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A Cyberpunk Detective Game About Finding Rogue Androids
In Subserial Network, humanity as we know it doesn’t exist. Instead, synthetic beings populate the world. They live mostly normal lives. There’s only one rule: don’t connect yourself directly to the net. The synthetics who disobey are deemed “Subserials.” Your job is to hunt them down. Subserial Network is an investigation game where you need…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Introducing Kotaku Social, Our New Twitter Account
Twitter can be bad; that’s why we’ve decided to make it better, or at least a little more fun. We’re excited to launch our new Twitter account: Kotaku Social On Kotaku Social, there will be zero subtweeting of any kind. There will be no filtered selfies (unless I accidentally tweet from the Kotaku account, which…
By Seung Park Published September 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
You can download the Famicom versions of Switch Online’s NES games from the Japanese eShop using a fake Japanese Nintendo Account. There aren’t many differences in most cases but it’s still pretty neat. Plus the Famicom box art is way cooler, and in the future Japan might get different games.
By Ethan Gach Published September 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
A Horror Game That’s Also A Personality Quiz
It turns out the only way to get me to play a horror game is if it’s also a personality quiz. I grew up reading Seventeen magazine exclusively to do the quizzes. Put me in front of a personality quiz and I’ll feel like it’s vital knowledge for me to know which combination of Harry…
By Gita Jackson Published September 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
PSA: Switch Online doesn’t create backup saves for games automatically. You have to manually initiate the process by either loading the game or going into its settings by hovering over top of its icon and clicking “+”. Only afterward doing that will the backup saves stay updated automatically.
By Ethan Gach Published September 19, 2018 - CultureCosplay
Cosplayer Transforms Into Mai Shiranui, Thanks To Plenty Of Padding
Australian cosplayer A.K. Wirru pulled off a terrific cosplay of iconic fighting game character Mai Shiranui. Here’s how he did it. For his Mai cosplay, he decided to recreate the character’s physical proportions. Making sure everything matched his skin tone. He also constructed a lower body suit. But that’s not all that was needed for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 19, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lollipop
This intensely catchy song was a promotional track for the purposes of marketing LG’s Lollipop flip phone, which were still en vogue back in the faraway year of 2009. Even today, the Lollipop still looks pretty sweet; they came with an integrated display built in to its front cover that would allow for some really…
By Seung Park Published September 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedSony Just Announced The $100 PlayStation Classic Console
If Nintendo can do it, Sony can too: the company just announced the PlayStation Classic, a small retro console that comes bundled with a range of the original console’s best/most popular games (including Final Fantasy VII). It’ll be out on December 3 in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and includes games like Final…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Adidas’ Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Trying The Ol’ Collect-Em-All Trick
Adidas is coming out with a whole line of Dragon Ball sneakers, and while the shoes themselves aren’t great, the sportswear giant is hoping that the boxes they come in are reason enough for fans to drop hundreds of dollars on the set. Each pair of sneakers will come in a box that represents only…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 18, 2018 -
UncategorizedLEGO And The Nintendo Switch Go Very Well Together
Nintendo’s Labo system was designed for use with cardboard, but LEGO designer Vimal Patel (like, he actually works at LEGO designing) has other ideas. He’s taken (via Gamasutra) some of Labo’s existing cardboard tools, like the piano and handlebars, and built them out of LEGO Technic instead. Which is more complicated and less accessible than…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 18, 2018 - Uncategorized
Undertale Is Finally On A Nintendo Console Where It Belongs
Undertale is out on Switch today. It took three years for the excellent JRPG-inspired adventure to finally arrive on a Nintendo console. Now it has and, despite the sometimes clumsy Joy-Con controls, the game feels like it’s come home. In Undertale you play as a kid who’s somehow ended up in the underground, a world…
By Ethan Gach Published September 18, 2018 -
UncategorizedGood news: there’s a new cyberpunk bartending game called N1RV ANN-A. Bad news: it’s not due out until 2020. Sukeban Games, makers of 2016’s VA-11 HALL-A, announced its sequel with a reveal trailer today. Fortunately, that leaves plenty of time to replay VA-11 when it gets ported to Switch and PS4 in early 2019
By Ethan Gach Published September 18, 2018 -
UncategorizedFallout 4 Modders Can’t Use New Vegas‘ Voice Acting, So They’re Making Their Own
A group of modders decided to try and remake Fallout: New Vegas inside Fallout 4, but soon, they found themselves in a pickle. Well, more like a jar of pickles. First, there was the gargantuan game they had to spruce up—a years-long undertaking that has yet to make it to the finish line. Then, the…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 18, 2018 - Uncategorized
Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s New Expansion Improves On The Original, But Not Too Much
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 — Torna: The Golden Country is a new standalone expansion pack that does away with some of the more inelegant and tediousbits of the original game. Taking place 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Torna: The Golden Country follows new characters as well as some of the original game’s more…
By Mike Fahey Published September 18, 2018