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Japan’s First “Convenience Store Bar” Opens
Several years ago, Japanese convenience stores began selling better coffee, offering fresh donuts and rolling out eat-in seating spaces for customers. Now, one convenience store chain in Fukuoka has taken the next logical step: a bar. This week, the Poplar convenience store located in front of Fukuoka’s Hakata Station just opened its first bar. It…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 8, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Katchup
Among the many, many idols who’ve attempted to spin off from from their (often dead or dying) parent groups, exceedingly few actually manage to successfully stand on their own. Katchup shows that Subin, formerly of Dal Shabet, is—at the very least—trying her hardest to do so. Subin (who seemingly now goes by the moniker DALsooobin—see…
By Seung Park Published March 8, 2019 -
CultureRawmen is a Splatoon-like PC multiplayer shooter where naked men fight each other with soup. That description is, in so many ways, a mouthful. The game will contain “numerous food-fueled super weapons” when it launches into early access sometime this year. And lots of soupy little dudes.
By Nathan Grayson Published March 7, 2019 -
CultureTotal RecallUnknown NES Game Found After 30 Years
When we talk about obscure or “lost” games, we normally need to have known about them in the first place to know they were missing. It’s not often we see a case like this, where a collector buying a cartridge off a former Nintendo employee is the first time anyone has ever heard of a…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2019 -
Uncategorized2019 Game Is Out Here Looking Like 1996’s Quake
Continuing in the fine recent tradition of games like Dusk and Ion Maiden, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is an upcoming shooter that is being built using the original Quake engine. It’s by 3D Realms—who own the name, if not the personnel and legacy of the original Duke Nukem creators—and it looks cool as hell. It’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Artifact‘s Few Remaining Players Are Desperate To Know What Valve Has Planned
Valve’s new card game launched on Nov. 28, and in just 100 days, it’s become a ghost town. The number of concurrent players recently dropped to just 500, and as a result, you can now buy every card in the game for a total of $60. The game was criticized when it came out because…
By Ethan Gach Published March 7, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Occupation Is A Thrilling Investigative Game Where Every Second Counts
I’ve got 10 minutes until my big interview with a member of a group that’s trying to demonize immigrants and radically alter government policy. My leads are solid, but they unravel into an unsightly tangle of loose ends. Oh, have I mentioned that I’m sneaking around inside a ventilation system? And that if I get…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 7, 2019 -
UncategorizedA Moment Of Pure Movement Bliss, Courtesy Of Valley
Blue Isle Studios’ indie action-adventure game Valley begins with the player slowly hoofing it through a verdant wilderness. Just as it begins to feel like another walking simulator, they find the L.E.A.F. exoskeleton, and movement becomes a joy. This piece was first published on August 25, 2016. We’re bumping it today for the game’s release…
By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Apex Legends Balances The Game’s Most Powerful Gun
Yesterday, developer Respawn made a few balance changes to Apex Legends. One of the most noticeable is for the Wingman, a fan favorite weapon that’s been slightly nerfed. For a time, the Wingman and Peacekeeper combo was pretty much the default loadout for Apex players. The Wingman is a powerful pistol, and the Peacekeeper is…
By Gita Jackson Published March 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Zombie Battle Royale Game H1Z1 Changes Its Name Again
Before there was Apex Legends, Fortnite Battle Royale, or even PUBG, there was Daybreak Game’s H1Z1, a battle royale game that dominated Steam in the first half of 2017. This week the developers have rolled back many of the recent changes made to the game and once again changed the name, this time to Z1…
By Ethan Gach Published March 7, 2019 -
CultureFantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons
Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin when she told me about the time she discovered what she believed was a plot to kill her. It was a fall day in 2013, and it had been five years since her husband…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
PlayStation 4 Firmware 6.50 Officially Brings Remote Play To iOS
The days of paying for a premium app to remote play PlayStation 4 games on iPhones and iPads is over. Today’s 6.50 PS4 firmware update enables game streaming between the console and the newly-released PS4 Remote Play app. PlayStation 4 owners have been able to remote play their games on iOS devices for a couple…
By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2019 - Uncategorized
Electronic Arts won’t hold an E3 conference this year. The publisher said in a press release today that it will again hold EA Play in Los Angeles during the weekend before E3, but that the focus of the event will be livestreams and hands-on for players. No more soccer memes and disappointing mobile reveals, sadly
By Jason Schreier Published March 7, 2019 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
My Favorite Thing About Far Cry New Dawn Is Seeing How Far Cry 5‘s Locations Changed
I’m a sucker for a game series that lets me revisit a place I’ve explored in an earlier game. I loved it when I played Super Metroid, and I’m having a great time with it now in the new Far Cry. I’m not talking about old levels being recreated in new games. I’m talking about…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 7, 2019
