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Tell Me Why‘s First Episode Is Too Real

In a way, the first episode of Tell Me Why wants to convince you that people aren’t as bad as you think. It’s a weird message for me, a trans man playing a video game, to hear—both video games and the people who surround them can be worse than I think, and I’m constantly braced…

By Riley MacLeod Published August 27, 2020

Culture

The Division Headlines September’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

The world being what it is, you might not be feeling The Division right now, but September’s Xbox Live Games with Gold has some other fare in store for you too. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold membership. September’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Tom Clancy’s…

By Riley MacLeod Published August 27, 2020

Culture

Hitman 3 Comes Out January 20, Next-Gen Upgrades Will Be Free

Hitman 3 will be out January 20 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Stadia and PC via Epic Games Store, IO Interactive announced today. It’ll also let players upgrade digital copies of the game to their next-gen versions for free. “Yes, we’re doing a next-gen upgrade for consoles and yes, it’s free,” the…

By Ethan Gach Published August 27, 2020

Culture

How’s It Going? Movie Time Edition

Let’s all go to the lobby and get ourselves infected. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Who’s going to see New Mutants in the theater this weekend, and what the heck is wrong with you? I’ve been waiting forever for this movie to release, and there’s no way in hell I am going out…

By Mike Fahey Published August 27, 2020

Culture

Netflix Confirms It’s Working On A Resident Evil TV Series

A new live-action series based on Resident Evil is in development over at Netflix, the livestreaming platform announced today on Twitter. The show will apparently focus on the “Wesker kids”, a possible allusion to Albert Wesker, a central antagonist in Resident Evil and one of several children who were part of a eugenics projects involving…

By Ethan Gach Published August 27, 2020

OpinionImpressions

Control’s AWE Expansion Leans Into Horror, And It’s Rad

Horror has always seemed right around the corner in Control. There’s a refrigerator that always needs to be looked at or it’ll kill you. A rubber duck teleports around maliciously. Your double is plotting your demise in a mirror world. Even so, horror was always the game’s selective spice, used sparingly to break up the…

By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 27, 2020

CultureMorning Music

Osamu Sato’s Transmigration Is Music To Trip To

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re getting esoteric with an album spun off of a very weird CD-ROM adventure game. (Or was it the other way around?) And oh, it’s by the guy who conceived LSD: Dream Emulator The…

By Alexandra Hall Published August 27, 2020

Culture

Fortnite‘s Season 4 Marvel Theme Is Mostly Cosmetic So Far

Fortnite’s Chapter 2, Season 4 is, as long-teased, a crossover with the Marvel universe. If you can put aside the terrifying implications of a Peely with Wolverine claws, you’ll find what largely appear to be cosmetic changes, with a few gameplay elements mixed in so far. Called Nexus War, Season 4 sees Thor and other…

By Riley MacLeod Published August 27, 2020

Kotaku EastJapan

VR-Controlled Robots Coming To Japanese Convenience Stores

This summer, VR-controlled robots are coming to select Family Mart convenience stores in Japan. As Time Out Tokyo reports, these robot employees are being introduced to improve efficiency and lower costs, as offsite workers will control the robots to stock store shelves. But… seeing the robots in action, the efficiency argument is odd. Because, one…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2020

Culture

Track: Look Inside America | Artist: Blur | Album: Blur

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2020

CultureOdds and Ends

Fall Guys Fans Create Wonderful Concept Skins

Fall Guys is the most downloaded PlayStation 4 game ever. We’ve already started seeing some collab costumes, such as the Gordon Freeman skin, and we’re bound to see many, many more. Yoko Taro, for example, is interested in a Nier-themed outfit for the giant-bean characters. I am certain he is not alone! In the meantime,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 27, 2020

Culture

Report: Microsoft Appoints Halo Veteran To Get Infinite “Back on Track” [Update]

After a disappointing gameplay reveal—it’s hard making blockbuster games from home!—Halo Infinite has been pushed back to 2021. It’s also now getting some outside help, with a report that Microsoft is parachuting Halo veteran Joseph Staten in to help with development. As Bloomberg report, Staten—one of the main writers on earlier Halo games at Bungie,…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2020

Culture

1992 Neo Geo Game Just Had Its “Taiwan” Names Removed

Baseball Stars 2 was released on the Neo Geo in 1992 (one year after the greatest baseball game ever made, with which it has a lot in common), and for the last 28 years has been just fine with teams like the “Tokyo Ninjas” and “Spanish Galleons”. The “Taipei Hawks”, however, have just been removed…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2020

Culture

Sony Is Offering PS5 Preorders, Only You Don’t Know How Much It Costs

As we’ve already discussed today, nobody has any idea what’s going on with the PS5 launch. But if you’d still like to pre-order one on the basis of blind faith and a susceptibility to hype, then Sony has the deal for you. The company is offering pre-orders for a brand new PS5 at launch, despite…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2020

Culture

How Much Call Of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War Will Cost (In Plain English)

Earlier today, after a week of hype, Activision revealed release-day information for Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War. It comes out on November 13 and will cost some amount of U.S. dollars. Yes, today’s info dump spawned some confusion around pricing, chiefly because there are a vexing amount of purchasing options for even the…

By Ari Notis Published August 26, 2020

Opinion

Maybe Just Delay Next-Gen Already

The Xbox Series X comes out in November, probably around the same time as the PS5 if Sony ever gets around to announcing its release date. But they don’t need to come out then. In fact, maybe it would be for the best if they were just delayed until some time next year. Lately I’ve…

By Ethan Gach Published August 26, 2020

OpinionImpressions

Warframe‘s New Flesh Planet Is A Wild But Disjointed Ride

Warframe’s greatest strength is also its most intangible: It commits. Whether it’s the core idea of outer space ninjas who front flip down hallways at a million miles per hour or a full-on Hadestown-style musical intro for a planet focused on labor issues, Warframe is 100 percent all-in on everything it does. So when developer…

By Nathan Grayson Published August 26, 2020

Culture

How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Use The Game’s Customization To Make It More Accessible

“It turns out that Animal Crossing [New Horizons] is very, very blind-friendly,” says Ross Minor in thefirst oftwo videos he uploaded to YouTube this spring. In them, the blind athlete and YouTuber demonstrates how a combination of the game’s sound design, mechanics, and customizability enable him to enjoy the game in a way that doesn’t…

Jay Castello Published August 26, 2020

Culture

Fall Guys Players Are Optimizing Slime Climb

Slime Climb is known as one of the most frustrating mini-games in Fall Guys. Unlike the game’s other obstacle courses, where falling off means respawning at a previous checkpoint, one small mistake here can send you back to the queue. But what if there were a series of shortcuts that made this level a breeze?…

By Ian Walker Published August 26, 2020

Culture

Black Ops: Cold War‘s Campaign Will Give Players Choices And Customization

Call of Duty is returning to the cold war era of psychological warfare and espionage with Black Ops: Cold War, but the new campaign will offer more options than ever before. Unlike previous Call of Duty campaigns, Black Ops: Cold War is geared towards putting players in the driver’s seat of a much more personal…

By S.E. Doster Published August 26, 2020