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Video Game Cameras Are Complicated And Easy To Screw Up

The latest Game Maker’s Toolkit video is all about video game cameras and how developers can use them to help make gameplay more challenging, to scare the player or to better serve a story. It also is a great reminder of how much work and thought goes into something that, if done right, most players…

Sunday Comics: Oh, Mister Bear!

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 6. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published May 9. Read more of Corpse Run. Clueless Hero by Luis…

Minecraft’s New 10th-Anniversary Map Is Awesome And Hides A Few Secrets

Minecraft is celebrating its 10th anniversary since it was first released, back in 2009. To pay tribute to this milestone, Mojang teamed up with Blockworks to create a massive map covering the entire history of the popular game. And for those who dig deep, you might find a few secrets and Easter Eggs. When I…

Big Smoke’s Famous Fast Food Order From GTA San Andreas Said By Solid Snake

David Hayter is well known as the voice of Solid Snake, providing the voice of the character in multiple games, including cameo appearances in non-Metal Gear games like Smash Bros. And now thanks to a fan request, Hayter lets us hear how the super spy would order from a fast food joint. In the world…

The Pokemon Company Didn’t Like That Lickitung Scene In Detective Pikachu

Pokemon Detective Pikachu hit theaters this weekend and contains many CGI recreations of famous Pokemon creatures. Creating these digital animals was challenging and in a Time Magazine story, released earlier this week, the visual effects team behind the film talked about the work involved in creating some of these creatures. Also, The Pokemon Company doesn’t…

No One Should Sit On The Iron Throne

There are only two more episodes left in Game Of Thrones. The marketing material for this season has been focused on who will take the throne and lead all of Westeros. I don’t think anyone should. The story of Game of Thrones is the story of monarchy gone wrong. The backstory, slowly revealed through the…

The Parental Struggles In 2018’s God Of War Echoed Those Of The People Making It

“A lot of this performance is a love letter to my kids and it’s an apology,” says voice actor Christopher Judge in a new in-house documentary about the making of the PlayStation 4 hit God of War. Judge played the game’s lead character, Kratos, and when he talked about his performance, he teared up. As…

Zelda: Skyward Sword Speedrunning Has Been Stale For A While, But A New Trick Might Change That

It has proven difficult to find big glitches in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which is why speedrunners haven’t yet figured out how to complete the game in less than five hours. Other big Zelda games, like Ocarina of Time, are far glitchier and therefore far easier to speedrun. But a new discovery, which…

Fans Are Concerned About Barret’s Voice In The Final Fantasy 7 Remake

Yesterday a new teaser for the Final Fantasy VII remake dropped, and players got to see and hear more of the characters as they will appear in the new game. For the most part, the reaction is positive. In the case of Barret Wallace, the reaction has been mixed. I’ve never played Final Fantasy VII,…

Dragon Ball FighterZ’s Kid Goku Is A Muscular Hamster

Dragon Ball FighterZ already has about a thousand full-sized Gokus, but the latest character to join the cast is the more diminutive version seen in the controversial (and now non-canon) Dragon Ball GT. Being shrunk by a magical wish doesn’t make Kid Goku any less formidable in this game, and he brings some neat tools…

I’m streaming a Magic: The Gathering Arena draft with the game’s newest set, War of the Spark. Tune into our Twitch channel and come hang!

Uncovered Developer Tools Let Players See Behind The Scenes Of GTA III

Grand Theft Auto III has some interesting features and code hidden within the game. These hidden features were originally used by developers to debug and fix glitches during development and should have been removed. Crafty GTA fans and modders have been able to not only find these hidden features in retail copies but reactivate them…

Destiny 2’s new season will go live on June 4, and alongside it there will be a brand new raid. Rather than give players a few days to grind for levels, Bungie is letting everyone access the raid on day one this time around. Recommended power for the first encounter? 715.

After Playing Episode 3, I Think I’ve Been A Bad Brother In Life Is Strange 2

The third episode of Life Is Strange 2 has the player grapple with the fact that protagonist Sean Diaz’s younger brother Daniel is his own person. It can go very badly. Each episode of Life Is Strange 2 is a delight, albeit the kind of delight that has me covering my face with worry. Sean…

A new Pokémon smartphone game is in development from Japanese mobile game company DeNA. Info is scant, and the title and release window will be revealed at a later date. Back in 2015, it was announced that DeNA would be making mobile games with Nintendo.

The best part of having a dad who’s a Weekly Jump manga artist? Riichiro Inagaki of Dr. Stone fame recently had a drinking party at his house with some other famed mangaka. They all drew some doodles for Inagaki’s 8-year-old son and recently into Weekly Jump  Note that the pixelated section is where the kid’s…

Disgraced Magic: The Gathering Star Banned, Removed From Hall Of Fame

Magic: The Gathering pro Yuuya Watanabe, the star at the centre of cheating allegations following the discovery of marked cards in a tournament earlier this month, has been found guilty and heavily punished by officials at the The Magic Pro League. Despite protestations of innocence from both Watanabe and his sponsors, the MPL todayissued a…

Louis Vuitton Fashion Show Uses Final Fantasy Music

Last night, European designer fashion brand Louis Vuitton took to the Kennedy Airport to show off its 2020 cruise collection, its latest line of fancy new clothes and accessories. The stylish show was packed with celebs, and…music from Final Fantasy VIII? The fashion show began with models slowly coming down the terminal staircases to a…

Cities: Skylines Is Going Back To College

Universities are enormous, sprawling places, so it makes sense that if you were going to put one in a city-building game, it should be a much bigger (and more complicated) deal than simply dropping a 3×3 structure on the map and leaving it be. That’s what I love about Cities: Skyline’s expansions, of which Campus…

There’s a surprising amount of evidence scattered around the world of Day’s Gone that suggests it’s set in the same universe as Syphon Filter. GamesRadar has the details