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CultureThese Dark Souls Bowls Are Going To Stack Themselves
Today on Highlight Reel we have self-stacking bowls, A Way Out glitches, Vampyr confusion, 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 for more! Catch up on…
By Chris Person Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Alliteration Algorithm Generates Genius Fortnite Frivolity
From recipes to paint color names to Hearthstone cards, everything is better when you make a bot do it. Check out how this machine-learning algorithm named locations on the Fortnite map. Fortnite only has one map, so the people over at Botnik Studios took it upon themselves to use their machine-learning tools to make an…
By Gita Jackson Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Which games had the best E3? The data folks over at Thinknum (a site, full disclosure, run by my friend Josh Fruhlinger) have some charts showing how game companies and their games did. The biggest trailers were for Cyberpunk, Fallout and The Last Of Us; the worst backlash was to Command & Conquer.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 21, 2018 -
CultureE3Mutant Year Zero Marries XCOM With Talking Animals
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is pretty long name for a game with a straightforward pitch: what if XCOM but with animorphs? While it’s based off of a pen and paper role-playing game popular in Sweden during the 80s, developer The Bearded Ladies have made it their own by injecting the inspiration’s DNA into…
By Ethan Gach Published June 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedDiscord’s New Games Tab Is A Lot Like Steam
Last week, Steam added new chat features that took a page from Discord’s book—pretty much the entire book, actually. Now, Discord has added a “games” tab that replicates some of Steam’s most pervasive features. And thus, the circle is complete. Discord’s games tab pulls together game-specific information from across multiple channels, distilling it into a…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedPeople Keep Trying To Win Fortnite Without Weapons
Winning a game of Fortnite is impressive on its own. Winning a game of Fortnite with no weapons is bonkers. The last person standing in the 100-person survival shooter wins it all. Most of the time, this takes a combination of gun skill, fort-building finesse and tactics. It’s not a thing a lot of people…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedEvery Big Game Coming Out In Summer 2018
Summer is here. Time to chill by the pool, hang out in the park, or post up on the beach for a nice breezy afternoon. Whatever you do don’t stay home because there won’t be many games there, unless you have a Switch, which is getting a surge of ports. I kid. Mostly. There are…
By Ethan Gach Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Sims 4 Seasons Makes Your Sims Feel More Real
The Sims 4‘s latest expansion, Seasons, gives the game the rhythms of a passing year. While it might seem like a decorative change, after playing it, Seasons feel essential. Fans have clamored for Seasons since The Sims 4‘s release. Each game has gotten the expansion since The Sims 2, and getting to see spring, summer,…
By Gita Jackson Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Battle Passes Are So Hot Right Now
Pay-to-win games are garbage. Loot boxes are passe. Cosmetics are cute, but not a great incentive to keep playing. Game publishers have cycled through a bevy of monetization gimmicks aimed at keeping gamers putting cash into their games, some more successful than others. Now, more and more of them seem to be coalescing around a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIV‘s Director Talks Housing Shortage, PS4 Cross-Play, And Much More
Naoki Yoshida has become an icon to Final Fantasy XIV fans. When he logs into the game, his character gets mobbed. One of the reasons for his popularity is his willingness to get candid about all of the issues his game faces. Last week at E3 in Los Angeles, I spoke to Yoshida about some…
By Jason Schreier Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Video Game Becomes Popular, World Panics
In the past few months, a video game has become popular among young people, prompting experts and commentators around the world to decide that there must be something dangerous about it. Newspaper columnists, education commentators and politicians are variously claiming that the Popular Video Game is having a detrimental effect on children; that it’s encouraging…
By Keza MacDonald Published June 21, 2018 - Culture
The 2018 Steam Summer Sale Is Now Live
Do you love video games and hate having money? Are you ambivalent on the idea of ever getting around to actually playing those video games? Well, GOOD NEWS: it’s Steam summer sale time. The sale just went live and is, as usual, overflowing with discounts large and small. It’s alien-themed this time and includes a…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 21, 2018 -
EsportsHow Pro Gamers Live Now: Curfews, Personal Chefs, And All Of It On Camera
Every day is Christmas at the Philadelphia Fusion esports mansion. The team’s marketing and content director Hung Tran gestured to the towering decorated pine tree to the right of the front door by way of explaining the joke: the pro gamers who live here get whatever they want and do whatever they want. But Christmas…
By Maddy Myers Published June 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedI Don’t Know If Nintendo Won E3, But They Are Winning June
The traditional way to view game companies when it’s E3 season is to look at what they announce for the future. In that regard, Nintendo had a so-so E3. During its pre-recorded presentation, Nintendo announced relatively few games, most of them safe sequels and a line-up for the remainder of the year that’s a little…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 21, 2018 -
UncategorizedWatch Us Play Mario Tennis Aces
With Mario Tennis Aces coming to the Switch this Friday, I asked our resident tennis aficionado Tim Rogers to play me in a “best of three” series. Mario Tennis Aces introduces an interesting lineup of characters that somehow includes Chain Chomp, cool acrobatic trick shots, and super shots that let you aim exactly where you…
By Paul Tamayo Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
My Most Embarrassing E3 Encounter With A Gaming Celebrity
I would like to tell you about a mortifying encounter I recently had with a very well known figure in video games. It’s a better story if you don’t know who it is until the end I was hanging around the Ubisoft booth at E3 this year, waiting for a private demo of Transference, the…
By Keza MacDonald Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Model Japanese Arcade Cabinets Are Gloriously Cute
Look at these! Japan’s Wave Corporation has been releasing several different miniature arcade cabinets (hereand here, for example). These Astro City cabinets, however, are my favorite. The level of detail in these 1/12 scale models is incredible. *applause* The Astro City cabinets are priced at 3,200 yen ($29) each and will go on sale in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Anime Revealed
Earlier today, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki announced that the manga’s fifth story arch is getting an anime. The announcement was made at the end of a Jojo art exhibition press conference. Araki said that part five, Ougon no Kaze (Golden Wind in English), of the Jojo anime will start airing this fall. Above…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Picks Of The Day: Wonder Boy & Into The Night Sky
After School Red and After School Blue were two short-lived and ill-fated experimental sub-groups of After School. The idea was to divide the group into two units on the opposite sides of the cute-sexy spectrum and have them promote at the same time to drum up some friendly competition. This idea crashed and burned for…
By Seung Park Published June 21, 2018
