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…

XCOM 2 Headlines June’s PS Plus Lineup

I’ve always lacked the patience for XCOM games. Maybe June’s PS Plus lineup will encourage me to give XCOM 2 a go, at least until I lose a squad member and quit in sadness yet again. As always, PS Plus games are only “free” if you have an active PS Plus subscription. June’s PS Plus…

Bethesda Announces Fallout: 76

The next big game from Fallout developer Bethesda Game Studios is Fallout: 76, the company announced today, and although the studio hasn’t yet said what it is, we hear it’s an online game of some sort. UPDATE (1:49pm): Here’s everything we know about the game Here’s the teaser trailer: From what we’ve heard, this game…

Walmart Leak Reveals Team Sonic Racing [UPDATE: Confirmed] 

Walmart has spoiled yet another video game announcement, with a listing this morning revealing the existence of Team Sonic Racing for Nintendo Switch. Earlier this month Walmart Canada leaked the existence of a bunch of other games including Rage 2 [Update – 11:00am]: Sega has officially confirmed the game is real with a new teaser…

Fortnite’s Shopping Carts Are Live And Here’s How They Work

After a months-long debate over whether Fortnite needs vehicles, publisher Epic Games decided to roll up and smoke players’ Reddit comments and add in a shopping cart. Patch 4.3brought Fortnite’s first vehicle to the game and it’s a total blast. The cart can be pushed and ridden, depending on where you’re standing in relation to…

Alola Version Of Exeggutor Comes To Pokémon Go With A Goofy Twist 

The Alola version of Exeggutor turned the Pocket Monster into a full-sized palm tree. The character’s design was rather silly! So is this Pokémon Go depiction. Earlier this month, it was announced that Alolan forms were coming to Pokémon Go You cannot see Exeggutor’s head, right? Hilarious, right? But you can see the full character…

Giant Deadpool Head Appears In Tokyo

Back when the first Deadpool movie was released, a giant Deadpool statue was wheeled around Tokyo on a flatbed. Now that there’s a sequel, a huge Deadpool head has been erected in Shinjuku. This is reminiscent of the huge cat head billboard that appeared in Tokyo a few years back Kotaku East is your slice…

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