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Kotaku EastIt’s 2016 And I’m Buying A New Japanese Fax Machine
What did you do this weekend? I spent my Sunday here in Osaka shopping for a fax machine. No time travel was involved. I need a new home phone and found myself looking at rows of this: Also this weekend, months after an odd on-air apology, the country’s most famous boy band SMAP announced it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 15, 2016 -
Kotaku EastComparing The Pokémon Anime In Japanese To Its English Dub
If you’ve ever wanted to know how the latest Pokémon anime stacks up to the Japanese original, here’s your chance to find out. Besides the language and the voices, the biggest difference appears to be that the English dub lacks much of the audible oomph that the Japanese original has, especially when the soundtrack cuts…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 15, 2016 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XV Officially Delayed To November 29 [Update]
It’s been ten years: what’s two more months? Update – August 15, 3:04am: The global release of Final Fantasy XV has been delayed to November 29, 2016, Square Enix announced today. “From the moment we joined this project, our vision was to create a level of freedom and realism previously unseen in the series. Regrettably,…
By Jason Schreier Published August 15, 2016 -
UncategorizedDOTA 2 Tournament Pays Out Over $20 Million In Prizemoney
The 2016 edition of the The International, DOTA 2’s biggest tournament of the year, was held in Seattle over the weekend. It made a lot of people very, very rich (or, as this list of esport’s top earners shows, richer). With over $20 million in prizemoney on offer, the winning team—Wings, from China—took home just…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 14, 2016 -
UncategorizedA New Way To Play Pokémon Go
Simone Giertz, Queen of Stupid/Awesome Internet Robots, has an idea on how to make playing Pokémon Go a little easier. A custom helmet. And I like it. Its three pillars: Safety. Convenience. Sex appeal. I….I kinda want one. Just for Netflix, though.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 14, 2016 - CultureCosplay
Warhammer 40K Cosplay Is Ready To Die For The Emperor
Decked out in armour and weapons made by Wulfgar Weapons & Props, this group of fans hit Gencon last week with some of the best 40K cosplay I have ever seen. The armour. The weapons. The fur. It’s all perfect The crew won “best in show” at Gencon’s cosplay competition. There were seven of them,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 14, 2016 - Culture
The Week In Games: STYLE. SAVVY.
Sure, some little game called Deus Ex or whatever is looming on the horizon, but all the cool kids are getting hype for Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. Us Style Savvy enthusiasts weren’t even sure Nintendo was gonna localize this one, but they did, and it’s finally, finally, almost here! You can be a hairdresser, model,…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
Florence + The Machine’s Songs for Final Fantasy XV Are Perfect
I don’t really like Florence + The Machine and I haven’t really been following FFXV’s development, so this came as a surprise. But these songs, in all honesty, are lush and beautiful in a way that I think the franchise deserves. Since FFX, I feel like the series has been veering towards the CW in…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
Why We Write About Games
A lot of us that write about games end up here kind of by mistake. I did—when I left college I had very different career goals. But we aren’t unhappy. We love games, and clearly we like writing. However, it’s still curious to me to hear that my peers are making more intentional inroads into…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
How My Colonists Died in Rimworld, Ranked From Least To Most Depressing
1. Everyone is in the workshop, everyone has a project. The food is coming in nicely — our next winter shouldn’t be a problem. I imagine that this small colony is buzzing with energy. There are hardships and disagreements, sure, but this will be okay. I can see a solid arc of survival ahead of…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 -
UncategorizedStrictoaster is one of my favorite YouTubers and this is my favorite video of his. It’s real Sunday watching—in it, he makes a highway connection as a tunnel, decides he hates it, and then redoes it as an overpass. Even edited down, this takes 40 minutes. His perfectionism is meditative. Enjoy.
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
Mr. Robot is one of my favorite tv shows right now and not just because of my overwhelming thirst for Rami Malek. It’s just got a serious point of view, and even if I’m not sure about the choices Sami Esmail makes, he makes them with an absolute sureness of footing. I was scrolling down…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
How The Quiet Year Brings People Together
On an impossibly hot Friday night, I invited five friends over to play The Quiet Year. If you’ve ever hosted a party before you know how risky this can be—all too often I feel like I’m negotiating between groups of people who don’t quite like each other. But this night was refreshingly harmonious. And it…
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 -
UncategorizedFor some reason Kotaku has decided to give me this platform so I’m going to use it to share a very specific joke that I still find funny: this video of a band that Academy Award Winning Doom nerd Trent Reznor played in pre-Nine Inch Nails. They are called Slam Bamboo, you’re welcome.
By Gita Jackson Published August 14, 2016 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Patch Notes
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 12. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 8. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 14, 2016 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Uranium Creators Pull Game After A Reported 1.5 Million Downloads
After nine years of work on Pokémon Uranium, the fans who made it have removed all download links for the game from their website (h/t Christian), saying they want to respect Nintendo’s wishes that the game no longer be distributed, despite the fact that (according to them) it’s already been downloaded 1.5 million times. Although…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2016