Galaga Wars Is A Fine Way To Update An Arcade Classic

Released this week for iOS and Android, Galaga Wars turns the classic arcade shooter into a fast-paced, phone-friendly survival shooter. It’s good stuff. You’re still a spaceship fighting bug-looking aliens. You can still free captive ships from the enemy, doubling your firepower. Some of the enemy waves even resemble the classic arcade playfield setup. What’s…

Nintendo Brings Back The Power Line For A Weekend

In honor of next week’s Mini-NES (which is officially called the NES Classic but I’ll keep calling the Mini-NES ‘cause that’s a way better name), Nintendo is going full nostalgia, pulling out the big guns in hopes of blasting your brain with thoughts of the 80s and 90s. Get ready for the return of the…

Infinite Warfare‘s Windows 10 And Steam Versions Don’t Play Together

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare launched today, and while it may be tempting for PC gamers to pick it up through the Windows 10 store at a substantial discount, not being able to battle online with Steam players is probably a deal breaker. The basic edition of Infinite Warfare is $59.99 on Steam. On the…

The Most Successful Anime Movies Ever in Japan

This year’s big hit is anime feature film Your Name. It’s earned critical praise and raked in massive amounts of yen. But it’s not the biggest anime movie ever released in Japan. It is, however, one of them. Via Cinema Ranking, here are the highest grossing movies ever in Japan. Not all of them are…

Inside Japan’s Dragon Ball Cafes 

For a limited time, Japan has not one, but three Dragon Ball Cafes, all of which are serving up DB themed food and drinks to mark its 30th anniversary. One of the spots is located at the Tower Records Cafe in Tokyo’s Omotesando, another is in Shibuya, while the final one is in Osaka’s Umeda. …

He’s Driving A Bus And Playing Pokémon Go 

Footage has surfaced of a bus driver in Japan appearing to play Pokémon Go while he is driving. The clip is rather unsettling. Sanyo News reports that this is a tour bus driver from the Ryobi Group in Osaka. The company has banned drivers from having mobile phones while they’re behind the wheel and apologized…

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They Should Really Have More Conventions On The Beach

Oni-Con was held last week in Texas, a smaller convention that’s notable for one very cool thing: the con is held right opposite a beach, so cosplayers can cross the street and get some shots on the sand. Mineralblu headed down there for some shoots, and was cool enough to share some of those images…

Tracer cosplay by Rose. Photo by Martin Wong

C’mere Roach

Anna Podedworna is a concept artist at CD Projekt Red, where she’s worked on projects like the new spin-off release of Gwent, the card game from The Witcher 3 Below are some of the cards Anna illustrated for the game. You can see more of Anna’s work at her DAand ArtStation pages To see the…

Vice City’s (Intro), Remastered

We gets loads of remasters these days, often for games that don’t really need them. One game that does, though, is Rockstar’s “time period in a bottle” GTA: Vice City, which for all its brilliance is looking a little rough in 2016. Perhaps to start a discussion, perhaps just because it looks cool, Majami Hiroz…

The Future Of Video Games, As Imagined By An 80’s Cartoon

Something happened in the 80’s that forever shaped the way I thought video games would be when I got older. And that something was this scene from the Japanese animated series Macross Screened in the West as the first chapter of Robotech, this sequence shows a video game arcade of the future as imagined by…

RimWorld‘s Queer Women Controversy, Explained

All is not well in RimWorld, the popular space colonist simulator released in July. Yesterday, a Rock, Paper, Shotgun writer opened up RimWorld’s code and published some surprising revelations about how sexuality factors into its gameplay. RimWorld’s developer, in response, has gone on a tear, denying that the game mirrors the “sexist expectations of romance”…

Titanfall 2’s Gauntlet Demolished In Record Time

Today on Highlight Reel we have blistering Titanfall 2 gauntlet runs, self-nukes, Battlefield 1 moments, Dark Souls 3 meta, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube…

Podcast: Skyrim Is Still Great

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’ve got more games than we can even handle. Titanfall 2! Skyrim Special Edition! Final Fantasy XV! House of the Dying Sun! Mafia 3! And on, and on. Jason and I cover all those games and also answer some reader mail about Final Fantasy XIV and Destiny You can listen to…

Hitman Hokkaido Is Sleek And Subtle

Hitman’s Episode 6, Hokkaido, is elegant, full of possibilities, and leaves players with more questions than answers. It’s a fitting finale to season one of Hitman, because it doesn’t feel like an ending at all. Episode 6 takes place at GAMA, an exclusive and futuristic hospital set in the snowy mountains of Japan. One of…

Animal Crossing Players Are Accidentally Deleting Their Towns With The New Update [UPDATE]

Haven’t played Animal Crossing: New Leaf in and want to jump back in for the new update? You can now sell your town to Tom Nook and start over, money in tow. For some, this might present an attractive option, but many players are finding that Nook never shows up to negotiate, and their town…

After Nine Years In Development, Owlboy Is Worth The Wait

When Owlboy first started making waves nine years ago, indie games were barely A Thing. Minecraft and League of Legends hadn’t even begun to take over the world. Netflix was still a DVD-by-mail service. There were, like, two memes, both spread via telegraph and the US postal service. Now, finally, Owlboy is here. I find…