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Neo: The World Ends With You: The Kotaku Review
30.7.2021
When I’m playing Neo: The World Ends With You, I’m smiling. Whether I’m running Rindo Kanade and his pack of teen misfits through the streets of Shibuya battling monstrous living graffiti beasts and picking up the latest fashions, or just rifling through the menus fiddling with equipment loadouts...
Give Me The Stray Cat Game Right Now And Nobody Gets Hurt
29.7.2021
During today’s Annapurna Interactive showcase, French developer BlueTwelve Studio finally gave us an in-depth look at its first game, Stray.Read more
12 Hours With 2021's Latest Big Viking Game
29.7.2021
I wanted to like Tribes of Midgard. It has great style, with wonderful visuals that feel ripped out of an ancient painting. The combat is fun and responsive. But it also incorporates some of the worst parts of roguelikes and survival games and quickly becomes repetitive, with little payoff...
7 Games From Annapurna’s Showcase You Should Know About
29.7.2021
Annapurna Interactive, the publisher of well-regarded sleeper hits like Sayonara Wild Hearts and Maquette, held its first showcase today. Historically, the mega-purveyor of indie darlings has shown off its games in buzzy pressers put on by far larger companies, hitching its wagon to the likes...
Big 2019 GOTY Contender Outer Wilds Is Getting DLC
29.7.2021
Outer Wilds, the first-person space exploration game beloved by everyone at or no longer at Kotaku—and also every other sentient being on this planet—is getting an expansion. It’s called Echoes of the Eye, and is slated for a September 28 release. Developer Mobius Digital announced the news...
New Pokémon Snap Adds Free Content, Like More Monsters
29.7.2021
It’s been three months since New Pokémon Snap came along to brighten up our Switches, meaning there’s a fair chance you’ve explored far and wide, and perhaps even snapped ‘em all. So good news: a free update is arriving August 3, adding in three new areas, and 20 new Pokémon.Read more
The Ascent Makes Good On Cyberpunk 2077's Promise
29.7.2021
Every now and again, a game comes along that simply blows you away.Read more
Rare Street Fighter II Anime Finally Translated Into English
29.7.2021
In 1995, a big exhibition took place in Nara honouring Japan’s first capital city, Fujiwara. Among the sponsors and partners helping out was Capcom, who went to the trouble of commissioning a 27-minute Street Fighter II movie that was only available on VHS at the venue, at the time.Read more
Pokémon GO Really Needs To Stop Fixing Raid Captures
28.7.2021
There’s certainly a lot wrong with Pokémon GO. The extraordinarily popular mobile AR game has just celebrated its fifth birthday, five years during which it’s routinely brought in more than a billion dollars for creators Niantic. I’d like to imagine would be enough money for them to fix a bunch...
The Berserk Manga's Future Is Still Undecided
28.7.2021
On May 6, Berserk creator Kentaro Miura died at the age of 54 from acute aortic dissection. At the time the editorial department of Young Animal Comics announced the news through the official Berserk Twitter account. Nearly three months later, the question of whether the manga—described by Miura...
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures: The Kotaku Review
28.7.2021
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was one of the first games I owned on my Nintendo DS. Since that game’s release in 2005, I have played every single game in the Ace Attorney series including the Professor Layton crossover and the Ace Attorney: Investigations spin-off. On my pie-in-the-sky video game...
Pokémon Go Accidentally Banned A Ton Of Players
28.7.2021
Pokémon Go developer Niantic has acknowledged that a recent wave of cheating punishments, including account strikes and outright bans, were doled out to players erroneously.Read more
Everyone Makes The Same Choices In Mass Effect, Apparently
27.7.2021
Mass Effect is contingent on choice—or at least the illusion of it. Turns out, in playing (or replaying) Mass Effect Legendary Edition, a lot of you who played the remastered trilogy made pretty much the same decisions. That’s according to an infographic BioWare posted on Twitter today.Read more
Sorry, Agent 47 Isn’t Horny In Hitman 3's Season Of Lust
27.7.2021
IO Interactive released the full roadmap for Hitman 3’s Season of Lust today. Sadly, it seems devoid of the sultry deviation some fans hoped for.Read more
We're Making New Animal Crossing Content, Nintendo Says
27.7.2021
The lengthy content drought in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is about to come to an end. In two days, fireworks will return to the game. Later this year, more content will come to the game, Nintendo said in a tweet, though didn’t offer details about what, exactly, that content will be.Read more
Yahoo! Japan works with Line to launch NFT trading
27.7.2021
Yahoo! Japan collaborates with messaging giant Line to enable secondary trading of NFTs issued on Line’s proprietary blockchain
Demystifying styled-components
27.7.2021
 Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey.
styled-components seems like the biggest player in the CSS-in-React market. Despite being in that world, I haven’t yet been fully compelled by it. I’m …
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Insomniac’s Latest Games Are Made To Be Platinumed
27.7.2021
Not long ago, I did something I rarely do: I got all the trophies in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Often, I get too busy or bored and don’t complete everything in a game. This is doubly true for big open world games. But Rift Apart kept me hooked and seemed made with the idea that Insomniac...
Blizzard Devs Say Some Men Were Sexually Harassed, Too
26.7.2021
Since allegations of widespread harassment and discrimination at Activision Blizzard first surfaced last week, former Blizzard developers and women across the field have spoken up once again about abuse in the games industry. While many of those affected are women, not all are, and some men...
Street Fighter V Champ: ‘Imma Just Play Guilty Gear’
26.7.2021
Over the weekend, Victor “Punk” Woodley qualified to play in his fourth Capcom Cup, the developer-backed event that serves as the capstone for every year’s Street Fighter V competition. But when asked how he plans to prepare for the high-level tournament, Punk was as blunt as his in-game name...