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Lineage 2 Revolution Adds Hot Anime Orcs
Orcs. The craggly-faced brutes of the fantasy RPG world. Scarred by countless battles, these hideous creatures are the embodiment of brutality and violence. Unless they’re in Korean-developed mobile MMO Lineage 2 Revolution. Then they’re kind of hot. Introduced in today’s big update for the massively multiplayer mobile game that’s eaten a fair amount of my…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Finally, An Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Ship Battle I Enjoyed
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s live events have finally launched, one week after they were initially promised. These limited time quests offer difficult targets to take down with special rewards for anyone who manages the deed. The first limited bounty—a quest to destroy a rogue pirate ship—is straightforward but the extra difficulty led to one of the…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Battlefield V’s Battle Royale Mode Won’t Launch Until 2019
Battlefield V will launch on November 20 without its new battle royale or co-op modes, EA and DICE confirmed today. Instead, these highly-anticipated features, part of the game’s free Tides of War post-launch updates, will land somewhere between January and March, 2019. While neither of these modes is technically “delayed,” since specific release dates hadn’t…
By Ethan Gach Published October 24, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Acts Like An RPG, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough
The other day, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hit me with a real slobberknocker: It told me that a family I’d decided to save from impending slaughter earlier in the game was carrying a disease that ended up spreading to a whole island. My character, Kassandra, was immediately distraught. “We can go back anytime you want,” another…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedMeltan Revealed To Be The First Mythical Pokémon That Evolves (Into An Absolute Unit)
You know Meltan, the weird little hex-headed mythical Pokémon that started showing up in Pokémon Go last month? That’s not even its final form. Get enough Meltan together and they merge to form the massive Melmetal. In the latest Meltan Research Update on the official Pokémon YouTube channel, Professors Willow and Oak witness the evolution…
By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedFortnite’s Halloween Event Released, Then Removed Because Of Issues [Update: It’s Working Again]
Another day, another Fortnite patch. The one that went live this morning is V6.20, notable for introducing the game’s Halloween event, Fortnitemares. Unfortunately, players began experiencing problems, including long matchmaking times, as soon as they started trying to play. Within a few hours the event had already been removed. [Update – 11:11am]: The Fortnitemares event…
By Ethan Gach Published October 24, 2018 - Kotaku EastJapan
Fake Ultra Rare Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Leads To Arrest
Lorelei The Symphonic Arsenal was a prize card at the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships. There are only six in the whole world. Six real cards, that is. According to YTV and MBS, 29-year-old Shunki Iwasaki allegedly sold a fake Lorelei The Symphonic Arsenal to a 20-something year-old Kyoto woman for 400,000 yen ($3,556) through an…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 24, 2018 - Kotaku EastJapan
After Cocaine Allegations, Yakuza 4 Gets A New Voice Actor
In Yakuza 4‘s original PlayStation 3 release, the character Masayoshi Tanimura was played by actor Hiroki Narimiya. The upcoming PS4 remaster, however, will feature another actor. Narimiya made a name for himself as a popular TV and movie actor, starring in the live-action adaptation of Phoenix Wright as well as 2016’s Assassination Classroom: Graduation flick.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 24, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Bbi Ri Bba Bba
Halloween is nearly upon us, and for the rest of this week, I’ll be dropping some tracks that fit the mood. First up: this very-awkward-to-properly-Romanize song. (The English language’s lack of a hard “b” letter makes talking about K-Pop somewhat trying at times, and this isn’t the first time we’ve encountered a tongue-twister title thanks…
By Seung Park Published October 24, 2018 -
CultureCosplayB-Boy Recreates Smash Bros. & Overwatch Moves
This is Martin Cochingco, a man able to take a bunch of ridiculously exaggerated video game animations and somehow recreate them in real life. Here he is recreating some select Smash Bros. victory animations, from Bayonetta to Sonic to Captain Falcon to Green Mario. And here he is with some friends doing some Overwatch animations:…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Is Getting A Spectator Mode
If you’ve ever found yourself tired of Overwatch esports spectators’ camera angle choices and thought you could do a better job, your big day is just around the corner. Blizzard’s shooter is getting an in-game spectator mode, though it’s gonna have to go through some testing first. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan—who, in a stunning turn…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Grand Theft Auto V Mods Continue To Look Incredible
NaturalVision Remastered, a mod we’ve covered previously, takes Grand Theft Auto V—already still a very good-looking game!—and turns it into something extraordinary. It’s just got its final update, and surprise, it now looks even better. In a chat with PC Gamer the mod’s creator, Razed, explains that the last update was also one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedMassive Fallout Mod New California Is Out Today
Fallout: New California, an enormously ambitious mod for Fallout: New Vegas, is now out, finished and ready to play. New California—built from the bones of an older mod called Brazil— is set in between the events of Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas, and to simply call it a “mod” is to sell it short.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
PS3 Game Shutting Down Servers Earlier Than Promised [Update]
Warhawk is a third-person military shooter that came out on PS3 in 2007. Over a decade before Call of Duty thought to do it, Warhawk ditched the standard single-player campaign to focus instead on multiplayer only. Last month, Sony announced the game’s servers would finally be abruptly shutting down on October 25. Thirty days’ notice…
By Ethan Gach Published October 23, 2018