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CultureOdds and EndsKnockout City’s Best-Dressed Players Are Also Its Scariest
We often fear powerful things, because we can’t control them. A giant, unstoppable bear. A deadly bomb. An unfeeling, AI-controlled drone with missiles. Or even, a player wearing some sick threads in an online video game, indicating they’ve been playing longer than you and will likely kick your ass. Knockout City is a lot of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsFFXIV Artists Used Their Free Time To Get Bunny Boys Into The Game
When Final Fantasy XIV introduced female-only Viera and male-only Hrothgar as playable races for its Shadowbringers expansion, fans were not happy. It turns out the game’s graphics team weren’t happy either, so they worked in their free time between patches to get male rabbits and female bestial cats into Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. In a…
By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsThe Week In Games: Final Fantasy Rift
It’s the week before E3, so let’s look forward to some games we can actually play before we all get excited about games we can’t play yet. This week has a lot to look forward to, including Ratchet & Clank, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and Guilty Gear Strive. Here are the video games coming…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 7, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanFighting Game Legend Tokido Appears In BMW Ad In Japan
Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi isn’t only one of the greatest Street Fighter players ever, he would also like to tell you about the BMW 2 Series. Tokido was recently featured in a short Japanese TV segment called Go Next, which is sponsored by the German car company. In the program he talks about how there was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2021 -
CulturePokemonLogan Paul Wore A Pokémon Card To Mayweather Fight, Says It’s Now Worth A Million Dollars
There wasn’t a knockout in tonight’s Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather exhibition fight. One clear winner did emerge: Pokémon card collectors, Paul included. When the YouTuber entered the ring, he wore a Charizard card around his neck the way other fighters would wear gold and diamonds. The card is a first edition, gem mint 10-graded…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureNewsNvidia’s DLSS Sorcery Is Coming To Linux
DLSS, a technology I do not want to understand because then it will no longer feel like magic, has until now been available only to folks playing Windows games. Thanks to some work from Valve and Nvidia, though, that’s about to change. As The Verge reports, Nvidia announced last week that it is working with…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2021 -
CultureNewsAn Entire Game Where You Have To Keep To The Shadows
And it’s got nothing to do with stealth! SCHiM is an upcoming game for the PC where you’re playing a human soul that moves like a frog (stick with me), and the entire thing is about navigating a landscape touching only the shadows. Sometimes the shadows are stationary, at other more challenging times they’re cast…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2021 -
CultureNewsLawsuit Claims Capcom Stole Pictures For Resident Evil And Devil May Cry
A designer is suing Capcom over improper use of licensed material, Polygon reports. According to a lawsuit filed Friday, Capcom used unlicensed photographs as art assets in Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry, and other games. Judy A. Juracek, an author and artist, filedsuit in U.S. District Court in Connecticut on Friday. In 1996, Juracek…
By Ari Notis Published June 6, 2021 -
CultureSunday Comics: Keyblade
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 3. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 31. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 6, 2021 -
AnimeEvangelion Teams Up With Japanese Sake Maker To Recreate Misato’s Apartment
If you’ve seen Evangelion, then you’ve watched Misato Katsuragi drink at home. Her beer of choice? Ebisu. Her sake? Dassai. This is not cheap sake and underscores the fact that Misato takes her drinking seriously. Plus, as evident in the anime, Misato has a wide variety of different Dassai releases—not just the brewery’s standard stuff,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanCar Crashes Into Japanese Arcade, Thankfully No One Was Hurt
Last week in Hiroshima, a sedan plowed into an arcade at a little after 9 pm, knocking over a row of bicycles and smashing through glass. The game center was still in operation, and fortunately, no one in the car or arcade was hurt In the above image from FNN, you can see the car…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapan18-Year-old Artist Draws Incredible Portraits On Her Smartphone
Mejiro, an 18-year-old artist in Japan, was recently featured on the country’s national TV news for art she draws on her smartphone. “I drew this on my smartphone,” she said, holding up a portrait on her phone. Mejiro doesn’t use a stylus, but her finger as she draws directly on the screen. Her illustration app…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2021 -
CultureNewsHere’s GoldenEye 007 Remade From The Ground Up In Far Cry 5
If it walks like a GoldenEye, talks like a GoldenEye, and quacks like a GoldenEye, it’s a GoldenEye, right? Well, not always. It could also be a Far Cry. Case in point: This recreation of GoldenEye 007 in Far Cry 5‘s level editor. A YouTuber known as Krollywood, an intrepid fan of both games, has…
By Ari Notis Published June 5, 2021 -
CultureKnockout City Doesn’t Show Your Overall Stats, Which Is A Bummer
Last week, Kotaku’s Zack Zweizen and I teamed up for a few rounds of Knockout City. I played fairly well. Zack, on the other hand, crushed it, even ending one match with a jaw-dropping positive-15 KD. Sadly, save for the screenshots we both snapped in shock after the fact, there’s no way to tangibly commemorate…
By Ari Notis Published June 5, 2021 -
CultureEvery Indie Game Shown During Today’s Guerrilla Collective Showcase
It’s officially E3 season. Between the marquee E3 pressers (Microsoft, Square Enix, Ubisoft, et cetera) and individual events from publishers gone E3-rogue (what’s up, Sony?), you can catch a handful of events focusing on smaller games. The first of those, at least per the calendar, is the Guerrilla Collective, which aired its first of two…
By Ari Notis Published June 5, 2021 -
CultureSplitscreenWe’re Not Expecting Much From This Year’s E3
Somehow it’s June again, which means it’s almost time for E3 to start—and also, depending on who you ask (Sony, Sega, Blizzard), it’s already started. Still though, this must mean that several volcano bursts of white-hot excitement are just around the corner, right? You’d think, but after the year we just made it through, you…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 5, 2021 -
CulturePokemonJolteon Could Charge More Than 800 Car Batteries
If you’re a Kotaku regular, you’re likely familiar with our long-running Here’s Another Pokémon series, curated by our stalwart weekend editor, Zack Zweizen. Zack’s taking some well-earned time off this weekend, which means I’m taking the reins today. (Sorry in advance, but also, cue maniacal laughter.) That also means I’m in charge of showing you…
By Ari Notis Published June 5, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsEarthBound Secrets Discovered On Ancient Floppy Disk
In 2018, Marcus Lindblom, a former Nintendo of America employee best known for localizing EarthBound, discovered the floppy disk containing his personal files from that massive project in an old box. He had, at some point, wiped the disk to make room for more data, but thanks to the folks at the Video Game History…
By Ian Walker Published June 4, 2021
