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CultureSome Of The Art Behind Game Of Thrones: The Final Season
Kieran Belshaw is an artist who has worked on Game of Thrones for a few years now, including the eighth and final season, where he helped out on some of the series’ most iconic moments. He’s also worked on movies like the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans and Guy…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedSuper Smash Bros. UItimate Now Has Virtual Reality Support
It wasn’t great with Mario or Zelda, but hey, let’s see if adding a dash of virtual reality to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, via Nintendo Labo, adds anything to the experience. Ultimate just updated to 3.1.0, and among other changes (check them all out here) is the addition of a very weird, very limited form…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedA Very Amiibo Wedding Cake
For their upcoming wedding, catsdotcomand her fiance decided to skip traditional toppers and go straight to some custom Amiibo. Super cute! Can’t wait for the day after the wedding, when the Tom Nook Amiibo appears behind them to start collecting his dues The figures were done by diyCrossing, who sells a bunch of custom Animal…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedFallout Shelter’s Sequel Looks Cool, But Is For China Only
There’s a sequel to Fallout Shelter about to be released, called Fallout Shelter Online, and it features new stuff like attacks on other vaults and even player-vs-player combat. Pity, then, that at the moment it’s only coming out in China. JuiceHead has made this very handy video (via @secretzsc) from closed betas giving everyone a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedYou can now pet the cat in Katana Zero. The excellent time-bending cyberpunk samurai slasher just got its first major update, which includes a hard mode with revamped levels and reworked bosses, a speedrun mode, new achievements, stealth fixes, and yes, the ability to pet a kitty.
By Nathan Grayson Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedMicrosoft will have 14 games from its internal studios to show at this year’s E3. That’s according to a new tweet by the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. Microsoft has been busy acquiring a bunch of new game studios recently. It sounds like we’ll finally get to hear what they’re working on.
By Ethan Gach Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedGoogle Now Requires App Makers To Disclose Loot Box Odds
Google rolled out a new Play Store policy requiring game makers to show players what the chances are of getting any items that might be contained in a paid random-chance scenario. Spotted by the website Android Police, the new requirement, listed in the monetization section of Google’s Development Policy Center, states: “Apps offering mechanisms to…
By Ethan Gach Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedBioWare Shares New Details About Anthem’s Upcoming Cataclysm Event
During a developer live stream today, BioWare gave Anthem players their first look at the game’s upcoming Cataclysm event, a limited-time end-game activity that will take place in an entirely new environment. Based on what BioWare showed, the Cataclysm, which will last six weeks, seems to function like a mini-freeplay mode. Players load into a…
By Ethan Gach Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedOuter Wilds Is An Excellent Game About The Joy And Terror Of Space Exploration
Outer Wilds asks you to accept that if you went to space, you’d probably die there. Maybe more than once. In Outer Wilds, out today for PC and Xbox One, you play an average four-eyed inhabitant of Timber Hearth, a small planet in a small solar system. Timber Hearth’s people live in log cabins but…
By Gita Jackson Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Buckles Down On Security After Artifact Page Gets Spammed With Memes And Porn
Earlier this week, the Twitch category for Valve’s card game Artifact made a miraculous resurgence—but not for the right reasons. A horde of slavering meme lords were laying siege to Artifact’s abandoned e-fortress, flooding the Twitch category with streams of other games, jokes, porn, and in one especially ugly moment, a recording of the Christchurch…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 30, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsCrystal Crisis Is The Sequel Puzzle Fighter Fans Deserve
In 1996 Capcom released Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, a competitive puzzle game featuring chibi versions of Street Fighter and Darkstalkers characters. The closest Capcom’s gotten to making a sequel is a failed free-to-play mobile game. It’s cool, though. Indie developer Nicalis just released Crystal Crisis, and it’s all current-gen gem-fighting fans could possibly need.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Whatever That Death Stranding Trailer Was
We now know when the highly anticipated Death Stranding comes out and what it’s about (kind of), which ends some of the mystery around this absurd and fascinating-looking game. But not all of the mystery has been unraveled yet, so we can all still make jokes about it. After Kojima left Konami in 2015, people…
By Gita Jackson Published May 30, 2019 -
OpinionThe Fastest Damn Racing Game I’ve Ever Played
When I was young, I remember being enraptured by the stark vector graphics of tank-shooter Battlezone. The green hues and blocky shapes approximated explosive combat that couldn’t quite be rendered in high fidelity. Byte Driver, a new indie racing game, embraces that aesthetic and adds some 1980s flair to create one of the fastest and…
By Heather Alexandra Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedStarting next Tuesday, Apex Legends is having a limited time event called The Legendary Hunt More details are in the blog post, as well as a few tiny kernals of information about the Season 2 Battle Pass, which will be further fleshed out in a stream on June 8th. Happy hunting!
By Gita Jackson Published May 30, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsConan Unconquered Is A Real Time Strategy Game Without Any Fresh Ideas Of Its Own
If you were to ask Conan Unconquered, “What is best in life?” it might say back “To effectively manage your resources, build big walls, and hear the lamentations of your enemies when they see there’s another wall right behind the first big wall.” Conan Unconquered is a new real-time strategy game that came out on…
By Ethan Gach Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Makers Of Divinity: Original Sin 2 Are Teasing Baldur’s Gate 3
Are the developers behind my favorite role-playing game of the decade making a sequel to my favorite role-playing game of the decade before? It sure seems that way, as Larian Studios, makers of Divinity: Original Sin 2, are teasing news of a Baldur’s Gate 3 This morning, Larian put up a teaser on the company’s…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2019 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty: Modern Warfare Announced, Will Be A Dark Reboot For The Franchise
Following a cryptic tease Tuesday afternoon, Activision announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the latest installment in the long-running series of first-person shooters. In a new trailer released Thursday, we got our first look at the rebooted Modern Warfare. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be released October 25, 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One,…
By Joshua Rivera Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Division 2 Replaced A Mystery With An Anticlimax
I don’t play games for rewards. I never minded much that collecting the flags in the first Assassin’s Creed gets you nothing, didn’t mind that grabbing all the stars in Mario 64 lets you talk to Yoshi but not ride him. The journey’s the fun and whatnot. There was, however, this one mission in The…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenDeath Stranding Is Going To Make No Sense And That’s Just Fine
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, how could we not dive into the delicious insanity of yesterday’s nine-minute Death Stranding trailer? First we talk about some video games we’re playing, from Dark Souls 3 to Observation, then dive into news of the week (29:00) including Death Stranding’s ridiculous new trailer (and 2019 release date!), Call of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2019
