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A Serious Look at Big Anime Eyes

Kyoto Animation is one of Japan’s most famous anime studios. Besides its shows, the studio is famous for another thing: large eyes. This piece originally appeared 10/21/15. Many anime characters have abnormally large eyes. And many studios in Japan have their own house style. Kyoto Animation is no exception! What’s interesting is that the anime…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

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Resident Evil 4 Changed Action Games Forever

Resident Evil 4 was released in HD on the Playstation 4 and Xbox One recently. It’s been years since I played and I was eager to give it another look. I found a game that lives up to the reputation, marrying strong action with a new perspective that altered games forever. I have friends who…

By Heather Alexandra Published September 21, 2016

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Charizard’s Pokémon Card Is Getting Beefed Up

Next month’s Evolutions expansion might be the end of the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s XY series, but it’s giving some of the very first cards in the 20-year-old game a powerful new beginning. Looks like Charizard’s lost a little weight. The art remains the same, but the numbers in the frames have changed. The Evolutions…

By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2016

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Players Celebrate As Star Wars Battlefront Cuts An Amusingly Controversial Feature

It’s rare that the removal of a feature from a video game makes fans of that game happy, but fans of Star Wars Battlefront seem pretty happy that, thanks to a new update, anyone playing as a Stormtrooper in the game is forced to keep their helmet on. “No more wretched storm troopers without helmets,”…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2016

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Blizzard Is Killing The Name ‘Battle.net’

It’s the end of an era for Blizzard, as the company announced today plans to say farewell to the name Battle.net, which they’ve used to refer to their internet platform since 1996. From a practical standpoint, nothing is changing, Blizzard says. But they’re ditching the name Battle.net, 20 years after the service launched. When Battle.net…

By Jason Schreier Published September 21, 2016

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Xbox has released October’s Games With Gold lineup: Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings, The Escapists, MX vs ATV Reflex, and I Am Alive. Remember: they’re “free” if you’ve paid for an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

By Riley MacLeod Published September 21, 2016

Tips & Guides

The Five Best Guns To Buy In Destiny: Rise of Iron

Whenever Destiny gets an expansion, the vendors in the tower finally get new weapons in stock. Those of us who obsess over perks and rolls and stats promptly have an anxiety attack deciding which one to buy first. If there’s one thing I’ve learned after two years of Destiny, it’s that I’ll be able to…

By Kirk Hamilton Published September 21, 2016

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A lengthy new blog post from the developers of The Division outlines major changes being made to character stats, skills and gear as part of the big October 1.4 patch that’s intended to make the endgame fun. The update, including big changes being made to popular skills like Smart Cover, will be playable on a…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2016

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Paladins’ Developers Deny Cloning Overwatch

Paladins, a video game that looks very much like Overwatch, has taken some heat for its similarities to Blizzard’s popular team shooter—to the point where last night one of Paladins’ top developers felt compelled to write a big ol’ Reddit post explaining how it isn’t a clone at all. In the Reddit post, Hi-Rez Studios…

By Jason Schreier Published September 21, 2016

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Destiny: Rise of Iron PSA: Go Climb The Mountain

One of my favorite new things in Destiny, a video game filled with horrible jumping puzzles, is a horrible jumping puzzle. Specifically: climbing a bigass mountain. The new social space in Rise of Iron, which came out yesterday, gives you access to a snowy mountain range called Felwinter’s Peak. The new social space, Iron Temple,…

By Jason Schreier Published September 21, 2016

Kotaku East

Miyazaki Gives Clear Answers On The Future Of Dark Souls, Armored Core

During a recent round table at Namco Bandai headquarters in Tokyo, I asked From Software’s Hidetaka Miyazaki about the future of Dark Souls, as well as what else the studio is working on. The good news is yes, a new Armored Core is coming. The bad news is that, at least for the foreseeable future,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

Kotaku East

Track: Isse no, se! | Artist: Tokyo Karankoron | Album: We Are Tokyo Karankoron Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

Kotaku East

Police Dealing With Pokémon Go Chaos In Tokyo

In the past few days, a rare Pokémon has been spotted in Tokyo’s Odaiba. Loads of people have shown up to catch it, and the crowds have become so big that the police were called in to handle the situation. Which has looked like this: Damn. Folks have been running to catchLapras, ignoring traffic lights…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

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Hideaki Anno Is Finished With Godzilla, Moving On To Evangelion

Earlier this summer, Hideaki Anno apologized to Evangelion fans, saying he was sorry to keep them waiting. Now he says he’s working hard on Eva. The hold up has been Godzilla Resurgence, which Anno helmed. The movie has been a smash hit in Japan, and as Yahoo! Japan reports, when he was asked whether or…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

Kotaku East

Like the Gintama anime? Good news,they are doing a new season. The premiere date hasn’t been announced yet, so no word on that.

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

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Chocolate Pumpkin French Fries Coming To McDonald’s In Japan

The regular chocolate fries were not disgusting, so maybe these will be good? To mark Halloween, which is now very much a thing in Japan, McDonald’s is putting out fries with chocolate and pumpkin sauce. They’ll be available from September 28*. Maybe we’ll get a Halloween burger, too? *Jack-o’-lantern not included. Kotaku East is your…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

Kotaku East

The Sound of Summer. Kyoto, Japan. By Scottylosophy. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 21, 2016

Culture

Track: Down For You | Artist: Ta-Ku | Album: Songs To Make Up To Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2016

Culture

Time For A Pit Stop

Woonyoung Jung is a Korean artist based in LA. You can see more of Jung’s work at his Tumblrand ArtStationpage. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2016

Culture

Valve Changes Steam Reviews Again

Last week, Valve made some big changes to Steam reviews. Developers, especially, didn’t love them Developers were worried by the part where Steam would default to not showing reviews by people who received game keys from places like Kickstarter, as opposed to directly purchasing from Steam. Valve made the change to counter fraudulent reviews and…

By Nathan Grayson Published September 20, 2016