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UncategorizedHaha This Is My Kind Of PC Brawler
What an age we live in. Cross of the Dutchman is a game (yes, it’s not just papercraft) that came out on Steam today. Here’s the official description: Cross of the Dutchman is an action adventure game based on the true story of the folk legend ‘Pier Gerlofs Donia’. The story takes place in medieval…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Why League Of Legends Won’t Add ‘Two For One’ Characters Like Dota 2’s
One odd thing that sets League of Legends apart from Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm is the fact that the other games have “characters” who aren’t actually a single character. Rather, they’re a cluster of individual units controlled RTS-style. A Riot designer now says we shouldn’t expect anything like that for League The…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 10, 2015 -
CultureI Have Had It With All These Snakes On This Mother Base
Today on Highlight Reel we have a whole load of Metal Gear, good Fulton extractions, head bobbin’, Mad Max cars, and much more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Assassin’s Creed…
By Chris Person Published September 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Good Pokémon GO Joke, Square Enix Montreal
Here’s a cheeky tweet from the makers of Lara Croft GO, a very good mobile game and successor to Hitman GO. Those games both come from Square Enix Montreal and now share a suffix with the upcoming and completely unrelated mobile game Pokémon GO from Niantic, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo. The Square folks don’t…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2015 - Culture
Steam Game Sells Papercraft DLC For You To Print Out
Well, this is a first. I’ve seen all sorts of stuff sold as DLC on Steam—in-game content, soundtracks, art books, etc—but never a pattern that you print out and fold up to make a physical model of a game character. And yet, for the shockingly existent price of $0.99, snazzy looking action adventure Cross of…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedPokémon Go Could Be Amazing (And Maybe A Bit Dangerous)
The words “alternate reality game” were the last thing some hardcore Pokémon fans wanted to hear last night. I understand why. It’s a spin-off. It’s on mobile. You can’t play from the comfort of your own home. And yet! Pokémon Go could be the shot in the arm that the monster-collecting series needs. The key…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Let’s Play Shadowrun: Hong Kong… on a Podcast
On the new episode of my podcast, Shall We Play a Game?, my co-host JJ Sutherland narrates a partial playthrough of Shadowrun: Hong Kong, the new game in a series of turn-based, cyberpunk-and-magic tactical RPGs from Harebrained Schemes. An audio Let’s Play? Of a game without spoken dialogue? It’s an experiment! What’s the point of…
By Chris Suellentrop Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedWhy Metal Gear Solid V‘s Ending Is So Disappointing
Metal Gear Solid V is a stellar game, with top-notch stealth action and a malleable world that leads to all sorts of memorable moments. Too bad the ending is such a mess. As I explained in my review—which you can read here—the latest Metal Gear Solid is saddled with incomprehensible characters and an unsatisfying, unfinished…
By Jason Schreier Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe veteran designer behind 2013’s Takedown is making a new tactical shooter, Epsilon with fellow genre vets. Key PR quote:“Epsilon focuses on pre-planning, tactics, and gadgets over linear cinematic shoot-em up gameplay, and community involvement is a key goal of our studio.” Coming to PC, Steam early access. More here
By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2015 -
ReviewsLovers in a Dangerous Spacetime: The Kotaku Review
By and large, love is better with other people. And when saving all the love in the universe means shooting a bunch of weirdo space aliens—as it does in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime—you definitely want another person helping you. Out this week for Xbox One and Steam, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedMetal Gear Solid V Is Way More Fun When You Stop Caring About Your Score
When you finish a mission in The Phantom Pain, the game dishes out a letter grade, based on your performance—S, A, B, C, etc. For the first few hours, I found this paralyzing, as I got anxious over any mistakes. Now, having ceased caring what the game thinks of me, I’m enjoying it a lot…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
A Glimpse At League Of Legends’ New System For Reforming Toxic Players
Earlier this year, Riot Games announced a promising-but-still-kinda-vague “report card” system they’d developed to better address toxic in-game behavior by League of Legends players. Now they’ve finally given a sneak peek at how this new type of instant feedback will work. The new reform cards went live on League of Legends’ public beta environment last…
By Yannick LeJacq Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedThree Gamers Who Can Do The Near-Impossible
A gamer who has to play his video games with one hand. Another who can win a fighting game with her eyes closed. And one more who can clear lines of Tetris using invisible pieces. Welcome to the first episode of Kotaku Compete: Uncanny Players. The gamers you’ll meet in today’s premiere aren’t letting anything…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy V is coming to PC on September 24, Square Enix says. Looks like it’ll use those awful smudgey graphics from the iOS version, unfortunately. This version will also include the extra dungeon (Sealed Temple) and secret boss (Enuo).
By Jason Schreier Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedHow Until Dawn Messes With Two Of Horror’s Most Overused Tropes
“Blondes make the best victims,” said filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to CBS in 1977. “They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.” Blondes are hardly the only character-specific trope in horror, of course. There’s the the black guy who always dies, the mean jock who is murdered horribly, the character who wanders off on…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 10, 2015 - Uncategorized
Miyamoto Confirms That Super Mario Bros. 3 Was A Play
One of my favorite video game theories to emerge over the past few years is that Super Mario Bros. 3, with its hanging blocks and curtains, was actually just a stage performance. Turns out, according to Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the theory is true If you’re not familiar with the theory, or by some chance…
By Jason Schreier Published September 10, 2015 -
EsportsMadden NFL Should Be a 22-Player Game
It is one of the oft-old tales in the three-decade (!) history of Madden NFL: When Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts, approached John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster, about collaborating on a new version of video game football, Madden stipulated that any game with his name on it would include…
By Chris Suellentrop Published September 10, 2015 -
UncategorizedJapanese Commercial Says, ‘Screw Laundry; Play Destiny!’
Forget about your dirty underwear. Your Hunter needs new guns. Like the Batman: Arkham Knightadvert back in July, this Japanese PlayStation commercial for the next big thing in Destiny outclasses its Western counterparts, at least as far as goofiness goes. Actor Ryo Katsuji is the guy wearing the Guardian get-up and, boy, does he get…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 10, 2015
