Last fall, a new giant Gundam statue was announced. At the time, it was said the statue would move. This week, more details were revealed about the upcoming life-sized Gundam.
Source: Kotaku – The Next Giant Gundam Statue Is Coming To Yokohama
Temtem is an MMO out this week that, in many and very obvious ways, is trying to be the kind of Pokémon game people have wanted for years but have never actually gotten.
Source: Kotaku – Temtem Is A Pokémon Clone That Looks Pretty Cool
It’s all but forgotten now, but in 1999 Kingpin was kind of a big deal, pitched as an unashamedly adult first-person shooter that was going to be video gaming’s answer to Frank Miller’s Sin City.
Source: Kotaku – Kingpin, One Of The Dirtiest Shooters Of The 90s, Is Coming Back
Loading screens often suck. They are a necessary part of playing large and complex video games, but they often break the flow of a game. Sometimes games find fun or interesting things to do with these waits. Dragon Quest Builders 2 uses these screens to showcase user creations and I love it so much.
Source: Kotaku – More Games Need Loading Screens Like Dragon Quest Builders 2
Frogger on the PlayStation 1 was a game I played a lot as a kid. But as I hopped around the various maps for hours and hours, I had no idea what was lurking just out of sight. Turns out a bunch of unused and random bits and bobs are hiding just out of bounds in Frogger.
Source: Kotaku – Hidden Inside Frogger On PlayStation Is An Unused Q*Bert Level
This week on (the first!) Snapshots, we have a Deathclaw chilling on a roof, a sad turtle, Batman going to heaven, a tiny little droid on a mission and more!
Source: Kotaku – A Droid On A Mission
Destiny 2 players have spent the last week trying to crack a complex maze and earlier this morning the final pieces fell into place. Unfortunately, the reward waiting for them, an exotic weapon already publicized by Bungie, wasn’t what many had been hoping for.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2’s Wild Corridors Of Time Puzzle Ends With Lackluster Reward
Dying Light 2 has been delayed until…sometime in the future. Originally planned for a Spring 2020 release the game now has no release date. It is yet another big game that has been delayed in recent weeks.
Source: Kotaku – Another Big Game, Dying Light 2, Has Been Delayed
On what would have been his 91st birthday, we celebrate the towering legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—his moral force as a faith leader, his devotion to nonviolent resistance and, of course, the sacrifices he made to end legalized segregation in the South.
Source: Kotaku – Dr. King Understood the Power of Unions
Damn. The latest season of Seven Deadly Sins features some iffy animation. No doubt it will get cleaned up for the ultimate Blu-ray release, but in the meantime, fans have to contend with some jarring art.
Source: Kotaku – The Seven Deadly Sins Anime Is Looking Pretty Rough
Japanese company Bauhutte, which specializes in gaming chairs and desks, is selling this “under-desk bed.” Is the fact that this product exists a good thing or a very bad one?
Source: Kotaku – In Japan, It’s Now Easier For Tired Workers To Sleep At Work
The good news is that Netflix just got the rights to stream pretty much every major Studio Ghibli release, from Totoro to Princess Mononoke to Ponyo. The bad news is that, if you’re in North America or Japan, that news doesn’t apply to you.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Just Picked Up 21 Studio Ghibli Movies, But Not In North America Or Japan
This is HyperSpace : Pirates of Atira, an upcoming co-op indie space game where players take control of different aspects of a starship and try to work together to keep everyone alive. This kind of thing has of course been tried before, but the division of labour here seems really cool!
Source: Kotaku – This is HyperSpace : Pirates of Atira, an upcoming co-op indie space game where players take control
Simon Gocal is an artist at Massive, the studio behind games like The Division and World In Conflict.
Source: Kotaku – The Revolution Will Be Telegrammed
The Witcher series has produced some pretty good games! Let’s not kid ourselves, though, and pretend every Witcher game has been an all-time great. Because that would mean you, like me, had forgotten all about The Witcher: Crimson Trail, released all the way back in 2007.
Source: Kotaku – Remembering The Witcher’s Terrible Phone Game, For Some Reason
Xbox’s Adaptive Controller has done some amazing things as far as accessibility in video games goes, but the setup isn’t hard-wired to only work on a Microsoft console. It can, with a little work, also run on the Nintendo Switch, and in doing so bring an enormous smile to a little girl’s face.
Source: Kotaku – Dad Builds Custom Xbox Adaptive Controller So Daughter Can Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
As Event Hubs report, this match last night between Guzman and SpaceDetectiveKH ends up stopping a few seconds in for what was assumed by all to be an intense staredown, born out of mutual respect between two fierece competitors before everyone realised that, oh, it was just a technical hiccup.
Source: Kotaku – Respectful Fighting Game Staredown Was Actually Just A Controller Issue
This week one of the biggest releases is not actually a game, but instead some DLC for a game. The first big DLC is coming out this week for Kingdom Hearts 3.
Source: Kotaku – The Week In Games: Here’s Your Re Mind(er) About Kingdom Hearts III DLC
If you have played VR and bumped into your couch while in the middle of a zombie wasteland, you know how weird that feels. It breaks your brain and momentarily shatters the illusion. But what if every object in VR matched a real-world object and you could basically “feel” the game you were playing? That’s what someone…
Source: Kotaku – Someone Built An Extremely Accurate Recreation Of Their Apartment In VR
