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My Kind Of Nintendo Portable
I know the Switch is a portable console in theory, but it feels so precious in the hand. This custom handheld, on the other hand, has some heft It’s a portable Super Nintendo that just puts a screen and an actual Super Famicom pad inside the console. Because the screen is where the cartridge slot…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Nine Things To Do If You Can’t Play Zelda
Like many of you, I failed to order a Switch and instead spent the weekend kicking myself because I couldn’t play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While the weekend only lasted the usual 48 hours, it felt like 10,000 hours, making me an expert on this subject. I am, therefore, authorized to give…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 6, 2017 -
CultureOverwatch Hero Gets Hit With A Dose Of Reality
Today on Highlight Reel we have Overwatch expectations vs. reality, viking alley-oops, malfunctioning metal death birds 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! Dark…
By Chris Person Published March 6, 2017 - Esports
Team Wins In League Series Despite Picking A Bug-Ridden Champion
During last week’s North American League of Legends Championship Series matches, FlyQuest drafted a Mordekaiser pick for their marksman player Johnny “Altec” Ru. It was a potent pick for the team in their match against Envy, winning both games in FlyQuest’s 2-1 victories. As an astute Reddit user familiar with Mordekaiser pointed out, though, the…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedIf you woke up this morning thinking “Hey I want to watch Jason talk to Kinda Funny’s Colin Moriarty for like two hours,” you are in luck. Last week in San Francisco, I went on Colin’s show to talk about Kotaku, journalism, and all sorts of other video game subjects. Enjoy!
By Jason Schreier Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedBreakforcist Is A Tasty Combination Of Breakout And Breakfast
On a weekend where I had access to Nier: Automata and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I spent at least two hours curled up with my iPad, paddling balls at breakfast. Well-played, Breakforcist. I am not normally one to spend $3.99 on a game I know absolutely nothing about, but there was…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
When Miyamoto First Played Zelda: Breath of the Wild, He Wouldn’t Stop Climbing Trees
Nintendo creative maestro Shigeru Miyamoto is a genius. He’s generally considered to be the greatest game developer of all time. And, just like you and me, all he wants to do is climb trees. Here’s a fun story from deep inside Nintendo, a company that doesn’t often speak openly about their development process. When Nintendo…
By Jason Schreier Published March 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Joy-Con Comfort vs Kotaku‘s Hands
After only a weekend, I’m still forming my opinions about the Nintendo Switch, but I do know that I love the Joy-Con controllers. Some of my co-workers aren’t as jazzed as me, however. So I did what anyone else would do: demand to measure their hands so I could see if their feelings about the…
By Gita Jackson Published March 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Players Are Making Custom Sex Role-Play Rooms Now
Predictably, several 18+ sex role-play rooms have made their way into Overwatch’s new “custom games” lobby. “MERCY ABUSE RP 18+,” “ROADRAT GAY BATH-HOUSE RP,” “HIGHSCHOOL ROLEPLAY 18+ HOT,” and at least five “DADDY” rooms, typically in reference to the tank Reinhardt, have crept into the “custom games” lobby after the feature’s launch last week. In…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 6, 2017 -
ReviewsNier: Automata: The Kotaku Review
Nier: Automata begins as a scrolling shooter. Then it’s a twin-stick shooter, a third-person action RPG and a 2.5D platformer. It’s equal parts comedy and tragedy. It’s a game that’s whatever it needs to be at any particular moment to be completely amazing. There’s nothing simple about Nier: Automata, but I will attempt to simplify.…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedOld Raids Are Coming Back To Destiny
Destiny, a video game in which your Guardian will remain with you for the next ten years, will stop getting new content in 2017. Before that, however, Bungie’s got one more update planned, and it’ll bring back the Vault of Glass, as we all expected. The above video confirms as much, along with teasing the…
By Jason Schreier Published March 6, 2017 -
EsportsPhysical Therapists Are Helping Esports Pros Play More And Hurt Less
Clacking keys; mashing buttons; running joysticks up and down in precise, intricate patterns. The motions of playing a video game are mechanical—frequent and repetitive—and suggest a machine at work, which is of course not far off, especially with the best players in the world routinely spending 12 hours a day playing a game. Now, physical…
By Eric Van Allen Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedPersona 5 Makes A Fantastic First Impression
In the wake of Breath of the Wild turning out to beone of the greatest video games ever made, I have some bad news for your time and wallet: Persona 5 might be up there, too. For the past few weeks I’ve been playing an early copy of the fifth Persona, logging around 42 hours…
By Jason Schreier Published March 6, 2017 - Culture
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Players Share Their Best Deaths
Breath of the Wild is hard enough that death has become one of the most common shared experiences for players discussing the game. Link has died in all sorts of surprising and absurd ways, and it’s a joy to watch. Perhaps “joy” seems like a strange word to use when talking about failure, but that’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published March 6, 2017 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XV Fan Scrapbooks Her Adventure
The majority of Final Fantasy XV is a road trip with friends. In real life, it’s the kind of thing you’d make a scrapbook out of. So one fan did. Huge FFXV fan Lithmire has been making a physical scrapbook of their Final Fantasy FFX playthrough. This means: printing out Prompto’s photos and putting them…
By Gita Jackson Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedSwitch Launch Game Snipperclips Is A Pleasant Surprise
Snipperclips is the low-key charmer of the Nintendo Switch launch, a download-onlyindie game turned Nintendo-published co-op puzzler. It’s $20, with a free demo and, as you can see in the archived livestream above, we had a good time with it. In Snipperclips, players control little characters who can cut divots in each other and then…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 6, 2017 - Culture
Et Tu, Salarius?
Abner Marin is a digital sculptor who has worked not just in games, but some of the biggest movies of the last decade, from the Harry Potter series to Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean. He also started selling some of his original works at an online store You can see more of Abner’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Sega Channel Blew My Ten-Year-Old Mind
The announcement ofthe Xbox streaming service briefly took me back to the ‘90s and to the Sega Channel, an invention so great it basically erased most of my memory of 1994 as I entered a state of pure bliss closest to what David Foster Wallace described in Infinite Jest Crudely dispatch with any homework. Use…
By Matt Hardigree Published March 6, 2017