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I Just Played A 2DS On My 3DS
While the 3DS is hanging on as a gaming platform longer than some gaming pundits would like, Nintendo is making the most of it by doing some really experimental stuff. For example, there are four odd modes in the newly released WarioWare Gold. Two of these wouldn’t work easily on, say, a Nintendo Switch. You…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedIGN Pulls Review After Plagiarism Accusations [UPDATE: Writer Fired]
The gaming site IGN has removed a review for the game Dead Cells after allegations surfaced yesterday that the review’s writer had plagiarized from a small YouTube channel. “As a group of writers and creators who value our own work and that of others in our field, the editorial staff of IGN takes plagiarism very…
By Jason Schreier Published August 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite’s patch 5.20 is out. It brings a new weapon, the double barrel shotgun; rebalanced vending machines; and a new limited time mode, Steady Storm, in which the storm never stops moving. Check out the full patch notes to see all the changes
By Riley MacLeod Published August 7, 2018 -
UncategorizedYu-Gi-Oh! Card Battles Look Explosive With AR
Before the start of the recent Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships, Konami held a special AR exhibition, complete with cosplaying Duelists. One day, will tournament battles look like this? Maybe! AR tech isn’t new for card games. The PS3’s AR-enabled card game The Eye of Judgment came out over a decade ago. But the AR addition in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2018 - Culture
Plastic Food Melts In Japanese Heat
This summer is dangerously hot in Japan. Just look what the heat did to this plastic matcha latte! In Japanese, plastic food is typically found outside many restaurants to show what’s on the menu. Called “shokuhin sanpuru” (食品サンプル), the plastic food is made from different resins and colored to look real. The plastic matcha latte…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Power Up
Red Velvet is very quickly becoming one of my favorite groups, and Power Up might just be their best song yet. When they debuted with Happiness in 2014, I had a hunch that they would turn out to be one of K-Pop’s more unique and inventive artists, and I was right. From their spins on…
By Seung Park Published August 7, 2018 - Uncategorized
Star Wars’ Board Game Miniatures Are Out Of Control
If there’s one thing repeated Kickstarter successes have proven, it’s that board gamers love little plastic miniatures. And if there’s one thing they love more than little plastic miniatures, it’s bigger plastic miniatures. Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Armada has made its money appealing specifically to that sentiment, with the quality and scale of its model…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
How Animal Crossing Characters Can Read Your Letters
Ever wonder just how Animal Crossing characters—pieces of code, unable to comprehend complex human prose—are able to read and understand the letters you write them? James Chambers did, so he dug into the game’s code to find out. A software security researcher—who we’ve featured before here for his work on Animal Crossing—Chambers found that your…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2018 -
UncategorizedHow Myth Became Twitch’s Second Most Popular Streamer
For most streamers, “making it” on Twitch is a painstakingly slow process, a years-long grind that reduces even iron resolves to rubble. And while there’s no doubting that Ali “Myth” Kabbani worked hard, he reached the top of the mountain on a, well, accelerated time scale. As of yesterday, Myth became the second most-followed streamer…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Goodbye, Sports Game Cover Man, You Will Be Missed
While other sports games change their cover athletes every year, strategy stalwart Football Manager has for over a decade stuck with the same basic template: show a man from the nose down, usually in a suit, usually with a scruffy beard, standing around looking like the boss. For this year’s Football Manager 2019, though, he’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Mod Brings Lord Of The Rings To Age Of Empires
Whilewe wait for a Battle for Middle Earth remake, an alternative might be Tales of Middle Earth, a mod that transforms Age of Empires II into a Lord of the Rings game. Tales of Middle Earth isn’t 100% complete (the mod has been in development for six years!), but a near-final build is downloadable and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fallout 76 Isn’t Launching On Steam
All of Bethesda’s previous Fallout games have been available to buy on Steam, but that looks like it’s changing for the upcoming Fallout 76’s PC version, at least when it comes to the game’s beta and launch. After folks started noticing some odd signs related to Fallout 76’s marketing—like the game’s purchase page having a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Hearthstone’s Balancer-In-Chief Prepares For Boomsday
Hearthstone’s science-themed expansion The Boomsday Project drops tomorrow, and players are out in numbers doing what they do best: speculating about which cards and classes are going to be overpowered once the expansion is live. A few common themes have already made themselves clear, namely: that Boomsday looks like one of the strongest sets released…
By Joshua Calixto Published August 6, 2018 -
CultureSkyrim Lumberjacks Have It Rough
Today on Highlight Reel we have rough sawmills, broken vertebraes, No Man’s Sky moments, Black Ops 4 Beta kills, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube…
By Chris Person Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Delayed Battlefront II Fix Leads To Monthlong Fan Fiasco
The makers of Star Wars Battlefront II will restore Emperor Palpatine to the game a little over a month after they removed him. That will cap several weeks of online discussion about how long an announced “hotfix” should take and just what a game studio and a fandom should do when the community manager is…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 6, 2018 - Uncategorized
Breath Of The Wild Gets Official Placement On The Zelda Timeline, But There Are Shenanigans
Since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in March 2017, fans have been dying to know where it fits on the series’ official timeline. Now, Nintendo has provided an answer—sort of. Breath of the Wild is way at the end, but it’s not connected to the rest of the timeline. In…
By Jason Schreier Published August 6, 2018
