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The Five Best Anime Of 2018
Anime wasn’t very generous to us in 2018. There weren’t as many wholly original standouts, like in 2017, or 2016’s steady flow of genre-defining pillars. Adding to that, 2018 also gave us a couple stinkers in the “thanks, I hate it” category: an anime about anthropomorphic horse girls who race each other and are idol…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 31, 2018 -
CultureFortnite‘s New Year’s Eve Event Catches Some Players By Surprise
It’s starting to be 2019 around the world, and Fortnite’s in-game New Year’s party has begun. Some players were surprised to see a New Year’s ball drop when it wasn’t New Year’s in their time zone. Hints of an in-game Fortnite event for New Year’s leaked earlier in December, but now we get to see…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 31, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Don’t Miss Out On CrossCode, An Excellent Action-RPG
What I love about CrossCode, an action-RPG that came out on Steam earlier this year, isn’t just that it’s charming as heck and feels great to play. No, what I love about CrossCode is that it’s secretly a puzzle game. Don’t miss out on this one, folks. CrossCode, which I started playing last week after…
By Jason Schreier Published December 31, 2018 -
CultureTop Speedrunner Outlines Perfect Dark‘s Wildest Skips
Rare’s 2000 shooter Perfect Dark is a classic game, building upon Goldeneye 007’s frame to create a more robust shooting experience. Speedrunners are good at finding the cracks in even the best games, and one runner has collected some of the game’s biggest skips and breakthroughs into a video, showing how some of the trickiest…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 31, 2018 - Culture
The Week In Games: Human Boxing
Another light week at the end of the year, but some neat games are showing up on the Switch. Developers are clearly avoiding the post-holiday release window, and it shows, but Switch owners who are into smaller games are still getting an interesting trickle of stuff to check out. Some highlights are obviously The Aquatic…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 -
CulturePortal Speedrun Breaks The Game And My Brain
A speedrunner named Can’t Even has achieved the new world record for the “Out of Bounds” category in Portal by zipping through the game in a blistering 7:07, toppling their own previous record of 7:12. The run is pretty astonishing. The basic play of this Portal speedrun category involves getting the camera out of bounds…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedRappers Saving A Puppy In VR Is Very Good
The YouTube channel 88Rising has put together a compilation video of rappers trying to save a puppy on a rooftop in VR. There’s a lot of rude language. There are two reasons why this video is more special than any group of random people trying out rooptop virtual reality experience. The first is that rappers…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
There’s a Gravelord Smash in Dark Souls Remastered for Switch today. It’s all about doing PVP as a part of, or against, the Gravelord Covenant. The event is going on until tonight at 7:00PM EST, so grab your Switch and get over the the Moonlight Butterfly Garden. Learn more here
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedUpdated My Journal: Goodbye!
Today is my last day as the Weekend Editor at Kotaku. That’s right: your Cities: Skylines-loving, Rollercoaster Tycoon-playing, isometric RPG-enjoying buddy is moving on. What can I say? It’s the adventurer’s way. I’ve really enjoyed my time as Weekend Editor. It is a fast-paced job with a lot of responsibility, and I am eternally grateful…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
Every Game Kotaku Splitscreen Played In 2018, Part Two
It is now time for part two ofKotaku Splitscreen’s Game of the Year discussions. Except we don’t really want to pick a Game of the Year. We want to pick every Game of the Year. This week, Kirk, Maddy, and I close out 2018 by talking about all the games we played this year from…
By Jason Schreier Published December 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedThe good news: “Persona 5 R” is a real thing, presumably an enhanced version of the popular PS4 game (like Persona 4 Golden) The bad news: There’s no indication here that it’s coming to Switch. Yet. Developer Atlus says more news is coming in March.
By Jason Schreier Published December 30, 2018 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Palace Mouse
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedTelling Stories About A Decaying Small Town With Cities: Skylines
YouTuber TazerHere has created a sleepy Texas town called Berrysville in immaculate detail, but what really makes it unique is that it is chock full of stories created by community members. In a playlist of 11 build videos, TazerHere has built up the small town of Berrysville in immaculate miniature detail. It is an astounding…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 29, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Epic Games Store is giving away Super Meat Boy from now until January 10. You simply create a store account (if you don’t have one), click the Meat Boy image at the top of the page, and get the game. After that, you’re free to jump and slide and plop to your heart’s content.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 29, 2018 -
UncategorizedYouTuber Really Shows Off Fallout 3‘s Wasteland
YouTuber Shesez’s show Boundary Break is always a treat, but the most recent episode on Fallout 3 is chock full of weird experiments with skyboxes, colors, and minutiae that’s beyond the regular play experience. My favorite part is the wasteland. The episode moves through a lot of interesting things that you might expect from a…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 29, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Everyone Is Santa, Winners!
Last week I asked the ‘Shop Crew to put together some holiday cheer, and y’all brought it all together. I asked you to turn characters into Santa, but the holiday cheer seemed so exciting and powerful that you all just zipped and zapped your way into holiday extremity. Our winner this week is Dixie-Flatline, who…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 29, 2018
