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Players Want More Water At Fighting Game Tournaments

There are some things folks have come to expect from fighting game tournaments. Organizers always provide the monitors, consoles, and games necessary to compete, but the venues that these events are held in often lack access to affordable drinking water. This has long been an issue in the fighting game community, but the topic has…

The excellent dungeon crawler Darkest Dungeon is getting a sequel, developer Red Hook Studios teased today. There’s no release date yet, but you can see a few more details over at PCGamer.

Seriously, Capcom, is this devil ever going to cry, or not? Since 2001 they’ve been refusing to answer the possibility. In wild anticipation of Devil May Cry 5, I (Tim Rogers) am revisiting the entire series in my personal time. You can intrude on that personal time live on our Twitch channel, right the heck…

Elite Dangerous Players Are Rescuing A Player Who’s Been Stranded In Space Since November

Nearly three months ago Elite: Dangerous player Deluvian Reyes Cruz set off on a journey to see how far away they could travel from the Sol system. To be safe, they prepared enough fuel for a return trip. Near the end of their journey, they made a chance decision to skim off that fuel tank,…

Anthem‘s Day-One Patch Promises To Fix The Game’s Biggest Issues [Update]

Anthem will get a patch on February 22 to fix a number of issues both big and small that players have had with the game since it entered early access on February 15 for PC and Xbox One players with paid EA subscriptions. Chief among the changes will be improvements to some truly soul-crushing loading…

This year’s Game Developers Conference will have a keynote from a new contender in the world of video games: Google. It’ll take place in the Moscone Center in San Francisco on March 19 at 10am PT. “All will be revealed at the Google keynote,” the company says. Get ready for the full unveil of Yeti…

The PS Vita’s days are numbered! As Kotaku reported last year, Sony said PS Vita shipments would stop in Japan in 2019. Now, Sony Japan’s official Vita site says that only two remaining models, Black and Aqua Blue, would no longer be shipped “in the coming days.”

This GRIS vinyl figure is going on sale in a couple of months for $45. It’s lovely. Via Super Punch 

It’s Good Playing Metro Exodus In Russian

I’m not normally someone who bothers wading into the subs vs dubs argument when it comes to stuff like anime or JRPGs, but there’s one specific place I’ll always recommend you play the game as it was originally intended: the Metro series. It’s been true since the 2010 original, of course, but with Exodus out…

Hi Kotaku readers, that’s it for me today! Thanks so much for letting me share my love for some retro and modern games, as well as sharing some personal stories about fatherhood. I was also pleasantly surprised that so many readers had enjoyed Herzog Zwei! I hope I can play some of you in online Herzog…

What’s The Scariest Moment You’ve Experienced In A Game?

I like zombie games. I like open world experiences. Mixing them together gives you The Evil Within 2 Sebastian Castellanos’s plunge back into the shared reality of STEM takes you into a Twin Peakesque town called Union that is as distorted as your fractured psyche. There’s a killer photographer on the loose who’s murdering his…

The Amazing Legacy of Phantasy Star IV’s Fallen Utopia

There are too many amazing JRPGs in the 16-bit era to crown one the best. But there is a pantheon that includes classics like Final Fantasy IV through VI, Chrono Trigger, Terranigma, Breath of Fire, and the Phantasy Star games. Phantasy Star IV for the Sega Genesis was easily the best JRPG on the system,…

Silent Hill:Downpour Made You The Monster

Playing the Resident Evil 2 remake has been incredible. It’s also made me pine for a new installment in another one of my favorite horror series, Silent Hill. I know Silent Hills would have been that new installment, but as that’s cancelled, I’ve been going back and playing some of the older Silent Hill games.…

Some Of The Ways I’m Sharing My Love Of Gaming With My Baby

When I was growing up in the 80s, many of the adults around me were disparaging towards video games, considering them a bad influence that detracted from school work. I don’t want to over-generalize, but many of my friends were, like myself, Asian-American, and their parents wanted them to pursue more “serious” careers like becoming…

A Tribute To JRPG Villages That Were Annihilated

The life of an NPC is tough. Perpetually stuck with one or two interesting things to say. Trapped in houses or stores, or making idle chatter around the town’s well. The most excitement that may happen is when the troublesome village kid runs off. But don’t worry, the protagonists will save them. Oh, but what’s…

The Creepiest Part Of Resident Evil 2 Didn’t Involve Zombies

I learned about survival horror from the first Resident Evil, and loved how Resident Evil 2 took that to the next level with a city full of zombies after your neck. When I loaded up the recent Resident Evil 2 remake on my PlayStation 4, it felt like revisiting an old friend, if that old…

Herzog Zwei Is The Best Real-Time Strategy Game You Never Played

I was always a fan of the Risk board game as a kid, and Herzog Zwei was kind of like Risk if you infused real time action, mechas, and intense futuristic tank battles. An obscure gem for the Sega Genesis, it released in 1990 from Technosoft and happens to be one of the best strategy…

The Battle Angel Alita Manga Is An Essential Read

I’ve been waiting a long time for the Alita:Battle Angel movie, which is based on the Gunnm manga series by Yukito Kishiro. I fell in love with the nine-volume epic, which was called Battle Angel Alita in its English versions, when I first discovered the series in high school. I’m going through the books again,…

Part-Time Workers Terrorizing Japan

It keeps happening. Recently, there has been a rash of clips uploaded to Twitter and Instagram, showing part-timers licking or spitting out food intended for customers. In Japanese, this is called baito tero (バイトテロ) or “part-timer terrorism.” FNN reports that most recently, it was an alien mask-wearing staff at the Ootoya restaurant chain was filmed…

Fortnite “Festival” Ends In Predictable Shambles [Update]

In the proud tradition of shows like DashCon, Fyre and NathanCon, an under-staffed, under-planned and unlicensed Fortnite party held in the UK over the weekend turned out to be a complete disaster. UPDATE: the show’s organisers are being sued by Epic Fortnite Live, held February 16-17 in the English city of Norwich, billed itself as…