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CultureSpider-Man: Miles Morales Has An Into The Spider-Verse Suit
Much like its predecessor, Spider-Man: Miles Morales will feature a variety of spider suits for its titular superhero when it arrives on November 12. That said, it’s going to be hard to top the one modeled after Miles Morales’ appearance in Into the Spider-Verse PlayStation announced today that Miles Morales includes a gorgeous homage to…
By Ian Walker Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition, Winners!
Last week, Microsoft announced an option to recast Marcus Fenix in Gears 5 as former-wrestler Dave Bautista. Taking a celebrity and dropping them into a video game is sort of OUR thing, so it felt right to ask you all to do just that with Bautista. Our winning image this week comes from Villings who…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureLet’s See How Accurate Watch Dogs Legion’s London Really Is
Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near-future central London, and unlike so many other games supposedly located in the United Kingdom’s capital, it often actually looks—and sounds—an awful like the city. While there are unquestionably some odd mistakes, some assumptions that don’t quite work, and something not quite right about the overall atmosphere, it’s…
By John Walker Published October 30, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsSurprise: Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s Epilogue Is Some Of The Best Pikmin Ever Made
Twenty-two days ago, I wrote: “If Nintendo has hidden some amazing twist at the end of Pikmin 3 Deluxe, if the epilogue really delivers, the joke will be on me.” Today I am here to tell you there is no twist, at least not a plot twist at the end of the new Switch port…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Director To Players: ‘Delete All That Shit’ Taking Up Space In Your Vault
This week we got another heads-up on several changes coming to Destiny 2, both in its next expansion and beyond, including that players won’t need to keep copies of all their favorite-looking armor in order to take advantage of the upcoming stats-preserving transmog system. “You’re not going to have to have the copy in your inventory,”…
By Ethan Gach Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicLunar’s Beloved Composer Scored A Game About Angels Fighting Alien Dicks
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll fly with angels, which in Gynoug is far, far grosser than it sounds. Early Sega Genesis was weird Sega Genesis, at least until Sonic raised the system’s profile in mid-1991. Western development, particularly from…
By Alexandra Hall Published October 30, 2020 -
AnimeReport: Sony To Buy Crunchyroll For Over $957 Million
The Tokyo-based electronics giant is reportedly going into the final round of negotiations to buy Crunchyroll. According to Nikkei Asia, the acquisition could cost Sony over 100 billion yen ($957 million). This comes as Sony obtained the exclusive right to negotiate for the popular anime streaming service. Up to now, Sony has been licensing its…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanCheck Out These Resident Evil 2 Collectible Statues, Each Priced At $1,349
Starting next year, Prime 1 Studio is releasing a pair of limited-edition Resident Evil 2 statues, featuring Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield blasting zombies. The Claire statue is 21.6 inches high, weighing 40.5 pounds, while the Leon one is 23 inches and 46 pounds. They are priced at $1,349 and will be out internationally.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Anata | Artist: Hikaru Utada | Album: Hatsukoi
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 30, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWatch This Great Documentary On Shinji Mikami
If you’re a fan of Capcom, Clover, horror, or just good video games in general, please set aside part of your week to enjoy this hour-long documentary by Archipel on Shinji Mikami, the legendary director of everything from Resident Evil to God Hand to Vanquish
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsPart Time UFO Has A Very Good Dog Butt
Part Time UFO, the HAL Laboratory mobile game ported to Switch today, is a charming little project about an alien helping the people of Earth tidy up with its spaceship’s arcade-like claw. It also has a very good dog. I don’t really have much to say about Part Time UFO other than that. It makes…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureThe Project Trying To Put Every Single Super Nintendo Instruction Manual On The Internet
A lot is made, and rightly so, of the plight of retro video games once they succumb to the passage of time. But while we focus on preserving the games themselves, what happens to the instruction manuals that used to come with them? In some cases, they’re lost forever! Other times, we’re lucky to have…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureEverything We Know About The PlayStation 5
In June, during an 85-minute event called “The Future of Gaming,” Sony finally revealed the PlayStation 5. Between the presenters who may not have been human, we got a thorough look at plenty of video games (and some technical stuff, too). Following that, the info feed surrounding the PS5 was a slow drip through the…
By Ari Notis Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty Big
Call of Duty big now. Real big. 250 GB on PC big. Last year, Call of Duty was already big. This year, it is bigger. If 250 GB is too big for you, there are bigness options that make it less big, like a non-4k install that brings the big down to 175 GB or…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureCosplayMetroid Cosplay For The Ages
By day, Brenden McCormack is a developer at Wargaming, working on World of Tanks. In his spare time, though, he’s built (along with his wife Laura) one of the most impressive pieces of Nintendo cosplay I have ever seen. In addition to the power-up gif up top, here are a bunch of other photos of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryNo More Heroes On Switch Ruins My Favorite Part Of Its Loading Screens
I’m a simple man. Give me some rhythmic, monotonous task to carry out and I’ll be content. I think that’s why I found the loading screens in the original No More Heroes so engrossing, and why I’m now so bothered to find the recent Switch port screwed them up. I love games that give you…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureBorderlands 3’s ‘Arms Race’ Mode Is Apparently A Roguelike, Because Why Not
A few weeks ago, Gearbox announced a second wave of Borderlands 3 downloadable content. Among the offerings will be a new mode called Arms Race, which Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford said is “not a battle royale,” despite it exisiting on an isolated map and granting players progressively powerful gear over the course of a round.…
By Ari Notis Published October 29, 2020 -
CultureAnother Microsoft Game, Everwild, Loses Its Director
Everwild creative director Simon Woodroffe has resigned from his position at Rare, VGC reports In a statement to VGC, Rare studio head Craig Duncan confirmed these details, thanking Woodroffe and wishing him luck on future endeavors. Information on Everwild is still scarce. In previous teasers, Rare presented an open-world adventure game focused on the flora…
By Ian Walker Published October 29, 2020