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Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Apex Legends
Apex Legends might have a boring name, but it’s a lot of fun to play. Respawn’s battle royale ditches Titanfall’s giant mechs but plays around with the genre in exciting ways. It can be daunting to start up any new game, especially a battle royale. Here are some tips to help you find your bearings…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 6, 2019 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
Sadly, It’s Surprising That There Are Two Black Women In Apex Legends
Loading up Apex Legends for the first time, I saw two black women as playable characters. It was a strange and arresting feeling to see them. I’m still trying to understand my feelings about it. I’m usually quite wary of falling into what my coworker Riley MacLeod calls “the diversity trap,” which is to say,…
By Gita Jackson Published February 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe remastered version of Assassin’s Creed III will be out March 29 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC for $40 on its own or as part of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s season pass. It includes all the DLC and the very good Vita spin-off, AC III: Liberation. Plus: still undefined “gameplay mechanics and ergonomics” (we’ve asked…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 6, 2019 - Uncategorized
The 3DS Is Even Dying Better Than The Vita
People have been calling PlayStation Vita a dead console for years. Now, Nintendo’s 3DS seems poised to join it, with hardly any new games on the horizon for the rest of 2019. Yet even in death, Nintendo’s clam-shelled handheld still feels more alive and vibrant than Vita. The 3DS’s annual lineup has grown thinner with…
By Ethan Gach Published February 6, 2019 - Uncategorized
Competitors See Potential in Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s New Characters
Late last month, Dragon Ball FighterZ received its first new characters since September 2018: fan favorites Videl and Jiren (CORRECTION 10:09 am ET: This story originally misstated the release date of the previous DLC). Since the two newcomers joined the playable roster, the fighting game community has inundated social media with initial impressions, and while…
By Ian Walker Published February 6, 2019 - Kotaku EastJapan
Japan’s Blueberry Cheese Burger Looks Freaky But Delicious
Japan’s Freshness Burger has upped its bonkers burger game with its latest release: the Blueberry Cheese Burger. As ASCII points out, Freshness Burger previously released a Peach Burger, which was beef, bacon, a slice of peach and cheese, and a Mango Burger, which was beef, a huge mango slices and onions This time around, Freshness…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2019 - Kotaku EastJapan
How K-Pop Revived Black Sickness Masks In Japan
It’s flu and cold season. That means people in Japan are wearing sickness masks in public. Either they are ill or are trying to avoid a cold. The default is still the white sickness mask, but recently, black ones are becoming more popular among the country’s youth. This recent trend in Japan appears to be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2019 - Kotaku EastJapan
Taco Bell Made A Special Burrito Just For Osaka
To celebrate the opening of a new Taco Ball in Osaka’s Umeda, the fast-food chain decided to turn the city’s soul food into a burrito. Okonomiyakiis one of Osaka’s signature dishes. Made with cabbage, flour, egg, strips of pork and crunchy tempura bits, okonomiyaki means “however you like,” so people add all sorts of other…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 6, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Tears Attack
Throughout the run of this column, I’ve noted several Korean reality programs like K-Pop Star, Produce 101, and the like that revolve around making people famous. For every contestant that hits the big time—like Kang Daniel, Akdong Musician, and others—there are dozens more that don’t quite have that “it” quality to get them through to…
By Seung Park Published February 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedBreath Of The Wild Now Runs Beautifully In 4K (On The PC)
While the latest Zelda game has been available in 4K for a while now on the PC via emulation, its performance wasn’t always the best. It is now. The latest version of the CEMU emulator, 1.15.2, is now able to run the game at 4K resolution, and at framerates of between 60-100fps. I know the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2019 -
CultureCosplayA Cosplaying Transformers Band Playing Led Zeppelin And The Pokemon Theme
The Cybertronic Spree are a band who specialise in covers of songs from games, anime and movies. And, when the mood takes them, Led Zeppelin as well. That’s a fun enough premise on its own, but then, they also do it cosplaying as Transformers. And it’s really good cosplay, too! Aesthetically pleasing, accurate to the source…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2019 - Uncategorized
Last fall’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider will join Xbox Game Pass starting February 7. Pumped BMX Pro and the first season of The Walking Dead will also get added that day. Crackdown 3, de Blob, and the Batman: Return to Arkham collection will follow later in the month.
By Ethan Gach Published February 5, 2019 - Uncategorized
New Plants vs. Zombies and Need for Speed games are coming later this year, EA said today ahead of its quarterly earnings call No other details just yet, but boy, it sure was a rough year for the publisher. “Q3 was a difficult quarter for Electronic Arts and we did not perform to our expectations,”…
By Jason Schreier Published February 5, 2019 - Uncategorized
Supermodel Tyra Banks Is Starting A Wildly Unspecific Theme Park Experience
Tyra Banks is starting a theme park and I need to lie down. I have seen more America’s Next Top Model than is probably healthy. That would be the modeling competition reality show that Tyra Banks hosted. It was a constant feature of my adolescence. I have a favorite winner (Dani), a favorite moment (Jade’s…
By Gita Jackson Published February 5, 2019
