Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness: The Kotaku Import Preview

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is my first Star Ocean game. And if this one is par for the course, I’m not too interested in playing another. I love fantasy JRPGs. I love sci-fi stories. So I assumed Star Ocean, as a mixture of both, would be a great fit for me. And, truthfully, if…

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VR Lets You Wait For A Catbus With Totoro

For the past couple of years, British studio Fire Panda have been working on something that might just sell a few VR headsets to those not currently interested in games: small virtual tours through some of Studio Ghibli’s most famous movies. Via The Daily Dot, they’ve got one for Totoro (the famous bus stop scene),…

Cosplay Photos: There’s More Than Meets The Eye

That’s SKOWALZwith a pretty good Lara Croft, sitting nice and authentic in the jungle and…oh. Photographer Rob Logan shows that it doesn’t matter where the location for a shoot is, so long as it’s framed and cropped properly.

Lock Xbox Controller In Attack Position

To ring in this most special of marketing holidays, End Of Line Designs built this incredible X-Wing pilot-themed Xbox One controller. You can’t buy it—it’s a one-off custom—but don’t let that stop you wondering what it’d be like for Microsoft to put the same effort into custom Elite controllers (oh for that to be a…

State of Anarchy is basically the original GTA games if they’d never made it off a sketch book. It’s $1 on Steam

Some Great Plays From Overwatch‘s Open Beta

Overwatch’s open beta has been running for a day, and even then, this is only the early access portion of the show. Still, there’s been an unusually high concentration of excellent moments. First, here’s Harumiura with a textbook example of how to use Reinhardt. Set ‘em up, knock ‘em down. Really, really far down: Next,…

Modders Are Adding New Locations To Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a game about two opposing yet complimentary forces: routine and discovery. What happens, though, when you run out of things to discover? Why, you build more, of course. Tego’s Stardew Expansion and Yama’s Desert Expansion both serve roughly the same purpose: to make Stardew Valley a bigger, more vibrant place. In time,…

Dark Souls 3 Player Wrecks One Of The Hardest Bosses In A Single Hit

Holy crap. Take a look at this. Yes, that’s someone beating Pontiff Sulyvahn in one hit. It’s one of the more impressive things I’ve seen someone pull off in Dark Souls 3 so far. This clip comes courtesy of neptunusequester on YouTube: They claim it’s part of the 1HKO Challenge, aka one-hit knockout. I suspected…

Seven-Year-Old Mario Maker Creator Just Hopes Nintendo Won’t Delete His Levels Again

My heart broke after reading a letter from a seven year old fan named Daniel, who was hoping I’d play his Mario Maker stage. The problem? He feared Nintendo would delete it before I had a chance to check it out. I play new Mario Maker stages every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on Twitchand YouTube.…

I Can Finally Play Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire Whenever I Want

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, much like the recently re-released Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, used to be a pain to get your hands on. Now, though, it’s just a few clicks away. Shadows of the Empire was a sort of Star Wars mid-quel, an attempt at bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and…

People Are Mass-Disliking The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer

It may surprise you to hear that YouTube, a place well-known for civility and intelligent discussions, is full of people saying mean things about the new Call of Duty trailer. As of right now, the video has 221,657 dislikes, and that number is going up by a few hundred every minute. This mass-dislike campaign has…

Spider-Man And Iron Man Have Beef Now

Spider-Man and Iron Man have been on-and-off allies for decades and worked in close partnership on the Avengers. Nowadays, they’re more like frenemies. It used to be that Peter Parker and Tony Stark saved the world in differently scaled adventures. The wall-crawler was more of a street-level guy while the armored genius fought everywhere from…

Just Like That, Battleborn‘s Prologue Is Now Replayable

YesterdayI complained about not being able to replay the animated intro and prologue mission in Battleborn. Now I can, thanks to a game update so stealthy I didn’t even have to reboot. 2K senior communications manager Scott Pytlik dropped us a line to let us know the opening bits of Battleborn, previously inaccessible after completion,…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO Game Shows Us What Happened Before The Movie

Episode VII left fans with many unanswered questions. How did Lor San Tekka get part of Luke’s map? What were Han and Chewie doing alone on a ship full of deadly Rathtar? The answers to these and other burning questions arrive next month in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like previous games in the…

Fallout 4‘s Biggest DLC Will Be Out This Month

Far Harbor, the next downloadable content pack for Fallout 4, will be out on May 19, Bethesda said today. And, hey, is our buddy Nick Valentine about to get an upgrade? The DLC looks promising, and Bethesda has promised it will be more substantial than the last two (Automatron and Wasteland Workshop). It’s also pricier,…