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This Week In The Business: Wherefore Art Thou, Sony?
QUOTE | “We are exploring new and familiar ways to engage our community in 2019 and can’t wait to share our plans with you.” – Sony explains why it won’t be at E3 2019 QUOTE | “E3 2018 broke records, and we sold out of both exhibit space and attendee badges. We are confident that,…
Brendan Sinclair Published November 17, 2018 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Fallout 76
Fallout 76 is an online survival role-playing game that tasks you with exploring a map four times the size of Fallout 4‘s, uncovering its secrets, and making a life for yourself there. There’s crafting, base-building, hunger and thirst systems, diseases to manage, and mutations to cope with. It’s a lot, but I hope the following…
By Ethan Gach Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee Versus Pikachu: Which To Get
It’s Pokémon Let’s Go launch day, and trainers around the world are setting off on a new adventure through Kanto with their partner Pokémon. That is, unless they can’t decide between the Eevee and Pikachu versions of the game. We’re here to help. You should definitely choose Eevee. Or maybe Pikachu. Ultimately, the decision comes…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2018 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for handling a bunch of bills and chores and boring things I keep putting off, all while resenting having to do those things on my days off. You know what’s more fun? Video games. After reviewing Hitman 2, I’m back to making my way through Red Dead Redemption 2. I’d love to…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 16, 2018 - Esports
Halo 5‘s Best Teams Go Head To Head In The Last Major Tournament Of The Year
It’s a busy weekend for esports. Recently with these posts I’ve been trying to focus in on an interesting aspect of just one particular competition happening in the days ahead, but this week, there are too many events to choose just one. Halo 5. Heard of it? The game came out back in 2015 but…
By Ethan Gach Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
Devil May Cry Series Coming From Castlevania Netflix Producer [Correction]
An animated series based on Capcom’s Devil May Cry is coming from Castlevania series producer Adi Shankar, IGN has reported The series, Shankar told IGN, “will join Castlevania in what we’re now calling the bootleg multiverse.” Shankar’s acclaimed Castlevania adaptation was recently renewed by Netflix for a third season. Correction, 4:58 p.m. Eastern: The original…
By Chris Kohler Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fallout 76 Easter Egg Pokes Fun At Lore Inconsistencies
When did the Brotherhood of Steel first show up in West Virginia? What’s the real origin of Fallout’s big green super mutants? Fallout 76 takes liberties with more than a little of the series’ lore, but Bethesda doesn’t seem to be too worried about it, making light of timeline contradictions with a funny callback to…
By Ethan Gach Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Lost Tales Add Humor And Depth
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hasslowly expanded since release with live eventsand new monsters to fight. These activities and challenges give a sense of continued danger to the Grecian world, but a smattering of new quest has been the most surprising and exciting new additions. The new “Lost Tales of Greece”—two of which have been released, with…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 16, 2018 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV‘s Next Expansion Is Shadowbringers, Coming Summer 2019
Announced today at Square Enix’s annual Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest, the popular online game’s third expansion, Shadowbringers, is coming early summer 2019. Expect an expansive story, a raised level cap and multiple new jobs—including one wielding a gunblade. And did somebody say playable Viera and Blue Mages? Now that players have freed Ala Mhigo and…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2018 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter V Player Exits Capcom Cup Due To Results Of Domestic Violence Investigation
In response to recent allegations of domestic violence, South Korean fighting game competitor Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee has been dropped by Panda Global, the professional esports organization that signed him in March, and will not participate in official Street Fighter V events for at least a year. In September, an anonymous Reddit user posted documentation that…
By Ian Walker Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Transformers Trading Card Game‘s Metroplex Is As Big As My Face
Just as I was getting used to having hero cards two times the size of the average trading card game, Hasbro releases the Metroplex deck, featuring a card as large as my face. No card should be as big as my face. In a normal round of the recently-releasedTransformers card game, two players pick a…
By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
Civilization VI Runs Well On Switch But Is Missing Some Features
Today, Civilization VI comes to Switch, which means two important things. One is that you can now play an incredible strategy game anywhere you’d like. The second is that Gandhi now qualifies for Smash The good news is that the game seems to run great. I’ve tested out a few matches and while it takes…
By Jason Schreier Published November 16, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Hitman 2016 Taught Me A Better Way To Play Hitman 2
Usually when I play a single-player game, I go through it from start to finish. I play each new level after the last one, until I stop playing or get to the end. That’s not how I played 2016’s excellent episodic Hitman, however, and it’s not how I’m playing its fantastic new sequel. I’ve played…
By Kirk Hamilton Published November 16, 2018 - Uncategorized
In an interview with Kotaku on Tuesday, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said Nintendo’s handheld business in the Americas was up for the first three quarters of 2018, compared to 2017. After added fact-checking, Fils-Aime now tells us that Nintendo’s handheld business in the U.S. was up for the first two quarters. Still a…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 16, 2018 - OpinionImpressions
Warframe Players Will Be Able To Copy Their PC Account To Switch
On September 20 Steve Sinclair, Digital Extremes’ creative director, tweeted out that its third-person shooter MMO Warframe had just gotten faster, decreasing latency by one millisecond to be precise. That was thanks to the work of Panic Button, an outside studio that in the last few years has focused on porting other companies’ games (Rocket…
By Ethan Gach Published November 16, 2018 -
ReviewsSwitchPokémon Let’s Go! Eevee and Pikachu: The Kotaku Review
Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee are going to be divisive. The games seem meant to introduce a new generation of players to Pokémon, especially players who started with Pokémon Go. The changes made to gameplay may frustrate longtime fans, including me; I started playing in the late ‘90s and kept up with the franchise…
By Gita Jackson Published November 16, 2018 - Kotaku EastJapan
Pokémon Go Led These Two Players To Marriage
Shibu and Lily met in Odaiba, Tokyo while playing Pokémon Go. They fell in love and were recently married. Congrats to them! Their wedding ceremony was Pokémon Go themed Niantic Japan congratulated the two! And released Luvdisc during the wedding ceremony One of Shibu’s friends made this wonderful wedding themed clip that explains how they…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 16, 2018
