The Kingdom Hearts Remakes Were ‘Good Training’ For Kingdom Hearts 3

Working on the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5 remixes has been good training for Kingdom Hearts 3, said Tai Yasue (co-director and game designer on Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Kingdom Hearts 1.5/2.5 HD remasters) in an interview in London. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “We have been working on 3 and 2.5…

Box Boy is Full of Puzzles, Platforming, and Cuteness

What happens when you take a bit of Mario and cross it with a bit of Tetris? You get the cutest little box-person in the world. Good – So Very Cute Box Boy is the story of a square (the titular Box Boy), his girlfriend (a square that has a bow and eyelashes a la…

Hospital Buys Spider-Man Boner Statue

Last year, Kotaku reported that a South Korean artist, Eunsuk Yoo, created a very friendly Spider-Man statue that made some people angry and was taken down. You’ll be happy to know that the work of art has found a new home. Note: This article contains content that some readers might find objectionable. The sculpture, which…

Cross Ange is an Anime that Goes From Abhorrent to Enjoyable

If you were to watch an episode of Cross Ange this week as it continues into its second half, you’d be tuning into a story with an excellently developed main character and well-built world. If you decided to watch from the beginning, however, you’d be in for a completely different experience. Cross Ange is the…

Armello hit early access today. I’ve been playing it this afternoon and it’s pretty good! Gorgeous, as expected, but be warned: as advertised, it’s very much a card game, so don’t go into it expecting a more video game-like RPG experience.

Ronin, as you’ll see about three seconds into the above video, is basically Gunpoint vs Mark of the Ninja, a fantasy combination if ever I’ve dreamt one up.

Months Later, Dragon Age‘s PC Version Is Still Frustrating Players

I remember when I first booted up Dragon Age: Inquisition on my (not exactly wimpy) PC. The framerate was unexpectedly low, and there were stutters and crashes. Moreover, the controls were awkward as all get-out. Months later, some problems have been solved, but many still linger. PC players are getting fed up. Over the course…

‘Salty’ Was One Of 2014’s Best Words

And that’s not according to me, that’s according to the American Dialect Society, who earlier this month held their 25th Word of the Year awards. As the Wall Street Journal (via Daily Dot) report, “salty” was named as one of the winners of “Most Likely to Succeed”, a kind of heads-up award for a word…

Hackers Are Trying To Make An Ad-Blocker For Real Life

Imagine a world where you didn’t have to look at ads in real life. It might sound incredible, but hackers are trying to make that a reality. Meet “Brand Killer.” It’s an alternate reality device that blocks out ads in real time. Now, the device is definitely at an early stage—it’s more proof of concept…

One Of The Best Counter-Strike Teams Practices In A Spooky Mansion

Ninjas in Pyjamas—aka NiP—came so close to pulling off a massive upset and winning last year’s Dream Hack Winter finals that it hurt. But the stinging taste of defeat eventually fades, and I imagine having a rad (though weirdly spooky) mansion to train out of doesn’t hurt. Pro Counter-Strike teams like NiP pretty much have…

Though Ubisoft just announced Grow Home, a new climbing game from Ubisoft Reflections, you can play it in less than two weeks. Grow Home arrives on February 4 for the PC. The previously internal-only experiment took inspiration from Wall-E and Guardians of the Galaxy

Transistor developer Amir Rao just published an interesting breakdown of all the work that went into the game’s unique “functions” system. I found the inspiration that Supergiant pulled from Magic: The Gathering particularly neat. And the fact that they deliberately eschewed “power-leveling.” Read it at Gamasutra.