Street Fighter‘s Queer Stereotypes Kept Me In The Closet

Last year during Pride month, I wrote about my own queer reading of the Street Fighter V tutorial, which features Ken and Ryu fighting and, in my opinion, flirting. In the year since then, I’ve been thinking about the character Juri in Street Fighter, who is the closest the games get to having a canonical…

Professional Animator Uses Dreams To Make Excellent Puppet Show

We’ve seen amateur creators buildStar Wars games andrecreate movie scenes in Media Molecule’s PlayStation 4 creativity tool. What happens when professional animatorDavid “Swatpaz” Ferguson gets his hands on Dreams? A lovely puppet show with odd giraffes happens. If it weren’t for the “Made in Dreams” logo in the lower right hand corner, David Ferguson’s “Shapes”…

EVE Online Developers Discuss Ways To Stop New Players From Leaving The Game

EVE Online fans gathered in Toronto, Canada last weekend to celebrate the midpoint of the EVE Online Invasion world tour. EVE North, the name given to this leg of the series of fan gatherings, was the first official EVE Online gathering to be hosted on Canadian soil. The event drew over 500 players from all…

How to Draw Detailed Buildings

Artist Thomas Romain is one of the few foreigners working in the anime industry in Japan. He’s done art direction on Symphogear and recently designed the mecha for Space Dandy. Today, he’s going to give us building drawing tips. Thanks, Thomas! Via his Twitter page (follow here, if you like), Romain was kind enough to…

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Bandai Namco Announces New Action RPG Called Blue Protocol

Bandai Namco is developing a new online action role-playing game for PC. It’s called Blue Protocol, and right above is a currently-in-development screenshot. Via the official release, the game’s official English description is: The world is on the brink of devastation, now is the time to unite. March on with friends and strangers, and defeat…

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Run Devil Run

For some idol groups, their eventual turn to mature concepts happens somewhat gradually, like A Pink or GFriend. On the other side of the spectrum, there’s Girls’ Generation with Run Devil Run Coming hot on the heels of Oh!, 2010’s Run Devil Run was the aural equivalent of whiplash after that saccharine marshmallow of a…

Mario Maker 2 Is Hiding Two Secret New Power-Ups

While most of the course creation parts in Super Mario Maker 2 are unlocked from the start, there are two that you can’t immediately access. You’ll definitely want them, though. One of Mario Maker 2‘s new features is Story Mode, in which you play through over 100 levels designed by Nintendo. This mostly stands on…

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Danar Worya is a concept artist currently working on The Last Of Us 2 We’ve actually featured some of his work before, but that was a long time ago, so it’s time for a refresh! You can see more of Danar’s stuff at his ArtStation page and Instagram

Teamfight Tactics Is Very Popular, And Its Servers Are Not Holding Up

Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s popular League of Legends-flavored spin on auto chess, the auto battler sensation that’s methodically sweeping multiple nations, is now officially out. This, you might figure, would be good for people who want to play it. You would be wrong. Riot has been gradually rolling the game out in various regions, starting yesterday…

Death Stranding Looks Great As A PS1 Game

Bear Parker, the same guy who managed to remake Metal Gear Solid inside another game, has decided to take everything we’ve seen of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding and turn it into a PlayStation 1 game, complete with gameplay and giant ladders It works real well! Death Stranding’s grim aesthetic and murky palette translates nicely into…

Check Out This Hot New Lego Overwatch Trash

Lego’s first round of Overwatch sets were nice, but they left out a few key characters. Two new sets due out in October fix three of these oversights, adding Junkrat, Roadhog and everybody’s favorite hamster mech pilot Hammond to the mix. 227 plastic pieces can be arranged to form Hammond and his signature ride, a…

Valve Changes Steam Sale After Widespread Complaints From Developers And Players

After a period of stagnation, Valve has gone back to its well of Steam sale meta games—something users have enjoyed in the past, even though they’re ultimately just a means of incentivizing people to spend more money. This time, though, Valve may have taken things too far with a game that’s caused widespread confusion. After…

How To Get Into Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds may be the best game we’ve played this year, but it can be tough to get into—allow us to offer some tips on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen We start off the episode with some ranting and raving about Outer Wilds before talking Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the Xbox Elite controller, and Bloodstained. Then…

Loot-Starved Black Ops 4 Players Finally Get A ‘Contracts’ Mode

Players finally have a better way to earn more rewards in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, besides the game’s unfavorable microtransactions system. This week’s update marks the introduction of Contracts on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Contracts serve as a series of rotating challenges that can be completed for in-game rewards. This system…

There’s A Flappy Bird Battle Royale Game Now, And It’s Good

Flappy Royale, released today in beta on mobile and PC by game designers Orta Therox, Em Lazer-Walker, and Zach Gage, seems like a lot of things: clever, opportunistic, a joke. But it’s also fun. Inspired by the 2013 mobile sensation Flappy Bird, Flappy Royale has you compete against 99 other poor souls to see who…

A Leviathan Might Crush You In Apex Legends Season 2 [Updated]

Apex Legends developer Respawn released a Season 2 trailer today, in which we get to see upcoming new character Wattson and an EMP exploding in Kings Canyon. Leaked trailers on Reddit, one of which has now been officially released by Respawn, reveal even more changes coming to the game when Season 2 launches on July…