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Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Just Got Real Heavy, Real Quick
The latest Boruto episode deals with topics you might not expect, with fans surprised to see the show tackle such issues. Warning: This article has spoilers. In the latest episode, Boruto has to stop a bank robber outfitted with a suicide vest. The robber worked in the game industry, and that bleak experience is how…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Buddhist Swastika Becomes Popular Slang In Japan
If you’ve ever been to a Buddhist temple in Japan or looked at a Japanese map, you’ve probably seen swastikas, called “manji” in Japanese, all over. In Japan, the character has become popular youth slang. As Tofugu points out, the manji has long been a holy and auspicious symbol in Japan and throughout Asia. Now…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2018 - Esports
How SoulCalibur‘s Nightmare Has Changed Over Two Decades
SoulCalibur VI’s second trailer dropped today, offering players a glimpse at the 20-year-old fighting game’s upcoming roster. One constant throughout SoulCalibur’s shifting cast of fighters is the cursed villain Nightmare, whose new design was revealed today. Nightmare is the antagonist of the series and the living avatar of the evil sword Soul Edge. When I…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 25, 2018 - Uncategorized
Miitomo Is Shutting Down In May
Miitomo, Nintendo’s first tentative step into the world of mobile gaming, will be ceasing operations at 12:00am on May 9. While Nintendo can’t reach into your phone and delete the app, they’ll be shutting down pretty much everything it relies on, saying “If you launch the app after the end of service on 5/9, you’ll…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2018 - Culture
The Art Of Games Of Thrones: Season 7
As they have many times before, German studio Karakter were employed by HBO to help out on the latest series of Game of Thrones, to work on not just VFX and general concept stuff, but also to design locations like Dragonstone as well. Below you can see some examples of their work, which included some…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2018 -
CultureThere Are Two New Farming Games In Steam’s Top 10 Right Now
Shooting, stabbing, soaring, and truck simulating? That stuff’s old hat. These days soil-tiling—possibly while wearing an old hat—is where it’s at. Yesterday, two early access farming games, My Time At Portia and Staxel, both launched into Steam’s top ten. Once upon a time, hardcore users of platforms like Steam looked upon farming games with derision,…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 24, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
What We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Story
Here at Kotaku, several of us have finally been wrapping up Assassin’s Creed Origins. That means we can get together to talk about it, spoilers and all. Yesterday afternoon, I got on the horn with fellow Kotaku Assassin’s Creediphiles Luke Plunkett and Stephen Totilo to record a special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen all about…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 24, 2018 -
CultureTrack: I’m A Man | Artist: Pissed Jeans | Album: Why Love Now
By Gita Jackson Published January 24, 2018 - Esports
Overwatch League Commissioner Just Hasn’t ‘Gotten Around’ To Posting Code Of Conduct
Overwatch League has a code of conduct, but no, you can’t see it, at least not until league commissioner Nate Nanzer gets around to putting it online, which he still hasn’t done two weeks into the league’s inaugural season. “We just haven’t gotten around to it,” Nanzer told the Telegraph. “I don’t know the exact…
By Maddy Myers Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Twitch Reacts To Snoop Dogg Apparently Pretending To Play A Game
Yesterday, Snoop Dogg livestreamed the early access survival game SOS, a game where 16 players need to work together to escape a dangerous island. He appeared to do a pretty good job grabbing loot even though he wasn’t actually playing the game. It led some viewers to cry foul about the celebrity endorsement and whether…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 24, 2018 - CultureCosplay
Sailor Moon Cosplay Is A Husband And Wife Thing
On the left, fenixfatalist as Sailor Neptune. On the right, her husband vergiil-sparda as Sailor Uranus. It’s not their first time cosplaying together (see below), but it is his first time crossplaying, and it’s absolutely incredible. We’ve actually featured fenixfatalist a bunch here previously, if you’d like to check out more of her cosplay:
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Doki Doki Literature Club Mods Make The Game Less Depressing
Upsetting visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has a lively modding scene. Fans have started making sequels, alternate routes and happier rewrites for the game and its characters. Pi, a project lead on Doki Doki Literature Club mod Monika After Story, said that he fell in love with Doki Doki Literature Club after playing it…
By Gita Jackson Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Nice Troll, Football Team
My beloved Aston Villa, once champions of Europe but now languishing in England’s second division, haven’t given me much to smile about the last few years. Except for today, with some A+ video game-related social media banter. Some background: fellow Championship side Leeds United (another former English powerhouse down on its luck) released a new…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedAtari Asks Random Internet People To Invest In Its Next Game [UPDATE]
For as low as $250, you too can become an investor in Atari Game Partners’ attempt to bring a Rollercoaster Tycoon game to the Nintendo Switch. Atari Game Partners is a subsidiary of Atari responsible for taking the brand’s library of classic IPs and somehow making money off of them. The company’s latest move is…
By Ethan Gach Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Pop Team Epic Is Burning Anime To The Ground
A nail-studded bat smashes a TV showing glitched-out anime in the opening of every episode of the new, surreal anime Pop Team Epic. The show tells you straight-up what it’s about: burning anime tropes to the ground. And in the process of destroying everything anime fans know and love, it manages to become something wholly…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Judge Orders Makers Of Illegal Bots To Pay Twitch $1.3 Million
Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch channels look like they have more viewers, followers, and fans in chat than they actually do. Now a court has ruled in Twitch’s favor. According to court documents filed…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 24, 2018 -
UncategorizedDevrim Kay Is All The Destiny 2 I Need
No matter where I am in the solar system, what fantastic adventures I embark upon in the name of Dead Orbit, my heart is always back in the European Dead Zone, sniping from the church belfry with my Destiny 2 lifemate, Devrim Kay. I’ll admit it wasn’t love at first sight. At first Devrim’s and…
By Mike Fahey Published January 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Studio Layoffs Put Star Game Designer David Jaffe At A Crossroads
Yesterday, games studio Bartlet Jones was forced to lay off the the majority of its small staff after the publisher of their yet-unannounced game pulled funding. David Jaffe, the veteran games designer who co-heads the studio along with producer Nick Kononelos, told Kotaku that the layoffs “break my heart,” but also said that “this is…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 24, 2018