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No Man’s Sky Community Temporarily Shuts Down Due To Toxicity [Updated]
Earlier today, one of the largest No Man’s Skycommunity hubs temporarily shut down, causing a small communal panic before the subreddit was reopened under new moderation. Though brief, this incident was the latest episode in an ongoing saga of fan drama surrounding the title. According to a postby moderator R0ugeW0lf, the No Man’s Sky subreddit…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 5, 2016 - Uncategorized
Starter Pokémon’s ‘Feminine’ Evolution Is Bothering Some Fans
Poor Popplio can’t catch a break. First people hated Sun and Moon’s water starter because it was considered ugly. Yesterday, Game Freak revealed Popplio’s evolution, Brionne, leading some fans to feel like they have even more reason to dislike the evolution line. The problem? Brionne looks too ‘feminine.’ On social media, people are criticizing Brionne’s…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 5, 2016 - Culture
DC Super Hero Girls Sets Make The Most Of Lego’s Friends Line
Lego’s girl-focused Friends line, which replaces the traditional minifigures with something closer to tiny plastic dolls, can rub certain collectors the wrong way. Making the tiny plastic dolls DC Comics characters, as Lego is doing with six new DC Super Hero Girls sets, certainly helps. I’m a big fan of the DC Super Hero Girls…
By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2016 -
ReviewsBatman Arkham VR: The Kotaku Review
The hero of Batman: Arkham VR is a little clumsy. His hands shake from time to time. He sometimes drops his Batarangs. He doesn’t drive his own Batmobile, and he spends a lot of time standing in place as other people move around him. This Batman is not the aspirational, acrobatic crusader game creators usually…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 5, 2016 - Kotaku East
This Pocky’s Flavor Is Whisky
If you’ve ever been to a bar in Japan, you probably have been served Pocky at some point as a snack. No doubt that’s why Glico decided to make this whisky-infused Pocky. Chocolate is a long-time favorite to pair with whisky. But for this Pocky, Glico went one step further and decided to made the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2016 - Kotaku East
Helpful Tips For Drawing Manga Art
Do you like to draw manga style art? Would you like some tips? Professional artist Takuya Yoshimura is here to help out. Yoshimura’s credits include manga for Young Jump, including one about hair dressers. Which sounds rad. On his Twitter (via IT Media and Rocketnews), Yoshimura has been uploading short clips that show how to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2016 - Kotaku East
Square Enix Made A Restaurant Where You Watch People Game
In the past week, Square Enix has opened two restaurants. The first one Kotaku previously introduced, but not the second one. Let’s change that. This is “Storia.” It’s located in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro, and the concept is that patrons can watch people play video games while they eat. It vaguely reminds me of a karaoke bar.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 5, 2016 -
CultureCosplayA Cosplay Wedding Proposal
Kona Cosplay was doing her thing at DragonCon the other week, filming this nice video with AKIOBOY, when she was suddenly interrupted. By her boyfriend. Cosplaying as himself, he dropped to one knee and proposed right there, to a woman dressed as Nidalee from League of Legends Kona said yes. Congratulations guys! If you want…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
May God Have Mercy On Beyond Good & Evil 2
Beyond Good & Evil 2 was first announced in May 2008. That was over eight years ago. Now, today, in October 2016, series creator Michel Ancel says the game is “in pre-production”. OK. We posted last year about how things were looking grim for the sequel to the 2003 cult classic, with rumours of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
Kerbal Space Program Is Done [Update]
Kerbal Space Program has been massively popular over the years because it’s a smart/funny game, of course, but it’s also remained on people’s radars thanks to the tireless development and update work of the team behind it. Work that’s now coming to a close. UPDATE: Seems not! While most of the original developers are moving…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2016 -
CultureThe People Fighting To Keep Crappy Games Off Steam
The Digital Homicides are a Steam group with a goal that seems admirable: to keep poorly-made, sketchy, and downright scammy games off Steam. How they go about achieving that goal, however, is far more murky and controversial. The group is cheekily named after notorious Steam shovelware developer/lawsuit lobber Digital Homicide. The Digital Homicides describe themselves…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 4, 2016 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft: Legion Post-Expansion Ennui Sets In
The cycle is the same whenever a massively multiplayer online role-playing game gets a healthy dose of expansion content: weeks of glorious excitement followed by a slow descent into lassitude. It’s all a matter of when it hits. For me and World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, that’s right about now. It’s sort of like finding…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2016
