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Tips & GuidesIt’s So Easy To Carry Your Progress From The Outriders Demo To The Full Game
Following a delay and a month-long demo period, looter-shooter Outriders is out today for basically every platform but the Switch. If you played the demo, you can carry your progress over to the main game if on the same platform, something developer People Can Fly made clear from the jump. But it’s astonishing how seamless…
By Ari Notis Published April 1, 2021 -
CultureFortnite Stonks Skin Not A Joke, Unfortunately
April Fool’s Day is terrible. Things you wish were real are fake. And things you wish were fake are real, like this Fortnite stonks meme skin. Fortnite got a “Diamond Hanz” skin in the item shop today, as part of the “To the Moon” set. For 1200 Vbucks, you get a crash test dummy in…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 1, 2021 -
CultureShark RPG Maneater Gets Fresh DLC This Summer
Chris Parnell reprises his role as investigative journalist Trip Westhaven and players reprise their role as Big Honkin’ Shark in Maneater: Truth Quest, a fresh batch of conspiracy-driven downloadable content coming to PlayStations, Xboxen, and PC this summer. From a press release I’ve read through a half-dozen times, because Tripwire Interactive thought it would be…
By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2021 -
CultureThe Beautifully Blocky Earth Defense Force: World Brothers Launches Worldwide May 27
Voxel soldiers battle the giant voxel insect aliens invading their voxel planet in Earth Defense Force: World Brothers. This colorful new take on the beloved budget shooter series is launching across all regions on May 27 for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC. World Brothers is a stylized love letter to D3Publisher’s long-running series, a somewhat…
By Mike Fahey Published April 1, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanOh Dear, The Sony Japan Studio Exodus Continues
Last month, Kotaku reported that yet another producer departed from the Japan Studio. And this month, we’re reporting that the exodus continues. Yesterday, Shunsuke Saito tweeted, “I’m leaving SIE Japan Studio today.” Saito was the character designer and animator for Gravity Rush 1 and 2. He was also the art director for the sequel. His…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanReport: Tokyo Olympics Proposal Included Akira And Super Mario In The Opening Ceremony
The Tokyo Olympics, it seems, will hold the opening ceremonies this July. While the finalized plans have yet to be revealed, Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun has apparently acquired a 280-page scrapped proposal for the event. Included within it is an Akira-themed plan, and another that features Nintendo’s Mario. Shukan Bunshun is one of Japan’s most famous magazines…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaPosting Manga Dialogue Online Without Permission Is Copyright Infringement, Says Tokyo Court
Last week, the Tokyo District Court (pictured above) ruled that publishing manga dialogue online without permission is copyright infringement. According to NHK (via ANN), a “spoiler site” published almost all the dialogue verbatim from manga between January 2019 and May 2020. In total, 63 volumes were uploaded. The manga in question is Kengan Omega, and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2021 -
CultureAh Loot River Looks Fantastic
A few seconds into this announcement trailer for Loot River and I’m thinking, OK, it’s a top-down Dark Souls game. Fine, whatever. A few seconds later suddenly there’s Tetris in there too and everything looks a lot more interesting. The combination of slow and methodical combat, puzzle elements as you race across sliding barges/platforms, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureMicrosoft Sells Three Bethesdas Worth Of Minecraft Goggles To The U.S. Military
In 2015, Microsoft showed off its fancy new HoloLens augmented reality goggles with a very impressive Minecraft demo. In 2021, the company has just agreed to sell “up to 22 billion” worth of headsets based on that original tech to the U.S. military. As TechCrunch reports, while the military and Microsoft originally agreed to some…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureTwitchDifferent Millionaire Fights Refrigerator
Sometimes, you just decide that you’ve gotta fix something, and you’re not going to rest until you’ve won a battle of wits and wills against a piece of plastic. Most of the time, though, you don’t have 80,000 people watching you do it. Today, Twitch star Ludwig Ahgren, trapped in the purgatorial “final” hour of…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureWind Waker Speedrunners Finally Found A Way To Skip Cutscenes
The latest trick in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunning has the potential to do away with the game’s previously unskippable cutscenes entirely. Much to the chagrin of speedrunners, Wind Waker has a few super-long cutscenes. Not Kojima long, mind, but long enough to be annoying if you’re repeatedly playing the game from…
By Ian Walker Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureAnalogue Pocket Shipments Pushed Back To October
Analogue just announced its Analogue Pocket handheld console will miss its original May 2021 shipment date and will slip to October instead. “The current global state of affairs continues to create supply chain challenges outside of our control,” Analogue said in an official statement. “There have been sudden and severe electrical component shortages as well…
By Ian Walker Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureHalo Infinite Delayed To 2022 [UPDATED: We Got Got]
Hey, everyone, I am a dumbass. Halo Infinite has not, to Kotaku’s knowledge, been cancelled. We fell for a fake tweet from an in hindsight obviously fake account. (Follower count: 53.) On the eve of April Fool’s. Yes, I realize how this looks. I regret the error. Kotaku regrets the error. Halo Infinite is planned for…
By Ari Notis Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureCall Of Duty Warzone Gets Surprise Changes, Modern Warfare Gets New Maps
Call of Duty’s Season Two Reloaded update was released for Warzone today. In a weird turn of events, 2019’s Modern Warfare received the better part of the update, leaving many players upset. Players knew most of what was coming to Cold War this week and beyond from the Season Two Reloaded roadmap. On the Warzone…
By S.E. Doster Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Players Still Have No Clue What Those Odin Runes Mean
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is practically as old as its subject matter at this point, but even the most devoted players haven’t dusted off all its secrets. Nowhere is this more evident than the so-called “Odin runes,” an arcane set of symbols strewn around digital 9th-century England. They no doubt house an underlying meaning. And yet,…
By Ari Notis Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureThe Elder Scrolls Online Gets Its Next-Gen Glow Up June 8
The Elder Scrolls Online is a good-looking game, but playing it on console locked at 30 frames per second hurts my heart. Healing is coming, however, with the June 8 release of The Elder Scrolls Online – Console Enhanced, an upgraded version for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 that includes, among many visual improvements,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureTwitchMillionaire Forgets To Pay Electric Bill
Today, the top streamer on Twitch was forced to quit mid-stream because, he says, he forgot to pay his power bill. He is a millionaire. You hate to see it. These days, Félix “xQc” Lengyel is notably more mature than the guy who got booted from an Overwatch League team in 2018 after a string…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureStar Wars: Republic Commando Gets The Collector’s Edition It Deserves
The best Star Wars game that doesn’t involve the player swinging a lightsaber is getting an April 6 release on PlayStation 4 and Switch, but those looking for a physical version of Republic Commando will need to wait until April 16, when the four-week pre-order window opens for Limited Run’s physical version, including a $90…
By Mike Fahey Published March 31, 2021 -
CultureXbox Cloud Gaming Adds A Bunch Of Older Xbox Games
Starting today, you’ll be able to play more than a dozen Xbox and Xbox 360 games via cloud streaming, Microsoft announced in a blog post. As with other game streaming, the perk is only available to members of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Cloud streaming first became available last September with an initial launch slate of…
By Ari Notis Published March 31, 2021
