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Breaking Mario Party 8 Reveals The Importance Of Camera Positioning

The art of game creation is always interesting, but looking behind the curtain of Mario Party 8 is a particularly wonderful experience that shows the power of a highly controlled camera. In the newest episode of Boundary Break, a show dedicated to moving cameras around to find the hidden things in games, we get to…

The Best (And Worst) April Fools’ Day Jokes For 2018

It is April 1, the cursed day, when every person and brand decides that they are, in fact, the funniest person or distributed agent on the planet. Here’s a roundup of the best and worst April Fool’s gags from the land of games for 2018. (For a recap of last year, here are 2017’s offerings.)…

I Love Ni No Kuni II‘s Simple, Elegant Side Quests

I’ve been dipping back into Ni no Kuni II over the past week in short spurts in order to collect all of the possible citizens for my kingdom of Evermore. It’s because the game excels at making me feel like I did a good job at finishing simple quests. I don’t think think that many…

I Hate Hearing My Dog Buddy Get Hurt In Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5 has given us a wonderful ally named Boomer. He’s a dog, and he’s my friend, but I don’t use him because I hate seeing and hearing him get hurt. I am a big fan of animal companions in games, and Boomer is one of the best that we’ve gotten so far. He’s…

There’s A Comet In Fortnite, And Players Have Wild Theories About What It Means

There’s something strange going on in Fortnite right now. Controllers are rumbling randomly, when nothing is happening. There’s something in the sky that wasn’t there before. Nobody knows what any of it means. Right now, if you look up into Fortnite’s skybox, you might notice a shiny orb with a celestial tail. It looks like…

The Real-Life Atari Secret That Inspired Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One, like the source material, is chock full of references to 80s music, movies, and video games. It also throws in a few Master Chiefs, Overwatch characters, and the Iron Giant for good measure. Usually these references are surface level and fleeting, but a few carry more weight—like the…

The Original Arcade Punch-Out Plays Great On Switch

Punch-Out came out on Switch today! No, not Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. Not the Wii Punch-Out, either. The one that started them all, the granddaddy of Nintendo’s boxing series: the 1984 arcade version of Punch-Out. It’s worth playing if you love the series, but just be aware that it’s pretty rough around the edges by today’s…

Nintendo Reached A DLC Tipping Point This Week

It’s been a quietly unprecedented week for Nintendo, and one that should change players’ expectations for the company’s games going forward. In just eight days, five of Nintendo’s major Switch games received downloadable content updates. Some of that DLC was free, some paid. The days of any of Nintendo games being static after launch appear…

Hacked Fortnite Players Say Epic’s Response Is Too Slow

A torrent of hackershave been breaking into Fortnite player accounts and stealing hundreds of dollars at a time. After weeks trying to contact Epic Games about the security threat, many of them say they’re being left high and dry. Over the last few months, hackers discovered vulnerabilities in Epic Games’ client. In interviews, these Fortnite…

The Good and the Bad of Far Cry 5‘s Co-Op

I’ve played many hours of Far Cry 5 co-op, both with my partner and with colleagues. A lot of the time it’s been a blast, except when you’re trying to actually get things done. There’s a pretty major caveat to the co-operative experience, as there was with Far Cry 4: only the host player’s progress…

Fortnite Mobile Now Warns People Not To Play In Class

Fortnite mobile’s portability has proven destructive in classrooms around the world, with some teachers struggling to keep their students’ attention from the battle royale game. It seems that developer Epic has caught on, because now the game says something about this hilarious situation. As shared by Fortnite community manager K.L. Smith, Fortnite mobile can now…

If You’re A Pokémon Fan, You Should Play Detective Pikachu

Nintendo may be keeping the 3DS on life support at this point, but there are still reasons to boot up the handheld console. Detective Pikachu, released in North America last week, makes an especially compelling case for any fans of Pokémon who want to learn a bit more about the world of pocket monsters. Detective…

Sonic the Hedgehog is back (for a flash) in a new web series called Sonic Returns The first cartoon in the five part series dropped on the official Sonic YouTube channel today and it is absolutely adorable.

PUBG‘s New Event Is Fun If You Can Find The Damn Flare Gun

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is spicing things up with special events—limited time game modes with special weapons and squad rules. The latest event, which kicked off yesterday, adds a special flare gun for calling supply drops. It’s a good idea, but the execution is too timid. Following Fortnite Battle Royale’s model of limited time events, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds…

A Place Further Than The Universe Is A Wholesome Look At Female Friendship

In anime A Place Further than the Universe, a girl with long black hair drops an envelope containing 1,000,000 yen on a train platform. Unremarkable high schooler Mari Tamaki picks it up and, recognizing the girl’s uniform, tracks her down in the bathroom of her local high school. Shirase Kobuchizawa, the envelope’s owner, has a…

Far Cry 5’s User Interface Does A Lot Right

Far Cry 5 is a complicated game that needs to convey a ton of information at once. Good thing it’s got a great user interface. Lord knows I complain enoughabout games with half-baked user interface (UI) design. In light of that, I also try to highlight good UI when I see it, and Far Cry…

Frustrated Teens And Docks Bricking Switches: The Week’s Hot Game Topics

We’ve got a streamer faux pas, disillusioned teens, docks bricking Switches, Carmen Sandiego, Dragon Quest, and more on Kotaku XP, our weekly video roundup of what the heck is going on with games and the people who play them. Consider it Kotaku Cliff’s Notes. Watching Gita Jackson and I talk is probably sufficient studying for…

Hey Ubisoft, Let Far Cry 5‘s Dog Ride In The Car

Far Cry 5 has three pets you can befriend and enlist to help you fight enemy cultists. They’ll help you, and they’ll follow you anywhere. They just won’t ride with you in a car. I can forgive that for the cougar or the bear. In the case of the third animal, a dog, it’s borderline…

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Papyrus Mysteries Are Some Of The Series’ Best Sidequests

Ubisoft games are understandably knocked for having a lot of filler content. Often, though, one of their gargantuan open-world epics will hide a wonderful line of sidequests. It’s taken me some time to appreciate an extraordinary set of them in Assassin’s Creed Origins, a set that helps show off areas of the game players might…