Headless Idols Sure Are Freaky

Nothing like seeing a troupe of idols standing on stage, singing their headless heads off. Free-to-play The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage seems to have some amusing bugs and glitches: For example, audiences that have vanished. Um… This. Well then! Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points…

Rumble Roses Character Designer Shiro Kotobuki Has Died

While in his twenties, artist Shiro Kotobuki was in a traffic accident, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. He didn’t let that stop him and went on to become a successful character designer and artist. Sadly, Kotobuki, whose real name was Hiroshi Kobayashi, passed away yesterday. Kotobuki began painting as a part of his…

On the left, EA’s Patrick Söderlund talking to IGN. On the right, Corey Davis, design director at Psyonix (the developers of Rocket League). Some background on that 2011 date: Rocket League, for all its recent success, actually has a long and interesting development history, since it’s basically a reboot/sequel of a similar, earlier game that…

Resident Evil 7 Will Be More Like Classic Resident Evils Than The Demo

In the wake of Resident Evil 7‘s E3 reveal, Capcom dropped a teaser demo that’s… different. “Resident Evil? More like Resident P.T.-vil,” said somebody somewhere, probably. But according to Capcom, the final game will be more like classic Residents Evil (the correct plural; fight me) than people are expecting. As with anything that’s different, the…

Overwatch Genji Cosplay Is On Another Level

I know, there’s been a lot of Overwatch cosplay here lately, but there’s just so much of it, and it’s so consistently good, and people are very much into this game, so whatever, deal with it. Today? It’s Fredrik Just and his incredible Genji outfit, which as you can see not only fits nice and…

Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age Has A Fast-Forward Button

The HD remaster of Final Fantasy XII will come with a fast forward feature, letting players blaze through all those random battles and giant maps at twice or even quadruple speed. “One feedback we got from fans who played the original Final Fantasy XII was how vast the fields are,” said Final Fantasy XII The…

Porting A PC Game To Console Is Not Always As Easy As It Sounds

Or at least it wasn’t for Hawken, as the developers have shared in a surprisingly interesting timeline of how the mech shooter made the march from PC to Xbox One/PS4. Yeah, I know, Hawken, right? What was once a very promising mech shooter kinda sank out of the wider consciousness once it went free-to-play (and…

The line to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild at E3 is apparently really, really, really, really, really, really, really long. Like, really long. (h/t Polygon)

One Video Game Publisher’s Passive-Aggressive Turf War With E3

E3 isn’t for everyone. It’s a massive video game convention built on glitz, glamour, and the bones of exhausted booth workers. It costs money to exhibit within those cramped halls, and people might not even notice. For years, Devolver has gotten around this by demoing games in a lot across the street. That, however, comes…

Witcher 3 Patch Gets Rid Of Hilarious Glitch

The latest patch notes for The Witcher 3 state that CD Projekt Red fixed an issue where “a noblewoman in red would sometimes follow Geralt everywhere he goes.” But while this bug may not plague players anymore, the internet never forgets. FudgeRevolution captured footage of this maddening glitch in action, and you can see it…

In Case You Can’t Get Enough Of Final Fantasy XV‘s Flying Car

The flying is smooth. The landing? Not so much. I’ve been dreaming of the Regalia Type-F since Square Enix revealed it didn’t need roads where it was going earlier this year. Now they’ve released a slightly beefier look at the convertible convertible, making it more implausible and desirable at the same time. Now all it…

The Last Guardian Is A Real Video Game And We’ve Played It

Here’s something I thought I’d never get to say: I’ve played 30 minutes of The Last Guardian As with many others, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus rank as some of my all-time favorites. The endless delays behind designer Fumito Ueda’s follow-up, The Last Guardian, have been frustrating for a variety of reasons. Most obviously,…