Chingy Nea
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Final Fantasy XIV’s Latest Update Is Full of Dragons, Drama, and Drakengard References
Last week Final Fantasy XIV released the first half of its final Shadowbringers update, entitled Death Unto Dawn, alongside the launch of its PS5 beta. This is the last major patch before the game’s highly anticipated Endwalker expansion, and it makes for an engaging and challenging burst of endgame content... → Read More
Yakuza's Latest Protagonist Is The Hero I Need Right Now
Yakuza Like A Dragon's Ichiban is the perfect protagonist for the hellscape our world is in right now. → Read More
20 Years Later I’m Still Thinking About The Bouncer
Sometimes a piece of pop culture worms its way into your brain, builds a comfortable, cost-efficient home in your cerebral cortex, and lives there happily for decades on end. My own tenant is The Bouncer, an odd beat ‘em up by Square Soft, which came out in Japan 20 years... → Read More
Yakuza's Latest Protagonist Is The Hero I Need Right Now
Yakuza's Ichiban is the perfect protagonist for the hellscape of 2020. → Read More
How To Lose Friends And Alienate Villagers
Animal Crossing is all about the villagers and friends you make. But what happens when you're forced to live with a villager you can't stand? → Read More
Seven Video Games Where You Beat Up Your Dad
Our culture suggests that this time of year is all about family, and while family can be a lovely thing, it also tends toward being very complicated. → Read More
Yakuza's Latest Protagonist Is The Hero I Need Right Now
Yakuza's Ichiban is the perfect protagonist for the hellscape of 2020. → Read More
Final Fantasy XIV's Grand Score Shows Masayoshi Soken Is Every Bit Uematsu's Equal
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-arse sounds they make. Today we’re talkin’ about how Final Fantasy XIV’s incomparably huge soundtrack manages to whip arse in so many different ways. So many. When you think of Final Fantasy, one of the... → Read More
Final Fantasy XIV's Crafting System Turned Me Into A Capitalist Swine
A few expansions into playing Final Fantasy XIV, I decided to try levelling one of the game’s many crafting classes. For one, I’d heard a fair amount of FFXIV’s strongest weapons and most stylish gear were locked behind them. On top of that, I’d found the adventuring life to be... → Read More
15 Years On, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Is A Lot Smarter Than I Remember
15 years ago today Square Enix released Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a CGI-animated feature-length movie based on one of the most iconic role-playing games of all time. A decade and a half before we actually got a Final Fantasy VII Remake (or at least the first part of one),... → Read More
I Can't Stop Thinking About Final Fantasy XIV's Latest Villain
Be it Sephiroth or Seymour, Zemus or Kuja, Kefka or a weird evil tree, Final Fantasy does not lack for classic villains. And while some of Final Fantasy XIV’s may not be as well-known, the MMORPG enjoys a particular knack for humanising even the most heinous antagonists, and its latest... → Read More
Fan Discovers Division 2 Audio Files That May Spoil Months Of Upcoming Storylines
A datamining fan has found and shared what seems to be the possible next few months of story updates for The Division 2 buried in the new Public Test Server build of the game.... → Read More
Maneater: The Kotaku Review
So many games only let me play as a human. Sure, that’s fun, but it’s not really taking full advantage of games’ ability to let us be and do anything. Maneater gets it. In Maneater, I’m not a dull person—I’m a shark. A dangerous, agile, and cool shark, free to swim anywhere and eat whatever and whoever I... → Read More
A Very Important Question: Is Knack Naked?
Stop whatever you are doing and help the internet answer this question about Knack. → Read More
8 Great Anime Series For People Who Don't Like Anime
A lot of people love anime... this article isn’t for them. No, it’s specifically for those people in your life who claim to have no interest in anime as a genre. But the thing is, anime isn’t really a genre: It’s an entire medium, full of many genres and specific styles.... → Read More
How To Lose Friends And Alienate Villagers
The heart of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the friendships you build with your animal neighbours, each with their own quirks, aesthetics, and personality traits. So when Tom Nook announced that the humble island of Bussy Beach had its very first visitor at our brand new campsite, I was ecstatic. I rushed to the... → Read More