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What’s New In Monster Hunter: World

For Monster Hunter fans, the way that you describe the game to others has never really lined up with how it actually looks to people who don’t know what’s going on. I’ll breathlessly describe epic, exhilarating, 35-minute face-offs against the series’ trademark towering beasts to a friend, but when I show them the game, all…

Bleach Manga Creator And A Fan’s Dying Wish 

Last year, Bleach creator Tite Kubo posted a photo of a letter. It was a fan’s dying wish. As My Game News Flash explains, when Kubo originally posted the image on Twitter, he asked fans if they knew anything about it. The letter was addressed to Kubo via his manga publisher, and it did not…

Battlegrounds Player Takes Streaming To The Next Level 

More PUBG streamers should put themselves behind the wheel in-game, like South Korean streamer Ch1ckenkun did. No wonder one Twitter user said this just leveled up streaming. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

The Most Eagerly Anticipated Anime of Winter 2018

Soon, winter anime will begin broadcasting. Here are the 20 anime that folks in Japan are looking forward to the most. Website Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans in Japan, 45 percent of whom were men and 55 percent of whom were women. Seventy-one percent of those polled were in their teens and 20s, and the…

First Look At The New Anime From Mamoru Hosoda

Mirai no Mirai is the latest film from Mamoru Hosoda of Wolf Children fame. Here is the picture’s first teaser. As Kotaku reported earlier this year, Mirai no Mirai tells the story of a 4-year-old boy who has a hard time coming to terms with the birth of his baby sister. Things get magical when…

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Star Wars, Meet Company Of Heroes

As we’ve established here on Kotaku.com, Company of Heroes was the perfect RTS. Making it even more perfect, then, is this upcoming Star Wars mod for the game. It’s a mod cliche—take a game, add Star Wars!—but you can’t argue it’s not a successful one, with everything from Call of Duty to Homeworld benefiting from…

The Last Guardian‘s Bird Dog Looks Much Better In VR

Action RPGs like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have gotten VR versions, as has Doom, but The Last Guardian demo offers a completely different sandbox in which to test the technology. No guns or dragons, just some kid playing in some ruins with some really funky looking bird-dog-cat. It’s also free. If you have a PS…

Fallout 4 VR Could Really Use A Hand (Or Two)

It’s easy to lose yourself for hours in the regular console or PC version of Fallout 4. One would imagine it’s even easier when completely surrounded by the sights and sounds of the Bostonian wastes in the Vive-exclusive Fallout 4 VR, but when you’re just a pair of objects floating in space, it’s not quite…

Breath of the Wild‘s Champions’ Ballad DLC Hides A Ton of Secret Dialogue

In Breath of the Wild’s main game, you don’t get to see much of Mipha, Revali, Urbosa, or Daruk. If you play through the new DLC, The Champions’ Ballad, you do get some new cutscenes,though it still might not feel like enough. Turns out, you can challenge the Divine Beasts again in the DLC for…

Today Daybreak Studios launched Ring of Scale, the 24th expansion for EverQuest. Holy hell, 24 expansions. This one adds six zones and ups the game’s level cap to 110. Look at the trailer. That shit right there used to be my life.

Blood Music, the extreme metal music organization, is also working on a game called VirtuaVerse. It’s got a trailer and a projected release date of sometime in 2019. If buzzwords like cyberpunk, technomancer, and Monkey Island-style point-and-click adventure game get you excited, you should give it a look.

Prometheus Lens Is Dead, Long Live Prometheus Lens

All good things must come to an end. Especially in Destiny Last Tuesday, Bungie accidentally put a hilariously powerful laser gun into Destiny 2. Called Prometheus Lens, it was capable of deleting other players in the competitive Crucible in around a second, comically faster than any other standard weapon in the game. Bungie quickly acknowledged…

Battlegrounds Developers Accidentally Add Cameltoes, Remove Them

On Saturday, players noticed that survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds featured cameltoe, or clothed labia, on its test servers’ female models. The game’s developers say that wasn’t intentional, however, and as of a patch last night, Battlegrounds’ female characters are exposed no more. Players first noticed last weekend that Battlegrounds’ test server had made a slight…

What To Expect From GTA Online’s Massive (And Free) Doomsday Heists

The Doomsday Heist is the latest free update for GTA Online and one of the biggest the game has ever received. The update adds new toys, including missile launching trucks, stealth helicopters, orbital lasers and the long awaited jetpack. .The Doomsday Heist update also includes three new heists about saving the world, which eventually lead…

Wasteland 2 on Nintendo Switch? Yes please. A tweet from InXile founder Brian Fargo suggests that it’s happeningsooner rather than later.

Nier: Automata‘s Director Wants To Burn His Animal Crossing Camp To The Ground

Have you been playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on your phone a little bit each day? Were you enjoying helping out your friendly neighbors with frivolous tasks, crafting your favorite style of coffee table and generally just vibing along to it all? Well the director of NieR: Automata is here to tell you just how…

An Infamous Creepypasta That Explored The Dark Side Of Pokémon Fandom

By now finding a “haunted” cartridge is a scary video game story cliche, but one series in sells the tale better than the rest. Pokémon’s piracy problem, coupled with fan’s’ hunger to see a mature monster-collecting game allowed “Pokémon Black” to become one of the most famous Pokémon creepypasta to ever dwell on the internet.…

Orisa Gets Puppy

The new Overwatch holiday event, Winter Wonderland, has begun. ‘Tis the season for new skins and emotes, now with puppies (!!!). This event’s smorgasbord of skins sees everybody ready to frolic about in the wintery weather… except Junkrat, who looks like he just got back from an excruciatingly long day at the beach, or a…

Call of Duty: WWII Sure Is Looking Festive These Days

Christmas came early to Call of Duty: WWII. Activision launched the Winter Siege event on December 8, letting soldiers toss around snow globes and enjoy a little holiday R&R. The event brought new content and festive décor to the Headquarters, Call of Duty: WWII’s social space. Lights are strung all around, and constant snow flurries…