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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it has gotten harder and harder for Smash tournaments and pro players to keep using the controller for which it was originally made.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 -
CultureBarrel Paradox Crashes Game
Today on Highlight Reel we have pirate stories, paradoxes, flamethrower shotguns 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 episodes…
By Chris Person Published September 25, 2017 - Uncategorized
Video Game Companies Reach ‘Tentative’ Agreement To End Voice Actor Strike
After nearly a year striking, unionized video game voice actors just tentatively agreed to end their boycott against 11 games companies, a new Screen Actors’ Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) press release said today. Voice actors had demanded residual payments, better protections for their voices and more transparency about what projects they…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 25, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Company That Wants To Replace Textbooks With Video Games
On any given day, CEO André Thomas arrives at his company Triseum’s office in Bryan, Texas at nine in the morning. While this is when Thomas gets in, his work day usually starts hours before by checking sales on the company’s educational video games. On one of the days that Thomas and I spoke, he…
By Chloe Spencer Published September 25, 2017 - Uncategorized
Not Everyone Should Be The Driver In Battlegrounds
Anyone asking me to chauffer them around PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds had better be prepared to kiss any of the following things: a large tree, the ground, a wall or a puddle of their own blood. Thankfully, somebody has outclassed my worst Battlegrounds driving moments, and watching them royally blow it in a recent video made me…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 25, 2017 -
UncategorizedNew Call of Duty Mode Let Players Squash Enemies With Their Fingers
I was skeptical this past weekend when I saw ‘Gesture Warfare’ listed in the featured playlist on Infinite Warfare. Killing players with the finger gun? A flick of the wrist? It all sounded completely ridiculous, but then I remembered how much I enjoy Modern Warfare Remastered’s hide-n-seek ‘Prop Hunt’ mode. I literally play as trash…
By S.E. Doster Published September 25, 2017 - Esports
Overwatch‘s Most Popular Player Says Picking New Team Was ‘One Of The Hardest’ Decisions Of His Life
As was foretold (by himself), Brandon “Seagull” Larned is back. But the DPS dynamo didn’t return to partially Shaq-owned team NRG Esports. In a move that surprised many, he’s jumped ship to Team EnvyUs Earlier this year, Seagull stepped away from the highest levels of pro Overwatch play to dedicate himself to streaming. At the…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 25, 2017
