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UncategorizedThe Destiny 2 Patch Changes A Lot Of The Game’s Most Familiar Menus
Destiny 2‘s big New Light overhaul today boosts all existing players to power level 750. It also may slightly adjust your progression. Here are some things that stood out at first glance when I logged into the game with my character today. First, there’s the character screen, now complete with Sparrow vehicle and Ghost along…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureOfficial Overwatch Cookbook Lets You Recreate Pharah’s Favorite Childhood Snack
From Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, author of cookbooks for World of Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls, Firefly, and A Game of Thrones, comes the first official guide to cooking the delicacies of Overwatch. Who among us hasn’t dreamed of sinking their teeth into Pharah’s Canadian Butter Tarts and washing them down with Mercy’s elderberry liquor toddy, the Valkyrie’s…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedIn celebration of the franchise’s 10th anniversary, Borderlands 3 bosses will have a greater chance of dropping specific legendary loot for the next week. Players can look forward to more week-long festivities leading up to the special Halloween-themed event later this month.
By Ian Walker Published October 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedHow Warcraft Got Its Name
I lost hours of my youth playing online StarCraft matches, nearly lost entire friendships to the scourge of World of Warcraft. In all that time, it never occurred to me why Blizzard uses that -craft suffix on those games, or what it could possibly mean. At last, I have the answer. Other non-Blizzard games have…
By Avery Ellis Published October 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedPlayers Have Already Found Lethal Combos For Kill La Kill: IF‘s Newest Character
This morning, Arc System Works released the latest patch for Kill la Kill: IF, the 3D arena fighting game they developed with fellow Japanese studio A+ Games. The update includes a brand new character, for which players are already finding massively damaging combos. The new character is named Ultimate Double Naked DTR—known as just DTR…
By Ian Walker Published October 1, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsDays Gone’s Free DLC Is A Refreshingly Goofy Arcade
Over the course of the summer, Days Gone developer Bend Studios has been adding a series of arcade-style challenges to last Spring’s zombie survival game. All of these updates have been free. Now that they’re all collected, they make for a really fun set of standalone activities with a couple of great surprises tucked in.…
By Joshua Rivera Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThese Are My Settings For Every Video Game
I started playing a new video game yesterday: Ghost Recon Breakpoint. But It might as well have been any other console game, in terms of how I set up the settings. Brightness? I’m going to make sure that symbol is pretty visible. After all, who knows what “barely visible” even means. It’s all relative. I…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedGoose-Related Crime Up 2000 Percent After Untitled Goose Game Release
In a clear example of video games directly spurring real-life violence, a Nottinghamshire, England, goose wreaked havoc on an unsuspecting taxi driver and his now-ravaged car. After its September 20 release, Untitled Goose Game, featuring one goose who terrorizes gardens, storefronts and taverns, inspired a mass appreciation for heinous acts of goose crime. Amid an…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureOne Of The Best Third-Party PlayStation 4 Controllers Gets A Sequel
The Scuf Vantage is an incredibly comfortable, highly customizable third-party controller for the PlayStation 4. It’s got four customizable back paddles, extra side buttons, swappable faceplates and analog sticks—it’s basically the PS4’s answer to Microsoft’s Elite Wireless. Well, now Scuf has announced the Vantage 2, which is all that, only better. Tim Rogers and I…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsPlaying Ori And The Blind Forest On Switch Is A Little Strange But Brings Back Great Memories
It’s weird seeing the Microsoft Studios logo appear on the screen as I load a game on a Nintendo console. It’s also odd to have see my Xbox Live avatar and Gamertag displayed on my Switch screen. Everything else about about playing Ori and the Blind Forest on the Switch is pretty much perfect. Moon…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Mobile Is Live
After being in rigorous beta testing across multiple countries since July, Activision and Tencent’s Call of Duty: Mobile is go for iOS and Android devices everywhere but mainland China, Vietnam, and Belgium. Battle across recognizable maps, fight as iconic heroes like Ghost and Soap, and participate in a battle royale the likes of which you’ve probably…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CulturePlayStation Now Price Drops To $10 A Month, Adds New Games
Sony’s streaming game service has been slowly improving since it launched in 2014, transforming from a library of older games with ridiculous pricing into a nice selection of old and new games with questionable pricing. Today Sony cut PlayStation Now’s $20 a month subscription fee in half and added a handful of high-profile games like…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Gesshoku Horizon | Artist: Alexandros | Album: Gesshoku Horizon (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanHayao Miyazaki Turned Down Hollywood But Allowed Kabuki Version of Nausicaä
Don’t expect a Hollywood version of Nausicaä. As NHK reports, Hayao Miyazaki has turned down that offer. But you can look forward to a kabuki adaptation this December. Announced last year, the kabuki version will star Onoe Kikunosuke as Nausicaä and Nakamura Shichinosuke as Princess Kushana. Keiko Niwa, who has written several Ghibli films, is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanArtificial Intelligence Is Creating New Art From The Work Of A Deceased Manga Great [Update]
One of Japan’s greatest, if not the greatest, manga creators is having his work tapped into with the power of AI. Osamu Tezuka died in 1989, but next year, artificial intelligence will create new art based on Tezuka’s work. Update Oct. 1 – 3:10 am: The name of the company has been updated. Tezuka is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanJapan Marks The End Of Pagers With A Funeral
Remember pagers? Maybe not! If you were around in the 1990s, you might’ve carried a pager in case someone wanted to get in touch. Mainichi reports that today in Japan, service for pagers finally ended after first being introduced 50 years ago. Tokyo Telemessage Inc., the country’s last pager service, began shutting down radio signals…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2019
