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OpinionImpressionsSuper Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission Is A Very Japanese Card Game
Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an incredibly popular Japanese arcade trading card game. Players buy physical cards featuring Dragon Ball heroes and villains, form a team of seven and deploy them in battles via a specialized arcade cabinet. Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission for Nintendo Switch and Steam is the same thing without the…
By Mike Fahey Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedDoom Mod Turns The Game Into One Extremely Long Hallway
Tired of getting lost in the original Doom while hunting for ammo packs and teleporters? Well there’s now a mod that takes everything in the game and unravels it along a single, unwavering path, and it’s called Linear Doom. Created by modder DeXiaZ and uploaded to ModDB, Linear Doom takes all of the game’s clever…
By Ethan Gach Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedFortnite To Add ‘Reboot Vans,’ Which Are Pretty Much Apex Legends‘ Respawn Beacons, Except Vans
Epic finally confirmed that reboot vans are coming to Fortnite next week, putting an end to players’ speculation. Reboot vans are a new feature, but they’ll seem familiar if you’ve played Apex Legends Here’s how they work: Dead squadmates will drop “reboot cards” that any surviving squad member can take to reboot vans, which will…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedThis Phone Game Is All About Summoning Sexy Anime Versions Of Food
One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In…
By Gita Jackson Published April 5, 2019 -
CultureMajor Speedrunning Hub Forced To Roll Back Rankings After Security Breach
The most popular speedrunning website, Speedrun.com, has reverted all its rankings to their April 1 state after a security breach left many leaderboards at risk of tampering. After a similar issue in November 2018, the site’s owner is considering strengthened security measures to prevent future breaches. Speedrun.com is the place to go for a game’s…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Games This ‘Boy Band’ Makes Are Almost As Cute As They Are
The Sokpop collective, made up of game developers Tijmen, Rob, Aran, and Rubna from the Netherlands, started calling themselves a boy band as a joke, but they didn’t start it. “It was something people joked about at events,” Tijmen told Kotaku, “mainly because of our looks.” Even if it’s kind of a joke, their cute…
By Gita Jackson Published April 5, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for doing taxes. It’s also for playing “just 10 more minutes” of a video game before doing taxes. I really want to play more Apex Legends, but I’m feeling a little burnt out on multiplayer games. So I think I’m going to pick up Titanfall 2, which I’m telling myself could just…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedHow Battlefield V’s New Microtransactions Work
Battlefield V received microtransactions this week, almost five months after the first-person shooter was originally released. Players can now use Battlefield Currency, which can only be bought with real money, to customize the look of their characters, guns, and vehicles. Prior to the update, players could buy common, uncommon, and rare cosmetics using an in-game…
By Ethan Gach Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedOdd Tease In The Division 2 Spills The Beans On The Next Assassin’s Creed
An unusual teaser in Ubisoft’s loot shooter The Division 2, highlighted weeks after the game’s release, reveals that the next Assassin’s Creed game is all about Vikings. Kotaku can independently confirm the same. The Division 2 launched on March 15, but it wasn’t until this week that discussion about a possible teaser located within the…
By Jason Schreier Published April 5, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryWhat I Know About Surviving In Sekiro I Learned On The Volleyball Court
The spectral foe towered over me, her sheer size outmatched only by her overwhelming poise. The pole arm she held in one hand was twice the size of my character, and the loose robes and prayer beads draped over her hulking figure only served to make her more intimidating. With a grace that only made…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedWarframe’s first big open world area, the Plains of Eidolon, has been remastered. The graphical overhaul comes to PC today and will hit consoles sometime later on. The update also includes some new terrain for players to grind their scifi skateboards on as well as new badges for animal conservation.
By Ethan Gach Published April 5, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanFormer Tales Producer Hideo Baba Has Now Left Square Enix
In February 2017, it was announced that former Tales producer Hideo Baba was heading up a new studio at Square Enix called Studio Istolia. Last month, however, Baba and Square Enix parted aways. Prior to joining Square Enix, Baba produced Tales games at Namco Bandai. Studio Istolia was working on a completely new IP called…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2019 -
UncategorizedGabe Newell’s Likeness Is Still Selling Underwear In China
Several years ago, someone spotted Gabe Newell’s face on packaging for China’s “Long Dian” underwear. Now in 2019, his likeness is still being used. Redditor ChggnNggts recently published a photo on r/pcmasterrace of packaging with Gabe Newell’s Photoshopped mug. The source photo the underwear maker is using isn’t current. According to Chinese site Sohu, these…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 5, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Violeta
IZ*ONE is an absolutely massive Korean/Japanese girl group (12 members!) formed with the finalists from the latest season of Mnet’s Produce series of survival audition television shows. The premise of Produce is simple: dozens of idol hopefuls compete against each other to survive as long as they can, on the backs of public voting after…
By Seung Park Published April 5, 2019
