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Quartet’s Music Is So Nice Sega Reused It Twice
9.4.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to listen to some synthtastic music from 1986 arcade classic Quartet, which also happens to be music from 1991’s Spider-Man: The Video Game, as well as 2010’s...
Report: Naughty Dog Is Working On A Last Of Us Remake For PS5
9.4.2021
Originally released in 2013 for the PS3, The Last of US is getting a PlayStation 5, reports Bloomberg.Read more
Forget CG, Japanese Drink Company Shows The Magic Of Practical Effects
9.4.2021
Drink maker Pocari Sweat has many a number of terrific commercials over the years. This latest one, which uses a bunch of practical effects, is one of its most impressive of late.Read more
The Bat Man, I Presume?
9.4.2021
Betty Jiang is a concept artist and illustrator working in video games and animation.Read more
New Space Game Puts You In Control Of Everyone, Like A God
9.4.2021
The Fermi Paradox is “a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game” that’s coming later this year on PC, where instead of taking control of a single space-faring faction, you’re more of a “gardener”, tending to loads of factions and trying to guide them from the stone age into the depths...
After Decades Of Conflict, We're Finally Getting Official Macross Releases In The West
9.4.2021
Macross is one of the finest and most influential anime of all time, but for over 20 years the international distribution of the series’ later instalments—basically everything made after 1999's Macross Plus—has been held hostage by a fierce legal struggle between several companies.Read more
Nintendo Superfan Recreates Company's 19th Century Office To Store His Collection
9.4.2021
Fabrice Heilig, a Nintendo collector from France, has been amassing stuff for so long that his house was running out of space to store it all. So he decided to expand, and when he did, he had one hell of an idea.Read more
That Dusk Puzzle Game? Not Actually An April Fool’s Joke
9.4.2021
Dusk, the decidedly old-school first-person shooter from 2018, is getting an even older-school demake that riffs on classic puzzle games like Chip’s Challenge and Sokoban. And no, this isn’t a joke, despite first word of its existence having dropped on April 1. Read more
Hearthstone Esports Suspends Player Following Abuse Allegations
9.4.2021
Hearthstone Esports announced today that it has suspended one of the game’s Grandmaster tournament players, Paul “Zalae” Nemeth, following allegations of domestic abuse. “Hearthstone Esports is aware of allegations made against America Grandmaster Paul ‘Zalae’ Nemeth. Upon further review, we have...
Muslim Civil Rights Group Calls For Microsoft, Sony, And Valve To Deplatform Six Days In Fallujah
8.4.2021
Calling the controversial first-person shooter that aims to recreate the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah an “Arab murder simulator,” Muslim civil rights and advocacy group CAIR, the Council on American–Islamic Relations, is requesting that Microsoft, Sony, and Valve avoid hosting...
Oh Dang, You Can Actually Dismount Bloopers In Super Mario Sunshine’s Cursed Surfing Level
8.4.2021
Love it or hate it, Super Mario Sunshine has a handful of truly awful levels. But it turns out players discovered a way to make one of the game’s worst stages much, much simpler.Read more
Resident Evil Re:Verse Beta Really Needs A Green Herb
8.4.2021
Capcom has shut down the Resident Evil Re:Verse beta hours into its scheduled three-day test run after hiccups with the game’s matchmaking service made it difficult to find opponents.Read more
Outriders’ First Major Patch Will Nerf The Trickster
8.4.2021
The first major patch for Outriders will be available next week, developer People Can Fly revealed in a blog post today. If you’ve been waiting for general fixes regarding connectivity and inventory wipes, you’ll still have to wait. But, hey, at least the coolest class is getting some serious...
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Makes Its 4K Ultra HD Debut June 8
8.4.2021
With the rest of Final Fantasy VII being remastered, retooled, or remade, it would be silly for the computer-animated tie-in movie not to get its due. Today Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced the 4K Ultra HD remaster of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, complete with HDR support...
Deathloop Delayed To September
8.4.2021
Arkane’s Deathloop has been delayed to September 14, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. The game was originally set to release May 21.Read more
Pet Food Tycoon's Takeover Of GameStop Is Nearly Complete
8.4.2021
Ryan Cohen, co-founder of online pet food company Chewy and favorite of the chaos engine that is the WallStreetBets reddit, will take over as GameStop chairman following the company’s annual shareholder meeting in June.Read more
The Nintendo Download: 31 New Games For The Switch This Week
8.4.2021
Every week, Nintendo releases a list of new games coming to the Switch. It is, almost always, a very long list. This week’s list includes Spry Fox’s Cozy Grove, Switch Online exclusive Pac-Man 99, the Switch version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, and 28 more games, many of which...
Your Spring 2021 Anime Guide
8.4.2021
Spring is in the air! That only means one thing. Actually, it means several things, but one of them is that it’s time for a new season of anime.Read more
The Alex Kidd Remake Is Looking Sharp
8.4.2021
Alex Kidd is one of my earliest console gaming memories, and I was so obsessed with it I used to bug my parents to rent a Sega Master System for the weekend just so I could play it. So I am keeping a very close eye on the upcoming Alex Kidd in Miracle World remake.Read more
Intel, A 'White Nationalism' Slider Ain't It
8.4.2021
Intel gave a presentation at GDC a few weeks back, but I’m guessing nobody actually watched it because it took until this week for anyone to notice this absolutely absurd pitch from the company, which wants to use AI to monitor and censor “hate speech” in your online voice chat, and let users...