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UncategorizedUpcoming Mod Wants To Take Grand Theft Auto V To Space
Aliens? That’s old hat, baby stuff—a rack of old hats made for babies. Modders have decided to turn Rockstar’s small step outside the bounds of planet Earth into a giant leap. Grand Theft Space is a GTA V mod being made by sollaholla and a team of ten other modders. It isn’t done yet—and may…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 31, 2017 - CultureCosplay
Final Fantasy XV Cosplay Gets Back To Nature
Since camping is such an important part of Final Fantasy XV, it’s cool that this team of cosplayers decided the best way to recreate the game was to get out into the wilds or Arizona and shoot on one of only two nights of the year that the Milky Way is visible to the naked…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2017 - Uncategorized
Bury Me With This Persona 5 Figure
Here’s the first good look at a Persona 5 figure that won’t be out until next year, but will have already changed your heart: Figma’s Joker, who also includes Morgana whether you want him or not, because of course he would Joker includes three faces (one with a mask and two without), a gun, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2017 - Esports
Smash Champion’s Pop-Off Is Too Big For One Tournament Stream
When Jason “ANTi” Bates won the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament at Smash community major Get On My Level this past weekend, he exercised his rights as champion to celebrate his accomplishment. That said, he may have gotten a little too hype (if such a thing is even possible) when his victory lap…
By Ian Walker Published July 31, 2017 - Culture
How Dream Daddy‘s Creators Avoided Turning Homosexuality Into A Joke
Dream Daddy is the latest unlikely hit rocketing up the Steam charts, a dating sim where you romance a neighborhood block of improbably hot dads. I spoke to creators Leighton Gray and Vernon Shaw to find out more about how they struck a balance between humor and sincerity, criticism the game has faced since release,…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 31, 2017 -
UncategorizedAntihero, A Strategy Game Where You Run The Jewels
Antihero, released on PC earlier this month, is a game about managing a grimy, Victorian thieves guild. Which involves all the expected daily chores, like murdering street thugs, bribing church officials and sending little homeless kids off to occupy banks. Creator Tim Conkling calls Antihero a “digital board game”, and it’s good to get that…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 31, 2017 - Esports
Top Street Fighter V Player Rage Quits During Massive Upset
New York City’s fighting game community saw one of their own step up to the plate in a big way at this weekend’s Defend the North tournament just north of the city in White Plains. Derek “iDom” Ruffin faced off against Philadelphia’s Victor “Punk” Woodley, arguably the best player in the United States, and effectively…
By Ian Walker Published July 31, 2017 - Uncategorized
GameStop Will Be Open On Thanksgiving This Year, To Employees’ Dismay
GameStop’s stores will be open on Thanksgiving Day this year, the company told staff during a series of conference calls this morning, according to two people who were on those calls. It’s a change in policy that has upset some employees of the massive video game retail chain. The company has not yet finalized Thanksgiving…
By Jason Schreier Published July 31, 2017 -
UncategorizedBattlegrounds Is Most Fun When You Stop Trying To Win
This may come as a surprise, but Battlegrounds is not about winning. With everyone’s obsession with achieving the coveted “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner,” it’s easy to mistake Battlegrounds for a game you should aim to win. And maybe, if you’re a very certain type of person, it could be. But the vast majority of us…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 31, 2017 - CultureSplitscreen
Game Of Thrones Recap Podcast: Bran Stark Is The Worst
Jason and I are back with another special Game of Thrones episode of Kotaku Splitscreen. This week we’re talking about the third episode of the seventh season, “The Queen’s Justice.” We spoil the episode in its entirety, obviously, and talk about differences between the show and the books. However, we do not discuss any leaked…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 31, 2017 - Culture
Player Cuts The Stardew Valley Marriage Speedrunning Record In Half
You can pretty much speedrun anything: Google doodles, having your video game children taken away, and even (video game) marriage. While many fans deliberate for a good while over what characters to romance in Stardew Valley, for the past year, some players have sped their courtships up through speedruns. Three days ago Underscore76, the current…
By Gita Jackson Published July 31, 2017 - Esports
This Week Is Prime Time To Farm Abilities In Splatoon 2
This weekend’s Splatfest isn’t just about deciding the better condiment (hint: it’s the red one), but it’s also prime time to farm up a big store of ability chunks for your competitive wardrobe. Once you’ve taken a side in the great Mayo v. Ketchup conflict in this month’s Splatoon 2 Splatfest, you receive a blank…
By Eric Van Allen Published July 31, 2017 - Uncategorized
Revisiting The Opening Cases of L.A. Noire
Last week, we started playing L.A. Noire on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. It’s a 2011 detective game with a lot of cases to solve. Recently, we finished the cases for the traffic detective desk. It’s a good introduction to the game that also has a few problems. In L.A Noire you play as Cole Phelps, an…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 31, 2017 -
UncategorizedNew Rick And Morty Visits A Nihilistic Mad Max Wasteland
Last night’s Rick and Morty wasn’t the premiere, as the first episode of season 3 ran on April 1st. This is the start of the season proper, and while it wasn’t as inventive as classic episodes like “Total Rickall” or “Interdimensional Cable,” the confidence of the writing lets the show’s characters grow without getting corny.…
By Gita Jackson Published July 31, 2017 -
UncategorizedSplatoon 2 Fans May Destroy Themselves Fighting Over Mayo vs Ketchup
Splatoon 2‘s first post-launch Splatfest has a theme, and while the event hasn’t officially begun yet, people are already getting riled up. The lobby has become a battleground, with everyone making a case as to why you should pick one side over the other. Marina, as everyone guessed, is Team Ketchup, while the gremlin squid…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 31, 2017 - Uncategorized
This Is The Silliest Hearthstone Card Yet
In the digital card game Hearthstone, there’s a common card called Thoughtsteal that is a core part of many Priest decks. For three mana, this card will let you copy two cards from your opponent’s deck and add them to your hand. How… quaint. This weekend, Blizzard revealed Archbishop Benedictus (via Phil Kollar), a new…
By Jason Schreier Published July 31, 2017 - Uncategorized
Twitch Plays Battlegrounds, Manages To Win Third Place
Yesterday, TwitchPlaysBattlegrounds, a bot playing Battlegrounds through Twitch viewers’ crowdsourced gaming inputs, miraculously obtained third place in a solo Battlegrounds game—a feat I have not yet accomplished as a mundane human player. TwitchPlaysBattlegrounds is a 24/7 Twitch channel where anyone who tunes in can tell the computerized Battlegrounds player what to do by entering commands…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 31, 2017