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The Year In Video Game Fashion, 2017
Video game fashion goes through trends just like fashion in the real world. In 2017, games let us pretend we were at a fashion week, express our true selves, and do somersaults in six inch heels and a miniskirt. Splatoon 2 Is A Street Fashion Zine Of all the games of 2017, Splatoon 2 might…
By Gita Jackson Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
Nathan Grayson’s Top 10 Games Of 2017
It is the future. A young man, arms strong from competing with 100 other shoppers every day to be the only person to buy groceries at Target, eyes his grandmother expectantly. Her features betray exhaustion from years of delivering raw, unfiltered internet to those the three mega-providers deem unworthy, but there is fight in her…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
Keza MacDonald’s Top 9 Games of 2017
Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in December 2016 I became a mother, and that brought with it a complete change in my video gaming habits. This year, I rediscovered how people play games when it’s not part of their…
By Keza MacDonald Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Year In Microtransactions, 2017
Games seem to get bigger and more complex every year: more levels to explore, more enemies to fight, and more stuff to collect. And as 2017 showed, there’s now more stuff to buy than ever before as well. This year saw the culmination of a trend on consoles arguably started with Overwatch. Blizzard’s hero-based shooter…
By Ethan Gach Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
Paul Tamayo’s Top 10 Games Of 2017
2017 has been a wild ride for me personally, but it was also a year that reminded me why I love games so much. From being transported to the ruins of Hyrule to being in another set of ruins fighting to be the last one standing, this year was an onslaught of great games. There…
By Paul Tamayo Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
Some Of The Best Photos Kotaku Featured In 2017
On a regular basis, Kotaku shows off reader-taken photos in a feature we call “JPGs.” Here are some, but certainly not all, of the best photos from this year. As you can see, the images show places that our readers might find interesting. How do you get featured on JPGs? Drop us a line, attaching…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Last Great Cosplay Event Of 2017
It’s late December, almost January. And at the end of every year in Japan, there is one event in which cosplayers can strut their stuff. The twice-yearly Comic Market not only is a gathering for doujinshi fans, but also cosplayers. Here are some of the best—and most amusing—cosplay from Comiket’s first day! Kotaku East is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 29, 2017 - Esports
Maddy’s Top 10 Games Of 2017
Every game on this list served as a balm for the depression cave that I lived inside throughout 2017. I’m pretty sure these games happen to be good even if you’re not depressed, since most of them popped up on my coworkers’ own best-of lists, but I had such a dire need for escapism this…
By Maddy Myers Published December 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Fan’s Cairo Map Looks Good Enough To Be In The Game
Overwatch already has one map set in Egypt, but fan Joshua llorente has made a very good case for the addition of another. llorente spent two months creating his own Cairo map from scratch in Epic’s Unreal Engine. “All assets including textures and models are created by me,” he said on Reddit. “No downloaded content.” It’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 28, 2017 - Uncategorized
Cecilia D’Anastasio’s Top 10 Games Of 2017
My game of the year for 2017? Obviously Overwatch. Oh—sorry. *Puts finger to earpiece*. That came out last year? Well. Hm. In all honesty, I’ll echo the “2017 was a stellar year for games” consensus. This was a year for experiments that worked and exceeded expectations. So many games blew me out of the water.…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 28, 2017 - Culture
In 2018, PUBG Developer’s Priority Is A ‘Competitive,’ ‘Crash-Free’ Game
It was a photo finish, but the team developing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made good on their promise and “launched” the game before the end of 2017. During an interview last week, I spoke to Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene about what’s next. Throughout our conversation, Greene repeatedly stressed that the team views 1.0 as “the end of the…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 28, 2017 - Uncategorized
Man Loses Switch, Meets Person Who Found It Via Reddit
A Frankfurt, Germany man who lost his Nintendo Switch at one of the busiest airports in the world was reunited with his console in mere hours after posting about it on Reddit. Juan, who asked that we not use his last name, was looking forward to whiling away the time on his flight with Floor…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedBloodborne Hackers Find Way To Fight Two Hidden Bosses
Bloodborne’s chalice dungeons offer hundreds of thousands of possible crypts to explore. Dedicated players have found lost enemies and keep looking for more. Thanks to dataminers searching the game’s files, a new group of dungeons have been found containing developer test areas and unused bosses. Earlier this month, dataminers finally managed to unlock Bloodborne’s files…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedWhy We Love The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist, the incredible true-ish story behind the making of one of the worst movies of all time, came out in theaters earlier this month. Allow me and Gita to tell you why it’s fantastic. Jason Schreier: Gita, today we are going to talk about The Disaster Artist, which might be my favorite movie…
By Jason Schreier Published December 28, 2017 - CultureSplitscreen
Assassin’s Creed Origins Is Better If You Play It Slowly
Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re revisiting our predictions for 2017 and seeing what we got right (aka: mostly wrong). We also talk about Danganronpa V3, Leeroy Jenkins, and the delights of Assassin’s Creed Origins First up, Kirk and I go through the news of the week, talking about Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, the truth behind Leeroy…
By Jason Schreier Published December 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedSaving Japan’s Games
A Tokyo non-profit organization is dedicated to preserving Japan’s earliest video games before they die. On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour, but at Todoroki Station in Tokyo on the other end of the country, its effects were limited to a light rain.…
By Chris Kohler Published December 28, 2017
