There Might Be A Secret Kojima Productions Message In Metal Gear Survive

Things didn’t exactly end on a good note between Hideo Kojima and Konami. That doesn’t mean Konami is without those who still care about the legacy of Metal Gear creator’s old studio. While at Konami, Hideo Kojima headed up a development arm known as Kojima Productions. Since leaving Konami, he’s founded his own company which…

Square Enix Will Still Be Releasing Final Fantasy XV DLC In 2019

Originally, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata said he wanted to add at least three more add-ons in 2018. That was the plan. Now Tabata is saying there are four more in-coming and all the DLC might not come out this year. In a recent 4Gamer interview (via Hachima), Tabata discussed the DLC, saying, “There…

Manga’s Dick Drawing Causes International Incident

In the latest Yarisugi!!! Itazura-Kun, a serialized gag manga for kids, an image of Genghis Khan is shown with a dick doodled on his forehead, along with the word “penis” in Japanese. An international incident ensued, involving protests, an angry sumo wrestler and an apology to the Mongolian Embassy. In Japanese, Genghis Khan is written…

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All Walls Must Fall Is A Time Travel Tactics Game That Feels Incomplete 

A new strategy game set in futuristic German nightclubs, All Walls Must Fall offers a thrillingly fresh take on turn-based tactics that could still use a few more tuneups. It’s Berlin and the year is 2089. In an alternate future where the Cold War has been waging for 150 years time travel is now the…

Counter-Strike Match Goes To Four Overtimes

The third-place decider match at today’s StarSeries i-League Season 4 finals went a little long. A simple best-of-three, Team Liquid and FaZe had a meeting on Inferno that went well past regulation and into multiple overtimes, almost to the length of two regular matches. After tying 15-15 in regular rounds, overtime began. Overtime in Counter-Strike:…

Virtus Pro Seizes Top Spot In Dota 2 Pro Circuit

After a week of upsets, ESL One Katowice ended in a one-sided rout. It was only last fall that Russia’s storied Virtus.pro side finally won its first Major. Just four months later they’ve somehow managed to continue that streak and become back-to-back ESL One winners. While the Group A finals earlier in the week saw…

You Can Finally Play A Long-Lost Donkey Kong Game

An extremely rare, officially-licensed Donkey Kong game has finally been released to the Internet, and now the entire world can experience the bizarre journey of Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack In the early 1980s, Nintendo licensed some of its properties to developer Hudson Soft, which released versions of Nintendo’s arcade and NES games for…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Match Ends In Dual Vanishing Act

Are you watching closely? At Winter Brawl in Pennsylvania today, Echo Fox’s Theo and EMP KDZ were dueling to see who would head into the Dragon Ball FighterZ top 8 on the winner’s side. Down to a sliver of health on both sides, KDZ went for a vanish attack, and in a split-second reaction, Theo…

It’s Hard To Go Back To Sub-60 FPS Gaming

On today’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re talking about noir games, how to get your husband into The Witcher 3, PC vs. consoles, and much much more. First, Kirk and I jump into news on Mafia 3‘s developer laying people off, Kentucky’s governor blaming video games for shootings, and the System Shock reboot facing development troubles. Then…

This Battlegrounds Pro Match Ends With A Crunch

The first day of the PUBG Invitational in Katowice ended in a nightmare scenario of a circle where three teams competed for the dominance of an incredibly small amount of space. The final circle of a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds round is always a tense scenario, but the location of the final match of the day put…

Philly’s Secret Weapon Shines In Overwatch League Debut

Many teams debuted their fresh new players during kickoff weekend for stage two of the Overwatch League, but the one that made arguably the biggest impact had been on the roster for a while. It just wasn’t until these last few days that he got to show why he earned a spot on the Philly…

Hackers Are Working To Bring Every Doom Game To Switch 

This is the open source version of Doom 3 running on a Switch. It’s only a matter of time before Doom 64 and the rest arrive. There’s a long standing mission to run the original Doom on every object humanity’s ever encountered. But with Doom 2016 arriving on Switch last fall, the first time the…

Apocalypse Is The Fitting Final Expansion For Battlefield 1

The fourth and final expansion pack for Battlefield 1, Apocalypse, released last week. It leans into everything that Battlefield 1 has sold itself on since its release back in 2016: big maps, interesting historical and pseudo-historical weapons, and the general feeling that you will not make it out of this place alive. Like the previous…

Sunday Comics: Room To Change

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published February 23. Read more of Nerf NOW!!  Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 19. Read more…