BlazBlue Isn’t As Fun Without English Voices

BlazBlue: Central Fiction arrives in North America today, bringing fresh mechanics and a host of new fighters to Arc System Works’ unique fighting game series. What’s it’s not bringing, for the first time ever, is an English voice cast, and that’s very unfortunate. When the first BlazBlue game, Calamity Trigger, came to the States back…

It’s Official: SNK Playmore Is Ditching The Playmore 

As of December 1, SNK Playmore’s official name will be SNK Corporation, returning the company back to its roots. Earlier this spring, SNK dropped “Playmore” from its logo. Now we know the corporate name will soon, too. According to Famitsu, the company’s web URL will also change from https://www.snkplaymore.co.jp to https://www.snk-corp.co.jp as well. Company emails,…

Kid Dresses As Studio Ghibli Character, Becomes Internet Sensation

No-Face from Studio Ghibli anime Spirited Away sure is adorable as a three year-old from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As noted by TVBS and The Nanfang, little Meng Meng dressed up as the character for her pre-school’s Halloween party. Her outfit looks great! Even if her classmates didn’t fully appreciate it. Folks online, however, did and even…

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That’s One Way To Handle Rising Sea Levels

Julien Gauthier is an artist who has worked on stuff like the PS4’s “This is for the players” commercial, and on movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman vs Superman You can see more of Julien’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button…

Deadpool’s Director Wants To Make A “Hybrid” Live-Action Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

According to a story on The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Miller—director of Deadpool—is going to be “developing an adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony Pictures”. Which is a “a hybrid CG-animated/live-action family film”. Miller wouldn’t be directing; that honour would go to Jeff Fowler, the director and co-founder of Blur Studios, aka the trailer guys…

Last Year Is A First-Person Game Based On Bad Horror Movies

Last Year is a first-person game where five people play as scared high school kids, and one person gets to play as the villain in an old horror movie, hunting them down one-by-one. The game is set on October 31, 1996. It’s October 31, 2016. So if we’re ever going to watch a trailer for…

Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne: The Kotaku Review

The Iron Throne is what happens when you take pretty much every murderous stereotype about Game of Thrones, break them down then turn them into a board game where you lie to your friends before stabbing them in the guts. Based heavily on an older title called Cosmic Encounter, but here leveraging the immense popularity…

Skyrim Halloween Mod Makes The Whole Game Spookier

Unpopular opinion: the biggest problem with Skyrim is that everybody’s not Draculas. Skyrim’s been around so long that it just got a remaster. Don’t get me wrong: it’s nice to revisit old stomping grounds, but eventually the deja vu becomes deja too much. You’ve gotta spruce up the place. In the spirit of the season,…

Battlefield 1 Respawn Goes Poorly

Today on Highlight Reel we have horse action, plane action, last minute saves, tank flight, 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! Uncharted 4…

86-Year-Old Grandmother Accused Of Pirating PC Game, Liable For $5,000

Christine McMillan, an 86 year-old woman from Ontario, was pretty surprised when she received an email claiming she’d pirated post-apocalyptic FPS Metro 2033. She was even more surprised about the part where she was liable for a fine of up to $5,000. Itsy bitsy problem: she didn’t even know what Metro 2033 was. Grandma Shirley…

Name Of Next Tomb Raider Leaks Because Guy Had It Open On Subway

Some advice for professional game developers and marketers: Don’t open up confidential information in public. Especially don’t do it a on a crowded subway. Take the case of Redditor Tripleh280, who wrote today that he was riding a Montreal subway and saw this: Zoom in a bit and you can just make out the name…

Guy’s Pokémon Go Costume Wins Halloween

Why settle for being a video game character for Halloween when you can be an entire video game? Matt Borgelt’s Pokémon Go costume, posted to his Instagram account yesterday, is not only detailed and ambitious, it allows you to play a truncated version of the game to boot. While some might be worried about allowing…