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Where Are Uncharted 2‘s Developers Today?

Each person who worked on 2009’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves had their own path to the game. Some had been at Naughty Dog for years, while others were hired mid-development. In the decade since the PlayStation 3 game’s release, people have continued to move around. Some are still at Naughty Dog working on new games,…

Anthem’s next update will arrive tomorrow on April 23, global community manager Andrew Johnson announced on Twitter. It will add new bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, and the much awaited new Stronghold mission called The Sunken. The update will be followed by a developer live stream later in the day.

Appreciating The Game Boy, Thirty Years Later

The Nintendo Game Boy turned 30 years old this weekend. Released on April 21, 1989 in Japan, it helped usher in an entirely new approach to gaming. Although the Game Boy wasn’t the first ever hand-held console, it’s still one of the best known, and its success showed that handheld gaming could be more than…

Breath Of The Wild‘s Hyrule Castle Has Finally Been Restored, In Minecraft

By the time Link wakes up in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Castle has already been partially destroyed, thanks to the work of Calamity Ganon a hundred years prior. Recently, players have set about restoring the castle in Minecraft Nintendo highlighted the project today over on the company’s Japanese website along…

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Spectator Throws Dead Crab At Super Smash Bros. Tournament Winner

“Sorry for losing my temper,” top Super Smash Bros. Melee pro Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma wrote on Twitter after the weekend’s Pound 2019 tournament in Maryland. He had just fought his way out of the loser’s bracket and ultimately took it all in the grand finals. Debiedma had every reason to be happy—except in the crustacean…

Atlus will be streaming its upcoming Persona Super Live P-Sound Street 2019 concert via NicoNico and its official Twitter account, the company announced today. The concert will be held on April 24 and 25 in Tokyo. 

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Forza Street Is Pretty Looking, But Too Simple

The newest game in the Forza franchise isn’t a sequel to Horizon 4 or a new entry in the main Motorsport series. Instead, Forza Street is an upcoming mobile game spin-off that is now available on the Windows 10 Store on PC. The game focuses on one-on-one street races and looks gorgeous. Sadly, there isn’t…

Sunday Comics: Slushie Tornado!

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 April 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published April 19. Read more of Corpse Run  Clueless Hero by Luis…

World War Z Is Almost The Left 4 Dead Successor I’ve Wanted For Years

I’ve come to peace with the fact that Left 4 Dead 3 will never happen. So without Valve creating a new entry in the franchise, it is up to other studios to fill that zombie-co-op-action hole that L4D3 will never fill. World War Z feels like it might just do that, but it is a…

YouTuber Uses Fan Made Tools To Showcase Unused Content In New Super Mario Bros. U

Popular Mario superfan and YouTuber, Ceave Gaming, recently made a video showcasing some of the unfinished and cut content hidden in New Super Mario Bros. U. Ceave used a fan-made level editor for the game to show the unused content. Ceave used the fan-created level and game editor, named Miyamotoafter Mario’s creator, to dig deep…

Something Ain’t Right With The Latest Dinosaur Added Into Jurassic World Evolution

The newest DLC was recently released for the park building game Jurassic World Evolution. This new update included some new features, like a photo mode for consoles, but more importantly, it added some new dinosaurs. But one of these new dinos is a bit broken. Proceratosaurus is a small carnivore which was added in the…

Insomniac Developer Reveals A Spider-Man PS4 Easter Egg Nobody Noticed

Spider-Man on PS4 was filled with little secrets and easter eggs. From a failed marriage proposal to Seinfeld referencesand more, the game is packed with easter eggs. But one secret was so subtle it seems nobody actually noticed it until someone at Insomniac revealed it on Twitter. Yesterday, Elan Ruskin, a programmer at Insomniac, revealed…

Konami’s New Arcade Collection Could Have Been A Lot Better

Konami’s Arcade Classics Anniversary Edition is out this week, collecting eight of its classic coin-op games like Haunted Castle, Gradius, and Twinbee. While the games and the emulation are solid, Konami has taken a strangely bare-bones, region-locked approach to the collection that makes it a lot less exciting than it could have been. Here are…

Epic Has Caught Over 1000 Fortnite World Cup Cheaters So Far

Epic Games revealed some statistics about cheating in last weekend’s Fortnite World Cup opens today, including actions taken against over 1,200 accounts for various forms of cheating. Cheating has been a hot topic in competitive Fortnite this week. The esports team Kaliber released one player, Johnathan Kosmala, for cheating during the World Cup qualifiers; Kosmala…

The No Man’s Sky Community That Feels Like A Car Show

Although No Man’s Sky has true multiplayer now, there are still only a few ways to interact with other players. In order to show off your cool stuff or help other players find the tools or ships they want, you have to exchange coordinates with them offline. The Reddit community NMS Coordinate Exchange helps facilitate…

We Have Concerns About An All-Digital Future

In November of 2013, Microsoft faced blowback after revealing that their new console would require an “always online” internet connection and that game ownership would be tied to players’ Xbox Live accounts, making it harder to trade in games and even lend them to friends. Sony capitalized on that blowback with their infamous E3 dunk.…

It Took 7 Years, But Now You Can Play Super Mario Bros. On The Commodore 64

A tireless developer, working for nearly seven years, has created a perfect recreation of Super Mario Bros. for the Commodore 64. This would have been huge in 1985. Today, it’s still pretty darn cool. This week, a developer called ZeroPaige released Super Mario Bros. 64, which he bills as a 1:1 recreation of Super Mario…

A Pokémon-Inspired Retro Game Is Bringing Monster Collecting To PC

In Disc Creatures, you play as a licensed Disc Ranger canvasing the world for monsters who will fight on your behalf and be content to spend their downtime stored inside CD-ROMS that get uploaded to the DiscRnet. It’s set to release on Steam later this year and everything about it feels retro and looks freaking…