The news is out that Gawker Media, our parent company, is up for sale as part of a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This was due to an unprecedented legal assault financed in secret by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. What does that mean for Kotaku? Thankfully, not much. We aren’t going anywhere. For…
You only get one chance to make a first impression, and for many games, that happens at E3. The annual mega show is nearly upon us, and developers are spending days and nights putting together flashy demos to convince us to open our wallets. What’s real? What’s fake? Maybe both? I asked some developers to…
Andy Timm is a concept artist working at Hi-Rez studios, the developers behind Smite and the newer Tribes games. You can see more of Andy’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…
We should know a whole lot more about Halo Wars 2 soon, according to a series of leaks today. One, there will be an open beta for Halo Wars 2 during E3 week, from June 30 to June 20. You’ll need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to join up. This was discovered after people noticed…
This is FAR. Or, as I’m going to call it, The Little Snowpiercer That Could Due for Xbox and PC, it looks like a beautiful little mix of exploration and survival, as you both look after your ship…train…thing, as well as react to situations in the world around you. It’s still early days in terms…
It’s been almost five years since the release of Dark Souls, and most people have moved onto other games. But a group of hardcore fans aren’t letting the game die without a fight, resulting in today’s Global Restart Day. The idea began on the Dark Souls subreddit, which recently passed a 100,000 subscribers milestone. Global…
Will World of Warcraft legacy servers ever happen? Are content updates going to drop more frequently? And when are we getting that ship expansion? During a recent Blizzard event in Irvine, California, I had the chance to sit down with some of the team behind World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Legion, which comes out on…
There’s a rumour going around that Manchester United, a name even our dear American readers will recognise, are interested in signing an Overwatch esports team. Do not let this news surprise you. Esports News UK report that United are among the bidders (along with Fnatic and another third party, rumoured to be German football club…
Some people had hoped, after months of hype and the pedigree of director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), that Warcraft might break the long and storied Curse Of Bad Video Game Movies. I have some sad news for those people. Maybe video game adaptations were just never meant to be. This post originally appeared May…
Sony has finally acknowledged that it is indeed building a more powerful version of the PlayStation 4, as Kotaku first reported in March. PlayStation chief Andrew House told the Financial Times that the codenamed Neo is “intended to sit alongside and complement the standard PS4″ and that “”We will be selling both [versions] through the…
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Meet Okitsugu Kado. For the past ten years, this sushi chef has been honing skills as the best Star Wars vegetable carver around. Kado uses veggies like carrots, cucumbers and sweet potatoes to create an array of Star Wars characters. To date, he’s carved over 90 different Star Wars characters. Kado even appeared at last…
Koei Tecmo launched a new teaser site for an upcoming Musou title, Famitsu reports. It says the game will be produced by the company’s Omega Force arm. The countdown teaser has drippy blood and fire animation.
This is cool. Members of the Overwatch team appeared at a Korean PC bang (net cafe) in Seoul, challenging other players to defeat them. The visit was supposed to be secret. However, before the visit, someone posted on an Inven forum (warning: NSFW images) that the Overwatch devs were coming to a Korean PC bang…
Blizzard is making a series of World of Warcraft: Legion animated shorts called Harbingers. Website Blizzard Watch reports that they center around Illidan Stormrage. Footage isn’t currently online, but PCGamesN, however, was told the clips will be available on YouTube in the near future.
Uh. Well. Okay, then. Note: This article might contain spoilers as well as content some readers find objectionable. Previously, Kotaku reported what you could expect with the game’s upcoming story mode. Now, ten minutes of footage seems to have popped up online. The footage shown below looks totally bonkers. The first minute is, well, especially…
For over four years, I have spent every free moment either writing or thinking about video games and anime for the crazy world that is Kotaku. And frankly, moving on is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I came to Japan back in 2005 with only the roughest grasp of the language. Soon Kotaku became…
Gardeners. Kenrokuen Garden. Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. By Hannes Bohn 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!
Sure, Geralt’s the star of the series, but it’s always nice to see a male cosplayer tackling someone who’s in the same trade, but not quite as smooth with the ladies. So hats off to Krishna Dammert for giving Eskil some love. Photos by Andreas Krupa
I’m not normally one for clips of developers talking over the top of their video game, but this 17-minute Deus Ex video has Adam Jensen taking a very sad shower, so it gets a pass.
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