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UncategorizedThe short, excellent 2013 game Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons is coming to Switch on May 28, according to its publisher. The game’s unusual control scheme assigned control of one brother to one analog stick on a controller, the other brother to the other stick. The Switch version will also support co-op.
By Stephen Totilo Published May 21, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformTeam Sonic Racing: The Kotaku Review
While it’s true that kart racing clashes with the idea of a character who runs super-fast, Sonic the Hedgehog is less likely to trip up when he’s driving a vehicle. Developer Sumo Digital proves that statement true a third time with Team Sonic Racing, a very good kart racer with a game-changing co-op twist. This…
By Mike Fahey Published May 21, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsPersona Q2 Has Me In An Extremely Fun Feedback Loop
Persona Q, a 2014 turn-based role-playing game for the 3DS, put Persona 3 and 4 characters into an extended “what-if” scenario where they had to band together and navigate gigantic labyrinths to escape an abandoned high school. It’s easily one of my favorite 3DS games, so you can imagine I was pretty hype for Persona…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedTokyo DisneySea Is Getting A New Area Called Fantasy Springs
Is Tokyo DisneySea the best Disney Park? Perhaps! It’s going to get better—and bigger. NHK and Mainichi News report that construction has started for a DisneySea expansion known as Fantasy Springs. It will have three areas based on Peter Pan, Tangled and Frozen. There will also be three restaurants and a new hotel. “We’d like…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanSega’s Judgment Going Back On Sale In Japan
This past March, actor and musician Pierre Taki, who voiced yakuza Kyohei Hamura in Judgment, was arrested for alleged illegal drug use. Sega decided to cease sales of the game in Japan. It will go back on sale this July with another actor playing Hamura. Kotaku previously posted a screenshot of the new Hamura. Voice…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanAkihabara Recreated As Realistic Miniature Diorama
Tokyo’s geek mecca of Akihabara has been reproduced perfectly on a small scale. This is the work of Chiba Keizai University’s model building club, which recently displayed its impressive diorama. The detail is incredible. Excellent work!
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2019 -
UncategorizedSony Shows Off PS5 Loading Times
We’re still a while away from getting an official look at Sony’s next PlayStation console, but the company has provided an early glimpse at some of its capabilities today during a meeting in Japan. The Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki is there tweeting about the meeting, and captured this footage showing the same scene being…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedVery Fast Walk Across Skyrim’s Map Is Literal Fast Travel
These videos are so soothing We saw Enigma do a couple of them last month, taking a stroll across both The Witcher 3 and Red Dead 2, but there’s something about Skyrim—perhaps its age, perhaps the sheer amount of time we’ve spent trudging its frozen wastes—that makes this particularly relaxing. It’s not one of those…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
CultureCosplayThe Sharpest, Shiniest Cosplay
Cosplayer Polygon Forgespecialises in polygonal representations of video game characters; so imagine if every game ever made had come out on the PS1 and you’ll be getting pretty warm. This is her take on an original design for an action figure, done by artists R-one studio and Hui Zou, which looks like this: And after…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedEpic Games Store Will Block Your Account If You Buy Too Many Games Too Quickly
There’s a big sale on right now at the Epic Games Store, a time when many users—conditioned by Steam’s frequently generous discounts on a huge range of titles—go nuts and buy a ton of stuff real quickly. On Valve’s store that’s enough to get you a pile of shame, but on Epic’s it’ll just get…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedRage 2 Has Already Been Beaten In Under Two Hours
Rage 2, Bethesda’s new post-apocalyptic shooter, takes place in a big, open world full of enemy outposts to clear and quests to grind through. That hasn’t stopped one speedrunner from already beating it in under two hours. Over the weekend, speedrunner CreeperHntr set the Any% world record for Rage 2 with a time of 1:53:26…
By Ethan Gach Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedPopular Streamer Shroud ‘Interviews’ An Apex Legends Cheater
Yesterday evening, while playing Apex Legends, Twitch star Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek got killed by a player who was using an aimbot to cheat. When you spend the majority of your waking hours playing video games, it’s not abnormal to encounter cheaters and stream snipers. This one, though, agreed to stick around and chat with Shroud.…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedIndie Developer Accused Of Plagiarism Says It Was An ‘Intentional’ Reference [UPDATE]
A Reddit user’s Sunday post comparing lines in the 2019 indie game YIIK: A Postmodern RPG to passages from novelist Haruki Murakami has led to charges that the game plagiarized the award-winning writer. The post from Reddit user malphasia places screenshots with dialogue from a YIIK character named Proto Woman above parts of the first…
By Joshua Rivera Published May 20, 2019 -
UncategorizedNewly Discovered Fallout 76 Secret Hints At Connections To Other Fallout Games
New holotapes have led players on a hunt for clues about one of Fallout 76’s most recently-added vaults, and what connection the gamemight have to the rest of the series. Fallout 76’s May 7 update added a number of new features, including player-owned vending machines and a new vendor for legendary items at train stations.…
By Ethan Gach Published May 20, 2019
