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Nier Automata's Latest Video Game Crossover Is Its Horniest One Yet
31.8.2023
Nier: Automata, a fatalistic video game about attractive androids fighting to save a doomed humanity, is a franchise that’ll never say no to making a guest appearance in another video game regardless of how nonsensical the crossover might be. In the six years since its release, the sci-fi...
The Video Game Endings We'll Never Forget, For Better Or Worse
19.7.2023
A lot of people never finish the video games they buy. We’re all guilty of it, and as a result, we’ve missed out some pretty memorable finales, both good and bad. For some games, an ending can be a great culmination of hours and hours of storytelling, design decisions, and and interacting with...
Yoko Taro’s New Death Game Anime Sounds Typically Wild
4.7.2023
During an Anime Expo interview, I spoke with creators Yoko Taro (NieR Automata), Atsushi Ohkubo (Fire Force), Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin), and the mononymous Jin (Kagerou Project) about how they came together to make the upcoming anime sci-fi death-game anime, KamiErabi GOD.App.Read more
Nier Creator Yoko Taro Lost His Iconic Mask At Anime Expo 2023
4.7.2023
Typically, whenever Nier creator Yoko Taro makes an appearance, the auteur keeps his face hidden from the public with a giant mask based on Emil, the strange-looking Nier character. However, while attending Anime Expo 2023 to promote his new anime, fans witnessed a new and honestly pretty...
Square Enix’s Splatoon Clone Isn’t A Complete Fraud
10.6.2023
When Foamstars, Square Enix’s Splatoon-esque party game where two teams of four face off in a giant foam-spewing battle, was announced at the PlayStation games showcase, it wasn’t clear what to expect. Was this just Splatoon in PlayStation-exclusive form? What was the gameplay like? Would it be...
Our Favorite Cosplay From Katsucon 2023
22.3.2023
After a few months off for Winter, the North American cosplay season is starting to heat up once again, with the year’s first major show—Katsucon—taking place last month just outside of DC.Read more
Yoko Taro's New Game Turns Sega Classics Into Women
10.2.2023
Today, Sega revealed the trailer for its new mobile game collaboration with Nier and Drakengard series creator Yoko Taro. As is tradition for any collaboration with Taro, this game’s elevator pitch trades in the bizarre twists only Taro’s mind can concoct: a gacha game that transforms Sega classics...
The Nier: Automata Anime Has Secret Codes In It Because Of Course It Does
17.1.2023
We’re only two episodes deep into A-1 Pictures’ anime adaptation of Nier: Automata and it’s already got viewers putting on their thinking caps and deciphering secret coded messages.Read more
Your Winter 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
16.12.2022
Oh, you thought you were free of Kotaku-themed anime slideshows? Nah, fam, you’re still trapped in the weeb mines with me. But hark, there be light at the end of this dakimakura-infested tunnel. Winter is coming, and with it are even more anime for your viewing pleasure.Read more
The 9 Most Busted Games Of 2022
7.12.2022
2022 was a huge bummer of a year for a lot of reasons, and buggy video games only exacerbated that feeling. It really does suck to shell out $60 or, as is quickly becoming the norm, $70 on something that is fundamentally broken at launch, especially if that something was created under exploitative...
Yoko Taro Is Gonna Delete These Fans' Saves Forever And They're Gonna Like It
27.10.2022
Usually, when a game’s online servers are sunsetted, players don’t get the opportunity to go out in a self-aware blaze of glory before the final dawn arrives. But then again, most games don’t have the bizarre Nier creator, Yoko Taro, as their director.Read more
Nier: Automata Is A Great Time On Switch, Aside From The Hand Cramps
20.10.2022
If you find yourself in dire need to play a PlatinumGames uh, game on your Nintendo Switch without all the baggage of Bayonetta 3’s messy voice-acting controversy muddling your enjoyment of a rollicking kick-ass character action game with a powerful and fashionable leading lady, you can rest...
CEO ‘Extremely Sorry’ About Shutting Down PS5’s Worst Game
6.10.2022
Babylon’s Fall is one of the worst games of the year and a massive warning to anyone preparing to make or buy an always-online live service game. Despite bold plans for season content and continued updates, publisher Square Enix announced last month the action-RPG would be removed from store...
The Week In Games: Nier Man’s Switch
4.10.2022
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We Finally Got A Look At The Nier: Automata Anime Coming Next Year
26.9.2022
We’ve been waiting since February, when a cryptic teaser went up hinting at an anime adaptation for the popular Japanese action-RPG Nier: Automata, for more details on the promising project. This weekend, we finally got not one, but two character trailers and some info on the upcoming anime.Read...
Podívejte se, jak vypadá NieR:Automata na Switchi
21.9.2022
Založila si Tinder, aby přesvědčovala muže ke koupi oblíbené videohry
7.9.2022
Oddaná fanynka legendární japonské hry Nier: Automata přiznala, že k její koupi chtěla motivovat muže s využitím seznamovací aplikaci Tinder. V průběhu několika let jich takto údajně přesvědčila dvaadvacet, s žádným se přitom poté nesetkala
She Convinced Men On Tinder To Buy Nier: Automata And Then Ghosted Them, She Says
16.8.2022
There’s a dramatic scene in Nier: Automata in which a desperate, downtrodden android commands his AI companion to cease all logical functions. The AI, sensible thing that it is, warns him that there’s almost no chance this will end well. Our hero knows this, of course; he does it anyway. This leads...
The Best Time To Play Nier: Automata Is Right Now
1.8.2022
Nier: Automata spent the last week in the headlines, the result of a secret door that sent the community into a scramble. The mystery itself may have come to a sudden, surprising conclusion, but that doesn’t mean the base game it was part of should drop off your radar. In fact, it’s all the more...
The Nier: Automata Secret Door Hunt Is Over, In The Wildest Possible Way
29.7.2022
It all started with a question: “How do you get into the church?” The answer, it turns out, is simple: You don’t—at least not yet. Yes, Nier: Automata’s baffling secret door was all just an intricate mod.Read more