The Man Who Inspired Snorlax

One of the most beloved Pokémon is Snorlax. Meet the man who inspired the character. In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Pokémon art director Ken Sugimori confirmed that planner Koji Nishino served as the model for Snorlax. Nishino has worked on the series since Red and Green Previously, it seems, that it wasn’t…

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‘Tis But A Flesh Wound

Marco Mazzoni is a concept artist who has worked for companies like Wargaming and CCP. And if that mech up top looks familiar, he was also involved in Battletech, which we featured in a showcase last week You can see more of Marco’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images…

Atone is a story-driven puzzle game inspired by Norse mythology. As a warrior named Estra, you explore a world brought to life entirely by hand-drawn vector art. You’ll solve puzzles and also beat down people and ice wolves with the power of rhythm. It’ll be out next year on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

James Marsden Will Star In The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

James Marsden (Westworld, X-Men) will be the star of the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog film, Variety reports The movie, due out in November 2019, will be a mix of live-action and CG, and is also amazingly the first time the 27 year-old Sega character has appeared on the big screen. Marsden has past experience with…

A Little Sombra Figure For Overwatch Fans

This Nendoroid Sombra is out early next year. She includes two different faces, a skull mark (to stick on other figures), translocator, effects, a gun and some interchangeable hands, including one with a “boop” finger. Sombra will cost around $40, which is in line with the other Overwatch Nendoroids.

Breath Of The Wild Cookbook Looks Delicious 

HYRULE: Taste of the Wild is a fan zine that’s both a cookbook and an artbook. There are 12 recipes inside (by Bryan Connor and Diane Ault), covering many of the game’s more palatable dishes, along with huge illustrations by Shattered-Earth, Milkbun, Mayuiki, Finni Chang, Chiou! and Onemegawatt. You can preorder a copy (they’ll ship…

Mod Adds The Witcher To Crusader Kings II

Given the variety of kings, factions and political intrigue throughout the world of The Witcher, it’s only right that its universe be paired with a game that enables Machiavellian-style warfare. The Witcher Kings is a total conversion for Crusader Kings 2 that’s compatible with the latest version of CK2, as of two days ago. (It’s…

The Two Developers Keeping Guild Wars 1 Alive

The original Guild Wars first came out in 2005. By MMO standards, it’s ancient. Two developers have taken it upon themselves to keep the game alive and, in the process, have figured out how to make it better than it’s ever been. Preserving old games is a monumental challenge in endless media avalanche year 2018.…

Programmer Hacks Cartridge To Run SNES Games On The NES

The homebrew scene is always coming out with ways to emulate old games on new hardware with as much fidelity to the originals as possible. Programmer Tom Murphy, otherwise known as Tom7, has been working on a slightly different project in his two most recent YouTube videos: figuring out a way to run SNES games…

What We Still Love About Cowboy Bebop, 20 Years Later

Cowboy Bebop first aired from April 3 to June 26 in 1998, and two decades later, it’s still one of the greats. Compete staffer Eric Van Allen started up a rewatch of the show and inspired all of the Cowboy Bebop fans on Kotaku and Compete’s staff to reminisce about this foundational and groundbreaking anime.…

Two New Cards Are Shaking Up Hearthstone Deck Building

In Hearthstone, the art of deck building has always taken a relatively specific shape: You choose a win condition (e.g. kill your opponent with small minions as quickly as possible), then fill your deck with the most powerful card combos to help you accomplish that. In the past, some cards have attempted to switch up…

The Thrill Of Finally Playing The First Dark Souls

I love Souls games, but until recently, I hadn’t played much of the first Dark Souls. That’s changed with Dark Souls: Remastered, and it’s been a fascinating experience. It took me a while to fully get on board the Souls train. Here’s my history with this series, which I actually have a feeling isn’t all…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Gave Us A Rare Look At What Neutral Play Feels Like

The biggest news in the Dragon Ball FighterZ world this weekend was Dominique “SonicFox” McLean finally defeating rival Goichi “GO1” Kishida, but the rest of Combo Breaker was pretty thrilling too. One tense standoff in particular served as a perfect example of a confusing fighting game concept known as ‘neutral.’ Neutral is hard to parse…

No One Knows If People Eat Pokémon

One question has always haunted me during my years playing Pokémon. If people eat meat in the Pokémon universe, and there are no other animals that players see or interact with but Pokémon, what are they eating? Series director Junichi Masuda says not even he knows. Masuda has worked on every single Pokémon game at…

Sources: Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG

When Bethesda announced Fallout 76 with a teaser trailer this morning, promising more information at E3, it was easy to assume that the new game would be a traditional single-player role-playing game. But Fallout 76 is in fact an online survival RPG that’s heavily inspired by games like DayZ and Rust, according to three people…

New Shark Hunt Finally Gets Sea Of Thieves Players To Cooperate

Sea of Thieves only has a few things for players to do, and that lack of variety has been the Xbox One and PC game’s biggest weakness. A new event, The Hungering Deep, tries to break up the grinding with a quest that brings players together to hunt a massive shark. The quest itself is…

You Will Suck At Fortnite A Lot Less If You Remap Your Key Bindings

Do you suck at Fortnite on PC? Are you baffled by other players’ ability to magic together amazing forts while you’ve accidentally locked yourself into a brick box prison? Here’s a trick: Remap your damn key bindings. Fortnite’s default key bindings are awful. To build anything, you need to reach all the way up to…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon On Switch

Last night Nintendo announced Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, two new Pokémon games coming to Switch in November. They may not be what people were expecting or hoping for, but any time there’s new Pokémon games, the internet is gonna freak out. Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are both based on Pokémon Yellow,…

Far Cry 3 Classic Edition Is A Good Port With One Annoying Problem [UPDATE]

Far Cry 3 Classic Edition came out yesterday for people who bought Far Cry 5’s season pass and it’s turned out to be the tropical island escape I didn’t know I needed. After several weeks with the recent Far Cry 5 I thought I was done hunting wild boars and accidentally blowing myself up, but…