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Persona 5 is being turned into a stage play. Called Persona 5: The Stage (clever!), it will run this December in Tokyo and Osaka with actor Hiroki Ino starring. The full cast will be announced at a later date. 

Enormous Flight Simulator Installed In Tokyo Hotel

If you like airplanes, then this is the hotel for you. The Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyu, which is connected to Terminal 2 of Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, will offer a room outfitted with a full-sized flight simulator. Fittingly, it’s called the “Superior Cockpit Room.” The cockpit is based on a Boeing 737-800. The hotel…

What ‘Hentai’ Actually Means

“Hentai is brilliant,” reads the title of a recent Guardian article about a British game show contestant who won a round with the word “hentai.” But what does “hentai” actually mean, and how has that meaning changed? Let’s dive into the word’s etymology! The Oxford Dictionary defines “hentai” as “A subgenre of the Japanese genres…

$60,000 Pokemon Card Goes Missing In The Mail

In August 2018, someone on eBay paid $60,000 for a very rare Pokemon card. It’s now almost a year later, the card still hasn’t arrived, and nobody knows where it’s got to. YouTuber and Pokemon card collector smpratte has the story (via CNET), as he claims to know both the buyer and seller personally. What…

Gloomhaven, one of the biggest board games of the last decade, is getting a video game adaptation. This is our first chance to check out how it’ll actually play, and it looks pretty good! 

A Keanu Reeves Mod For Metal Gear Solid V

Here’s a Metal Gear Solid V mod that changes Snake into Keanu Reeves. You can choose to be John Wick Keanu or Cyberpunk 2077 Keanu. A couple of things. Firstly, the model is really good! And second, of course the mod only changes Snake’s appearance, not how he sounds, though having Keanu’s face with Kiefer…

Classic Video Game Cutscenes Look Better In HD (Sometimes)

Last week, YouTube user ClassiCinematics completed a month-long amateur remaster of all the cutscenes in Westwood Studios’ classic real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and its expansion, Yuri’s Revenge. Uploading their work alongside the original cutscenes for comparison, ClassiCinematics offers yet another way to look at and appreciate older games, and how…

Dauntless’ first content update is called Fortune & Glory and it arrives July 16, marking the start of the game’s High Skies season It adds a new vendor called Lady Luck who will have more Behemoths for you to kill. A new pirate-themed Hunt Pass will drop alongside the update.

Nathan Grayson is in Kotaku’s New York office this week, so Cecilia and him are in the studio broadcasting Dota Underlords on our Twitch channel! Lord over their play in the chat!

Dr. Mario World has released one day early on IOS and Android. The new puzzle game has some classic puzzling, at the cost of some mobile game strangeness. Also, I don’t know if Mario ever really got a doctorate…

The Game Bakers, makers of the boss-rush game Furi, are back with a gameplay trailer for their upcoming project, Haven It centers on a couple who have escaped to a strange planet together and set out to explore it. Aside from looking gorgeous it’s also giving me major Gravity Rush vibes.

Fortnite’s latest patch adds a new item, an air strike canister that calls down missiles. There’s also a new rotation of limited time modes.

Smell like City Hunter’s Ryo Saeba? According to Famitsu, the officially-licensed light and gentle fragrance is geared to both men and women. The aroma smells of rose, carnation, olives and Colt Python .357 Magnum. Kidding about that last bit! 

Thousands Of Elite: Dangerous Players Died Trying To Cross The Universe

Six months ago, over 13,000 Elite: Dangerous players set out on a massive expedition to cross the known galaxy. As testament to how long and gruelling a trip that was, less than 4,000 survived the trip. One of the participants (Qohen Leth) has, via RPS, helpfully broken down some of the statistics involved in the…

Nike Is Making Nintendo 64 Sneakers

An upcoming colourway of Nike’s Air Max 97 doesn’t make an official mention of the console—gotta keep those lawyers at arm’s length—but its inspiration is clear: this is a Nintendo 64 sneaker. The colourway (which appears to be drawing influence from the N64’s logo and controller) matched with the sneaker’s vintage might have been enough…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s final chapter of paid downloadable content, “The Fate Of Atlantis: Judgment Of Atlantis,” will be released on Tuesday, July 16. An official Tweet announcing a new patch to prep for the DLC also indicated that the free Lost Tales Of Greece quests will continue to be added at least through August.

Apex Legends’ Worst Gun Is Good Now

For a time, there were a few constants in my life. The sky? Blue. The grass? Green. The Mozambique shotgun? The worst gun in Apex Legends. That gun was so bad that the game’s developers at Respawn added an animation showing you throwing away the gun is disgust Change has come to King’s Canyon, and…

Here’s What The Unreleased Terminator NES Game Looked Like

In 1989, Japanese developer/publisher Sunsoft revealed The Terminator, an NES game based on the hit 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger film. One year later, after Sunsoft lost the movie rights, the game was modified and released as generic sci-fi platformer Journey to Silius. Video game history and preservation site Gaming Alexandria has unearthed Sunsoft’s 30-year-old promo reel…

Want to know what it’s like to be at E3? Danny O’Dwyer and his Noclip team have put together a great tour of the show, featuring interviews with media, developers, and even some jerk from Kotaku. Watch above.

There’s a new trailer showing how Gigantamaxing will work in Pokémon Sword and Shield, as well some of the Galar region’s new Pokémon and trainers. Spoilers: when Pokémon Gigantamax they get as big, glowy, and even weirder.