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Trials Rising Switch eShop Screenshots Look Way Better Than The Real Thing [Update]
Video games rarely look as beautifully composed as promotional screenshots, but the Switch version of Trials Rising does not look anything like the screenshots on its Nintendo store page. In fact, it seems like those screens are from another version of the game entirely. Trials Rising came out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC,…
By Ethan Gach Published February 26, 2019 - Uncategorized
Video Game Publisher Apologizes After Hosting AMA On 8Chan
Edgy marketing decisions have a way of blowing up in companies’ faces, but rarely do they so immediately and spectacularly detonate like this: THQ Nordic, publisher of games like Darksiders III, decided to host an AMA on 8chan, an image board notorious for everything from Gamergate ties to stalking and harassment to child porn. Bafflingly,…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 26, 2019 - Uncategorized
Not Everything About The Open-World Lego Movie 2 Game Is Awesome
Anyone who’s played a movie-based Lego video game is familiar with the formula. A film’s tale is retold in a series of story missions, packed with bricks to break and characters to collect. At first, I was disappointed that The Lego Movie 2 Video Game did not follow that formula. But eventually, I came around…
By Mike Fahey Published February 26, 2019 - Uncategorized
Overwatch’s newest hero, combat medic Baptiste, is now on the PC public test server. He’s officially classified as a support, with a biotic launcher that fires powerful three-round bursts, a grenade alt fire that heals allies, a regenerative healing field, and an immortality field that stops allies from dying altogether. That, powerful as it sounds,…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 26, 2019 -
CultureEastshade Has So Much Personality That You Forget You’re Just Painting and Talking
Sometimes, when I’m feeling stressed, my mind instinctively hearkens back to peaceful, idyllic days and just lingers there for a little while: a perfect Sunday brunch. An hours-long walk along the beach. A concert so good that, for just a moment, the outside world vanished. Eastshade is a game that feels like those memories. In…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 26, 2019 -
UncategorizedSim 4 Players Make Luxurious Trailer Homes to Celebrate New Alien-Themed Content
Alien shenanigans are imminent with today’s release of new Sims 4 game pack Strangerville. To celebrate, players are making decked-out trailer homes for their Sims like the one featured in the pack’s trippy video teaser. Strangerville has some serious early-2000s teen drama Roswell vibes. The town, as seen in the video, is out in the…
By Gita Jackson Published February 26, 2019 - Uncategorized
Anthem’s Loot Is Not In A Good Place
Anthem has a lot of problems, and while some run deep, others feel like avoidable missteps. How the game handles its loot falls into that second category. As we get farther into the game’s post-launch life, a lot of its end-game feels like reliving the dark days immediately following Destiny 1’s release. For a brief…
By Ethan Gach Published February 26, 2019 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Bloodborne Is Ruining Other Games For Me
Last weekend, I tried to jump into some video games. I spent a couple of minutes with the very flawed Anthem, briefly glanced at the Tales of Vesperia remaster on my Switch, and even started a new file in Final Fantasy IX, one of my favorite classic role-playing games. All of these games had one…
By Jason Schreier Published February 26, 2019 -
UncategorizedWhat It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games
I’m no stranger to controversial takes. I ask people at parties whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich (it’s not). I think Jupiter Ascending is a fun movie, and if I never see another superhero flick again I think I would be okay. But every time I mention race on this site, even…
By Gita Jackson Published February 26, 2019 - Uncategorized
The makers of The Division 2 are implementing a ton of changes for the game’s March 1 open beta. The list of updates covers many issues raised during the generally good private beta, including making enemies in the included endgame mission weaker. They’re also limiting the private beta’s ubiquitous request for backup audio pings to…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 26, 2019 - Kotaku EastJapan
Working Conditions In The Anime Industry
The Japan Animation Creators Association has released the results of a recent study on working conditions in the anime industry. Around 1,500 people were sent questionnaires, and the association received replies from 382 individuals. Out of those 57.6 percent were men and 41.4 percent were women. The average age was 39 years old, with the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 26, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Round 1
Do you want to hear a idol group named Dalmatian sing lyrics like “doggy dog woof woof woof”? Yes, yes, you do. In 2019, Dalmatian is a mere footnote in K-Pop history, but when they debuted in 2010 with Round 1, they garnered a bit of hype for not only this very catchy song but…
By Seung Park Published February 26, 2019 -
UncategorizedBrazil’s President Somehow Uses Sonic The Hedgehog Music In Twitter Video
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new right-wing President/pre-eminent Donald Trump cosplayer, has a message he’d like the world to know. A message his people have somehow set to a Sonic The Hedgehog boss battle’s theme. Here is the tweet, nominally about investment in Brazil: That music, though. It is, of all the recorded music on this planet,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2019 - ReviewsMultiplatform
Anthem: The Kotaku Review
Every once in a while, a game comes along that that does something surprising, different, memorable. Anthem is not one of those games. Much of this PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC game feels incomplete, while other portions are borrowed from games that did it better. The things that make Anthem special, like flying through…
By Ethan Gach Published February 25, 2019 -
UncategorizedOverwatch‘s New Hero Is Baptiste, A Haitian Combat Medic
After much teasing over the past week, Blizzard has revealed Overwatch’s newest hero. His name is Baptiste, and he’s a combat medic fighting for a better world. “For some, that means a bandage,” he says in his origin story video. “For others, a bullet.” Jean-Baptiste Augustin grew up as one of 30 million orphaned children…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 25, 2019 - Uncategorized
NASA has Smash tournaments, and their poster is everything you could ever hope it to be.
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2019 - Uncategorized
Noclip Website Lets You Revisit Your Favorite Nintendo Levels
noclipis a very fun website which has extracted levels from a bunch of excellent Nintendo games and exists solely to let you fly around them like a joyful, nostalgic God. Made by JasperRLZ, there are levels from games like Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Ocarina of Time, Luigi’s Mansion and even a broken, experimental flyover…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 25, 2019
