Months Later, Game Company Apologizes To Square Enix For Ripping Off Final Fantasy XI

On November 15, 2016, free-to-play MMORPG Chaos Saga launched in Japan. A day later, its service suddenly stopped after character design similarities between Chaos Saga and Final Fantasy XI were discovered. The company behind Chaos Saga has publicly apologized. Braeve, the publisher behind Chaos Saga, was able to confirm that the game had 24 copyright…

China Wins This Year’s World Cosplay Summit, Japan Comes In Third 

Team China won its first World Cosplay Summit championship with an impressive Blood: The Last Vampire performance. Cospalyer Tian Tian was Blood’s Saya, while Xue Yan Xue was a chiropteran monster. This was China’s first World Cosplay Summit grand prix win. Congrats! Below you can watch Team China’s performance: Mexico, which took the top slot…

Mission Bay Sunset. Auckland, New Zealand. By Ricardo Castilho. Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Metal Gear Shirt Is Made Of 200 People Arguing Over Which Characters Are Gay

This is art. Lukas, an artist/student in the Bay Area, decided to make a custom t-shirt whose design consists entirely of screengrabs of “two hundred tender souls arguing over which metal gear character is gay”. “its a russian tuant” is the star here, appearing both front and centre and on the collar. “It’s a Russian…

New GTA V Graphics Mod Looks Like The Future

Visual overhauls to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V are nothing new, of course, but this complete overhaul of the Naturalvision mod is something else. Now called NaturalVision Remastered, its creator promises that despite how good everything looks the actual performance is “similar to vanilla GTA V”. Here’s a trailer: As PC Gamer…

Mario Kart 8, Running At 4K

In October 2015, the CEMU emulator could barely run Mario Kart 8 on a PC at all. Now it can play the game in 8K. You probably won’t see that here, of course, because only a brave few PCs will play YouTube PCs at 8K, so instead we’ve got a supersampled 4K clip of a game…

Vancouver Put On A Cosplay Show

Anime Revolution, aka Anirevo, was held over the weekend in Vancouver, and photographer The Will Box was kind enough to share some of the shots he took of the cosplayers in action.

A Very Good Final Fantasy Trailer

Square Enix’s long-running Itadaki Street series (basically a take on Monopoly) has a new game coming out to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (though the latter’s 30th was actually last year). Its trailer sure is something. It’s like Kingdom Hearts, only about money Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final…

The Week In Games: The Master Detective Returns

It’s time to go back to Gotham. Who else is going to solve all those Riddler boxes and quick time events? There’s a lot of other small stuff coming out this week, including ports of indie games. Miss Graceful Explosion Machine on the Switch? Well now you can play it on PS4! Miss Elminage Original…

Classics Of Game Returns After A Two And A Half Year Hiatus

This is Weird Dreams, a Rainbird Software game for MS-DOS that eventually got ported to the Atari, Amiga, and C64. It’s about a dude who, as the title suggests, has really weird dreams thanks to his girlfriend who’s possessed by a bored demon, and fortunately we can all relive its haunting glory thanks to the…

Players Hone In On The Perfect Playthrough Of Marble Madness

What started as something of a gamified tribute to M. C. Escher has been reduced, in recent years, to dazzling, minutes long dance thanks to modern speedrunning. Marble Madness was in many ways a forerunner to the art, and this summer the players who know the game best are closing in on its limits. “I…

Smash Pro Dances His Way To Doubles Victory

Zack “CaptainZack” Lauth is usually known for his dancing outside of Super Smash Bros. For The Wii U, but in today’s doubles finals at Low Tier City 5, he ended a match with a little in-game flair too. Lauth was playing alongside his Phoenix 1 teammate Gavin “Tweek” Dempsey in the Smash 4 doubles grand…