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Apparently, the Ice Climbers have an infinite combo in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate The technique is difficult and only works on a few characters, but with the Melee community’s attitude towards wobbling entering a new chapter, the Ice Climbers have solidified their troublemaker reputation across multiple games.
By Ian Walker Published March 25, 2019 - CultureSplitscreen
What It’s Like To Start A Game Studio With No Bosses
After co-writing and designing Night In The Woods, Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry co-founded a new game studio with artist and musician Wren Farren, except this time, no one is the boss. The Glory Society is a worker co-operative, which means that its co-founders have a different workflow and creative process from other indie studios. During…
By Maddy Myers Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe People Behind The System Shock Remake Are Ready To Try Again
The production on Nightdive Studios’ remake of the PC classic System Shock hasn’t exactly been smooth. Kickstarted back in 2016, the project went on a “hiatus” after the studio decided it needed to reassess where everything was going. I looked at the latest version at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, and…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedApple Announces Apple Arcade, A Subscription Service For Premium Games
During a special event in Cupertino today, Apple announced Apple Arcade, a premium subscription game service for Apple devices, with a lineup including games from developers like Sega, Konami and Mistwalker, the studio founded by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. Coming this fall to iPhone, iPad, Apple computers and Apple TV, Apple Arcade is service…
By Mike Fahey Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedSmash Players Are Begging Nintendo To Fix Donkey Kong’s Giant Punch
Donkey Kong is stronger than ever in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but there are still two big glitches holding the super heavyweight fighter back from reaching his true potential. His fans are desperate for Nintendo to set things right. For a couple months now, players have been getting used to the latest version of Donkey…
By Ethan Gach Published March 25, 2019 - Uncategorized
Fallout 76 is coming to Steam “later this year.” Bethesda announced its plans to bring the beleaguered multiplayer spin-off—which released on Bethesda’s own launcher last year—to Valve’s service in a tweet. It also reaffirmed plans to bring future games Rage 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, and Doom Eternal to Steam as well.
By Nathan Grayson Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV’s Newest Races Are Gender-Locked, And Players Are Not Happy
When a new rabbit-eared race called Viera was revealed for Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming Shadowbringers expansion during last month’s Paris Fanfest, only female versions were shown, but players were hopeful that the male version of the Viera would be announced at the Tokyo Fanfest this past weekend. Instead, Square Enix added a whole new race,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedI (Tim Rogers) am playing the new Earth Defense Force game, Iron Rain, over on our Twitch channel, because what else am I going to do? You don’t get an advance code for a new Earth Defense Force game and not play it. Suit up in the chat and yell at some monster freaks with…
By Tim Rogers Published March 25, 2019 - OpinionImpressions
Sekiro Is Way Better When You Stop Playing It Like A Souls Game
Given that it is a FromSoftware game, I expected a lot of people would struggle with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I didn’t expect that I, a disciple of these games since Demon’s Souls, would struggle with it quite so much. Despite the superficial similarities—the graphics, the bonfire/altar save system, the rhythm of exploration and boss-fighting—Sekiro…
By Keza MacDonald Published March 25, 2019 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Baba Is You Is A Brilliant Puzzle Game
There’s a certain trick that smart game designers use to mess with their players. You’ll finish a level, all satisfied and cocky about it, and then the next stage will look exactly the same, with a twist. Maybe it’s missing the crate that was the lynchpin of your first strategy, or maybe there’s an extra…
By Jason Schreier Published March 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedSNK’s reboot of weapons-based fighting series Samurai Shodown, AKA Samurai Spirits, arrives on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in June, with a Switch version coming later this year and a PC port at a later date. The game will be playable at PAX East this weekend. Embrace death, everybody!
By Mike Fahey Published March 25, 2019 - Uncategorized
Japanese TV drama Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light is getting a feature film adaptation. It will star Kentaro Sakaguchi as the son and Kotaro Yoshida. In the original TV show, Yudai Chiba played the son and Ren Osugi, who passed away last year, was the father.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanNot All Blu-ray Releases Overhaul Anime
It’s become expected that the disc release of an anime will go back and fix any spotty animation that the show let slide during the broadcast. That’s not always the case! As pointed out on 2ch, Japan’s largest bulletin board, the Blu-ray release of The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotoubun no Hanayome) didn’t exactly clean up some…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Love Tonight
Trot is a uniquely Korean genre that’s had somewhat of a resurgence recently, after years of it being treated as “old people music”. Hong Jin Young is one of the artists leading that charge. Teu-ro–teu, also colloquially known as ppongjjak, traces its origins to Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century…
By Seung Park Published March 25, 2019 - Uncategorized
Report: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models
Expanding on a rumour they first published last year, The Wall Street Journal now reportsthat Nintendo is planning on releasing two new models of the Switch, and both may be out in 2019. The first,they say, “will have enhanced features targeted at avid videogamers, although it won’t be as powerful as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2019 -
CultureCosplayOverwatch Competition Is Pushing Cosplay To Its Limits
There’s currently an international cosplay battle going on between Overwatch fans, and the results are out of this world. It’s a genuine competition, put on by Blizzard, and there are six teams–each of them featuring some of the world’s finest cosplayers and prop builders–from across Europe competing. The victors will be announced on March 26…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2019
