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And Now Some Ramen Collab Sneakers
Tenkaippin, or Ten’ichi as fans call it, is a ramen restaurant chain in Japan. Ten’ichi has over 230 locations across the country, as well as one in Hawaii. And now, it also has collab sneakers.
KotakuKotakuJapan's Gundam Cafés Will All Close Down
If you were hoping to visit Japan’s Gundam Cafés, you better do it soon, because early next year, it looks like they’re all going to close.
KotakuNew World Disables 'All Forms Of Wealth Transfers' After Gold Exploit Found
After an exploit was found over the weekend that first let players send images in the chat box, kick other players unknowingly and duplicate gold, Amazon has stepped in and taken some drastic action.
KotakuAge Of Empires IV's Fancy Cutscenes Are A Wonder
I’ve been playing the new Age of Empires IV this week, and for all the good work that has been done in bringing a classic game into a modern era, the _best_thing about it are the bits that happen while you’re not even playing.
KotakuGary Bowser Pleads Guilty To Piracy Charges After Nintendo Pursuit
Team-Xecuter was a hacking group that sold both software and hardware for stuff like Nintendo consoles. While arguing that they were simply advocating for homebrew programs and a consumer’s right to repair their own property, gaming giants like Nintendo thought otherwise.
KotakuMario Kart NFT Idea Is The Worst Thing I Have Ever Read
Bloomberg Wealthhas a major feature up today called “Into the Metaverse: Where Crypto, Gaming and Capitalism Collide”. It is as critical and as informative as you’d guess something coming from a finance site would be, but there’s one section in particular that will haunt me, and now you, for the rest of the week.
KotakuWorld's Most Popular Game Is Getting 'Triple-A,' Open-World Spin-Off
This weekend, _Pokémon Unite_and Call of Duty: Mobile developer TiMi Studio announced the development of Honor of Kings: World. It’s to be an “AAA” open-world game based on its smash-hit mobile MOBA, Honor of Kings.
KotakuHappy Home Paradise Will Be Animal Crossing: New Horizons' One And Only Paid DLC
Nintendo has announced that this week’s Happy Home Paradise expansion will be Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ only paid DLC, and that major updates to the game will be coming to an end following both the DLC and the game’s free version 2.0 update.
KotakuEasy Far Cry 6 Exploit Totally Eliminates Weapon Recoil
The new open-world shooter Far Cry 6 quickly lets you become an unstoppable machine. Here’s a trick that’ll make you even less stoppable: By turning off the game’s camera shake, you’ll completely eliminate recoil for all weapons, including shotguns and extremely high fire-rate machine guns.
KotakuMore People Are Playing Left 4 Dead 2 Than Back 4 Blood
A quick perusal of Steam-tracking sites indicates that players returned to Left 4 Dead 2 in droves following the October 12 launch of spiritual successor Back 4 Blood, so much so that the older game is now more popular than the newer one.
KotakuU.S. Senator Heartbroken Men Watch Porn And Play Video Games
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, took the stage at the National Conservatism Conference yesterday to decry the war on men. In a long and meandering speech, he sounded the alarm about falling marriage rates and college attendance, and argued that more and more men are dropping out of the workforce and…
KotakuStardew Valley Dev's Next Game Has 'Greater Focus' On Combat
Revealed just last week, Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone has already provided a nice little update about his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. According to a new blog post, the upcoming action-RPG has a “greater focus on combat” in comparison to his previous hit.
KotakuLuigi's Afraid Of Mo' Ghosts In New Lego Sets
Finally, after first appearing in August, the Lego version of Luigi is getting his own sets. But poor blocky Luigi, it seems Nintendo and Lego want to torture him, because the new sets are all based on Luigi’s Mansion. Don’t they know Luigi (and his Lego variant) is afraid of ghosts! Luckily Professor E. Gadd is here…
KotakuReturnal Players Found A Way To Save Scum In Latest Patch
Housemarque finally took some pity on players of its difficult sci-fi shooter Returnal last week, and added a suspend feature in update 2.0. Now players have found a way to turn it into a full-on save scumming exploit.
