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CultureBioWare Plans A ‘Substantial Reinvention’ Of Anthem
BioWare will seek to “reinvent” Anthem’s gameplay in a “longer-term redesign” of the embattled online multiplayer action game, studio head Casey Hudson said today in a blog post. This confirms a Kotaku report from November. “Over the coming months we will be focusing on a longer-term redesign of the experience, specifically working to reinvent the…
By Ethan Gach Published February 10, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHeads Up: You’ll Need To Manage The Bioshock Collection’s Limited Save Space
If you use up the BioShock collection’s limited space for making saves while playing BioShock 1, you won’t be able to save at all once you start playing BioShock 2 Yesterday was BioShock 2’s 10-year anniversary, and the remastered collection containing all three games is currently available to download as part of PlayStation Plus. As…
By Ethan Gach Published February 10, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Opening To Vagrant Story Still Holds The Heck Up
On a whim last night, I downloaded a copy of Vagrant Story to my PlayStation Vita (may it never, ever break). It’s one of those games I missed out on but always meant to go back to, especially since I’ve been digging into director Yasumi Matsuno’s back catalogue lately. Having played Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics…
By Joshua Rivera Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureSpace Channel 5 VR Comes Out Later This Month
It’s been 18 years since Sega’s dancing reporter starred in her own rhythm adventure. After nearly two decades of cameos, Ulala gets her groove back on February 25 with the release of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. As our own Brian Ashcraft learned last year in an interview with…
By Mike Fahey Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Media Molecule’s ambitious game-building system, Dreams, is officially launching this week, which means we can all finally experience the immense pressure of being an indie game developer. The Dreams beta has been out for nearly a year, so there should be plenty to play around with once the game finally hits this Friday. There have…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 10, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallYoshi’s Island Glitch Causes 25-Minute Pause
There’s nothing funnier to me than enormous bugs being discovered in very old games, and so we come today to this Yoshi’s Island misadventure shared by the ever-wonderful Supper Mario Broth, which when triggered will simply stop your game for, oh, 25 minutes. The bug was first documented online (I’m sure someone out there ran…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureMother Reunited With Deceased Daughter In VR Show
Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a virtual reality recreation, complete with audio. You can see it below. Not only was the girl fully replicated…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedThanks as always Kotaku for letting us host the site for the weekend! Hope you enjoyed our thoughts on Animal Crossing, the Xbox, Starfleet, Trails, the Famicom, robot revolutions and more. While all good things do come to an end, sometimes they can come back in mysterious forms. Cing, the developers behind Last Window and…
Peter Tieryas & Ben Bertoli & Narelle Ho Sang Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedWho’s Your Favorite NPC In A Game?
NPCs can make or break a game. My PC introduced me to some of my first NPCs. In Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a variety of NPCs were there to test your morals and virtues so you could grow as an avatar; as a kid, I really thought I was helping people by giving…
By Peter Tieryas Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedA new video from Bandai Namco reveals both Ultra Instinct Goku and female Super Saiyan Kefla will be joining the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster this spring as part of FighterZ Pass 3. Kefla is a fusion of fan favorite Dragon Ball Super characters Caulifla and Kale. Hope you’re ready to eat your vegetables.
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Famicom’s Built-In Microphone Was Wonderfully Weird
There have always been slight regional differences between consoles, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System hit store shelves in the fall of 1985 it had been stripped of nearly all the form and charm of its Japanese counterpart. It was clear that Nintendo didn’t want the NES to be seen as a cheery “family computer,”…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedSix Years Later, Minerva’s Den Remains The Best BioShock Thing
BioShock: The Collection is out now, bringing Rapture and Columbia into glorious high(er) definition. But the most important thing is that the collection includes the best BioShock title ever made: Minerva’s Den. It is a humble piece of downloadable content for BioShock 2 and it is damn near perfect. This piece originally published in September…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Bittersweet Journey Of A Short Hike
A Short Hike isn’t just a delightfully relaxing game. It’s also an unexpectedly real outing, with an ending that hit me hard. Initially, I approached A Short Hike, created by Adam Robinson-Yu, as I do so many other games: running here and there to finish quests with the mindset of trying to complete the main…
By Narelle Ho Sang Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Gaming Valentine’s Day Cards
This upcoming Friday is Valentine’s Day and Nintendo released a bunch of Animal Crossing inspired Valentine’s Day cards. I’ve never played Animal Crossing on Valentine’s Day, or any day for that matter, but these cards have me curious what this game is about and how groovy my day will go if I actually received one…
Peter Tieryas & Narelle Ho Sang Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedStarfleet, You’ve Changed
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” was the best way to finish one of my favorite shows of all time. So I was thrilled, but also wary, of revisiting these iconic characters again. For the most part, I’ve been happy with Picard so far. The acting is superb, the…
By Peter Tieryas Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedI Finally Got My First Xbox
I’ve never wanted to own an Xbox console, if I’m being completely honest. For the past 19 years Microsoft has put out exclusive after exclusive that don’t appeal to me in the slightest. The consistency is actually kind of impressive. Not that Xbox consoles or exclusives are poorly made—they’re just usually not for me. Even…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Weird, Funny Things That Make Pokémon Sword and Shield So Delightful
The idea behind Pokémon games is a weird one. Kids trekking across the country in their quest to collect cute, sometimes dangerous, creatures is strange enough. But the things I saw while playing Pokémon Sword? Hoo boy. I haven’t played too many Pokémon games. With every new generation of the mainline RPG series, however, I…
By Narelle Ho Sang Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureSunday Comics: You Stupid Idiot
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 Feb. 2. Read more of Corpse Run (This week’s comic was for Hourly Comic Day and it was a bit long, check it…
By Ben Bertoli Published February 9, 2020 -
CultureIf You Could Replay A Game For The First Time, Which Would You Choose?
In 2019, I played the brilliant sci-fi space exploration game, Outer Wilds. If only the game’s time loop was a real thing so that I could go back and experience it all over again. If you’ve played Outer Wilds by Mobius Digital Games, you’ll know that being trapped in its time loop isn’t the best…
By Narelle Ho Sang Published February 8, 2020
