Artist Claims Official Super Nintendo World Website Is Using His Fan Art

A new website for Nintendo’s upcoming Japanese theme park Super Nintendo World went live yesterday. It featured new details and a virtual tour of the video game wonderland ahead of its February 4 opening. It also used an image of Mario for its loading screen that appears to have been created not by Nintendo, but…

SNK Devs Once Put Goku In King Of Fighters 98

In the latest installment of Polygon’s ongoing deep dive series on the making of classic fighting games, veteran developer Toyohisa Tanabe revealed that his team at SNK was experimenting with crossovers as far back as King of Fighters 98 “The team ended up making a build of King of Fighters 98 with Ryu and Ken…

I’ve Kept My PS5 ‘Upside Down’ For Months And It Hasn’t Exploded

There’s the proper way to set up a PlayStation 5. And then there’s the improper way, a method that has been utilized by such prolific users as (apparently) a PlayStation executive and (definitely) yours truly. Yes, I’ve had my PS5 upside down since the day I got my hands on it, in late October. To…

There’s A First-Person Mortal Kombat 11 Mod, For Some Reason

Have you ever wanted to play Mortal Kombat 11 in first-person? Probably not. But, regardless, there’s now a mod that lets you do just that. As spotted by DSOGaming, MK11Hook is a PC mod created by Ermaccer that adds some new features to Mortal Kombat 11, including the ability to change the game’s speed and…

The PS5’s DualSense Is The Perfect Canvas

One of my first thoughts upon seeing the futuristic armored look of the PlayStation 5’s Dualsense controller was, “Man, I bet that’s going to look awesome with a custom paint job.” Indulging my pink and black obsession, the painting pros at Colorware have confirmed my hypothesis. Thanks to the touchpad and the solid grips that…

Hitman 3 Trailer Shows Off The Trilogy In Irresistibly Goofy VR

The Hitman series does a great job walking a fine line between very serious murder heisting and utterly ridiculous physics simulator. This juxtaposition is on perfectly display in the new Hitman 3 trailer showing off the game’s VR mode. For those not content to meddle in the lives of strangers in third-person, Hitman 3, as…

Roblox Corp, creators of the mega-popular game of the same name, has valued itself at almost $30 billion after a recent round of investments, Reuters reports. The company plans to go public via direct listing sometime this year.

Remembering Kotaku Writer András Neltz

András Neltz, a Budapest-based writer and editor who worked the morning shift at Kotaku from 2012-2016, died last month at the age of 31. Today, we mourn the loss of a cherished former colleague. András joined Kotaku near the start of my run as editor-in-chief, as part of an expansion of editorial duties to then-Gawker…

Fall Guys are about to become Doom Guys when the new cross-over costumes go live starting January 12. The outfits will transform players’s beans into Doom Slayer, Cacodemons, or Tyrants, so you can feel extra bad-ass or demonic while falling to your doom. 

A Canceled 2006 Tomb Raider Game Is Now Playable

Back in 2006, Core Design, the original studio behind the Tomb Raider series, was working on a 10th-anniversary remake of the first game for PSP. While a lot of progress was made, the game was eventually canceled. Now, that original PSP game has resurfaced and is playable, PC Gamer reports. On December 31, Tomb Raider…

Game Pass Is Still Missing Most Of The Final Fantasy Games Microsoft Promised

At the end of 2019, Microsoft announced 10 Final Fantasy games would come to Game Pass in the following year. At the start of 2021 most of them are still missing, though Microsoft says they’ll get there eventually. During the X019 livestream event in London near the tail end of 2019, Microsoft announced a bunch…

Neverwinter: Sharandar Revisits The Game’s Very First Adventure Module

The first adventure module added to Perfect World Entertainment’s Neverwinter, 2013’s Fury of the Feywild, introduced players to the ancient elven stronghold of Sharandar. The game’s latest three-part module, launching on PC February 9 and consoles a month later, heads back to those wild woods to see what’s happened over the past seven years and…

Duracell Official Suggests Xbox Controllers Use Of AA Batteries In Influenced By Deal With Battery Company

While every other console controller on the market uses internal rechargeable batteries, Xbox’s still let you use AA batteries to power them, and new remarks by a Duracell spokesperson possibly shed some light on why this is. “There’s always been this partnership with Duracell and Xbox…it’s a constant agreement that Duracell and Microsoft have in…

Yoshi Devolved From Babysitter to Baby

Yoshi, upon its debut, was a bright green agent of change in the Mario franchise. In its first appearance, it bursts from an egg, growing from newborn to adult in the blink of an eye. Yet for a character so tied to the concept of change and evolution, Yoshi has found itself creatively and conceptually…

Eiichiro Oda On Reaching 1,000 Chapters In One Piece

Back in July 1997, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump. Now, twenty years later, it has become the biggest-selling manga series ever. Last summer, it was announced that One Piece was entering its final arc, which should take four or five years to wrap up, and this month the manga reached…

Koei Tecmo Filing Charges Over Dead Or Alive Nude Mod

Koei Tecmo announced it’s filing charges with Kanagawa police against a suspect for allegedly selling an unlicensed DVD filled with naked Dead or Alive characters. According to the game maker, the suspect allegedly recorded footage of characters from Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation that had been illicitly modded. The footage was compiled onto a DVD…