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Come See Kotaku At PAX West 2017

On September 1, the PAX West convention will blossom like a great big fandom flower in the heart of downtown Seattle. Kotaku, of course, will be there. Here’s a rundown of panels that’ll feature Kotaku writers: At 2PM on Friday, September 1, Kotaku features editor Chris Kohler will be on a Boss Fight Books panel discussing…

Sonic Mania‘s Clever Boss Fight Twists

Sonic Mania’s a lot of funbut one of its most exciting features is a dangerous string of bosses. Reshuffling and changing what Sonic can do adds a lot of danger to each encounter. We take a look at the boss design in this critical video. Transcript: Sonic Mania recreates the excitement of earlier Sonic games…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Summer 2017

We already have more awesome games than we can possibly play, so why not add a bunch more? Here’s all the big games coming out this summer. We’ll update this list as new release dates are announced. June 23 Ever Oasis | Action-adventure | 3DS June 26 Secret World Legends | MMO | PC June…

You know a console is doing well when SanDisk starts rolling out licensed SD cards. A partnership between Nintendo and the memory maker will bring branded Switch 64 and 128GB microSDXC cards to stores in October.

Nintendo Switch Vs. PlayStation 4: In Japan, The Switch Keeps Dominating 

Of course the Nintendo Switch is doing better than the PS4 in Japan, you might say. But that’s not what I’m talking about. Rather, in each console’s first 26 weeks on sale in Japan, the Nintendo Switch posted significantly better sales numbers than the PS4 did. Previously, Kotaku has reported how the Nintendo Switch was…

Evangelion Creator Now Selling Hondas 

How often do you see an anime creator in a car commercial? Even in Japan, not often! Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno is featured in a new Honda ad, even doing some of the narration. Besides Evangelion, Anno makes live-action films and most recently, he directed Godzilla Resurgence. He also does voice acting, such as in…

Hurricane Harvey. Houston, Texas. By Lance Bradford. You can donate to the Red Cross to help those impacted by the hurricane right here

Zelda vs Overwatch

You can’t get Overwatch on the Switch, but if you could, I bet it’d be full of cameos like this. This is by 3D artist Aaron Walker. If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s a big fancy render of some fan art that we posted last year by French artist Jeremy Vitry The rig and…

Fans Remaking Tomb Raider 2 In Unreal Engine 4

The new Tomb Raider games are great, but sometimes you just want to go back and play the classics. And sometimes you want to go back and play the classics but with very modern visuals. That’s why Tomb Raider fan Nicobass is leading development on The Dagger of Xian, a complete remake of the second…

If you’re not100% burned out on hearing Sabotage in a trailer by now, Destiny 2’s live-action clip is pretty good.

Blizzard Fixes “Culturally Insensitive” (Not Really) Overwatch Sign

Blizzard “upset” (not really, but bear with me) many Australians recently with a “culturally insensitive” sign in the new Junkertown map on Overwatch. That sign has now been fixed, and we are all free to get on with our lives. As first detailed in this Kotaku Australia story, the map—which is set in a desolate…

Quake‘s Creators Can’t Agree On Who Invented Multiplayer-Only Maps

These days, we take the distinction between single-player and multiplayer first-person shooter maps for granted, but it wasn’t always so. Back in the ancient ‘90s, somebody invented multiplayer-only maps. Today, in the soon-to-be ancient year of 2017, the question is who. During last weekend’s QuakeCon show in Dallas, id Software creative director Tim Willits told…

Rise and shine, Doctor Freeman. We’re finally leaping back into our playthrough of Half Life right now on Twitch

Angry Birds collapses upon itself. One of the most creative games spawned from the mobile gaming boom begets a match-three game featuring characters from the animated film. Angry Birds Match is out today for Android and iOS devices.

Music Makes Magic In This Rollicking Rhythm RPG

The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is what happens when a dance party breaks out in the middle of a turn-based role-playing game. In Puuba’s The Metronomicon, released last year on Steam and this week on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, a party of newly-graduated students of the “rhythmic combat arts” sets off in search of…

2K Is Temporarily Pulling XCOM From The App Store, Removing Sid Meier’s Pirates For Good

“Nothing lasts forever,” my mother told me when I was a child. “Not even 2K’s library of games—a few of which are pretty solid—on the App Store. In advance of iOS 11’s launch, 2K has announced that it’s doing some renovations on its lineup of iOS games, upgrading a couple to 64 bit and removing…

Upcoming Horror Game Looks Cool, Makes Me Wanna Ralph

You’ve heard of side-scrollers, but what about depth-scrollers? DARQ, an upcoming psychological horror game, allows you to bend physics in order to solve puzzles. In DARQ, you play as Lloyd, who wakes up in a zero-gravity dream that quickly becomes a nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to survive the nightmare world by relying…

YouTubers Are Broadcasting Their Perspective Of Hurricane Harvey

Last week, Hurricane Harvey touched down in Texas, causing unprecedented amounts of catastrophic damage to the area and killing at least 38 people according to the New York Times. Entire sections of Houston, the United States’ fourth largest city, are underwater. The storm has been chronicled on the news and social media. It’s also shown…

Somehow, There Hasn’t Been a Crappy Game of Thrones Mobile Strategy Game Until Now

If ever there was an entertainment property ripe to be transformed into a Game of War-style mobile multiplayer strategy game, it’s Game of Thrones. It looks like Warner Bros. and Turbine have finally gathered enough clip art to make Game of Thrones: Conquest happen. In testing in select markets and now accepting pre-registration at its…

Overwatch Fans Are Losing It Over A Character Who Has Barely Appeared

The Overwatch fandom’s favorite new character has only appeared within an in game poster, but that hasn’t stopped players from drawing fanart of her, cosplaying her, or declaring her as their wife. A week ago, Bizzard previewed a new map for Overwatch, Junkertown, and dropped a new short featuring Junkrat and Roadhog. In the short,…