We Played Doom VFR And It Was Sweaty As Heck

I played Doom VFR for an hour while wearing a US Air Force cold-weather flight jacket in a room with poor ventilation. I was deep in the third circle of game heck: I was hot, I had a torture contraption on my face, and I was playing Doom. To cap it all off, the room…

Manga Confronting Homophobia In Japan Getting Live-Action TV Drama

My Brother’s Husband tells the story of Yaichi, a single father raising his daughter, and Mike Flanagan, a Canadian man who was married to Yaichi’s twin brother Ryoji. Mike travels unannounced to Japan after his husband’s recent passing. Yaichi must face his deceased twin’s sexuality and overcome his own preconceptions, and Mike learns what caused…

The Japanese Solo: A Star Wars Story Logo Is Being Called “Dorky” Online In Japan

Yesterday, when the Japanese release date for Solo: A Star Wars Story was announced, the official Star Wars Japan Twitter account also revealed the movie’s logo. People online are saying how uncool it looks. The Japanese title is actually different from the English-language one. In katakana, the Japanese writing system used for foreign words among…

Visiting Game Of Thrones‘ Real-Life Locations

While Game of Thrones relies heavily on CG effects, it also uses tons of real-world locations to bring places like King’s Landing to life. Blogger Andrea David of Filmtourismus travels around the globe, taking snaps of locations from a variety of movies and TV shows. Her Game of Thrones comparison photos show how places like…

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Nintendo Games Coming To The Nvidia Shield (In China)

In most places, you need to get Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo console games. Not so in China, where the upcoming launch of the Nvidia Shield has seen a number of older Nintendo games—like New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess—made available for the set-top device. There were rumours this would be…

The New Five Nights At Freddy’s Game Is Not What It Seems

Released today on Steam for free by Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is an old-school arcade game in which a bear tosses pizzas at hungry children. Or at least that’s how it starts. Cawthon’sbeen teasing the new game on his website, and here it is. Using simple WASD controls,…

Assassin’s Creed IV Is Still Great

There have been many Assassin’s Creed games since it was first released, but never forget: Black Flag is a very good video game, better than many people give it credit for. I mean, yes, people have always known it was good. It reviewed well, it was a lot better than Assassin’s Creed III, and indeed…

Battlegrounds Player Nails Perfect Crossbow Shot On Moving Car

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds player pappabrun crossbow-ed their way into the community’s dreams and an enemy’s car today with an absolutely preposterous shot. Seriously, I cannot even comprehend how they lined up that trajectory in a split second. One for the crossbow history books, right there. Here’s the full clip:

It’s Wild Out There

Geoffrey Bire is an artist at Ubisoft, where he’s worked on games like Ghost Recon: Wildlands and The Division You can see more of Geoffrey’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…

EA UFC 3‘s Beta Has Brutal Striking, But Falls Apart On The Ground

Playing as UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson, I walk down Conor McGregor and chop away at his resolve (and face) with a blender of punches and elbows. He tries to move off the fence, but ends up walking right into a cracking blow. He’s practically out on his feet. Then I knock him unconscious…

Call Of Duty Loot Box Eats Man

Today on Highlight Reel we have synchronized snipes, nuts Mario Odyssey tricks, 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 all the…

It’s 2017, Here’s A New Game Boy Game

Tangram Games have released a new title for the Game Boy called Tobu Tobu Girl. You can download it and play it on your PC via an emulatoror, if you’d prefer to do things the old-fashioned way, you can buy a boxed copy that includes a copy on cartridge. The game itself looks cool! Your…

Here’s What Professional World of Warcraft Cosplay Looks Like

Henchmen Studios, some of the best cosplay builders on the planet, worked with Blizzard earlier this year for PAX West to construct two incredible World of Warcraft outfits. Alleria Windrunner and High Exarch Turalyon were worn by Bubbles Cosplay and Snowdinson Cosplay respectively. The build took ten people almost a month to complete, and involved…

Alien DLC Crash Lands In Darkest Dungeon

Darkest Dungeon, a depression + anxiety simulation platform, is getting some new DLC next year called The Colour Of Madness Here’s the story pitch: Some hateful shard of alien origin has streaked through the night sky, crashing into the old Miller’s farm on the outskirts of the Hamlet! Those unfortunate enough to witness the Comet’s…

Video Game Characters Who Should Go On Mute

While playing through a recently-released role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch, I got to thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of simply turning voice-over on or off, we could selectively mute individual characters? Who would you silence? Aside from Tidus. Some characters are just too damn annoying to speak. Sometimes it’s about bad voice…

Battlerite Is A True MOBA, And Thank God

Games like League of Legends and Dota, because they cover a lot of ground, are loosely termed Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games. But Battlerite, which left early access in November, is one of the few games to actually meet the technical definition of MOBA, and that’s what makes it such a compelling alternative to the…

New Hearthstone Expansion Could Make Things Harder On New Players

Hearthstone’s treasure and adventure-themed Kobolds and Catacombs expansion will be available December 7, and so far it looks like we’re in for some treats: high-powered cards, exciting new mechanics, and more deck options. But it might also be making Hearthstone more impenetrable for new players. Let’s start with the good. So far, the cards that…

Overwatch Gets Separate Currency For League Skins

The moment Blizzard announced team-specific Overwatch skins as part of its effort to make the game more watchable, it was pretty much inevitable that they’d become available to the game’s skin-starved general populace as well. You won’t be unlocking them the normal way, though. In a video released today, OWL commissioner Nate Nanzer explained that…