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UncategorizedGRIS Advertisement Rejected By Facebook For “Sexually Suggestive” Content
Only, there was nothing sexually suggestive about it. Earlier today Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS—one of our Games Of The Year—tweeted this: That scene is…not suggestive of sex. Especially once you see it moving, as part of the launch trailer the image is advertising: A Devolver representative tells Kotaku “this is stupid”. “We appealed…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Giant LEGO Mario Is Also A Giant Amiibo
Reader Cody got a nice surprise for Christmas: this enormous Mario, which his mum made out of 6000 Lego bricks. And just so nobody could tell her that her baby boy’s new gift wasn’t practical, Cody went and added a base and chip so that it could function as an Amiibo as well. Actually…swapping that…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Modder Releases Battle Royale Mode For Stardew Valley, But It’s Busted
Battle Royalley is a mod that asks a simple question: what would you get if you took Stardew Valley, the nicest thing ever, and added a ton of murder? I don’t know, because I haven’t been able to get it running. As reported by PC Gamer, the wonderfully calm and cheerful Stardew Valley apparently now…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryEvery Christmas, There’s A Cosplay Spectacular In Florida
Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December? Below you’ll find a selection of video and photos taken by Mineralblufrom the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Soldier 76 And His Ex-Boyfriend
Tracer is no longer the only canonically LGBTQ hero in Overwatch. Today, Blizzard released a new short story focusing on steely sniper grandma Ana and grumpy military dad Soldier 76. The latter, it turns out, used to be involved with a man named Vincent. In the short story, titled “Bastet,” Ana encounters Soldier for the…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a free-to-play JRPG coming to iOS and Android on January 28. It’s made in part by Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and while it will have microtransactions and character rarities, it will also have a swordsman frog named Cyrus.
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse‘s Best Moment Comes From A Heartbreaking Villain
Kids’ movies often have pretty black and white morality. The good people are good, and the bad people are bad. I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse a lot as a grown adult, and one reason the movie stands out is its portrayal of a more complex system of morality in a film geared towards a…
By Gita Jackson Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Sexy Medieval Men Are Waiting For You In Robin Morningwood
We’re all aware of the kind of tropes that porn scripts employ to get their actors from point A to point Fisting. Plumbers turn up to help out housewives with no cash; pizza delivery boys decide to take a different form of payment than monetary; your stepsister is weirdly into the idea of having sex…
By Kate Gray Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Soon, You’ll Be Able To Play Duck Hunt On Modern TVs
The NES Zapper light gun peripheral is an unfortunate victim of the relentless march of technology, rendered inoperable on modern flat-screen televisions. Retro console and peripheral maker Hyperkin aims to solve that problem with the Hyper Blaster HD, an NES light gun for the modern age. The Zapper doesn’t work on modern televisions because the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureMiddle Eastern Fortnite Players Start Massive Protest For Dedicated Servers
Alaa “DvLZStaTioN” Ebrahim has been missing his sniper shots. The popular Fortnite YouTuber, who has three million subscribers, says it’s not his fault. Nor are the times when his opponents’ shots hit him even as he moves away from the rain of bullets. Ebrahim, who lives in Bahrain, a small island country in the Middle…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
There’s now an improved version of VGC Online’s Sega Saturn jewel cases on Amazon. I checked them out myself and they don’t have any of the “fall apart immediately” issues of the first run. You can buy with confidence now. (Limited Run Games hasn’t started selling its cases individually yet.)
By Chris Kohler Published January 7, 2019 -
UncategorizedSims YouTuber Makes All The Game’s Bathrooms Gender Neutral
Sims YouTuber LilSimsie regularly renovates and makes houses for what she calls her Simsie Save, a Sims 4 save file she provides to fans so that they can play with her houses and Sims. This time, she made a notable revision to the bathrooms in the game: they’re now all all gender neutral. People who…
By Gita Jackson Published January 7, 2019 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
The Eternal Castle Is A Great Throwback To Classic Cinematic Sidescrollers
The Eternal Castle is a love letter to old cinematic platformers of the late 80s and early 90s, a throwback to games such as Another World, Flashback. It capitalizes on their virtues without the weight of their technological limitations. It just came out on Steam over the weekend. I haven’t even finished it yet, and…
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Hooray! Just now, beloved ESPer anime Mob Psycho 100‘s second season launched on Crunchyroll. It’s a hilarious, psychedelic twist on shonen anime tropes centered on an innocuous kid who happens to be a powerful psychic. You can read our review of the first season here
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Alien Isolation Sequel Announced For Phones
Alien Isolation was a big critical hit when it came out in 2014, so news of a sequel might come as welcome news to fans. Less welcome news might be the fact that said sequel is a mobile game. Today, Fox announced Alien Blackout, a survival horror game that, like Isolation, stars series protagonist Ellen…
By Jason Schreier Published January 7, 2019 - Kotaku EastJapan
Game Console Modding Illegal In Japan, Punishable By Prison And Fines
It is illegal to mod game save data and game consoles in Japan. Both are punishable by up to five years in prison and fines up to 5 million yen ($46,000). According to the official site for Japan’s Association of Copyright for Computer Software, modding game save data and game consoles violates the country’s Unfair…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2019
