When Your New Life in a JRPG World Doesn’t Live Up to Expectations

Ever dreamed of finding yourself as the destined hero of a JRPG-style world? KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World has fun showing you why that might not be as fantastic as you’d think—and to great comedic effect. At first, KonoSuba seems like every other anime in the popular subgenre of “Otaku protagonist transported to…

The Final Fantasy XV Spin-Off Movie Still Looks Incredible

CGI feature film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is set before the events of Final Fantasy XV. As we’ve seen, the movie looks beautiful. But now, let’s get to know the incredibly real looking characters of Kingsglaive The movie is set against a war between the kingdom of Lucis and the empire of Niflheim as elite…

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Sources: No Man’s Sky Delayed

The ambitious space game No Man’s Sky has been delayed, two sources tell Kotaku. We don’t know exactly what the new release date is—and it may not be finalized yet—but we’re hearing it’s been bumped until at least July or August. Developed by a small UK-based team called Hello Games, No Man’s Sky has been…

The Best Overwatch Cosplay

Overwatch’s roster is a cosplayer’s dream, with pretty much every tone, shape and size accounted for in a collection of amazing character designs. Here are the best of them. So far. If there are any you think we’ve missed,let us know!

Pro Counter-Strike Team Faze Leaves World Esports Association, Cites Lack Of Transparency

On paper, the World Esports Association isn’t the worst idea ever. Essentially, it wants to function as a regulatory body for eSports, an independent third-party that can moderate and create rules where needed. Problem is, its internal structure is a mess—a potentially very biased one. WESA is half-owned by the ESL, the world’s largest eSports…

Total War: Warhammer: The Kotaku Review

I was so ready to hate this game. Here, prior to last week, were my thoughts on Total War: Warhammer: I did not have the best time with the last Total War game, Rome II, finding it to be a bloated, soulless affair that undid much of the good work Creative Assembly had done with…

Modders Are Recreating The New Doom In Old Doom Games

I suppose we should’ve seen this coming. Doom’s modding community has been around for decades, recreating everything from Sailor Moon to the concept of piracy. Someday, you and everything you love will be replaced by a Doom mod. First, though, the new Doom’s out, and dutiful modders are plucking out its insides and inserting them…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Is Best Played With Other People

Yesterday I played through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan’s story mode by myself. Today I went online and played the game the right way. It makes complete sense. The TMNT franchise has always been about four brothers working together. In the movies Raphael was always getting angry and running off to do his…

Hyper Light Drifter’s Retro Collector’s Edition Is So Hot

Most digital download only games don’t get a fancy collector’s edition release. Hyper Light Drifter is not most download only games, and its collectors edition, up for presale tomorrow from iam8bit, is very fancy indeed. I used to be all about collector’s editions, but then my house collapsed under a load of useless plastic crap…

Overwatch‘s Low Tick Rate Can Be A Problem

Overwatch has a lot going for it. Interesting heroes, a great feel, beer—the list goes on. It’s crazy to think that this is Blizzard’s first FPS. It is, however, conspicuously lacking in one area. It’s called “tick rate,” and it has an impact on the game’s responsiveness. What you’re seeing/doing and what the server in…

Windows 10’s Upgrading Tricks Have Gotten More Insidious

In the next few years, Microsoft wantsWindows 10 running on a billion devices. One way it’s making sure that happens is by tricking users into upgrading in shady ways. But here’s the real problem: Windows 10 is a good operating system, and Microsoft’s tactics are giving it a bad rap. Those stories about people getting…

Overwatch Heroes, Ranked

Blizzard’s take on the class-based-shooter is so vibrant and full of personality, that each individual character has inspired its own army/fandom. And yet, some heroes are still better than others. Here is our definitive ranking of Overwatch heroes, ranked from worst to best. Soldier 76 Bastion Torbjorn Genji Hanzo Zenyatta Junkrat Roadhog Widowmaker McCree Symmetra…

Sources: Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017 [UPDATE]

Microsoft is preparing at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years, sources tell Kotaku. Later this year we’ll see a cheaper, smaller Xbox One, and next year Microsoft will release a more powerful version of their premiere console. The 2017 Xbox, which is codenamed Scorpio, will have a more powerful…