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Front Mission 1st: Remake Isn’t The Reimaged Mech Shootout I Hoped For
30.11.2022
Front Mission is an excellent strategy RPG series that deserves to make a comeback. It’s Final Fantasy Tactics’ grittier, grimier, futuristic cousin that swaps out swords and magic wands for submachine guns and giant, half-obliterated mechs slugging it out in a jungle ditch. Some of that charm...
Destiny 2 Goes Full Anime With Haunted Gundam Armor
13.10.2022
Destiny 2’s big spooky event is just around the corner, and Bungie finally teased the new mech-inspired armor players will be chasing. Some people get Ultraman vibes. Others see Power Rangers. But I’m getting a big dose of Gundam, and I’m super pumped about it.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is A Genius JRPG Vision That Began 25 Years Ago
13.10.2022
Tetsuya Takahashi has a story to tell.Read more
Hugely Popular Macross Anime Finally Scores U.S. Video Release
6.7.2022
The irreverently popular sci-fi anime series Macross is finally getting an overseas release.Read more
PUBG Mobile’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Crossover Is Plain Weird
17.5.2022
The latest PUBG Mobile event melds the handheld battle royale with anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion. Among other things, this means we get to see series mascot Eva Unit-01 perform silly dances, which is both delightful in an irony-poisoned sort of way and a serious indictment of...
Robotech Board Game Fires Enormous Missile Barrage Into Kickstarter Funding Goal
20.4.2022
It has been nine years since I last wrote about a Robotech/Macross board game on this website, and I feel like that is far too long, so thankfully I’m getting the chance to revisit the subject with a new tabletop experience.Read more
Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review
30.3.2022
Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem’s ending fails to deliver a satisfying...
It’s 2022 And No Man’s Sky Is Still Getting Massive Free Updates
16.2.2022
I have no idea how to even describe the game that No Man’s Sky has become at this point, and its latest free update called Sentinel is a perfect illustration of why. It overhauls combat and adds new enemies, among many, many other things, leading to missions that seem to have more in common with...
Even More Evangelion Wedding Rings For Getting Hitched
8.2.2022
Since its debut in 1995, Neon Genesis Evangelion has spawned piles and piles of merch. Figures, t-shirts, stickers, coffee cups—you name it. An endless supply of stuff like that is normal. But Evangelion also has other things, like wedding rings. Last fall, wedding rings inspired by the Spear...
Spectacular Vid Showcases Evolution Of Godzilla's Iconic Atomic Breath
10.1.2022
Godzilla wouldn’t be the king of all monsters he is today if it weren’t for his signature atomic breath, and a new YouTube video showcases the evolution of this signature move with some stunning 3D graphics. Read more
The 11 Best Anime Of 2021
12.12.2021
The year of our lord 2021 blessed us with a stacked year of mondo cool anime, especially during the winter and fall seasons. Like a goudere Moses descending the Hokage Rock to deliver the good word to the people, it’s my turn as the otaku of Kotaku to present my favorite anime of the year. Here’s...
This Steam Chart Topper Is A Rare Treat For Western Mech Fans
3.12.2021
We don’t get many Super Robots Wars ‘round these parts. It’s one of the biggest series in Japan, with around 50 games to its name, but only a handful of Super Robot Wars games have been released in North America during its 30-year run. The latest, Super Robot Wars 30, was one of Steam’s top sellers...
Beloved Shooter Titanfall Will Be Pulled From Stores Permanently
1.12.2021
Titanfall, the game which catapulted Respawn Entertainment to the status of EA’s star studio, is being pulled from digital storefronts and subscription services on March 1, 2022. This, to me? Sucks. However—given the game’s recent brush with some very bad hacking—it isn’t particularly surprising...
Neon Genesis Evangelion Cosplay Gets In The F**king Robot
30.11.2021
I’ve lost count of the amount of Neon Genesis Evangelion cosplay I’ve posted on this site over the last 10 years, but pretty much all of it has been focused on the anime’s characters, especially Rei and Asuka. It’s enormous mechs are a somewhat trickier proposition.Read more
$7000 Evangelion Jackets Are Some Expensive Cosplay
25.10.2021
First shown off in March, Undercover’s new line of Evangelion-inspired outfits are now available for sale. Or should I say were available for sale, until they almost instantly sold out, leaving us to either pay apocalyptic resale prices or, more sensibly, simply look at pictures of them on...
I Desperately Want These Rare Evangelion Figures
19.10.2021
Neon Genesis Evangelion is, in my mind, a near-perfect piece of entertainment, but I gotta admit that I would love to rewatch it through the eyes of Japanese artist Yukinori Dehara.Read more
Modders Finally Add Wall-Running To Apex Legends
24.8.2021
Know what the coolest thing about Titanfall was? Piloting spritely, giant robots. Know what the second coolest thing was? Being able to run along the walls. So it has long been very strange that Apex Legends, a game set in the same universe as Titanfall, has allowed you to do neither of those...
Lightyear Frontier Is Another Farming Game, Only This Time With Mechs
11.8.2021
Lightyear Frontier is “an open-world farming exploration” game that’s coming to the PC. You build a farm, you go exploring and you harvest resources, only instead of being an aww shucks innocent kid moving to a new town, you’re piloting a huge mech on an alien world.Read more
Japan's Big Robot Crossover Game Is Officially Coming To The West
15.7.2021
Super Robot Wars 30 was announced during Nintendo Japan’s E3 presentation, and didn’t warrant a mention in the Western show because it was assumed by everyone, myself included, that it was never coming to the West. Wrong!Read more
Japan's Giant Robot Crossover Series Is Back For What Feels Like Its 1174th Game
16.6.2021
Super Robot Wars, one of the longest-running and most numerous video game series of all time, is back once more, and this time it’s celebrating its 30th birthday.Read more