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CultureThe Week In Games: Giant Robots!
MechWarrior 5 headlines a week filled with smaller games and ports. I know a lot of folks are pumped for MechWarrior 5 and I hope it’s great! I never played any of the MechWarrior games, but I did play a lot of MechAssault on Xbox. I also remember watching people playing MechWarrior 4 on G4,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 9, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsKing Of Cards Adds A Fun Card Game To Everything That Already Makes Shovel Knight Great
Shovel Knight: King of Cards is the perfect reason to jump back into Yacht Club Games’ ever-expanding shovel-verse. The game’s terrific platforming and treasure hunting are back, but there’s also a great new mini-game now, and it’s all a blast to play. I wish every great indie game received the DLC treatment Shovel Knight has.…
By Ethan Gach Published December 9, 2019 -
Culture2K Games Officially Announces It’s Working On A New Bioshock
Today 2K Games announced the formation of a new studio called Cloud Chamber to work on the next BioShock, a game that’s still a few years out from release according to the publisher. “A collective of storytellers eager to push the frontlines of interactive entertainment by making unique, entertaining and thoughtful experiences that engage the…
By Ethan Gach Published December 9, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Texas Sun | Artist: Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Album: Texas Sun EP
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedHunter X Hunter, The King Of Hiatus Manga, Continues To Be AWOL
Yoshihiro Togashi is best known for two things: creating Hunter x Hunter and taking breaks from Hunter x Hunter. The last issue this year of Weekly Shonen Jump has been published, and the popular manga was not in it. Nor is it in the first issue of 2020, which was published on December 2. The…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedSee Nausicaä Come To Life As A Live-Action Kabuki Play
Here’s the first peek at the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind live-action kabuki play. You can watch the footage below. The performance stars Onoe Kikunosuke as Nausicaä and Nakamura Shichinosuke as Princess Kushana, and it gives a kabuki twist to the costumes and set pieces. As previously reported, Hayao Miyazaki turned down a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 9, 2019 -
CultureYou Better Believe This Is Another Witcher 3 Art Post
Andrzej Dybowski is a freelance artist who has recently worked on stuff like League of Legends, The Witcher 3 and Metro Exodus You can see more of Andrzej’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2019 -
UncategorizedTable Manners, A Video Game About Very Bad Tinder Dates
This is Table Manners, a video game in which you sit down across from your date, pour them a glass of wine, thrust fish in their face, spill food all over the table then set everything on fire. Or at least that’s how I envisage spending most dates in this physics title, which looks a…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2019 -
CulturePhoenix Point Is MIA On Xbox Game Pass
Phoenix Point, the latest strategy game from XCOM creator Julian Gollop, was released last week on the Epic Games Store. It was also supposed to be out on the Microsoft Store and Xbox Game Pass, but it’s not, and Snapshot Games have basically had to admit “we dropped the ball.” In a statement released on…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From Oni-Con 2019
Last month, the 2019 instalment of Oni-Con was held in Galveston, Texas. It’s an annual show celebrating anime, manga and video games, which means by default there was also tons of great cosplay there as well. All photos and video below were taken by Mineralblu. You’ll find each cosplayer’s social media account details, the character…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 8, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Don’t Shoot Me Santa | Artist: The Killers | Album: Don’t Waste Your Wishes #XmasSongsILove
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2019 -
UncategorizedRed Dead Online’s Trader And Collector Roles Need More Content
Back in September of this year, Rockstar added roles to Red Dead Online. These roles greatly improved the game, giving players something to work towards and also offered players new content and abilities to unlock while earning some in-game cash. But these roles haven’t received equal amounts of love and this has some community members,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: $120k Banana With Some Duct Tape
People complain about modern art a lot. “Anyone could paint some dots on a canvas.” Usually, their complaints are unfair. But then someone sticks a banana to a wall and sells it for $120,000 and sort of proves a lot of the jokes and criticisms of modern art to be totally true. Wild stuff. Your…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2019 -
ReviewsETCInstalling A Video Card: The Kotaku Review
Long ago, when I was much younger and had more free time, I would pull apart old PCs and build new ones. It was fun. I didn’t know what I doing and over time I learned what RAM was and what a motherboard is. Then I stopped doing that, bought some consoles and only bought…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: You Don’t Believe In Santa Claus…Right?
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 Dec. 5. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 8, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Black Friday, Winners!
After a weekend away, I’m back and ready to judge the entries from last week’s guest contest. Last week, Peter asked you all to make some silly images featuring all those TVs that go on sale on Black Friday. Our winning image this week was created by BobTheRock, who wins nothing because he is banned…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 7, 2019 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: New Stuff
Super Mario Maker 2 was updated a few days ago and there are now a bunch of new items that you can place in various levels across all the themes. You can even turn Mario into Link from the Zelda series! Fun stuff.Let’s see what you folks can make with these new bits and bobs.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 7, 2019 -
CultureRyan Reynolds Is Basically A GTA Online NPC In The First Trailer For Free Guy
In games like GTA Online and Red Dead Online, you can find numerous unnamed NPCs who are just living their life as players kill them, steal from them and blow up their cars and homes. Free Guy, a new film coming out next year, askes the question: What would happen if one of those NPCs…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 7, 2019
