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UncategorizedBreath Of The Wild Gets Its First Custom Dungeon
The latest Zelda didn’t include traditional dungeons (no, shrines don’t count), but that hasn’t stopped HailToDodongofrom building one and getting it working inside the emulated PC version of the game. Seeing as it’s only been two weeks since the tools (which HailToDodongo also made, hence the speed) to allow this were first released, this is…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureStarbase is a ludicrously ambitious-sounding space MMO. Developer Frozenbyte (of Trine fame) describes it as “a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe,” which basically means ship construction in the vein of Space Engineers married to the scope of Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen. There’s even an in-game programming language. It’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 28, 2019 -
ReviewsPCTotal War: Three Kingdoms: The Kotaku Review
Ever since Rome 2’s disappointing release back in 2013, it feels like the Total War series has been lost and in search of something. From Attila and Thrones of Britannia’s tinkering to the Warhammer games’ explosion of personality there has been wild experimentation between titles. Three Kingdoms is the culmination of that adventure. The release…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch’s Artifact Category Is Porn-Filled Anarchy
There are, as you are probably already aware, not many people playing Artifact, the digital card game that developer Valve recently decided to take back to the drawing board. Just a hundred or so people are playing it at any given moment, as of this writing. There are, however, over 10,000 people watching streamers play…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedWatch Someone Destroy Beat Saber With A Hand Mixer
Beat Saber is a virtual reality rhythm game where you chop red and blue blocks with correspondingly colored lightsabers. It requires a lot of coordination and precise movements. Or you could do what one player did and just strap your VR controllers to a handheld cake mixer. YouTuber hu hu says he scavenged through his…
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedSuper Mario Maker 2 Won’t Let You Play Online With Friends
Nintendo showed off Super Mario Maker 2’s new four-player competitive and co-op online modes earlier this month, and the company has now confirmed that players will only be able to matchmake online with random people, not their friends. Earlier today, Nintendo World Report reported that a Nintendo Treehouse representative had told it at a press…
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2019 -
ReviewsETCGodzilla: King of the Monsters: The Kotaku Review
It’s fitting that the first few minutes of Godzilla: King of the Monsters are a flashback. The movie, which is a sequel to Legendary Pictures’ 2014 Godzilla, feels like a natural evolution of the previous film. In some ways, it’s a better movie—rather, a better Godzilla movie. In other ways, it’s not. Gareth Edward’s Godzilla…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Most Essential Sims 4 Clothing Mods
I can hardly keep up with clothing trends in real life, so it’s not surprising that four years after release, clothing in The Sims 4 feels a bit dated. If you’re also searching for the perfect pair of jeans for your Sim, check out some of the best mods for the clothing and body. I’ve…
By Gita Jackson Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedStreets Of Rage 2 Champ Pulls Off Nigh Impossible No Death Mania Run
Speedrunner Anthopants is one of the best Streets of Rage players in the world, but even he couldn’t complete Streets of Rage 2 on Mania difficulty as the character Max without dying…until this weekend, that is, when he downed the final boss with a mere sliver of health left. His reaction upon becoming the first…
By Mike Fahey Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureKonami Reveals Full Contra Anniversary Lineup, And It’s Pretty Great
Konami’s upcoming Contra Anniversary Collection will include the NES version of Contra, the Sega Genesis game Contra: Hard Corps, and most other 8- and 16-bit games in the classic run-and-gun series, including the Japanese and European versions of the games—some of which are quite different from what we got in the U.S. The collection still…
By Chris Kohler Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedFormer Rockstar Designer Says Former Top Executive Groped Him
When Colin Bundschu first started at Rockstar Games in November of 2014, he says his new colleagues offered a warning: Don’t cross Jeronimo Barrera. Barrera, the vice president of product development, would often fly in from New York to visit Rockstar’s offices in Carlsbad, California, where they were all working on the Western game Red…
By Jason Schreier Published May 28, 2019 -
Uncategorized198X is an arcade nostalgia piece due out June 20 on Ps4 and PC. We covered the game when it was Kickstarted last May, and the finish version will feature homages to several different genres of arcade game with a single narrative connecting each of them.
By Ethan Gach Published May 28, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDungeon Crawlers Make Me Question What I’m Doing With My Life
I’ve been staring at my 3DS a lot lately. It sits on a shelf in front of my TV, not because I use it often but because I might pick it up again sometime. I do the same thing with books, leaving them out in sight so I remember to maybe try and read them.…
By Joshua Rivera Published May 28, 2019 -
Uncategorized‘If You’re Playing EVE Online You Basically Already Have An MBA,’ Says Player Who Built His Own Company [UPDATE]
For a game seemingly about immortal pilots waging interstellar wars, EVE Online has a surprising amount of ties to reality. Stories from EVE often play out on stages far beyond the confines of the game world and reach audiences far beyond its players. Sometimes, skills learned in the cut throat world of EVE can change…
By Lee Yancy Published May 28, 2019 -
UncategorizedThis weekend, the seventh annual (seventh!) BitSummit will get underway in Kyoto. Keita Takahashi (Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy fame) will be keynoting, while others, like Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba and Koji “Iga” Igarashi, among many others, will also be on hand. Official site here.
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 28, 2019