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The Super-Fans Of Detroit: Become Human Hate Most Of The Game
Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human doesn’t seem like the type of video game that would spawn an enthusiastic fandom on Tumblr. It’s a sci-fi game about robot civil rights that sometimes stumbles in its political commentary, and there’s nary a romance plot in sight. Nevertheless, fans are writing fic, making art and finding virtues in…
By Gita Jackson Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
As promised, Ubisoft is packaging Assassin’s Creed Odyssey with a reversible cover. Players choose between controlling the Spartans Alexios or Kassandra. His version is the default, but players can flip the cover to showcase Kassandra—whose version was revealed today—instead, Ubisoft PR confirms.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Twenty-Five Year Old Charged With Stealing In-Game Items From EA
The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed charges yesterday against a 25-year-old, accusing him of hacking into EA’s servers and stealing in-game currency for FIFA 18 that the publisher says was worth $324,000. Martin Marsich, a Serbian and Italian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco court yesterday after he was arrested at the airport on Wednesday…
By Jason Schreier Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Monster Hunter: World NPCs, Ranked
In addition to all those deadly beasts, Monster Hunter: World has loads of colorful non-monster characters. You’ll find them walking in the wild or chilling out at HQ, usually minding their business and occasionally giving you a sidequest. We’ve ranked the monsters, so now let’s rank the rest. Here are 51 of Monster Hunter: World’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 10, 2018 -
UncategorizedDoom Eternal Will Let You Invade Other Players’ Campaigns [Update]
Offering the traditional hype of making a sequel that is bigger and more badass than the game it follows, the makers of the forthcoming Doom Eternal today showed the game in action to the public for the first time. And they offered a surprise: Demon’s Souls-style player invasions. The lengthy gameplay demo was part of…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2018 -
UncategorizedWe’re playing No Man’s Sky live on Twitch. Come watch!
By Paul Tamayo Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fan-Made Olive Garden LARP Has Unlimited Breadsticks And Heart
Role-playing games can take many shapes and forms beyond the dice-rolling of Dungeons and Dragons. One game designer wrote a live-action role-playing game meant to be played specifically at the chain restaurant Olive Garden, and it’s strangely heartfelt. Jeff Stormer, a podcaster and game designer living in Philadelphia, told Kotaku over Twitter DMs that his…
By Gita Jackson Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Hello Games has been releasing hotfixes for No Man’s Sky’s big Next update, and today they dropped a huge one. This update fixes issues with crashes on freighters, ships shooting themselves, and reduces the radius where sentinels will check you out, and it’s now live across all platforms.
By Gita Jackson Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bungie has shared a ton of new information about how progression and currencies will change for Destiny 2: Forsaken. Tokens are going away but the ones you have will still work, exotics will always drop above your power level, you’ll be able to pick from one of three nightfalls each week, there’ll be a heroic story…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 10, 2018 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWe Happy Few Has An Ambitious Mix That I’m Having Trouble Getting Into
Mixing survival gameplay with a narrative is always a tough task for developers, but it’s one the creators of We Happy Few takes on. I’m 10 hours into their game, which is out today for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, and I’m both charmed and frustrated. The writing is excellent, and the visuals are spectacular,…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 10, 2018 -
UncategorizedDespite the closure of Runic Games last year, the studio’s best-known franchise, Torchlight, is slated to return on PC, Xbox One and PS4 in 2019 in the form of Torchlight Frontiers The new development team, which include former Runic co-founder Max Schaefer, describes it as a “shared-world action-RPG.”
By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2018 -
UncategorizedGrandpa Has 11 Phones To Play Pokémon Go
Taiwanese feng shui master Chen San-yuan sure likes Pokémon Go. He has nine phones affixed to his bicycle and another two he’s carrying around for catching Pokémon around Taipei. Chen rocketed to fame after a photo of him appeared on Reddit Last month, Youtubers EXP.GG TW (via AsiaOne) interviewed Mr. Chen about his love of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Official Resident Evil 2 Remake Keyboard Costs Only $675
Capcom is releasing a Lexington typewriter-style keyboard. It costs 75,000 yen ($675) plus tax. The Bluetooth-enabled keyboard is designed after the in-game Lexington typewriter. It’s a nice looking keyboard. You can scroll up and down by turning the knob and use the lever as the Enter key. The Premium Edition is priced at 99,800 yen…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2018 - Uncategorized
Japanese Porn’s Most Infamous Vehicle
In Japan, there one vehicle that if you see it rocking on the Tokyo streets, you should definitely not go a-knocking. Run by a Japanese porn company, it’s called Magic Mirror Unit (マジックミラー号 or Majikku Miraa Gou). Japanese television once explained what it was: a mobile porn studio with a one-way mirror. People inside the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Magic Carpet Ride
Jaurim is one of Korea’s longest-running bands, having officially debuted in 1997—and active in the indie community prior to that date. The above is the highest-quality video I could find of Magic Carpet Ride, part of their 2000 album The Wonderland, from an official source. If you’d like to see the music video, albeit in…
By Seung Park Published August 10, 2018 -
CultureCosplayMonty Python Cosplay Is A Mouthful
Reader Stephen Hancock was cosplaying as a Monty Python character at Gen Con earlier in the month. I’d tell you just who it was, but the name is too long for our publishing platform to fit in an opening paragraph. So I’ll have to put it here. It’s Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2018