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CultureNier’s 2B Is Ready For Liftoff
Today on Highlight Reel we have Nier takeoffs, Mass Effect leg day, tank humor, 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 for more! Splinter Cell: Double…
By Chris Person Published March 23, 2017 -
UncategorizedCan Learning To Make Video Games Help Rehabilitate Jailed Kids?
“What they teach you in juvenile halls or in youth offender facilities is not about education,” researcher Dana Ruggiero told me during a recent phone interview. “It’s not about making better choices. It’s literally just a rhetoric, and then they put you back into the same system you came out of.” She started Project Tech,…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 23, 2017 -
UncategorizedLooking To End Grenade Spam, Battlefield 1 Gives Everyone Recharging Grenades
Choke points and trenches are prime targets for grenades in Battlefield 1. High player numbers can make it difficult to gain ground without being blow to kingdom come. The first part of the developer’s plans to curb this? Give everyone grenades that automatically resupply. Instead of having a small stock of grenades that need to…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Sweet Taste Of Zelda Revenge
Well, would you look who it is. Remember me, motherfucker? I’m that kid you callously wasted back when I had three hearts, a pair of pants, and a stick for a weapon. Hey, check this out. Was that fun for you? It was fun for me. Now to grab these spare parts out of the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
If I Have To See Kirby With Human Feet, So Do You
I’ve now seen Kirby with realistic human feet and I feel like maybe the Internet was a mistake. Illustrator Marie Blue posted this comic to Twitter on March 17th, and the response was intense, to say the least. While it only took to a fever pitch yesterday, this image is now lodged in our collective…
By Gita Jackson Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Horizon Zero Dawn Looks Unnaturally Good Because Of ‘Hyper-Realism’
Horizon Zero Dawn is a beautiful game. Sometimes, it seems too beautiful. Here’s how the developers achieved such an uncannily gorgeous look. Studio art director Jan-Bart van Beek recently explained to Kotaku that the studio spent many hours watching BBC nature documentaries, which allowed Guerrilla Games to lay out a conceptual framework for Horizon’s visuals.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Yooka-Laylee Ditches JonTron’s Voice Acting Over His ‘Personal Viewpoints’ [Update]
Recently, popular YouTuber Jon “JonTron” Jafari made some damn extreme comments about race, which set off a chain reaction of, well, reactions across the internet. The latest consequence of Jafari’s ugly remarks: upcoming N64-era platformer revival game Yooka-Laylee is removing his voice acting. “We recently became aware of comments made by voice artist JonTron after…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 23, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe New Power Rangers Game Isn’t Half Bad
With a new chapter in the Power Rangers saga unfolding in theaters across the country this weekend, Saban and Lionsgate have teamed with mobile developer nWay to release Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, a real-time mobile fighting game featuring heroes and villains from throughout series history. Legacy Wars is a little bit Marvel: Contest of Champions…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2017 -
UncategorizedHere’s April’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup
If you haven’t caught up on Season Two of Telltale’s The Walking Dead or missed Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Xbox Live’s Games with Gold has you covered for April. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab these four games for “free”if they have an Xbox Live Gold subscription. April’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Ryse:…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 23, 2017 - Esports
Competitive Overwatch‘s Inconsistent Rules Are Screwing Over Players
In any competitive game or sport, the rules can change, and competitors have to adjust their strategies. But usually, rules change between seasons – not in the middle of one. Blizzard’s Overwatch changes a lot, even by video game standards. The patches hit every few weeks or so. Sometimes it’s a little balance tweak, sometimes…
By Maddy Myers Published March 23, 2017 -
UncategorizedMass Effect: Andromeda Players Are Creating Nightmare Characters
The Mass Effect series has traditionally allowed you to customize your main character. Some players take this as an opportunity to create inhuman abominations. Mass Effect: Andromeda has been no different. The new character creator has a lot of fun, futuristic makeup and tattoo options. But it’s very easy to let things get out of…
By Gita Jackson Published March 23, 2017 - CultureSplitscreen
Podcast: Revisiting The Switch, One Month Later
Kirk and I have each had the Switch for a month now, and really, it’s grown on us quite a bit. Come listen to us discuss Nintendo’s new console on today’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen We go over this week’s news including Telltale’s CEO departing (12:30) and Mass Effect animators getting harassed (20:06) before assessing the…
By Jason Schreier Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Leaked Image Gives A First Look At Destiny 2, Out This September
As has become an annual Bungie tradition, a retailer has leaked info on the next big Destiny release. It’s not much, but here’s your first look at the marketing materials for Destiny 2, a video game that we will no doubt come up with all sorts of pithy ways to describe over the next few…
By Jason Schreier Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Characters As Fantasy Heroes
Overwatch Fantasia is a project by some Korean artists to take Blizzard’s roster of Heroes and make them look like they walked out of something like a Final Fantasy artbook. Because it’s the work of a whole team, there are multiple takes on many of the characters, some bright and bubbly, others looking more like…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Players Looking For Shiny Magikarp Are Getting Trolled By Pokémon Go
Right now, most people playing Pokémon Go are hunting for one thing: a golden shiny Magikarp. Oh, they’re finding shiny Magikarp alright. It’s just not turning out how they’d expect. Last year, Pokémon Go introduced Ditto, a shapeshifting creature who always appears as something else. You might capture a Sentret, for example, only for it…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 23, 2017 - Uncategorized
Hyperkin X91 Retro Controller Review: Past Imperfect
Over the past three decades console game controllers have evolved from utilitarian rectangles to sleek works of ergonomic engineering art. Hyperkin’s retro-styled X91 wired controller for Xbox One and PC is what would have happened if that evolution had taken a less comfortable turn. What It Is The X91 marries the wide, short and shallow…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2017
