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CultureInscryption Is The Next Game From Pony Island Creator Daniel Mullins
This morning, Pony Island and The Hex creator Daniel Mullins unveiled his next trippy video game, Inscryption Mullins described the game as an “inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie.” Watching the reveal trailer, I find it hard to disagree with any of…
By Ian Walker Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureFall Guys Has A Hacker Problem, But Developers Are Starting To Issue Bans
The struggle against hackers is never-ending even for mega-studios like Epic, Valve, Blizzard, and Riot, so when Fall Guys kicked down the doors to the zeitgeist treehouse, it was inevitable that hackers would worm their way in, as well. Now developer Mediatonic is dealing with one of the downsides of overwhelming success. Hackers, at this…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureAfter a year of Apple Arcade exclusivity, Cornfox & Brothers’ Zelda-riffic sequel, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, is coming to Nintendo Switch this fall. Where the original Oceanhorn is more of a Windwaker-esque affair, Oceanhorn 2 is a full-on open-world action RPG shades of Breath of the Wild.
By Mike Fahey Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureManeater Players Get To Be Garbage-Munching Tiger Sharks For Shark Week
Not only do players of completely accurate aquatic murder simulator Maneater get to mutate into the garbage-munching tiger shark for Shark Week, they get to do so with a skin that makes them look like the tiger shark member of the band KISS. Look at that mighty beast. The tiger shark is one of the…
By Mike Fahey Published August 11, 2020 -
UncategorizedHow’s It Going? Gundam Style Edition
Has anyone seen my snipper tool? Welcome back to our daily open thread. Here’s a confession. I know next to nothing about Gundam anime. I cannot look at a white, red, blue, and yellow robot and tell you which series it is from or recall its greatest battles. Who is piloting the RX-78-2 Gundam that’s…
By Mike Fahey Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureVampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Delayed To 2021
What’s another year to the eternal undead? Last night, under the cover of darkness, Paradox Interactive and Hardsuit Labs delayed the long-awaited follow-up to Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines once again, this time from 2020 to 2021. According to the message shared on the game’s official Twitter last night, it’s the developer and publisher’s pesky quality bar…
By Mike Fahey Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicSega Mega Drive Super Medley Leaves You Wanting More
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we check out an album of energetic Sega Genesis / Mega Drive medleys that hit 15 years ago, almost to the day. I happen to own a copy of Sega Mega Drive Super Medley…
By Alexandra Hall Published August 11, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Has The Best ‘Squeezing Through Narrow Passage’ Moments
I, uh, have to make a confession: I like those moments, now ubiquitous in modern gaming, where you squeeze through narrow passageways that obviously exist just to hide asset loading. Not sure why, to be honest. Maybe it’s Freudian? In any case, what I do know is that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has the…
By Ian Walker Published August 10, 2020 -
UncategorizedOh No, Earthworm Jim
I have very fond memories of growing up with Earthworm Jim. Most of them centred around the incredible first video game on the Genesis, but maybe also the old cartoon as well? Anyway whatever, that’s ancient history, because Earthworm Jim in 2020 ain’t what it used to be. How so? For starters, let’s look at…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMax Payne Killed Over 2000 People In 11 Years
We’ve all got a lot more time on our hands as we wait for new consoles to come out and the planet to stop burning around us, so why not spend that time constructively? Like working out just how many people Max Payne manages to kill over three video games. SEX-POSITIVE GAMER have crunched the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2020 -
UncategorizedFall Guys’ Mini-Games, Ranked
We at Kotaku have been playing a lot of Fall Guys. There are 24 mini-games, and while many of them are good, there are some that are great and others that are terrible. We don’t all agree on which ones those are, though! So here are Fall Guys’ mini-games, ranked from best to worst. Hex-A-Gone…
By Zack Zwiezen Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhat Is The Forbidden Book, And Other Blaseball Questions Answered
As the baseball season hobbles on like a drunken three-legged cat with rickets, fans in search of an organized sports fix have found a new sensation on which to hyperfocus: Blaseball. Blaseball (and I’m going to kill my autocorrect function before this piece is over, I swear) is what would happen if the delightfully twisted…
By Ash Parrish Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureNew The Last Of Us Part II Trophies Tease Grounded Mode, Permadeath [Update: Naughty Dog Explains]
The Last of Us Part II has a couple new trophies that indicate the impending arrival of both Grounded mode and a permadeath option, both of which should make the game exponentially harder. Grounded mode first appeared in 2013’s The Last of Us as a heightened difficulty level made available post-release. Although Naughty Dog hasn’t…
By Ian Walker Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureXbox Game Pass Ultimate Streaming Beta Starts Tomorrow
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to start playing a limited number of Game Pass games streamed to their phones as part of a new xCloud beta starting August 11. “[W]e’re entering a limited beta period to ensure a smooth transition of the cloud gaming experience to the Xbox Game Pass app on…
By Ethan Gach Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureFall Guys, As Told By Steam Reviews
I think it’s pretty safe to say that 2020’s flavor of the month, of the year, is here. Fall Guys is a tail-grabbing, bean-flinging phenomenon. It’s managed to turn Twitch, Steam, and PS4 into its own personal game show stages, with millions watching and playing. This might be a stretch on my part, but it…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 10, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsFast & Furious Crossroads Is Ridiculous
Though all of the action in Fast & Furious Crossroads, the star-studded video game side story to the long-running film franchise, involves driving a car, there are no speedometers. The only speed is fast. Unless you’re tailing a van owned by the Barcelona mob. Then it’s slow, though probably also furious. Crossroads isn’t a great…
By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2020 -
OpinionAsk KotakuWhat Is Your Single Favorite Piece Of Video Game Music?
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku’s rank and file weigh in on the burning questions of our times. Sometimes they’re serious, sometimes they’re less so, but mostly it’s just another excuse for us to talk vidya games. You down? This week on Ask Kotaku, to…
By Alexandra Hall Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureJames Might Actually Be Looking At You In The Silent Hill 2 Intro
Silent Hill 2 is pretty damn creepy, but nothing prepared me for a possible new discovery in the game’s opening cinematic. A little over a week ago, an interesting image was posted to the Silent Hill subreddit. By brightening a screenshot of the iconic mirror scene in Silent Hill 2’s intro, the original poster said,…
By Ian Walker Published August 10, 2020
