Meet The Modern-Day Samurai Bringing Ghost of Tsushima To Life

To help bring upcoming action game Ghost of Tsushima to life, game developer Sucker Punch brought in some modern-day samurai. Of course, actual samurai have not existed in Japan since the 19th century, but Ryusetsu Ide and Masakumo Kuwami are among the closest folks we’ll get to them Have a look at both in action:…

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Artifact Seems Like A Very Valve Card Game

There are two things in this world that Valve evidently loves more than anything: hands-off approaches and the invisible hand of the market. And wouldn’t you know it: DOTA 2 card game Artifact is gonna have plenty of both. Artifact, a collaboration between Valve and Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, is coming out in…

Aya & Bayek Forever

Jeff Simpson is an artist at Ubisoft Montreal, where he’s got to work on stuff like Assassin’s Creed. You can see more of Jeff’s work at his Behanceand ArtStationpages. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the…

Eminem’s New Album Samples Kingdom Hearts [Update: No It Doesn’t]

Eminem’s surprise album drop over the weekend contains an even bigger surprise for JRPG fans: one of the tracks samples Square’s Kingdom Hearts throughout. UPDATE: Actually, it doesn’t. UPDATE 7pm, Sep 4: The album’s producer Illaproducer originally told Rolling Stone that the track sampled was Simple & Clean by Utada Hikaru, the intro song to…

Overwatch League Fans Are Mourning The First Off-Season Roster Shakeups

Even in a league full of streamers and burgeoning personalities, teams are only as good as their players. Now that Overwatch League’s first season is over, some players have got to go. OWL is now in off-season, and that means team owners and players are weighing their options and preparing for the upcoming signing window…

Zone Of The Enders In VR Is Some Good Mech Action

Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner is one of my favorite mech games. It has downright horrible localization with the voice acting to match, but the combat is fast. A new remaster for the Playstation 4 adds a VR mode that finally gives me the definite mech-nerd experience. Zone of the Enders: The Second…

The Real-Life Celebrities Who Appeared In GTA

Grand Theft Auto games have had their fare share of celebrities and famous actors doing voice over roles, like Samuel L. Jackson as officer Tenpenny in GTA San Andreas or Ray Liotta as Vice City’s protagonist Tommy Vercetti. But the GTA franchise also has a lot of celebrities appear in-game as their actual selves. Some…

EVE Online‘s Tiny Stealth Bombers Can Take Down An Army

In EVE Online, size matters. Players covet its massive capital ships, which can cost the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of dollars. The MMO is known for massive battles, with fleets of hundreds of individual players all duking it out in space. But there’s one tiny ship that really punches above its weight class, and…

The Internet Reacts To Henry Cavill Playing Geralt In Netflix’s The Witcher

Henry Cavill, the DC movie universe’s Superman, will be playing Geralt of Rivia in the upcoming Witcher television series, Netflix said today. Fan reactions have been mixed to horny. The Witcher has a devoted fanbase both in author Andrzej Sapkowski’s native Poland and abroad, so the series’ showrunners had a lot on the line with…

Here we go—Destiny 2‘s Forsaken is now live, and I’m returning to the game for the first time in nearly a year. Or, as the kids like to call it, I’m “back on my bullshit.” We’ll have plenty of coverage on all the new stuff in the coming days.

Dragon Quest XI: The Kotaku Review

Dragon Quest XI is the best game in the 32-year-old series. It wasn’t until watching a rough cut of my 36-minute video review of the game on my television at midnight on Sunday night that I decided to make this declaration. I had grappled with saying it in the script I wrote for the purpose…

Glitch Wikipedia Makes Article-Hopping Into A Game

Have you ever stayed up late at night, bouncing from article to article on Wikipedia? Perhaps it began as a cursory glance into the history of Power Rangers and, somehow, ended with you bleary eyed at 3 am reading about the Russian Revolution. Now you can still do that, but as a game. Unofficially, the…

Marvel’s Spider-Man Teaches You To Think Like Spidey

Many Spider-Man games have done a great job making you feel like everybody’s favorite webslinger, but Insomniac’s latest game takes it even further by encouraging you to think like him, too. Swinging on webs is crucial to any Spider-Man game, and it’s also a big reason why Spidey makes for such a great character to…

Japan Battered By Worst Typhoon In 25 Years

Today Typhoon Jebi barreled through Western Japan, hitting cities like Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka, where I live. Before the typhoon hit, the firefighters drove around the neighborhood telling people to take shelter. My kids all stayed home from school, companies were closed, and the trains stopped. (Yet, there were still people out on the streets…