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Say Hello To 2024 With January’s Game Releases
27.12.2023
Happy New Year! Well, almost. 2023 will soon be behind us, and that means a whole calendar year of new releases to look forward to lies ahead. January might arrive with a brisk selection of titles, but it’s a pretty sweet way to kick off 2024. Read more
Kotaku Asks: What Are Your Most Anticipated Games Of 2024?
18.12.2023
2024 is shaping up to be a stacked year for games. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Tekken 8, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League are all coming out in the first two months of next year. So, Kotaku’s got a question for...
Tekken Producer Has Had Enough With The 'Silly' Death Threats
11.8.2023
No one likes death threats or otherwise intimidating remarks that threaten violence. Such comments are callous, dehumanizing, pointless, unproductive, and do nothing for anyone. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada made that expressly clear, telling folks to not ask him for shit if all they’re going...
The Most Essential Barbie Video Games, Ranked
7.8.2023
Before Greta Gerwig exploded some men’s brains with her blockbuster Barbie movie earlier this summer, and some decades after toy company Mattel exploded parents’ wallets with the Barbie doll in 1959, video game companies released a bunch of Barbie games. Read more
Tekken 8 Has Special Character Intros For Lore Nerds
29.3.2023
Fighting game fanatics got their first real look at Bandai Namco’s newest entry in its long-running Tekken series during last year’s PlayStation State Of Play. Now a bunch of hands-on previews for Tekken 8 have dropped, and among the revelations is the fact that Tekken is taking a page out of...
Sega's Iconic Akihabara Arcade is Being Taken Over By A Rival
23.2.2023
For a very long time, Sega’s big arcades were a mainstay of the Akihabara skyline, and some of the main attractions for anyone making a gaming-related pilgrimage through the streets of Tokyo.Read more
Don’t Sleep On Keke Palmer’s Amazing Twitch Streams
9.2.2023
Another big-name celebrity has found their way to Twitch. Keke Palmer, the long-time actress and TV personality who most recently starred in Jordan Peele’s Nope, has become a full-fledged livestreamer on Amazon’s platform after getting her channel set up earlier this month.Read more
Tekken Players Are Debating How 'Anti-Beginner' The Series Is
29.9.2022
Recently, the fighting game community has been at each other’s throats over how “anti-beginner” the Tekken series is. Tekken 7, the latest entry to forgo a tutorial mode, is at the discourse’s center, with one player suggesting it needs changes to stay relevant. A good tutorial wouldn’t hurt, along...
Tekken 7 Player Competes In Tournament With Big-Ass Buster Sword Controller
22.8.2022
Fighting game tournaments are always exciting events. When attendees aren’t being wowed by the amazing announcements or stellar combos on display, they can enjoy the parade of copious controllers people bring to compete in their favorite games. Such controllers often have interesting artwork...
Street Fighter 6’s Cheat Mode Is A Game Changer
16.6.2022
The growth and mainstreaming of esports has helped shine a spotlight on an important but often overshadowed corner of gaming culture. But it’s also occasionally led some developers to focus on the high-end competitive side of their games while the casual audience at home languishes. Street Fighter...
Elden Ring Characters Beat Each Other To A Pulp In Bonkers Tekken Mod
31.3.2022
We’re one month removed from Elden Ring’s launch, probably FromSoftware’s biggest Souls-like release thus far, and the action-RPG is still top of folks’ minds. It’s still on mine, even if I managed to leave the Lands Between briefly to play Ghostwire: Tokyo. I love the characters and world of Elden...
All The Video Game Franchises GTA V Has Outsold (It's A Long List)
12.2.2022
Grand Theft Auto V is one of the best-selling games of all time. It has sold over 160 million copies since it was first released back in 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360. But to really put that number into perspective, it helps to look at all the video game franchises that GTA V, by itself, has completely...
Horizon Forbidden West Reusing Animations Isn’t A New Phenomenon (And It's Not Bad, Either)
27.1.2022
IGN has published a new comparison video for Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West. The four-minute clip, a rundown of the biggest changes made between the upcoming action-adventure game and 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, showed how similar the two appear to be side-by-side. One particular moment...
Kuma Is The Best Character In The Tekken Series
2.1.2022
There are many, many, MANY fighters and characters who have appeared throughout the Tekken franchise. Some of them are really strange. Others are cool. Some are boring and nobody cares about them. And then there’s Kuma the bear, the best of them all.Read more
Masahiro Sakurai Isn't Thrilled With Being A Meme
16.8.2021
Game creator Masahiro Sakurai, the man behind Kirby and Smash Bros., might be an industry legend, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy with being meme fodder. During the most recent Harada’s Bar episode, Tekken designer Katsuhiro Harada cleared the air about the “Never ask me for anything ever again”...
Tekken Director's Failed Prank Could've Got Capcom In Trouble
5.7.2021
Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada and former Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono used to be hilarious Twitter rivals. Years ago, while at Gamescom, Harada thought he’d play a prank on Ono. It seemed like a pretty good one until he found out Ono had outsmarted him. Read more
Dante In Smash Bros. Turned Into Some Real Monkey's Paw Stuff
28.6.2021
Nintendo revealed some new Mii Fighter costumes coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate today, including one based on Dante from the Devil May Cry series. While fans have long wanted the demon-killing Dante to appear in Smash, this was not what they were asking for—and it has led to a lot of sad...
Tekken X Street Fighter Is Dead
21.6.2021
After years of speculation, Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has officially closed the book on Tekken X Street Fighter, announcing that work has halted on the highly anticipated crossover via his personal YouTube channel.Read more
Super Smash Bros. Gets Tekken's Kazuya
15.6.2021
Tekken’s Kazuya Mishima will be punching Mario, Kirby, Link, and the rest of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s motley crew square in their noses very soon, Nintendo announced during today’s E3 2021 presentation.Read more
Tekken Director Challenges Virtua Fighter Team To Make Another Game
3.6.2021
In the latest video for his personal YouTube channel, Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada spoke at length about this week’s release of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown, sharing that he’s always viewed surpassing Sega’s foundational 3D fighting series as a personal goal.Read more