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CultureDemon’s Souls Invader Destroyed By Game’s Worst Attack
While a neat concept, getting invaded by other players in the Demon’s Souls remake can be super frustrating. Sometimes it feels impossible to land a single hit due to the typical online latency. But a notable Souls player recently managed to banish an invader from his world with the worst and most unwieldy attack in…
By Ian Walker Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureOfficial Die-Cast Poké Ball Replicas Run $100 Apiece, Should Not Be Thrown
Launching just in time for Pokémon Day, February 27, The Wand Company has turned everybody’s favorite pocket monster prison into a $100 metal replica, complete with proximity-sensing lights, a numbered collector’s case, and a warning for it to never, ever be thrown. Obviously, someone is going to spend $100 on this metal beauty and chuck…
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureFinal Fantasy XIV’s final update of 2020, Futures Rewritten patch 5.4, launches on December 8. Along with new dungeons, main story quests, and trials, the patch adds Explorer Mode, which lets players explore dungeons and take screenshots without worrying about getting murdered by enemies. I’m down for some of that.
By Mike Fahey Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Empire Of Fenyx
It’s often a letdown when a holiday ends, but at least this week has some games to be excited about. Ubisoft’s Zelda-like Immortals Fenyx Rising comes out, along with Romero Games’ Empire of Sin and Dontnod’s Twin Mirror December 1 Chronos: Before The Ashes | Xbox, PC, PlayStation Empire of Sin | Xbox, PlayStation, PC,…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicBully Doesn’t Sound Like Your Typical Rockstar Game
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m here to educate you all about the wonderful music in Bully. Rockstar video games tend to have soundtracks filled with licensed music, like Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto V, or the Midnight Club…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 30, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanSega Shows Old Handheld Prototype Publicly For The First Time
In 1995, Sega released the Genesis Nomad in North America. The 16-bit portable was a handheld console with an LCD screen and able to play Genesis cartridges. In a recent YouTube clip, Sega’s Hiroyuki Miyazaki showed off the hardware’s prototype for the first time. Here is the Nomad’s final product version. The design is in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanThirty-Four Years Later, Ys 1 and II Are Getting PC Floppy Disk Ports
Japanese game developer Nihon Falcom has announced that decades after their original releases, both Ys1 and Ys II are getting ported to the X68000, a Japan-only PC from Sharp that first went on sale in 1987. In 1987, Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished was first released on the PC-8801, then later that same year on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Grace Kelly Blues | Artist: Eels | Album: Daisies of the Galaxy
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanFirst Look Inside Super Nintendo World, Which Opens In Japan Next February
Here it is. What we’ve all been waiting for. This is the first look inside the eagerly anticipated Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios in Osaka. Announced in 2015, the park was originally slated to open this year, but due to the global pandemic, it was delayed. Super Nintendo World has been coming along nicely!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2020 -
CultureUntitled Goose Game’s Map Is Just Beautiful
I’m not talking about the actual game world—though it also is lovely—but in this case a special hand-drawn map that was commissioned, included in the game’s physical edition, and now available for sale on its own as a big fancy print. Created byGoldie Bartlett—currently working on Wayward Strand—the image was designed to hark back to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 29, 2020 -
CultureTwo Of The Worst Zelda Games Have Been Recreated On The PC
Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon were the first two of three Zelda games Nintendo published on the ill-fated Philips CD-i system in the early 90s. They are very bad—so bad Nintendo doesn’t recognise them as series canon—but they’ve still got a certain charm to them, and so this fan effort to rebuild them…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 29, 2020 -
CultureSunday Comics: Giving Thanks
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 Nov. 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 29, 2020 -
CultureUri Geller Says Nintendo Can Print Kadabra On Pokémon Cards Again
Spoon-bending magician Uri Geller gave Nintendo permission to use the character Kadabra on Pokémon cards today, after a 2o year legal dispute in which Geller claimed the Pokémon’s Japanese name and image were too close to his own. “I am truly sorry for what I did 20 years ago,” Geller tweeted today. “Kids and grownups…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 28, 2020 -
OpinionI Won’t Miss Fortnite‘s Marvel Season
Fortnite’s Marvel-themed season comes to an end next week, with super villain Galactus finally arriving on the island on Tuesday afternoon. Dataminers are finding lots of references to past season events, Epic has put out some streaming rules suggesting there’ll be copyrighted music, and we really have no idea what we’re going to get from…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 28, 2020 -
CultureRIP, Disney Infinity, And Thank You
Disney Infinity was, in 2013 at least, trying to be the biggest thing in both games and toys. Yet only three years after launching, in 2016 it was gone, its servers closed down, its playsets discounted then removed from stores entirely. Where once half the point of the game was building new levels and worlds…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2020 -
CultureSaGa Frontier Is Getting A Remaster
Square Enix announced a remaster of 1998 PlayStation game SaGa Frontier today, coming summer 2021. SaGa Frontier Remastered will be available on Switch, PS4, Steam, iOS, and Android. In a tweet, the developer says the remaster will feature “updated graphics, events, cutscenes, enhancements, (and a new protagonist!).” Here are the full details from the YouTube…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 28, 2020 -
CulturePS5 Owners Say They’re Receiving Bans After Selling PS4 Users Access To The PS Plus Collection
If you’re one of the lucky ones to have been able to buy a PS5 already, you’ll know that with a PlayStation Plus subscription you also get access to the PS Plus Collection, 20 well-loved, properly good PS4 games. But if you’re still on PS4, that bundle isn’t available to you. Well, it didn’t take…
By John Walker Published November 27, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThat Night, Steeped By Blood River Looks Like Nothing Else You’ve Played
That Night, Steeped By Blood River is one of the most interesting-looking games I can remember This surrealist exploration game has an aesthetic so unique that I’m convinced I’ll dream like it tonight, and as such am somewhat put off going to sleep. Created by Taylor Swietanski, TNSBBR is on one level a fairly standard first-person…
By John Walker Published November 27, 2020
