The Witcher 3’s Big Battle Sounded Like A Nightmare To Make

The Witcher 3 is an incredible video game, one I’m still playing a year after release. One of the main reasons it’s so good is that, for a big open-world game, everything actually comes together and works You take that for granted while playing, but considering the scale of the map, the way combat is…

Uncharted 4: The Kotaku Review

For a worrisome amount of time, Uncharted 4 feels like little more than a familiar, obligatory sequel, existing the way Mario Karts and Halos do to continue bolstering one faction in the ongoing console wars. Excellent, fresh ideas for these kinds of automatic sequels are not a prerequisite. Thankfully, after nine chapters, Uncharted 4 dramatically…

The Life of Undertale’s Flowey, in GIF Form

Flowey is the first character you see in Undertale, and his story… let’s just say it’s unique. Also, turns out, it translates well to digital flipbook, or at least animated GIF form. Note: Heavy Undertale spoilers follow. The 53-frame animation, or rather the 53-part image series, depicts Flowey’s life, starting with his suicide and his…

Persona 5 Looks As Incredible As Ever

You thought the last Persona 5 trailer was amazing? It was. Ditto for this latest one. Check out this new gameplay, new characters, and sweet, sweet user interface. Today, Atlus revealed that Persona 5 will be out September 15 in Japan on the PS3 and PS4.

Persona 5 Will Be Released September 15 in Japan

Atlus just announced the drop date for Persona 5. The game will be out in Japan on September 15. As of writing, the Western release date, however, still hasn’t yet been revealed. Atlus announced the release during a Nico Nico stream. Persona 5 was first announced in 2013 and then slated for release the following…

Pokémon Battles Are Pretty Messed Up In Halo 5

The creative stuff people come up with in Halo 5‘s Forge almost reach Garry’s Mod levels of silliness. Here’s, for example, a very well designed map for Pokémon battles. It’s a rock-paper-scissors type map with Blastoise, Venosaur and Charizard, where the winner can eliminate the other player with a powerful weapon. It’s made by CaptainDireWolf,…

Nintendo Is Using Their E3 Press Conference Slot For A Zelda Event

When Nintendo announced last week that Zelda will be the only playable game at this year’s E3, they left the door open for a press conference or Direct where they could announce other non-playable games. Seems like that ain’t happening, either. On Tuesday, June 14, rather than hold some sort of blowout event full of…

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…