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CultureAnimal Crossing: New Horizons Doesn’t Care If Boys Wear Skirts, Whatever, It’s 2020
Despite being pretty good about letting players do what they want, the Animal Crossing series only recently made clothing gender neutral. New Leaf, released on the 3DS in 2012, was the first game to allow players to wear clothes traditionally meant for a different gender, and New Horizons takes that a little further by removing…
By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsGDC Is Cancelled, But This MMO Lets Everyone Attend A Bizarre Parody Of It
Like everything else, this year’s annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco has been postponed. But now it’s been resuscitated. Sort of. If you consider a really weird MMO to be an adequate substitute. Crows Developers Conference is a free game from development studio Crows Crows Crows, which previously made Accounting+ in conjunction with Rick…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedCanceled Soccer Game Played In Front Of 60,000 Fans (On Twitch)
Spanish sides Real Betis and Sevilla were supposed to play each other in real life on Sunday night, but La Liga’s covid-19 lockdown put paid to that. Not to matter, since both sides just picked one player each—their champion—and had them play the match on FIFA 20 instead. As Eurogamer report, Sevilla chose on-loan defender…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition comes to Steam tomorrow through March 23, Geoff Keighley announced on Twitter today. It will feature demos and other highlights of over 40 games that were supposed to be shown at GDC. The event goes live at 1pm ET/10am PT.
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedRebuilding A Virtual City As The Real World Crumbles
It’s a very strange time in the world right now, to say the least. As the world’s governments address covid-19, there’s one major nation that’s been dragging its feet: the United States of America. As Wall Street receives cash injections while workers worry about losing their jobs, it’s fallen to local communities to look after…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureThe Best Part Of Destiny 2’s New Exotic Quest Is The Mixtape In Zavala’s Office
Today’s Destiny 2 weekly reset marks the return of the Fourth Horseman shotgun from the original Destiny. Instead of grinding for it, though, I’m currently sitting in Zavala’s office getting pumped up on his workout mixtape. The first part of the “In Rides A Pale Horse” quest has you visiting the Vanguard titan’s personal workstation…
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureAll The Announcements From Today’s Nintendo Indie Direct
Today’s indie-focused Nintendo Direct was chock full of timed Switch exclusives. Here’s a quick rundown of what you missed if you were spending your quarantine time staring at a wall in anticipation of Animal Crossing instead of staring at Nintendo’s YouTube channel in anticipation of Animal Crossing Today’s Direct was a rapid-fire machine gun blast…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureGameStop Cancels Midnight Release Events For Animal Crossing And Doom
GameStop will be canceling midnight release events, like those for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal, for the foreseeable future and shutting down demo stations in their stores, according to an internal memo sent to employees this morning and obtained by Kotaku “Until further notice, late night launch events are suspended,” the memo reads.…
By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureUbisoft CEO Sends Comforting Note To Employees About Coronavirus
In a world where video game publishers frequently mistreat their workers, where companies often seem more concerned with profits than people, here is a refreshing note from one top executive about the covid-19 pandemic that has upended all of our lives. Ubisoft chief executive officer Yves Guillemot recently sent this message, obtained by Kotaku, to…
By Jason Schreier Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?
Good morning! We’re doing something different, starting today: every morning, Kotaku will be running an open thread where you can talk about what you’re playing, how you’re helping each other during this tough time in the world, and how you’re doing. I run the site’s weekly “What Are You Playing This Weekend?” post, where you…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureNo Man’s Sky Is Getting Bobbleheads
Party like it’s 1999 by adding one of No Man Sky’s new custom bobbleheads to your spaceship cockpit. In Hello Games latest development update the studio announced the figurines will be a new exotic collectible sold by the Quicksilver Bot and can be installed in in any spaceship. The first two to be added to…
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedFortnite’s 12.20 update brings a helicopter, changes to Pleasant Park and the Oil Rig, and the addition of locker presets. Spy Games are also live: players choose a faction and play an LTM called Operation to secure Intel, which unlocks weapons and skills that can be used during the matches. Players can change factions at…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2020 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s online services are currently experiencing some outages. “Unfortunately, we’re having some issues with our network services,” the company announced on its UK Twitter account. “We’re looking to rectify the situation as soon as possible. You can check the company’s network status page for updates.
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020 -
CultureYou Will Break A Lot Of Noses In Fights In Tight Spaces
A new indie game looks to take action movie brawls and gamify the hell out of them. The result looks like a lot of broken bones. From the indie studios Mode 7 (makers of Frozen Synapse) and Ground Shatter, Fights in Tight Spaces is a fighting game where all of your moves are performed by…
By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2020 -
Kotaku EastChinaProfessor Turns Into An Anime Schoolgirl To Teach His Students
With classes moved to the virtual space due to coronavirus covid-19 concerns, a digital art professor at Shanghai University’s Fine Arts College has created different avatar versions of himself to help students concentrate during live-streams and recorded lessons. Professor Jiang Fei cycled through different versions, including monsters and robots. But according to China’s The Paper…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2020