D&D Inspired By Dark Souls Is Incredibly Badass

Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that are housed in other fictional universes are usually pretty cool. If you want a robust, fiddly ruleset, then D&D is very useful. Reddit user SnicklefritzSkad has built up a Dark Souls story inside of D&D, and it is very, very excellent. In D&D, there is a difference between the rules…

‘Shop Contest: Create More Fortnite Mysteries

Fortnite is chock full of mystery right now. The sky has broken and weirdness is on the loose. In this week’s ‘Shop Contest, we’re going to get even stranger. Things are blinking out of existence within Fortnite, and some of them are even appearing in our world, so there is literally nothing that could happen…

Why We Play Tough Games

What makes people want to play nails-tough games? When do they risk feeling like a waste of time? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. First, Kirk and I talk about GDQ and hot dog eating contests before getting into all sorts of video game topics like Cyberpunk’s E3 demo audio leaking, Google’s plans for…

Sunday Comics: Kiryu Insurance

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 July 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 5. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Crash Bandicoot Remaster Clarifies Potoroo Gangster’s Fantasy

The most recent episode ofBoundary Break scrounges through lots of interesting hidden content in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, but the best thing is a clarification of Pinstripe Potoroo’s deepest desires. In an older episode of Boundary Break, host Shesez showed viewers a weird little detail in the the boss arena for Pinstripe Pootoroo, the…

Dark Souls Player Experiences Minor Miracle, Dies

The Bed of Chaos is a notorious enemy in Dark Souls because she doesn’t quite work like any other boss. Twitch streamer Jerma985 had the best possible experience with the fight. Immediately after, he had the worst. Bed of Chaos is a large, stationary enemy with two orbs of power to either side of her.…

The demo for Yakuza Kiwami 2 is now available for PS4. There’s also a new story trailer. The full game will release later this year on August 28. You can find the demo here. 

Now There’s A Mysterious Anchor In Fortnite

Objects are warping in and out of Fortnite in the lead up to the game’s next season. The sky has split open, things are warping into our world, and the universe of Fortnite is in disarray. And now there’s an anchor of mysterious origin. In a Reddit post about the anchor, players have floated many…

‘Shop Contest: Video Game Independence Day, Winners!

Video game characters are patriotic, probably, so I asked you to create some images that depicted what your favorite characters were up to for the most American of holidays. July 4th rolled around. I saw a firework. It rained. But while I was literally listening to the screams of a thousand teens whose outfits were…

This Week In The Business: The Future Is Games-As-A-Service…For Some

QUOTE | “Anyone who has ever said ‘this is the future and this part of gaming is dead’ has been proven wrong every single time. We like to try it all. For a long time we wanted to try a multiplayer game and we had this idea. We shouldn’t be afraid.” – Bethesda studio head…

Fortnite Burger Disappears From Map, Reappears In Real-Life Desert

Last weekend, Fortnite’s sky cracked like a giant, star-spattered egg. Now, smaller rifts are appearing all across the game’s map, and they’re sucking up everything in their path. This includes beloved landmarks like the Tomatohead mascot in Tomato Town and the Durrr Burger in Greasy Grove. Where have they gone? Well, the latter apparently ended…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for getting sick just as the weather stops being too hot to go outside. What the hell? Guess I’ll stay inside with some video games. Over the 4th of July I played Fortnite for the first time. I was, unsurprisingly, terrible at it, because I am not that great at battle royale…

Rare Finished Making A Battletoads For Game Boy That Never Came Out

Hunters of long-lost video games can now add another one to the wish list: Battletoads: The Arcade Game for the Game Boy. Speaking with the fansite RareFanDaBase this week, veteran Rare developer Paul Machacek said that the company had completed a port of Battletoads Arcade, a cabinet released in 1994, for Nintendo’s black-and-white Game Boy,…

This Rock Band Loves Playing Dungeons & Dragons Between Tour Stops

Conor Murphy, lead singer of the post-rock band Foxing, says that Dungeons and Dragons is his favorite thing in the world “because you get to be a voyeur to your friends, who are having this reawakening of their imaginations in front of you.” When I bring up Dungeons and Dragons, though, he gets audibly excited.…

Artist Uses GTA V To Explore American Gun Violence

Abertay University professor and artist Joseph DeLappe is using Grand Theft Auto V in his latest digital art piece about gun violence in America. Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides was created by the Scottish professor and launched on July 4th 2018. The piece is designed to show the victims of gun violence in the United…

Guild Wars 2 Writers Fired For Calling Out Fan On Twitter

After a Twitter spat erupted into a mob of fans going after a narrative designer for Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet, the developer said that it has fired two employees: Jessica Price and Peter Fries. On July 3, Price, a writer on Guild Wars 2, published a Twitter thread on the challenges of creating a…

YouTuber’s Board Game Tutorials Teach The Rules Wrong, And Way Better

Jeff Kornberg’s YouTube channel, The Dragon’s Tomb, does not stand out from the throng of other channels hosting tutorials for board games. Like his peers, Kornberg explains the rules in a slow, gentle voice with frequent cutaways to each game’s pieces, cards, and setup. The difference between Kornberg’s channel and the others is that every…