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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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2016 - Culture
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,…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 31, 2016 -
CultureBattlefield 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…
By Chris Person Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
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…
By Jason Schreier Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedGuy’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…
By Gita Jackson Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Most Nightmarish Peanuts Special Ever Made
The first time I watched the 1978 Peanuts special What A Nightmare, Charlie Brown, I was eight and a little scared. The cartoon made a significant impression on me. It was unnerving to see Snoopy whipped, starved, pelted with produce, and drowned. Dream sequence or not, that’s heavy shit. There have been many Peanuts specials…
By Kevin Wong Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
Answering Your Best Final Fantasy XV Questions
I have played 10 hours of Final Fantasy XV, a video game about how One Direction spends their days off, and I’m pleased to report that so far, it’s good. Very good. Maybe even excellent. This is an early build, and it only contains the five first chapters of the game, so I can’t yet…
By Jason Schreier Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedIn Memory Of The Guy Who Gets Beheaded At The Beginning Of Skyrim
Patience is a virtue, people. At the start of Skyrim, your character is being carted to execution alongside a few criminals and some members of the Stormcloak rebellion. A dude gives you some exposition on the way into town, then everyone gathers in the square as Imperial General Saul Tigh berates the leader of the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
Deadly Premonition’s Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro is leaving Access Games after a year-long health break In a tweet, Swery told fans that, although his reactive hypoglycemia is getting better, he will be retiring after 12 years at the company:
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
I Want To Know More About Westworld’s VR Porn Tanks
HBO’s new Red Dead Redemption LARP Westworld has been teasing us with mysteries for weeks. Among them: why doesn’t everyone who pays all this money to visit Westworld just play video games instead? Warning: this post contains a gif with a lady’s nipple in it. It stands to reason that if technology has become advanced…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
An Early Look At D&D’s Newest Monster Bible
Happy Halloween, geeks and freaks. Today, we have a special preview of the new Dungeons & Dragons monster supplement, Volo’s Guide to Monsters, to satisfy your beastly cravings. Volo’s Guide is a whole new take on the nearly 40-year-old Monster Manual. This time, it’s got some story, framing it more as an academic debate than an…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
Battlefield Account Posts Dumbass Tweets, Deletes Them [UPDATE]
Earlier this morning, the official Battlefield 1 Twitter account posted a number of tweets using the ridiculous hashtag #justWWIThings. Met with negative feedback, the account soon deleted the tweets. The tweets featured animated gifs of soldiers matching and clearing out bunkers with flamethrowers. They included slogans like “When your squad is looking on point” and…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedLatest Sword Art Online Game Lets Twitter ‘Raise’ A Character
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, to be released November 8th, is asking fans for help “raising” one of its protagonists. Premiere, an NPC, will scan and mine Twitter feeds for personality traits and mold her in-game persona in our image, Crunchyroll reports. Premiere is a SAO: Hollow Realization’s protagonist, a teenaged girl who is an…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 31, 2016 - Reviews
Titanfall 2: The Kotaku Review
When I finished Titanfall 2‘s campaign, my body felt numb. I left my apartment, walked to the street corner and bummed a cigarette. I needed to calm myself. I’d just been through an astounding experience. The original Titanfall was a game of overly high ambition. Fluid player movement led to frantic and gorgeous ground battles…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 31, 2016 - Culture
A Very Pokémon Plushie Halloween
It’s Halloween, the festive holiday when Pokémon toys dress up in costumes and sit on my desk until at least Christmas. The Pokémon Center’s line of masquerading circus pocket monsters is adorable this year. While I could not catch them all this year, The Pokémon Company International sent along a trio of trick or treaters…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016 - Uncategorized
THQ Nordic now owns the rights to all titles and projects from classic military game developer Novalogic. That includes such storied series as Delta Force, Comanche, Joint Operations and F-22. THQ Nordic is open to talks with any developer looking to continue said series. Please.
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016 -
UncategorizedSkyrim Remaster Makes This Massive Dragons Versus Archers Battle Possible
Cosmic Contrarian, the man behind countless ridiculous custom Fallout 4 battles, tells us that this epic encounter between 100 dragons and 1,000 archers would have been impossible to stage in the original release of Skyrim, especially at 4K resolution. Cosmic punctuated his recent birthday with the release of the first custom battle in a whole new series,…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2016