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Valve Pulls Nearly 200 Spam Games From Steam
Valve has removed games from Steam before, but never this many, especially not all at once. Today, Valve yanked 173 games from the Steam store, all of which were tied to Silent Echo Studios, a company that’s become notorious among Steam users for publishing heaps of cheaply made games, typically by slapping together assets from…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 26, 2017 -
ReviewsVideo GamesDivinity: Original Sin 2: The Kotaku Review
I’ve put 81 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2 over the last 12 days. When I wasn’t playing, I was thinking about it, or talking about it. It’s brilliant and frustrating in turns, and occasionally both at the same time. I adore it, but for now I’m glad to be done with it. Divinity: Original…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 26, 2017 - Uncategorized
Player-Created Cemetery Honors Fallen EVE Online Friends
Not everything in EVE Online is dedicated to death, destruction and betrayal. A few landmarks are dedicated to calm, quiet reflection. There’s the boneyard of B-R5BR, where permanent wrecks of destroyed Titans drift through space, placed there by CCP Games to commemorate the largest video game battle in history. And the EVE Gate, an enormous…
By Lee Yancy Published September 26, 2017 - ReviewsRetro
Zelda: The Wand Of Gamelon: The Kotaku Review
In 1993, Nintendo made the inexplicable decision to license The Legend of Zelda to Phillips Media, creators of the CD-i. Among the resulting games is Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. It’s known as one of the worst games ever made. Replaying it 24 years later reveals a game with interesting ideas marred by atrocious execution.…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 26, 2017 -
EsportsTime Is Running Out For The Super Smash Bros. Scene’s Favorite Game Controller
In the 16 years since Super Smash Brothers: Melee came out, it has gotten harder and harder for Smash tournaments and pro players to keep using the controller for which it was originally made. GameCube controllers are getting old. The best ones are are hard to find and expensive to maintain. And some players complain…
By Maddy Myers Published September 26, 2017 - Uncategorized
Silent Hill Will Always Help Me Remember A Remarkable Friend
My friend Kit Reed died on Sunday. She was a prolific, award-winning writer of speculative fiction. Her cluttered yellow house is now empty. I will no longer stop by for tea or make dumplings in her kitchen for Thanksgiving. Kit insisted on no memorials, finding even the prospect of friends meeting for a drink after…
By Gita Jackson Published September 26, 2017 -
UncategorizedFortnite‘s Battle Royale Is A Delight (And A Whole Lot Like Battlegrounds)
The prospect of besting 99 other gamers through sheer resourcefulness and daredevilry is why the battle royale genre has become so compelling to millions of gamers. Survival shooter Battlegrounds now has the second all-time highest concurrent player count on Steam, and today, Fortnite, a multiplayer game about building forts and defending against zombie swarms, just…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 26, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Best Game About Japanese School Girls Released Today
Released today for the PlayStation 4 and PC, Blue Reflection is an exploration of the relationships young women forge and the personal growth that comes from sharing experiences with friends, all in the form of a stylish magical girl role-playing game. Beats the hell of ninjas in bikinis with water guns. It’s a very strange…
By Mike Fahey Published September 26, 2017 -
UncategorizedEA Has Charts To Show That This Year’s Star Wars Battlefront Is An Actual Full Game
EA, a company willing to level with you about the deficiencies of last year’s sports games when it is time to sell you this year’s, is coming clean about the inadequacies of 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront. A new trailer for the game’s November sequel makes clear that, yeah, that last game was more short on…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2017 -
CultureTotal RecallCircle Of The Moon Is Secretly The Best Castlevania Game
The original Castlevania released 31 years ago on the Famicom in Japan. It launched a franchise that dominated games for decades. But there’s one game in the series that’s woefully underappreciated, the Game Boy Advance’s Circle of the Moon Released in 2001 as a flagship title for the Game Boy Advance, Circle of the Moon…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 26, 2017 - ReviewsMultiplatform
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: The Kotaku Review
Danganronpa has had a hell of a journey over the past few years, telling stories in the form of visual novels, anime, and even a third-person shooter. The latest entry in the series, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, feels like a fresh beginning of sorts. This piece originally appeared 9/22/17. If you aren’t familiar with the…
By Eric Van Allen Published September 26, 2017 - Uncategorized
World’s First Official Godzilla Store Opening In Tokyo Next Month
On October 30, the world’s first official Godzilla retail shop will open in Japan. It’s called Godzilla Store Tokyo and will be located in Shinjuku. According to Moviche, the store will feature around 500 items for sale, some of them unique to the store. The store will be located on the first floor of the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2017 - Uncategorized
A Life-Sized Mega Man Plush Toy For $290
Who needs a new Mega Man game when there is a life-sized Mega Man you can hold while wondering what the heck Capcom is up to? Okay, maybe we need a new Mega Man game. But this is pretty neat! The plush toy measures 4.3 feet and is priced at 32,400 yen ($290). According to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2017 -
UncategorizedMadhouse Isn’t Doing One Punch Man Season 2
When hit anime One Punch Man comes back for its second season, the studio that handled it the first time around won’t be returning. Madhouse did season one, which debuted in 2015. That studio has an impressive resume, animating some of the most iconic modern anime, such as Perfect Blue, Death Note, and Paprika. Season…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2017 - Culture
The Art Of Dishonored 2: Death Of The Outsider
We’ve seen the art behind (and in) Dishonored 2, now let’s look at some of the work that went into the game’s new expansion, Death of the Outsider This of course isn’t every piece of concept and promotional art for the title, nor does it represent the contribution of every artist involved on the project.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2017 -
ReviewsMultiplatformNBA 2K18 MyCareer: The Kotaku Review
I can’t believe 2K managed to screw this up so badly. Note: As we’ve done the last few years, this is only a review of 2K18’s MyCareer mode, not the entire game. I think its presence as the best-known singleplayer sports RPG, coupled with the focus 2K places on it in terms of creating and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 25, 2017
