My Nice Guy Approach To A Red Dead Redemption 2 Train Robbery Went Very Wrong

I’ve been mostly playing as a good guy in Red Dead Redemption 2, or at least as much as the game will let me. This is more of a cowardly choice than a moral one. Bounties and lawmen stress me out. Nevertheless, I recently decided to rob one of the game’s trains. It did not…

Here’s December 2018’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

There are some interesting indie games in this month’s PlayStation Plus lineup, including Soma, Iconoclastsfor Vita and PS4, and Papers, Please. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. December’s PlayStation Plus games are: PlayStation 4 Soma Onrush PlayStation3 Steredenn Steinsgate PlayStation Vita Iconoclasts (crossbuy with Ps4) Papers, Please

Genesis Classics On Switch Is The Perfect Way To Play Old Games

In another reality, one where companies like Nintendo and Sony actually cared about preserving their old games and ensuring that their entire libraries were playable now and forever, something like Genesis Classics might not be a rarity. But it is, and hey, it’s pretty damn great. Genesis Classics, which is already out for PC, PS4,…

Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Is Coming To Netflix 

Cowboy Bebop is getting a live-action series on Netflix, with the anime’s creator Shinichiro Watanabe consulting. The Cowboy Bebop anime debuted back in 1998 with Watanabe at the helm. The live-action first episode will be written by Christopher Yost, who recently penned Thor: Ragnarok In the late 2000s, Keanu Reeves was attached to a live-action…

Cute Characters Get Thirsty, Too

In the anime BanG Dream!, the pink bear Michelle is one of the members of the pop group Hello, Happy World! In real life, there is a thirsty cosplayer in there. The result is nightmare fuel. Update November 29 – 12:30am: As several readers have kindly pointed out, this is the very thirsty @thegadgetfish: Via…

First Trailer For Production I.G’s Ultraman Anime

As Kotaku previously reported, Production I.G is making an Ultraman anime. Here is the debut trailer. Last December’s teaser showed the new Ultraman character design. Production I.G is teaming up with Sola Digital Arts for the anime, which will be helmed by Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed).

Prodeus is a shooter that tries to replicate the look of FPSes of old, but with modern graphical techniques. I’m not sure how I feel about its purposefully pixelated aesthetic, but it’s certainly different. And by different, I mean “like somebody put Dooms 1-4 in a blender.” It’ll be out next year.

We’re Traversing The Uncanny Valley

Hossein Diba is a character artist from Turkey who is also maybe a magician, able to summon polygons and turn them into terrifying likenesses of celebrities and movie characters. He’s worked on stuff like Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s cinematic trailer as well as creating head sculptures for games, animation and toy companies. You can…

I Admire The Perseverance Of A Man Who Swims Across The Entire Map In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Black Flag’s world was designed to be traversed on a ship, but hey, if someone is going to devote hours of their day to swimming across the thing, then I’m going to tip my tricorn to them. How Big is the Map? spent nearly five hours swimming to get from one corner of Ubisoft’s Caribbean…

Homeworld Studio Gets Their Ass To Mars

To celebrate the successful landing of the InSight spacecraft on the red planet, Blackbird Interactive (the Deserts of Kharak guys) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released to the public a version of their Project Eagle Mars base software. I wrote about it back in 2017; while not a game, it’s still a very game-looking…

The Next Fallout 76 Patch Will Bring Some Much-Needed Fixes

Fallout 76 is getting another big patch on December 4 that will begin trying to fix some of the game’s bigger problems, Bethesda said today on Reddit. In addition, the company said it plans to be more communicative in the future about what the Fallout 76 team is working on and when new updates for…

Evangelion Isn’t Fun, But It’s Still Worth Watching

Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming to Netflix in the spring of 2019, making it available to watch in America without pirating it or shelling out hundreds of dollars for an out-of-print box set for the first time since its American license ran out in 2011. It’s a show that’s had a huge impact on me,…

Cammy Is Finally Getting Pants In Street Fighter V

Shout it from the rooftops: Cammy White will be trading in her traditional battle gear for an outfit with pants, thanks to Street Fighter V’s upcoming cross-promotion with Resident Evil. In paying homage to frequent Resident Evil protagonist Jill Valentine, the Killer Bee is set to have an outfit with ample bottom coverage for one…

Indie Dev Releases Game After Documenting Its Development Every Week For Three Years

“I’m actually hoping to finish it in the next few months, so probably around April, May… and then I will hopefully be able to release it in the summer, around June or July,” said Karl Wimble in a video about his game, Equilinox, on February 19, 2016. The game came out on November 23, 2018,…