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Ubisoft’s snow sports game Steep is no longer coming to Switch, according to an official Steep Tweet. Steep was released in 2016 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC but also slated for Nintendo’s weaker hardware. The Tweet states the cancellation is so the team can “focus on bringing new live content and challenges” to existing…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 9, 2018 -
ReviewsMultiplatformMonster Hunter: World: The Kotaku Review
Video games often deal in illusions, proffering the fantasy of control and power even when your meaningful influence is minimal. Monster Hunter: World, the new third-person action game from Capcom, absolutely deals in fantasy. It plucks you from reality and sets you in the domains of exotically imposing monsters that you must hunt. In this…
By Keza MacDonald Published August 9, 2018 -
UncategorizedWe’re streaming We Happy Few live on Twitch Join Paul and Riley in the chat!
By Chris Person Published August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite Comes To Android Today, But There Are Catches
The last major gaming platform without Fortnite: Battle Royale will get an invite-only beta version of the ultra-popular multiplayer shooter starting today. It’s just not coming to every Android user yet. First catch: At first, beta invites are only going out to people who own Samsung Galaxy phones, surely the sign of an exclusivity deal…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 9, 2018 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI’ve Picked My Side For World Of Warcraft‘s Battle For Azeroth
It’s been years since I gave a damn which World of Warcraft faction I was playing. Horde? Alliance? Whichever. But now, as the Battle for Azeroth expansion rapidly approaches and substantial chunks of the world are getting set on fire and plagued beyond habitation, it’s time I took a stand. Now that we’ve gotten over…
By Mike Fahey Published August 9, 2018 -
UncategorizedOur First Look At Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay
Rockstar today showed off a first look at the western Red Dead Redemption II, which comes out October 26 for PS4 and Xbox One, and it looks like a fascinating evolution of the first one. Most importantly, this time you can brush your horse. Here’s the video: It’s all very pretty, and seems to include…
By Jason Schreier Published August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized
Discord Is Launching Its Own Curated Game Store
Back in June, ubiquitous chat company Discord launched a games tab that bore a slight resemblance to Steam’s front page. Now it’s launching its own store that resolutely refutes Steam’s anything-goes approach. Valve recently said that it’s opening Steam’s floodgates wider than ever before. Discord, on the other hand, says it is hoping its store…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized
Sony Is Releasing A Gorgeous Translucent PS4 Console
To commemorate 500 million PlayStation consoles sold over the last couple of decades, Sony will be bringing back that 90s styling and releasing this blue, transluscent PS4 Pro. Both the console and controller are see-through, letting you peek through the casing to see the guts inside, while the surrounding plastic is a very fetching shade…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized
This Cat Does An Excellent Cosplay Of Beerus From Dragon Ball
There is no need for anyone anywhere to ever do a Beerus cosplay again. Twitter user Sun_ikuto posted this photo of his friend’s cat cosplaying as Beerus It’s no accident that this feline friend is such a good Beerus. Akira Toriyama partly based the character’s design on the Cornish Rex cat he had at the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 9, 2018 - Kotaku East
For an Anime Studio, This Looks Nice
Many anime studios tend to look like regular, bland offices. They’re functional, which is fine, but lack personality and style. The headquarters for anime studio P.A. Works is functional, too, but it also looks quite nice. P.A. Works is known for anime like Shirobako, Haruchika, and Kuromukuro. Boat aside, the anime studio portrayed in Shirobako…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 9, 2018 - Uncategorized
Ben Schwartz Is Voicing Sonic In Sonic The Hedgehog Movie
Actor Ben Schwartz will be voicing Sonic in the upcoming live-action and CG Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Variety reports. Schwartz, best known for Parks and Recreation, is currently voicing Dewey in the Ducktails reboot. Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter andJames Marsden will also star of the upcoming film, which will be out in November 2019. Jeff…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 9, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Dolls
Nine Muses is one of those groups that exist in that uncomfortable grey area between success and failure: never really achieving breakout status, but also never stumbling badly enough that their agency decides to cut its losses. So they struggle on, quietly debuting one solid bop after another, hoping for the day when they will…
By Seung Park Published August 9, 2018 - Culture
Capcom Fighters vs Cyberpunk
Park JunKyu is an artist from Korea. Here, among other pieces, is his take on a more futuristic version of some of Capcom’s most famous fighting game characters. You can see more of Park’s work at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
And Now For Some Award-Winning God Of War Photography
God of War has a very nice photography mode, which was put to the test recently in an official contest held by PlayStation The winning entries were fantastic. Stuff like this: And this: I wanted to draw particular attention to another of the winners though, Cristiano Bonora, who for weeks has been filling his Flickr…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 8, 2018 -
UncategorizedReal Madrid Are Selling Actual Alex Hunter Jerseys
Real Madrid, a very real and historic football club, have this week started selling the jerseys of a very fake player: Alex Hunter, star of FIFA’s singleplayer story mode. Having built up to it last year with a false start and some loan deals, this year’s game finally has Hunter signing with one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
No Man’s Sky Has Griefers, But Tools To Keep Them Out Are On The Way
Even with all its recent Next update additions, No Man’s Sky is still mostly a game about exploration for exploration’s sake. It makes a perverse sort of sense, then, that within that framework people would also find a way to grief purely for the thrill and power of it. If you opt into No Man’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 8, 2018