Politician Talks Battlegrounds‘ Success With A Golden Pan

In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, frying pans aren’t used for cooking but for melee and blocking bullets. Recently in South Korea, a politician brought a golden pan to an assembly to talk about the game’s success. In August, golden frying pans were given as trophies at the Gamescom PUBG Invitational tournament. As reported on Wiki Tree and…

The Real Reason Why Hayao Miyazaki Came Out Of Retirement

In 2013, Hayao Miyazaki retired from making feature films. This year, it was officiallyannounced that he was returning to long-form filmmaking. And now, we know why. When he retired from features, Miyazaki cited several reasons why he was stepping down, including that his vision was getting worse. “If I said I wanted to [make a…

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Elder Scrolls Xbox Controller Is Real Nice

Here’s a custom Xbox One controller inspired by the Breton Knights from Elder Scrolls Online It’s by—who else—controller modder Devin Smith, and features stuff like real leather straps, removable arm guards and a the fact all those faceplates are made out of metal to give them that real armoured feel. You can see more of…

World Of Warcraft Legacy Server Disbands Following Alleged Embezzlement [Update]

The group responsible for a major World of Warcraft legacy server has disbanded after alleging that a former team member embezzled thousands of dollars in donated funds. If somebody ever decides to write a book about the seemingly ceaseless saga of people trying to create a sustainable World of Warcraft legacy server—an unofficial server where…

Here’s A Good Picard Figure

Quantum Mechanix is releasing a line of big fancy action figures based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the first one is Picard. QMX have a collection of images showing off the figure and his outfit and accessories here, but I much prefer Toyark’s gallery, which puts him in the correct poses. And here’s…

Activision Patents Matchmaking That Encourages Players To Buy Microtransactions

A patent granted to Activision outlines a new matchmaking system that would pair players together in order to encourage microtransactions. Systems such as loot boxes already use various tricks to encourage players to drop cash, so it’s not surprising that game publishers would want to find more underhanded ways to get those wallets open. First…

Tournament Organizers Won’t Say What Went Wrong With This Tekken 7 Trophy

The end of a Tekken 7 tournament has sparked some wild speculation about what, exactly, a trophy plaque says. When the winners got on stage at South East Asia Major last Sunday, the tournament organizers handed the first-place cup to Byeong “Qudans” Mun Son. Then, they told him to turn it around so the plaque…

Fed Up With Janky Steam Games, Guy Clones One In 12 Minutes

In his Steam review of a game called Glitch Simulator 2018, user IAmPattyJack claimed that “anyone can make it in roughly 25 minutes.” But as it turned out, he was wrong. It only took him 12 minutes and 18 seconds. Glitch Simulator 2018, from the esteemed creators of hits like ISIS Simulator and Suicide Simulator,…

Wildlands‘ Creepy Devil Statues Come From Real Bolivian Silver Mines

Like a lot of the Easter eggs in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the latest—about devil statues set deep into silver mines—comes from real life. Wildlands is a tactical, third-person shooter that sends you deep into the Bolivian jungle to dismantle a powerful drug cartel. And at launch, I wrongly assumed Wildlands was just a collection of…

Brawlhalla: The Kotaku Review

Brawlhalla is a rebellious platform fighter born of a genre dominated by exactly one game. Unlike that game, it didn’t have 15 years of lovable Nintendo characters to work with, or four iterations’ worth of fans. Instead, Brawlhalla is weird. It’s got a fighter made out of the stars and galaxies of space who battles…

Etrian Odyssey V Is Dungeon Crawling In Its Purest Form (Again)

After dabbling with ocean exploration and a traversable overworld in the previous two entries, Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth takes Atlus’ first-person dungeon crawler back to its roots. It’s five player-created characters adventuring their asses off. The Etrian Odyssey series has always been light on story and big on challenge, and number five is…

EA Shuts Down Visceral Games

EA is shutting down Visceral Games, the studio behind games like Battlefield Hardline and Dead Space, the publisher said today. The Star Wars game in development at Visceral will be revamped and move to a different studio, EA says, although it will now be something completely different. “Our Visceral studio has been developing an action-adventure…