $250, with Microsoft saying it will receive price drops as necessary that will make it always cheaper than the standard…
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft plans to sell a combo deal of Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Gamepass for $14.99 a month, the company announced today in their Inside Xbox game stream. While both services already exist, Microsoft isn’t offering the bundled sub until “later this year.” No word if they’ll offer a better deal for an annual subscription…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 16, 2019 - Uncategorized
This year’s Gamescom may be more of an event to watch Friend of the site Geoff Keighley is creating “Gamescom: Opening Night Live” which he describes to Kotaku as “sort of like an all-in-one press conference” full of game announcements and news. It will stream from Cologne, Germany at 2pm ET on Monday, August 19,…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedSekiro’s Smartest Boss Fight Is Against A Giant, Poop-Throwing Ape
There are plenty of tough bosses in Sekiro, from rival swordsmen to dangerous undead monsters. One of the best bosses sounds at first like it would be the silliest: a shit-throwing giant ape. But closer examination of this battle reveals a crash course on how to make a reactive and thematically interesting boss fight. It’s…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 16, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformThe Division 2: The Kotaku Review
A few days after The Division 2 first went on sale and after an initial wave of positive reactions, the game’s players discovered a big problem. Some of the gadgets in this giant Ubisoft game about shooting bad guys in a ravaged Washington DC weren’t working correctly. In battle, I could crouch my pseudo-soldier hero…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedApex Legends‘s Easy-to-Hit Characters Just Got A Little Bit Tougher
A new patch hits Apex Legends today, and with it comes more efforts to address the hitboxes of larger characters like Gibraltar. Although Gibraltar’s kit makes him a classic tank—he has a shield when he aims down sights, and his ultimate is an impenetrable shield—players hardly use him. Because his character is larger in size,…
By Gita Jackson Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedSega Game Character Has A New Face Following Original Actor’s Drug Arrest
Sega’s crime thriller Judgment revealed the new face for the yakuza character Kyohei Hamura. The change was made after original actor Pierre Taki was arrested for alleged drug use. According to Sega, Taki’s replacement is not based on any real-life actor. Taki was arrested in March for alleged drug use after investigators searched his car…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 16, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWhen Life Gets Tough, I Make A New World Of Warcraft Character
This is Raisin. She is a level 43 gnome Mage on the Proudmoore server. I created her a few days ago to help me cope with a horrible situation I am dealing with in real life. Like many throwaway World of Warcraft characters before her, she’s been doing a bang-up job. It’s doubtful Raisin will…
By Mike Fahey Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedOn March 4, 2022, Warner Bros. and Mojang will be releasing a Minecraft movie. It’s about a teenage girl and “her unlikely group of adventurers. “After the malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, they must save their beautiful, blocky Overworld.” It’s directed by Peter Sollett (Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist).
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedCapcom Is Releasing A Plug-And-Play Arcade Stick That Contains 16 Classic Games
The latest video game throwback is here: Capcom Home Arcade is a plug-and-play fight stick with 16 classic arcade games, including standbys like Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, lesser-seen favorites like Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, and a few non-fighting game titles like Strider and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. The joystick comes with an HDMI…
By Joshua Rivera Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedStar Wars Lego Makes Podracing Cool Again
Between the upcoming video game, the return of the Clone Wars cartoon and Episode IX trailer that dropped over the weekend during the Celebration event, I am officially excited about Star Wars again. Not just the good bits, either. Thanks to this Anakin’s Podracer set, which is part of the Lego Star Wars 20th anniversary…
By Mike Fahey Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedMarvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order comes out on Switch on July 19. Announced at last year’s Game Awards, the action role-playing game has four player coop both online and locally, and revolves around trying to hunt down and collect the Infinity Stones before Thanos can.
By Ethan Gach Published April 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedSony Reveals First PlayStation 5 Details
Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 looks like it might be a mother of a console, a report from Wired indicated this morning. Featuring a solid state drive and—yes!—backwards compatibility with the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation 5 seems big and bad, although it won’t arrive this year (maybe in 2020, as Kotaku previously reported). As is expected,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 16, 2019