KotakuGenshin Impact's Cooking Minigame Offers A Cozy Break From Its Roguelike Event
As part of Genshin Impact’s ongoing Labyrinth Warriors event, developer miHoYo has launched a limited-time web game called “Yummy! Barbeque Under the Stars.” In this cooking minigame which can be played via your internet browser, players earn in-game items and primogems (premium currency) for their culinary skills.…
KotakuMandalorian Spin-Off The Book Of Boba Fett Gets First Trailer
A long time ago (last year) in a galaxy far, far away (Hollywood), Disney execs confirmed a never-ending slew of Star Wars shows, including multiple spin-offs of The Mandalorian (stop reading now if you’re averse to spoilers for season two of that show). Today, Disney released the trailer for the first of those, The…
KotakuPocket Camp Reveals The Personalities of Animal Crossing’s Newest Villagers
Last week, the personalities of Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s (seemingly) final eight villagers were revealed via Pocket Camp. Their Pocket Camp iterations also include their favorite sayings, catchphrases, and broad descriptions of the characters—which has given me enough information to perform a vibe check.
KotakuPokémon Go Adds The Cutest New Monster During Festival Of Lights
Earlier today, the official _Pokémon Go_website announced that Dedenne, the adorable electric and fairy-type Pokémon, will be the next monster in the mobile game. Dedenne will be available during the Festival of Lights, the Diwali-inspired event, on November 5 at 10 a.m. through November 14 at 8 p.m. local time.
KotakuIt Takes Two, The Best Co-Op Game Of The Year, Is Coming To Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass is starting November off strong. After half a year, It Takes Two, the acclaimed cooperative game from the makers of 2018’s A Way Out, is finally coming to the service, albeit only for those who pay for the premium tier. That’s alongside some other offerings (available to all subscribers). Here’s …
KotakuMan Dressed As The Joker From Batman Arrested After Knife Attack
Seventeen people were injured on October 31 in Tokyo during an attack on a Tokyo subway train. The attack has left one victim, a man in his 70s, in critical condition. A 24-year-old man, dressed as the Joker from Batman, was arrested at the scene for attempted murder.
KotakuFortnite Is Shutting Down Its Service In China
The official site for Fortnite China has announced that on November 15 of this year, the game’s service will end for the country.
KotakuMicrosoft And Sega Are Teaming Up For Next-Gen Cloud Gaming
With an eye towards the future, Sega is entering into a strategic alliance with Microsoft in a move that will enable the Tokyo-based game maker to take advantage of the tech giant’s cloud technology.
KotakuRelics From A Future Past
Of the_thousands_of Fine Art posts we’ve run over the last decade, nearly every single one of them has focused on the digital world, whether they be lavish environmental sketches or 3D models made for a video game. Tonight, I figured we could do with a break, and look at something a little more real.
KotakuCosplayer Simply Becomes Angelina Jolie
I’ve featured the work of Alyson Tabbitha a bunch of times here on Kotaku, because she’s just the best. Her make-up work is transformative, and in the past she has shape-shifted into everyone from Wonder Woman to Jack Sparrow to Leeloo Dallas.
KotakuNew World Bug Let You Kick Other Players Just By Chatting With Them
_New World’s_launch has been plagued by a bunch of weird, sometimes catastrophic bugs, but this latest is one of the strangest I’ve ever seen: it let you kick other players out of the game just by sending them certain messages.
KotakuThe Week In Games: Dance Like Nobody's Watching
As Lady Gaga once said, it’s time to just dance. It’s going to be okay. Da da doo-doo-mmm or something like that. Anyway, Just Dance 2022 is out this week on all major platforms. (Sadly, not the Wii.)
KotakuFantastic Looking Bloodborne PS1 Demake Is Out January 31
Sure, we still don’t have a PC port of Bloodborne, but next year folks will finally be able to play Bloodborne PSX, a fan-made demake of the first section of Bloodborne, complete with boss fights and more. A new trailer released today revealed it’s out for free on January 31, 2022.
KotakuScooby-Doo! Night Of 100 Frights Is A PS2 Classic Thanks To Its Great Music And Tim Curry
I don’t expect much from licensed video games. So I was shocked when I came across the soundtrack for Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, a 2002 PS2 game based on the popular ‘70s cartoon. Turns out this game’s music slaps.
KotakuNintendo's Online Expansion Pack Trailer Is Now Its Most Disliked Video On YouTube
Well, it seems a lot of people don’t like Nintendo’s new Switch Online Expansion Pack based on the reveal trailer’s likes and dislikes. The video, which revealed the pricing details for the plan, now has 104k dislikes on YouTube, overtaking the previously most hated video on Nintendo’s channel: A trailer for Metroid…
KotakuSunday Comics: Trick Or Treat!
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.