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Eight Of Your Weirdest Smash Ultimate Rule Sets
It’s fun enough to play regular old timed or stock matches in Smash, but players have also been making their own weird, super-hard, or just plain wacky rule sets for years. Smash Ultimate allows players to codify their rule sets as saved settings. I asked readers to tell me their Ultimate rule sets, and here…
By Gita Jackson Published December 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
What’s The Next Great Vaporware Game?
Next month, Kingdom Hearts III will finally come out, which is great news for video game fans, but bad news for people who need to write punchlines about video games that never come out. It raises an interesting question: What’s the next great vaporware game? Vaporware, a name coined for software that’s announced but never…
By Jason Schreier Published December 24, 2018 - ReviewsYear in Review
Riley’s Top 10 Games Of 2018
Another year, another feast of games to devour. Here are my 10 favorite games of 2018. Vampyr Vampyr was a charming, ambitious game, despite its clumsy combat and sometimes tedious navigation. Getting to know its London’s residents and tending to them as a doctor would, only to feast on them when I needed the XP,…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 24, 2018 - ReviewsYear in Review
The Year In JRPGs, 2018
After a tremendous 2017, Japanese role-playing games were due for some regression, and that’s exactly what happened this year. There were no all-time classics like Persona 5 or Nier Automata in 2018. Yet it was a decent year for the genre, and we got some JRPGs that I enjoyed quite a bit. As is annual…
By Jason Schreier Published December 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Looking Back On My Former Life In Star Wars: The Old Republic
I started playing Star Wars: the Old Republic at launch on December 20th, 2011. In the six years to follow, BioWare’s narrative-focused online RPG became a constant in my life, bringing me new friends, dear personal partners, and amazing adventures. I canceled my subscription on March 13th, 2017. It’s been a little less than two…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedAfter A Year Of Free Updates, The Switch’s Kirby Game Is Finally Very Good
Kirby Star Allies launched on Switch in March, and it was decent, but a significant drop in quality from 2016’s Kirby: Planet Robobot. Since then, Nintendo has given the game several significant updates. Combined, they have made Star Allies a vastly better game. Unlike most Kirby games, Star Allies revolves not just around Kirby but…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 24, 2018 - Culture
The Week In Games: Dynasty Core
It’s the last full week of the year, so there are a slim number of releases. Most of them are on the Switch. Like every year, a lot of games have released this year. I imagine that you, like me, have a dozen or so games that you’ve been meaning to get to that you…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 -
CultureBlindfolded Speedrunner Demolishes Outlast
I don’t care for first-person games that are heavy on jumpscares, and so speedrunner AcrohTheBeast’s 10:24 blindfolded run seems like the perfect way to play the game. While the actual time of the run would put it somewhere above 100th place in the official speedrun rankings of the game, I have a lot of respect…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedA Classic Christmas Song Interpreted Through Rollercoaster Tycoon
It’s the holiday season, and that means it is the time to listen to holiday songs. They’re universally terrible, so making “new” versions with pop culture objects is just fine by my book. And now we have “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” with Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic parks. A YouTuber with the simple name of “Stu”…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Everyone Is Santa
Christmas is coming, and that means Santa Claus. I want you to make all of the video game characters into Santa. For those who celebrate it, Christmas can be stressful. Families get together, travel is involved, and it can swing from wildly pleasant to incredibly bad. However, I think that most of us can agree…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
Every Game Kotaku Splitscreen Played In 2018, Part One
It is now time forKotaku 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. As has become annual tradition, this week we’re going back and talking about all of the games we played in 2018. Kirk, Maddy,…
By Jason Schreier Published December 23, 2018 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Wolf Elf
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 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 20. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Origins Composer Posts Unreleased Tracks
Composer Sarah Schachner, whose credits include Assassin’s Creed Origins, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and the upcoming Anthem, has released a number of previously-unreleased tracks from Origins on her Soundcloud page The tracks seem to mostly be songs that are in the game in some form but were not released on the official soundtrack for…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bethesda has announced on Twitter that anyone who logged into Fallout 76 during 2018 will receive a copy of the Fallout Classic Collection on PC. The collection contains Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. It is currently unclear how the collection will be distributed.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 -
UncategorizedModder Transforms Super Mario 64 Into Super Mario Bros.
The brain behind a number of Super Mario 64 mods has done it again by recreating lots of Super Mario Bros. levels inside of Super Mario 64. Modder Kaze Emanuar has taken the 2D level design of that older game and crammed it into the engine of Super Mario 64. Judging from the video that…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 -
UncategorizedDragon Quest XI is releasing for the Switch in Japan during 2019. It’ll be called Dragon Quest XI S, and while details are thin currently, it will have a significant amount of voice acting. There’s no word yet on a release date or whether it will release outside Japan.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Watch Out In Firewatch, Winners!
Last week I asked you to pitch some secrets for the Switch version of Firewatch, and you all delivered things that are better, and more secret, than I could ever imagine. Let’s dig in. Our winner this week really went for the massive, composite secret experience. I mean, they really just jammed this universe full…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published December 22, 2018 - Culture
This Week in the Business: Gaming Is My Business, And Business Is Good
STAT | $134.9 billion – The total value of the worldwide video game market in 2018, according to market research firm Newzoo. Mobile platforms make up the largest portion of that ($63.2 billion), followed by console ($38.3 billion) and PC ($33.4 billion). STAT | 1.3 million – The Switch, PS4, and Xbox One all topped…
Brendan Sinclair Published December 22, 2018
