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UncategorizedScrewball Comedy Game Jazzpunk Is Getting DLC Three Years Later
Jazzpunk is weird and funny and absurd. An adventure game in the mold of Stanley Parable, it shoves genres, jokes, and cultural references into a blender and offers the result with a nonplussed grin. Luis Hernandez started working on Jazzpunk with Jess Brouse as part of Necrophone Games a while back, first bringing it to…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2017 - Esports
Dota 2 Tournament Ends With A Fountain Dive
Even in professional matches, sometimes you have to dive the fountain. Team Liquid ended their run at this weekend’s Epicenter Dota 2 tournament with a bang, as a rush from Amer “Miracle” Al-Barkawi into the enemy team’s spawn highlighted their 3-1 win over Evil Geniuses. EG, who came into the grand finals having dropped only…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 11, 2017 - Uncategorized
Square Enix Gave Sweet, Fake SNES Carts To King’s Tale Staff
Square Enix gave a pretty nifty thank-you gift to the developers of A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV—a replica Super Nintendo cartridge with the game’s art and logo. It even includes the box. It’s a thematically appropriate gift, since A King’s Tale is a (free) game for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that’s styled after…
By Chris Kohler Published June 11, 2017 -
UncategorizedWhen Things Get Lit Aboard The Starship Enterprise
“Look at the hands bruh, look at the hands bruh.” That’s what inVINCEable77 started shouting at one point while sitting in an online lobby for the Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game released last month. YouTuber Raymond Tennent recorded the entire conversation between Starfleet’s best and brightest which ran almost fifteen minutes. One obvious take-away…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2017 - CultureSplitscreen
Podcast: What We Expect (And Hope) To See At E3 2017
It’s Video Game Christmas on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen, and with E3 now underway, it’s time to for one last chat about our hopes, dreams, and predictions. We open up the show with some brief talk about Mass Effect: Andromeda’s turbulent development (4:03) before jumping into E3 talk, going through each press conference to talk about…
By Jason Schreier Published June 11, 2017 -
UncategorizedKingdom Come: Deliverance has a new trailer and a new release date of February 13, 2018. The “no magic bullshit” medieval RPG was originally due back in 2015 before slipping year after year. Building massive open worlds is hard it turns out, hence the cinematic trailer without gameplay.
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Still Gonna Buy It
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published June 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 5. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published June 11, 2017 -
UncategorizedHere’s The Latest Kingdom Hearts III Trailer
Square Enix just dropped the new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III onto YouTube, after premiering it at the “Kingdom Hearts Orchestra” concert tonight in Los Angeles. “Don’t assume your dreams are just fantasy,” the trailer begins. Hey, if this wasn’t just fantasy, maybe it would have a release date at the end? It doesn’t, of…
By Chris Kohler Published June 11, 2017 -
UncategorizedWe’ve Finally Seen A Campaign Mission From Star Wars: Battlefront II
EA Play’s press conference was packed with thirty minutes of Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer but lots of people wanted to see the campaign. We did. After that showcase ended, I sat down to watch a developer-guided runthrough of an early story mission. The 15 minute sequence was full of dogfights, stealth takedowns, and laser…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 10, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Xbox One S Will Be $50 Cheaper Starting Tomorrow [UPDATE: ‘For A Limited Time Only’]
Ahead of unveiling Project Scorpio at Sunday’s press briefing, Microsoft announced today on Twitter that the existing Xbox One S will cost $50 less starting June 11. Just about every version of the console currently available at places like Amazon and GameStop are offered as bundles, meaning that come tomorrow, the 500GB Xbox One S…
By Ethan Gach Published June 10, 2017 -
EsportsMajor Smash Tournament Using Mods To Add New Colors And Sounds To Matches
This weekend’s Nairo Saga tournament may be part of the 2GG circuit for Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, but it has a few unique twists. A mod pack is used during the games to add new music, team-specific colors and other competitive features. Mod packs for the Wii U Smash can range from full rehauls…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 10, 2017 - Uncategorized
EA Sports FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch (yes that’s what Nintendo’s calling it) will include all the stuff FIFA games normally have minus the Alex Hunter story mode hyped at today’s EA event. Instead, the Switch version will have an exclusive “Kick Off” mode. Nintendo is calling it the “deepest portable FIFA ever.”
By Ethan Gach Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedEverything EA Announced At E3 2017
Electronic Arts just kicked off E3 2017 with an earlier than usual Saturday press conference. EA showed some Star Wars, some sports, some car chases, and a brand-new game from BioWare called Anthem. There was also a live drumline, in case you thought E3 needed more drumlines. EA didn’t announce much—the only two new games…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedOur First Look At Star Wars Battlefront II’s Multiplayer In Action
EA showed off some Battlefront II footage at today, and it looks awesome. According to EA boss Andrew Wilson, the developers considered all “constructive” criticism players had for the first game. They also claim BFII will have three times more content than the first game. As some of you already know, unlike the first game,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedBioWare Announces New IP, Anthem
Here’s a brief teaser of BioWare’s next big new game, a brand new intellectual property called Anthem. Not much to say just yet, but EA says we’ll see more of it at Microsoft’s press conference tomorrow. BioWare has been teasing this new IP for years now, since Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson first started…
By Jason Schreier Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Most Interesting New Game Announced Today Is A Co-Op Prison Break
EA just announced A Way Out, a new co-op-only adventure game by the team behind 2013 indie darling Brothers. It’s a split-screen prison break game slated for a 2018 release. Director Josef Fares told E3’s audience that he “wanted to play a game where the characters had unique personalities and goals.” A Way Out is…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedThree Minutes Of Need For Speed Payback Gameplay
As part of its E3 2017 press conference, EA debuted some new Need For Speed Payback gameplay footage. It’s about a crew, but then somebody left that crew, so now there’s bad blood and intrigue. Here’s hoping Vin Diesel and Rock “The Dwayne” Johnson at least get cameos. In the trailer, “the crew (Tyler, Jess…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 10, 2017 -
UncategorizedFIFA 18‘s Story Mode Has Co-op And Cristiano Ronaldo
Everyone in the football universe is talking about Alex Hunter, from pundits Men in Blazers to Ronaldo himself. In a story trailer for the upcoming game, FIFA 17 protagonist Alex Hunter is dealing with the weight of fame, as everyone wants to know what his next move will be. A GameInformer post expanded on the…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 10, 2017
