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A Ten-Minute Tour Of Pokkén Tournament Wii U
The Wii U version of Namco Bandai’s Pokémon fighting game has landed at Kotaku, along with strict time constraints on how much video we can share. So here’s quick look at training, fighting, customization and Amiibo unlocks of Pokkén Tournament. Before review day arrives we are able to share 30 minutes of direct feed (non-streamed)…
By Mike Fahey Published March 7, 2016 -
IGN Ad Leaks Overwatch Release Date [UPDATE]
We already knew that Overwatch would be out this spring; now, thanks to a leak from IGN’s advertising folks, we have more specifics. Blizzard’s hero-based shooter will release on May 24. The news isn’t official yet—as a publicly traded company, Activision-Blizzard has to do things very formally—but this is pretty clear. Overwatch is currently in…
By Jason Schreier Published March 7, 2016 -
Wartile’s World Looks Too Pretty To Bleed All Over
As I’ve said, we are currently living in a golden age of turn-based video games. The latest example (well, potential example) of this is Wartile It’s a turn-based tactics game that’s been designed to be “a living and breathing tabletop video game”, combining the flexibility and visuals of a video game (along with some design…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2016 -
Ambitious Fallout Mod Has Snow, Space, Tanks
Fallout: The Frontier is an in-development mod for Fallout: New Vegas that doesn’t just introduce new weather, weapons, quests and enemies, it takes the game to a space station. We actually saw this mod around a year ago, and back then the big deal was that it featured winter snow and some serious expansion to…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2016 -
Successful $100,000 Kickstarter Dev Calls It Quits Due To Drama
In 2014 nearly 4,000 backers pledged $100,000 for a silly game about being a bear. Yesterday, despite seemingly happy backers and 78 percent positive reviews on Steam, Bear Simulator’s developer says updating the game any further is “a lost cause.” I playedJohn Farjay’s Kickstarted bear sim last weekend. While it could certainly use a lot…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2016 -
The Omega Men Are Not Superheroes
As discussed previously, they’re more like super-terrorists. And they just did something shocking in the latest issue of their great series. Originally published 3/4/16 The basic set-up of The Omega Men—written by Tom King, with art by Barnaby Bagenda, Jose Marzan Jr. and Romulo Fajardo, Jr.—is a familiar one. The evil Alpha Empire (also called…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 6, 2016 -
UFC 2’s Cover Is Now A Monument To Sadness
A few months back, EA’s marketing team probably thought that their choices for the front cover of this year’s UFC game—two of the world’s most popular and successful fighters, Ronda Rousey and Connor McGregor—were as safe as could be. Then this happened. And now this Somewhere, tonight, EA’s marketing team is dying. Rousey, seemingly invincible,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2016 -
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: An Unfortunate Acronym: The Winners!
I’ll admit I was a little worried about how wild our community might get given a‘Shop Contest that plays on the abbreviation S&M for the recently-announcedPokemon Sun & Moon. But you guys kept it mostly nice and tasteful. Great job, everyone! Some of my favorite entries in last week’s contest abandoned the implied meaning of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2016 -
There’s A Lot Of Killing Things In The First 30 Minutes Of Black Desert Online
Black Desert Online launched in North America and Europe this week, giving many players their first taste of that character creator everyone’s been raving about. This is what happens in the 30 minutes following character creations’ end. Now thatthe bumps have been mostly ironed out and Daum Games’ massively multiplayer role-playing game is available to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2016 -
I Miss Game Manuals So Much I’d Pay Extra For One
I opened up my copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD yesterday and aside from the game disc it was depressingly empty, which describes exactly how I feel every time I pick up tellingly lightweight retail game. I miss instruction booklets something fierce. There was a time when retail games were solid, meaty…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2016 -
‘Trump Has Successfully Eliminated All Life On Earth’
According to a tweet from developer Ndemic Creations (via Reddit), Trump is currently one of the most popular names for players to give their humanity-ending pathogen in the strategy game Plague Inc. Another win! Plague, Inc. is a game in which players create a deadly pathogen and attempt to encourage its spread across the globe,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2016 -
Metal Gear Solid HD Fan Remake Suddenly Shuts Down
Remember that great-looking Unreal Engine 4 fan remake of Metal Gear Solid? Remember how you’ve spent every waking moment since it was announced dreading its unceremonious cancellation? Well, haha, about that… The remake, which made ever our grumpiest Metal Gear skeptic, Luke Plunkett, go weak in the muscles he’s built up from years of playing…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 4, 2016 -
In its latest status update, Capcom says they’ve docked League Points to penalize “roughly 30” players as part of their efforts to start cracking down on Street Fighter V rage-quitters. That’s a very small number considering how many people must be playing the game and disconnecting after losses. A permanent solution is still being worked…
By Evan Narcisse Published March 4, 2016 -
The Ugly New Front In The Neverending Video Game Culture War
Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but also many of the same tactics. If you’ve witnessed this kind of “Chanterculture”/GamerGate drama before, you know the playbook: discredit, harass, shame, isolate, maybe find a skeleton in a person’s closet that calls their reputation into question.…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 4, 2016 -
The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti looks wild. Described as a “music-sampling, platforming, rhythm laser-light guitar solo kind of game,” it’s about a musician on a psychedelic journey to create a stage persona. Creatures have sounds, and you can sample them to make your own.
By Nathan Grayson Published March 4, 2016 -
Nintendo Is Leaking Like Crazy
In 2013, when I visited Nintendo’s Redmond HQ for a feature on the company’s Treehouse localization team, staffers there opined that secrecy was essential to their operations. “We’re keeping things confidential until we’re ready to share them with the world,” Treehouse manager Leslie Swan told me then. “We work really closely with the development teams…
By Jason Schreier Published March 4, 2016 -
Fan Edited Trailer For The New Ghostbusters Is So Much Better
If you were a little underwhelmed by yesterday’s Ghostbusters trailer, this fan edit makes a convincing case it could have used more time in the editing room. As a huge fan of Ghostbusters and just about everyone involved in this movie, I’m rooting for this to kick ass. The original trailer felt a little flat…
By Patrick Klepek Published March 4, 2016
