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The sci-fi MMO WildStar will shutdown on November 28. This announcement follows the news earlier this month that the game’s makers, Carbine Studios, would be shutting down. Refunds for recent purchases will go out on October 3 but there are still a few events planned over the next several weeks.
By Ethan Gach Published September 27, 2018 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryTowerFall May Be A Party Game, But It’s Also Fun Solo
TowerFall is out on the Switch today, just over five years after it originally released on the ill-fated Ouya. It was one of the best party games then and has continued to be one of the all-time best since. It’s still great on Switch, but more than anything I can’t get over is how much…
By Ethan Gach Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
Yo-Kai Watch 3 will hit 3DS in North America on February 8, 2019. The Pokemon-like will come as two separate versions per usual: Sushi and Tempura. The game is broken up into two halves, the first focusing on life in an Americanized town called St. Peanutsburg and the second on a detective agency.
By Ethan Gach Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Fallout 76 beta will start on Xbox One on October 23; PS4 and PC players get access on October 30. Bethesda notes the servers will only be online during “targeted timeframes so we can get as many people as possible playing at the same time.”
By Riley MacLeod Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite Season Six Brings Adorable Pets
Fortnite’s Season 6 is here. There’s no big event this time around, but there are new items, new areas to get eliminated in, and look at the puppy. Season 5 ended with the game’s long moving cube dissolving into Loot Lake and turning the surface bouncy. With Season 6, the cube has launched an island…
By Riley MacLeod Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against Tokyo’s Totally Unofficial Mario Kart
Today, Tokyo District Court ruled against MariCar, the unofficially real-life Mario Kart, ordering the company to cease lending out Nintendo-themed cosplay and cough up ten million yen in damages. That’s nearly $89,000. Nintendo filed suit against MariCar, now known as MariMobility, early last year for intellectual property violation. The MariCar tours are incredibly popular with…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2018 - Kotaku East
Trend for Female Geeks: “Painful” Anime Bags
In Japanese, they’re called “ita-bag” (痛バッグ) or, rather, “painful bag.” And for the country’s female geeks, they’re one surefire way to express their fandom. For years now, geeky car owners have shown their love for anime, manga, and video games with “ itasha” (painmobiles). It’s been said that “ita” refers to the pain inflicted on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bowsette Fan Event Being Held In Japan
Things have moved real fast for Bowsette. There is a Charge.org “Bowsette is Real” page hoping to make the character cannon. That’s not all. Next month in Japan, there will be a Bowsette gathering with fan art and cosplay. The name of the event is Oukan Keikaku: Kuppa Hime Onrii Ibento or “Crown Plan: Bowsette…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Love City
Nine Muses is one of the most mature-concept, refined girl groups active right now, so it wasn’t surprising to see them fit like a glove into Love City’s cosmopolitan pop-inspired music. 2017’s Love City is Nine Muses’ latest release at the time of this writing, after an exodus one year earlier that saw Hyuna, Minha…
By Seung Park Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
“Video Games” Was On Jeopardy Tonight, And It Did Not Go Well
There’s a reason the three contestants left the category until last. Here’s some video: To be fair, “Halo” wasn’t that far off, and I always thought Joust had you flying on fictional ostrich-like animals, not actual ostriches
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - Culture
The Art Of Telltale Games
The closure of Telltale this week brings an end to over a decade of adventure game development that touched on everything from Back to the Future to Bone to Monkey Island to Batman to Game of Thrones I thought tonight, then, we could look back at a bunch of the art that went into some…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - CultureCosplayGallery
Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Oz Comic-Con
Photographer Prasanna Welangoda, who we last saw covering the Sri Lanka Comic Con, has been in Australia recently, and was able to get some shots from Oz Comic-Con’s Brisbane show last weekend. I’d love to add as many credits here as possible, so if you know (or are!) any of the cosplayers below, get in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft Community, Blizzard Rally To Support Modder In Need
Modding a game like World of Warcraft can earn you widespread acclaim, but it doesn’t exactly pay the bills. For all the accolades developer Adam Williams received for Deadly Boss Mods, a raid tool considered indispensable by WoW’s community, he still found himself burnt-out on raiding and too poor to pay for badly-needed dental surgery…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedNew Darth Vader Game Is Coming To Oculus VR [Update]
Vader Immortal is a new series of virtual reality games coming to the just-announced Oculus Quest headset. Here’s the trailer: Not much to go on there, other than the fact it looks like you’re playing as some scmuck who gets kidnapped by Darth Vader then forced into some kind of Indentured Sith Apprenticeship Scheme. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedPokémon Stars At Milan Fashion Week
Fashion/streetwear label GCDS had a show at Milan Fashion Week a couple of days ago, and Pokémon was all over it. Both the mens and womens spring/summer line for 2018/19 featured Pokémon designs, from knitted sweaters for the guys: To boots: To full-blown Pikachu cosplay: And they weren’t the only ones! Jeremy Scott’s show had…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 -
CultureWhat We Liked (And What Bewildered Us) About Nic Cage’s New Movie, Mandy
Some movies just make sense. Mandy, starring a near-feral Nicolas Cage, is not one of them. It begins as a glacially-paced exercise in psych-horror scene-setting before abruptly transforming into a drugged-out, neon-drenched revenge flick. Gita Jackson and I sat down to try to make sense of it all. Nathan Grayson: Hey, Gita! So, we have…
Nathan Grayson & Gita Jackson Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedA Game About Going To Art School In A World Made Out Of 90s Screen Savers
Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But the closest I ever got was watching Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 satire Art School Confidential. It’s a about a wide-eyed college freshman whose idealism is beaten out of him by the pettiness,…
By Ethan Gach Published September 26, 2018