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UncategorizedPhil Spencer On Xbox’s Unusual Strategy, Working With Sony, And More
Xbox chief Phil Spencer has heard from the skeptics. They think that what he’s doing with Xbox means that Microsoft is giving up on consoles, or even going third party. That’s all wrong, he told me during an extensive interview in Los Angeles last week, where we discussed his vision for Xbox, the recently announced…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 19, 2019 -
CultureE3Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines‘s Weird Dancing Is Back For The Sequel
There’s a lot to love in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, but the team brought something special back for the fans: dancing. One of the first locations you become really aware of in Bloodlines 2, which is coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC in 2020, is the local club, Atrium. It has a…
By Gita Jackson Published June 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedPokémon Go developer Niantic’s next augmented reality mobile game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, launches on June 21 in the U.S. and United Kingdom. Players will cast spells, battle creatures, brew potions and uncover wizarding secrets hidden in the real world, while muggles look on in confusion. Silly muggles.
By Mike Fahey Published June 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedIf You’re Going To Play Mario Maker 2, You Should Probably Get A Stylus
Super Mario Maker 2 is coming on June 28, the latest in a growing line of Wii U games to get repurposed (and in this case, substantially enhanced) for Switch. I was a bit apprehensive about how Mario Maker would handle the move, since it was originally designed for a resistive touchscreen and the Switch…
By Chris Kohler Published June 19, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanAt Tokyo’s Ninja Bar, Drink Beer And Throw Shuriken
On July 1, the Ninja Cafe and Bar will open in Tokyo’s Asakusa. You can eat, drink, dress up like a ninja and throw shuriken. Food includes curry and rice, pasta, udon and more. Drinks include draft beer, whisky and soda, coffee and tea. The cafe is aimed at tourists who hope to get a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedAs reported earlier this February, Japan’s first Nintendo Store will open this fall. But when? It’s been recently announced that the store will open in November on the sixth floor of the new Shibuya Parco building in Tokyo. Pokémon Center Shibuya and Capcom Store Tokyo will also open in Parco on the same floor.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedWhy Katamari Damacy‘s Creator Left Japan
On March 18, 2004, Katamari Damacy was released on the PlayStation 2. The game was unlike anything else, and a sequel soon followed a year later. In 2009, Katamari’s creator Keita Takahashi released Noby Noby Boy. A year later, he left Bandai Namco and shortly after that, Japan as well. I’d always wondered why Takahashi…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 19, 2019 -
UncategorizedService is ending for massively multiplayer online role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier Z in Japan. Monster Hunter Frontier launched in Japan in 2007 on PC, and a big update in 2016 changed the game’s name to Monster Hunter Frontier Z. Twelve years is a good run, no?
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 19, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Step By Step
It’s been awhile since we’ve featured a classic girl group pop ballad, in the veins of Gfriend’s Me Gustas Tu or A Pink’s No No No. Oh My Girl’s Step By Step is one of the better examples of late. Step By Step is one of the B-sides from Oh My Girl’s 2016 repackage album,…
By Seung Park Published June 19, 2019 -
CultureCounter-Strike’s Iconic De_Dust 2, Remade In Unreal Engine 4
Counter-Strike’s most famous map has changed a bit over the years, but it’s never looked as good as it does here in this remake of part of the level by artist Wiktor Öhman. Öhman, who has worked on games like Far Cry 3, has “fond memories playing it with my friends at LAN parties in…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2019 -
UncategorizedJapanese Man Arrested With Wario Drugs
A 27 year-old man has been arrested in Tokushima having been found with 50 MDMA/ecstacy tablets in his possession, most of them shaped like Wario. As Asahi report, it’s the third time this year the man, Satoshi Kishimoto, has been caught with narcotics, the other two being for dried cannabis and LSD. Kobe Customs told…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2019 -
CultureSlime Rancher, the relaxing game about slimes and also ranching, just received a free DLC expansion. It’s called “Viktor’s Experimental Update,” and it sees you delve into a “virtual re-creation” of Slime Rancher’s setting to root out nefarious glitch slimes. You’re able to make use of a whole host of new gadgets in order to…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 18, 2019 -
CultureThey Are Billions, the tower defense-RTS hybrid that took Steam by storm last year, is now out of early access. The 1.0 update, free to all who previously purchased the game, adds a long-awaited (if, so far, divisive) campaign and new survival mode maps. It also includes a host of bug fixes and addresses stability…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 18, 2019 -
UncategorizedElite Player Took Some Beautiful Screenshots Of His 18-Week Journey Across Space
Earlier this year, a group of Elite: Dangerous players set out on an expedition that would take them across the entire Milky Way, all 130,000 light years of it. The journey took months, and some of its most beautiful and bizarre sights have been captured by Aurum_32 in this collection of screenshots. There are shots from…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2019 -
UncategorizedOverwatch just kicked off a new themed challenge event, this one focused on combat medic Baptiste. Inspired by the “What You Left Behind” short story Blizzard released yesterday, the Reunion Challenge offers new Baptiste cosmetics—including a special skin—to players who win games from June 18 to July 1. You can also unlock additional cosmetics by…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 18, 2019 -
UncategorizedModder Builds The Only Smash Controller You’ll Ever Need
There’s a lot of buttons in Smash, but really, there’s an argument that you only need one. Especially if you main with the spam-tastic Ness or Simon. Insert Controller Here built this controller to feature only two things: an input for a nunchuk, so you can actually move around, and a single giant button. Marvellous.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2019
