This week has a great mix of definitive editions and newcomers. Get ready to revisit your favorites and discover new games that you might, one day, yearn to be ported to your then-current favorite console. In the world of definitive, this-is-the-good-version games, we’ve got Dragon’s Crown, Hitman, and Hyrule Warriors all reminding us that they…
Since Blizzard’s Hearthstone launched in 2014, 1,594 cards have seen the light of day, some incredible, some terrible, and a majority just passing muster as “pretty good.” But which is best? This is the question that Blizzard senior game designer August Dean Ayala set out to answer with a recent series of polls on Twitter,…
Overwatch’s two-year birthday is coming up, and instead of confetti cake, players are getting a competitive mode for “Deathmatch” and a new Deathmatch map called Petra on May 22 . Of course, there will be new skins and dance emotes, too. I cannot wait to see the Doomfist dance.
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Since at least 2016, Paul W. S. Anderson has been working on a Monster Hunter movie. The picture now has a star, Milla Jovovich. According to Variety, Anderson recently delivered the film’s latest draft, and the Monster Hunter movie will start shooting in South Africa this September. Special effects will be handled by Mr. X,…
With the NES Classic and the Famicom Mini both going on sale again, Nintendo is also releasing a special miniature console to mark the 50th anniversary of manga magazine Weekly Jump The gold-colored Nintendo Classic Mini Famicon features twenty Famicom games that were based on Weekly Jump manga. Priced at 7,980 yen ($73), the manga-themed…
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Superhot is getting a sequel of sorts, with the announcement over the weekend of Superhot JP. It’s an all-new game set in Japan, featuring Japanese stages like hot springs and karaoke bars, and is being developed by GameTomo. Superhot JP is coming for PC and PS4
The NES Classic will get a re-issue on June 29, Nintendo said tonight. The SNES Classic should also be around throughout the year. Still no word on an N64 Classic.
Noe Leyva is an artist who has worked on games like There Came An Echo You can see more of Noe’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists,…
When Bloodborne first launched, players quickly discovered a door at the end of the bridge behind the Cleric Beast. There’s no way to open the door, but the alpha version of Bloodborne shipped with a prompt telling users they could only open it from one side. So, what’s behind the door? We’ve written about Lance…
I reviewed V-Commandos last year and absolutely loved it, but 12 months later I’m somehow finding space in my heart to enjoy it even more To recap, V-Commandos is a board game designed by a bunch of guys who either work or used to work at Ubisoft. It’s a turn-based stealth tactics experience, where you…
RPG Limit Break, a speedrunning event to benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness, started today It runs until May 19th, and the schedule has some excellent games like Final Fantasy VIII and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch on it.
The sounds of Street Fighter II are as iconic as anything else in the game, as shown by this incredible reenactment of the game by the two members of No Motion posted on Twitter. Watching two video-game sound impersonators re-enact a bout between E. Honda and Ryu took me right back to those days spent…
The Dark Souls games have some grueling and difficult boss fights, but that doesn’t stop committed players from adding self-imposed modifiers that make the game even more difficult. And nothing says “difficult” more than a fists-only boss fight at level one. Yhorm the Giant is one of the lords that a Dark Souls III character…
The Philadelphia Fusion’s Overwatch Contenders team, University, is playing without jerseys in today’s season one finals, not due to a laundry mishap or lost luggage but apparently the giant “FU” emblazoned on their game wear. The University, which competes in Contenders—essentially the Overwatch League’s minor league—announced on Twitter that their “FU jerseys” had been banned…
The trailer for Rainbow Six Siege’s upcoming Villa map has a delicious easter egg for fans of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Operation Para Bellum, the upcoming content release for Siege, will have all of the normal things you’d expect from a big update: a Pick & Ban system, a host of tweaks to the game,…
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze made the jump from WiiU to Switch this week, and it’s got me thinking about games that should be on that portable console that everyone seems to love. So let’s get those games on there. The port is always a complicated topic. Why do certain games make it from console to…
What’re the pros and cons behind the video game industry’s obsession with secrecy and surprises? Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s discuss. First, the Splitscreen Gang talks about Westworld, escape rooms, and news on Nintendo, Rage 2, and Trump’s connections to Everquest (14:16). Then Polygon executive editor Chris Plante comes on to talk about video game…
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published May 10. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
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