‘Exclusive’ Pre-Order Offer Turns Out To Not Be Exclusive

Often in gaming, what’s “exclusive” isn’t really exclusive. Here is exhibit #1564. After five months of telling gamers to pre-order WWE 2K17 to play the wrestling game as former WCW star Bill Goldberg, as if that was the only way to play as him, publisher 2K Games is now letting everyone else play as him,…

Fruit Ninja’s Creators Have Been Split By An Identity Crisis

In years gone by Halfbrick had a tradition. When an employee decided to leave there was a farewell. A slideshow, a card signed by everyone. A speech — a celebration — topped off by a ceremonial bag stuffed full of marshmallows. Weird, flippant. By design. A sense of closure to dedicated service in pursuit of…

Track: Babies | Artist: Pulp | Album: His ‘n’ Hers Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

This is Need for Speed: Edge Details are currently scant, but it’s from Nexon, coming to South Korea, and looks to be a Need for Speed: World. [Thanks, Sang!]

Buying Nintendo 3DS Games In Japan Feels Like The Future

If you live in Japan, you can buy use Nintendo 3DS games with your smartphone. Like this. In Japan, IC cards, such as Suica, are used as train passes or for e-money payments. You can also use these cards to add funds for Nintendo eShop purchases. Here’s Monster Hunter YouTuber Gaijin Hunter: Since the New…

Robot Cafe. Taichung City, Taiwan. By Willis Lai 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! 

Track: Montag The Magnificent| Artist: Godchilla | Album: Cosmatos Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

A Good Book About The Guys Who Made Speedball

My copy of The Bitmap Brothers: Universe, an exhaustive (and gorgeous) history of the British studio behind games like Speedball and The Chaos Engine, arrived last week. And it’s awesome. While serving primarily as an account of the company’s life and death—which is fascinating, since they were one of the first studios to produce genuinely…