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Suda51 Has Ideas For No More Heroes 4, But The Series’ Future Isn’t Up To Him
18.8.2021
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, but eccentric No More Heroes creator Goichi “Suda51” Suda has already put some thought into what a potential No More Heroes 4 might look like ahead of the third entry’s release next week. Sadly, the future of the franchise isn’t entirely in his hands, even...
Yakuza's Kiryu Joins The Growing Super Monkey Ball Cinematic Universe
18.8.2021
Move over, Jet Set Radio’s Beat, you’ve been usurped as the coolest guest character in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. Sega announced this morning that Kazuma Kiryu, the principled protagonist of the Yakuza series, will also be playable in the upcoming game.Read more
Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Spooky Fish Is Already My Favorite New Pokémon
18.8.2021
Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes the series in a new direction with stuff like more open-world exploration, crafting, and mounts. But more importantly, a new game means a new generation of Pokémon, and today Arceus showed off my new favorite: a haunted fish called Basculegion.Read more
Street Fighter Player Daigo Umehara Found The Arcade Where He Got Beat Up
18.8.2021
When Daigo Umehara was 13, the then-future Street Fighter champion got beat up by a rival player for being too good. Now, decades later, Umehara has tracked down the arcade where it went down, thanks to the magic of Google Maps.Read more
New Pokémon Edition Nintendo Switch Lite Is A Subtle Callback
18.8.2021
The Nintendo Switch Lite gets yet another Pokémon themed console. This time, it’s to mark the upcoming November release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, with a familiar design featuring Dialga and Palkia.Read more
Pokémon Sleep Is Still Only A Dream
18.8.2021
Back in 2019, the internet was all sorts of excited by the announcement of mobile game/sleep monitor Pokémon Sleep. But despite a 2020 release date, not a single word had been heard about it since, leaving many to assume it had been abandoned. Then, yesterday, someone noticed its trademark had been...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Is Looking Less Rough
18.8.2021
We got a second, much more in-depth look at Pokémon Legends: Arceus today, and the most ambitious Pokémon game to-date looks to be running a lot smoother than when it was originally revealed earlier this year.Read more
Here's What You'll Actually Do In Pokémon Legends: Arceus
18.8.2021
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is set to break all sorts of new ground. In a first for the Pokémon series, it’s an open-world action role-playing game set in the distant past of the Sinnoh Region. But while we know the January 28 release date, we don’t know much about how this strange new Pokémon game...
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl: Three Entirely New Things For The Remake
18.8.2021
At today’s Pokémon Presents showcase, trainers got another look at the upcoming Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes. We already knew they’d be newer-looking than the originals (obviously). But more new stuff is coming. These aren’t just pixel-for-pixel remakes.Read more
Pokémon Unite Gets Mobile Launch, Crossplay Confirmed
18.8.2021
Pokémon Unite will come to mobile on September 22, and it will offer crossplay between the Nintendo Switch. The MOBA also adds Mamoswine and Sylveon and gifts for trainers.Read more
Humankind: The Kotaku Review
18.8.2021
The Civilization series has been around for—I’m sorry to have to do this to you—30 years now. It helped create a genre and has remained undefeated in it for that entire time, but as we march through the 21st century, there are hints that with the sixth game the Civ formula has got a little stale....
Cyberpunk 2077 Stream Leaves Fans Unimpressed
17.8.2021
Earlier today, a handful of Cyberpunk 2077 devs jumped on CD Projekt Red’s official Twitch channel to provide an overview of the game’s upcoming 1.3 patch and the new in-game content the studio plans to make freely available to everyone who downloads it. Like most things having to do with...
Millions Of Players Later, Outriders Devs Still Waiting For Money
17.8.2021
By the numbers, Outriders is one of the year’s big success stories. And yet, developer People Can Fly apparently hasn’t received any royalties from Square Enix, the loot-shooter’s publisher. As reported by VGC, People Can Fly wrote in an investor note that “this probably means that, in Square...
The Next Pokémon Patch Is Gonna Kill Our Sleepy Boy, Snorlax
17.8.2021
Pokémon Unite’s next highly-anticipated update will add Blissey as a new healer, but that’s not all. The patch also includes a list of terribly disappointing fixes for any Snorlax mains out there, plus a nudge to maybe stop using that damn Eject Button on 95% of your builds.Read more
How The Messiest Mega Man Game In History Got Canned
17.8.2021
Announced back in 2010, Mega Man Universe was an ambitious project that, in retrospect, sounded like it could have been Super Mario Maker for the Capcom crowd. Or maybe it was going to be a Mega Man 2 remake. According to new information dug up by fansite Protodude’s Rockman Corner, when the game...
Final Fantasy Fans, Here Is A Very Cool Video
17.8.2021
If you’ve ever played a Final Fantasy game and been impressed with either the character or pixel art on display—which I’m going to assume is all of you—then there are way worse things you could spend part of your Monday night doing than watching this short documentary.Read more
All That Stranger Things Stuff In Dead By Daylight Is About To Vanish
17.8.2021
Dead by Daylight, the massively popular survival horror game released by Behaviour Interactive in 2016, is going to lose its various Stranger Things-themed content on November 17, the studio announced today. But not before all that Stranger Things DLC and such is marked down 50 percent for...
This New Furry Strategy RPG Won't Stop Breaking My Heart
16.8.2021
When their parents and guardians are kidnapped by the Berman Empire during a surprise attack on their peaceful village, a group of young children take refuge inside an ancient battle tank that springs to life, propelling them headlong into the horrors of war. I’m not sure if the young heroes...
Blissey, Not Blastoise, Is Pokémon Unite’s Next Monster
16.8.2021
Earlier today, the official Pokémon Unite account on Twitter announced that Blissey will join the Pokémon-themed MOBA this Wednesday, August 18, confirming datamined details discovered deep in the game’s code last month. More importantly, the post included footage of Blissey in action, including...
This 2004 Interview With The Creator Of Pokémon Is Full Of Details I Love
16.8.2021
One of my favorite ways to relax in the evenings is to watch this Twitch channel that streams subtitled episodes of the Japanese TV series Game Center CX. If you’re not familiar with the show, most episodes focus on comedian Shinya Arino’s desperate struggles to beat old console games. (It...