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UncategorizedOverwatch‘s Holiday Event Has Begun
The holidays are almost here, and you know what that means: a new Overwatch seasonal event (and also presents and family or whatever). Overwatch’s seasonal event, titled Winter Wonderland, just began. It includes Christmas skins, emotes, and highlight intros for pretty much every character in the game. Here are some of the skins: Torbjorn as…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Even On Console, Stardew Valley Controller Support Isn’t Great
When Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone announced the console ports for Stardew Valley in June 2016, he called the game’s controller support, “less than ideal,” and said it would be updated for Playstation 4 and Xbox One releases. As of launch on Playstation 4 today, the controller support is still, well… less than ideal. It isn’t an…
By Gita Jackson Published December 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe State Of The Xbox One In 2016
When 2016 began, you needed to own an Xbox One to enjoy most of the benefits of Xbox gaming. Here at the end of the year, you don’t. This is part of our 2016 “State of” series, a look at how the major consoles, VR platforms, and PC are doing this year. That twist arrived…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 13, 2016 - Culture
How Do You Feel About Anime Fan Service?
When it comes to fan service, we all draw our lines differently. Where are yours? We want to hear from you. Do you seek it out? Avoid it? It’s almost impossible to wrap hard moral rules around anime consumption. And we all have our own ways of dealing with it. Bakemonogatari is one of my…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Stardew Valley‘s New Fishing Map Lets You Get Rich Quick
New to Stardew Valley and want to make money fast? Experimenting with the new farm maps can help you get that fishing rod you had your eye on. At launch, Stardew Valley only had one map for every farm, and it was, you know, fine. It had a little pond, a bunch of trees and…
By Gita Jackson Published December 13, 2016 - Culture
The Big, Beautiful Ships Of Star Wars
Ansel Hsiao is an artist who has worked on games like Halo 4. Today, though, we’re interested in his exquisite 3D Star Wars art. We actually featured some of his workback in 2011. It’s been five years since then, and just as technology and our expectations about 3D art has increased, so too has the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedMMA Champion Uses Video Games And Cosplay To Deal With The Stress Of Fighting
Angela “Overkill” Hill is the strawweight champion of the world’s most prominent women’s MMA organization, Invicta. She’s on the verge of a second crack at UFC glory. Last time around, though, she found herself too bogged down by the pressures of fight life to compete as well as she could. These days, she’s using cosplay…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2016 -
UncategorizedWhy Yes, I Will Play Yooka-Laylee
This morning’s big news: the crowdfunded 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee will be out on April 11, which should be right in time for Nintendo Switch and a new 3D Mario game. Will 2017 be the Year Of 3D Platformers? No, probably not. But a man can dream. We’ll temper our excitement until Yooka-Laylee is in our…
By Jason Schreier Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Japanese developer Gust is bringing its games to Steam for the first time this February with a pair of role-playing games. The turn-based Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book and action RPG Nights of Azure make their PC debut on February 7, courtesy of Koei Tecmo.
By Mike Fahey Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Look At This Battlefield 1 PC Case
This custom PC case was made for DICE to celebrate the release of Battlefield 1, and it’s about the most Battlefield 1 PC case you could ask for. It was made by mnpctech (via PC Gamer), with an actual high-poly 3D model from the game’s tanks used as the foundation of a case that’s 1/6…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Transformers: Forged To Fight Takes Kabam’s Fighting Game To The Next Level
When mobile developer Kabam announced robot battler Transformers: Forged To Fight earlier this month, I assumed it was little more than a reskin of popular mobile fighter Marvel: Contest of Champions. With features like ranged attacks and 3D movement, it’s more like an evolution. Following the Forged to Fight announcement I had a chance to…
By Mike Fahey Published December 13, 2016 - Kotaku East
The First Global Mission For Pokémon Sun and Moon Was A Failure
The goal was for players around the world to catch 100 million Pokémon in Sun and Moon. They missed that mark by a lot. Thefirst global mission kicked off on November 29 and ended on December 12. Here’s how the English language Pokémon page portrayed it: Just missed! So you’d think they caught like 85…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016 - Kotaku East
You Can’t Play Final Fantasy VII Remake Yet, So Here Are Some Figures
When will Final Fantasy VII Remake be out? Probably not next spring! But you know what will? These FFVII Remake figures, that’s what. So far, Square Enix’s Play Arts Kai line has announced two figures for an April and May 2017 release in Japan: Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace. They’re listing for 15,984 yen (US$139) each…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016 - Kotaku East
The Winners Of The 2016 PlayStation Awards
Tonight in Tokyo, Sony held its annual awards ceremony. Not only are biggest PlayStation titles honored, but also people’s favorite games of the year. Via Famitsu and 4Gamer, here are the winners. Keep in mind that why some of these titles are multiplatform, all of the awards relate to how they did on PlayStation hardware.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016 -
Kotaku EastSoulCalibur‘s Anniversary Celebrated With…Pachinko
Taking a page from the Konami playbook, Namco has announced a 20th anniversary SoulCalibur release for pachinko parlors across Japan. Feel free to watch the NINE MINUTE AND FIFTY SECOND trailer for SoulCalibur pachi-slot. Surely, this franchise is getting more than this for twenty years of big swords. Let’s hope. Kotaku East is your slice…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Switch Presentation Begins At 11pm Eastern On January 12 [Update]
Nintendo previously announced it’s holding an online Switch presentation next January. Now we have an exact time: The online event will kick off on January 12 at 8pm Pacific and 11pm Eastern. December 13 – 7:48am Update: We already knew the date! But now we know the precise time. In Japan, the presentation will be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016