At E3 2017, Black Characters’ Hair Looks Better Than Ever

Games tend to have trouble depicting black hair, but this year’s E3 displayed refreshing palette of kinky, coily, textured hair. Here’s a breakdown. In his essay for anthology State of Play, io9‘s Evan Narcisse says that, for video games, “when it comes to head hair—specifically locks that look like what grows from my scalp—I’m generally…

Destiny 2 Director Answers Our Questions About The Open World, The Darkness, And Titan Bubbles

Yesterday at E3, my Kotaku Splitscreen co-host Jason Schreier sat down with Bungie’s Luke Smith, game director on Destiny 2. They hit a wide variety of topics including what The Darkness is, how the game’s open world levels will work, and why they’re taking away Jason’s Sunsinger res. If you’re into Destiny, you should really…

Despite Political Overtones, David Cage Says Detroit Is Mostly About Androids

Near the end of the Detroit: Become Human demo I saw during E3, renegade android Markus and his partner North incite a riot among recently freed androids. If you choose to set things on fire, North triumphantly declares, “Now the humans will have no choice but to listen to us.” Main character Markus, staring into…

Angry Birds Evolution Takes The Birds Vs. Pigs Battle To A Weird Place

Angry Birds Evolution, out today oniOS and Android, is a flick-and-spin style mobile game in which players collect and evolve characters like Dolores, the avian doctor with a penchant for vicious rectal exams. Something is causing the pigs to flock to Bird Island in droves, and it’s up to the player to form teams of…

Arms Player Tears Through E3 Tournament, Only To Get Wrecked By Game Producer

After winning yesterday’s E3 Arms Invitational, the people’s champ Zerk had the chance to play the game’s producer, Kosuke Yabuki, in an exhibition. Mr. Yabuki showed no mercy. At the end of the first match, Yabuki (on Min Min, the right-hand side character) executed a combo that had been tossed around in testing during the…

VR Game Moss Wants To Make This Tiny Mouse Your Best Friend

Announced during the PlayStation press conference at E3 2017, Moss is a virtual reality action-adventure puzzle game starring a brave mouse named Quill. The player acts as the game’s camera, but they’re also a character in the world. A character with an adorable little rodent friend. When people who haven’t had any experience think of…

Dishonored Creators Responded To Criticism Of Game’s Women By Making Emily A Badass

In Dishonored 2, people panic when Emily Kaldwin enters a room. When she’s caught sneaking around the docks, NPCs yell out in terror. It’s a special feeling to play a fear-inducing women in a game, and yesterday at E3, Arkane Studios’ co-creative director explained to Engadet that, if it wasn’t for criticism of Dishonored 1’s…

Monster Hunter World’s Real Star Is Nature Itself

The only thing more satisfying than a successful Monster Hunter hunt is wearing the armor you made out of the beast you took down. I watched as Monster Hunter World director Yuya Tokuda hunted down a giant beast during a demonstration at E3, and while the weapons and monsters were great, the game’s world was…

The Hall Of Ancient Treasures

OK, phew, E3 is pretty much done! Let’s get back to some Fine Art, and we return with a feature on Allison Carl, a freelance illustrator and designer. You can see more of Allison’s work at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

The New Yoshi Switch Game Looks So Good

The handcrafted look for the upcoming Yoshi game on the Switch is freaking adorable. On yesterday’s Treehouse stream, Nintendo showed off a little over half an hour of their new Yoshi game, which takes place in a papercraft diorama. Each of the stages has two sides—the front is covered in colorful paper models of a…

Chun-Li And Dante Look Weird Now, Capcom 

As it is with video games, character designs evolve and change over time. Sometimes they get better, and sometimes they do this. Fans notice! For example, one character looks so different in Resident Evil 6 that his appearance launched conspiracy theories (more here, spoilers). Now, folks are noticing how in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite that…

“PPAP” Singer Starring In New Anime

Remember “PPAP”? The Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen singer is getting his own TV anime in Japan. Of course he is. Called Pikotaro no Rarabai Raarabai (Pikotaro’s Lullaby Luuullaby), the anime features the viral singer, who will voice himself and all the other characters in the show as he has various fairy tales dreams. According to Mantan Web, the…

Manga Pluto Being Turned Into Anime

Pluto, one of the most critical praised and best selling manga of the 2000s, will be adapted into an anime. The manga is an imaginative reworking of Astro Boy. Here’s how Viz describes it: In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere…

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