Kingdom Hearts III Director Says It’s Square’s Fault The Game Is Taking So Long

Kingdom Hearts III director Tetsuya Nomura says the extended development cycle is “out of his hands.” The third Kingdom Hearts is taking this long, he says, because of technology changes and decisions made by higher-ups at Square Enix. Speaking to my good buddy Mike Rougeau over at GameSpot, Nomura blamed a switch to the third-party…

Japan’s Nintendo Switch Lines Are Hell 

The already long Nintendo Switch lines have gotten that much longer. Meaning? Things are suddenly more unpleasant for those wanting to buy a Switch. As Kotaku previously reported, the console has been drawing long lines for months afters its release, and well-known game creator Hideki Kamiya recounted his unsuccessful attempt at trying to buy one.…

Square Enix’s New Boyfriend Game Has Excellent Bugs And Glitches 

Smartphone app Kimi to Kiri no Labyrinth is Square Enix’s new beautiful boy game. It’s spawned some handsome bugs and glitches. Maintenance began on July 14 to fix these issues, but for now, let’s take a look at some the chaos they caused, via Otome Muke, Koimachi and 2ch: Kotaku East is your slice of…

Perhaps The Most Surprising Thing About The New Pokémon Movie 

The new flick Pokémon: I Choose You! ditches Brock and Misty, but there’s something that might be even more surprising. (Warning: this article has spoilers!) Up until now, Ash’s Pikachu has communicated by saying variations of “pika” and “Pikachu.” Last year, Pikachu voice actresses Ikue Otani recalled how she was teased because others thought voicing…

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Tokido Battles Back Through Losers Bracket To Win Evo Street Fighter V Championship

Two titans of Street Fighter V clashed in Mandalay Bay, one on an undefeated streak and the other pressing on through the gauntlet of the loser’s bracket. After a bracket reset, longtime Street Fighter pro Tokido beat Punk 3-0 to take home the Evo 2017 championship trophy. Victor “Punk” Woodley came into the top eight…

Bayonetta Pro Upsets Smash‘s Best To Win Evo Championship

Super Smash Bros. For The Wii U made two big debuts today: One, its first Evo Sunday showing, and the second on national TV, as it aired live on Disney XD and ESPNU. It’s fitting that in this year of new horizons for Smash 4, one player would take the opportunity to make his presence…

Nintendo-Themed Jordans Are About As 1989 As It Gets

Johnny Barry’s Freaker Sneaks, who earlier this year did a custom run of Jordan IV’s in a SNES colourway, are back with a handful of very expensive NES Jordans. They cost $1250 a pair, and in addition to the NES colour scheme they’ve also got some extra features like Mario labels, a cartridge-shaped Jordan tag…

Dancing With The Nier: Automata Stars

Hey, if Overwatch’s characters can enjoy a night out on the town, then Nier’s can spend the evening doing some fancy dancing. This is Vivid Vision (who outside of cosplay enjoys a bit of ballroom dancing) as 2B, while Shawn G is 9S. The idea for the shoot came from this piece of art by…

The Perfect Game Of Thrones Game Is A PC Mod

Forget RPGs, action games or even a broken if decentadventure series. The perfect Game of Thrones video game is a mod for a 2012 strategy game on the PC. I mentioned in my review of Crusader Kings II a few years back that the systems put in place by developers Paradox seemed ideally suited to…

Evo Tekken 7 Tournament Ends In Seven Game Slugfest

There are a lot of great Tekken 7 players, but the masters of the game still hail mostly from South Korea. In a grand finals that pitted countrymen and fellow Echo Fox players Jin Woo “Saint” Choi and Hyun Jin “JDCR” Kim against one another, it was the latter who managed their first Evo championship…

Soccer Team Signs FIFA Player, Cuts Him Two Days Later Over “Online Behaviour”

Two days ago, Dutch soccer club PSV proudly announced the signing of 22 year-old FIFA player Tony Kok to their esports team. Before the weekend was over, that contract had been torn up over sexist comments Kok has made on Twitter over the years. PSV—who were so proud of the initial announcement that they made…

Icons: Combat Arena Expands The World Of Platform Fighters

While Dragon Ball FighterZ and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite were being demonstrated in Evo 2017’s raucous convention hall, the folks at Wavedash Games were quietly showing off their first official project, Icons: Combat Arena, in a private hotel room. After two years of development, they were on the verge of finally unveiling their game to…

The Week In Games: Inking The Town Red

The time has come, the inkling said, to splat of many things, like how there aren’t many games coming this month besides Splatoon 2 Nintendo sure timed this release well. It makes up for the Super Mario Odyssey coming out on the same day as Assassin’s Creed Origins and Wolfenstein 2 I suppose. I’m of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Last Of Hot Dogs 

These are strange times we live in. One of the only things keeping me sane is that Snapchat hot dog. If this meme was already a played out by the end of last week it will be a pile of ashes by next Saturday. I refuse to let this little guy go into the night…

Street Fighter EX Developer’s New Game Is Coming In 2018

Here’s an official trailer for that new fighting game from Akira Co., the company behind the Street Fighter EX series. Originally teased on April Fools’ day, the game still doesn’t have a name. But it does have Skullomania, the failed businessman who tries to take out his capitalist-fueled frustration on criminals as skeleton suit wearing…