Ys VIII’s Music Gets The Adventuring Party Started Right

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s track is a Ys VIII tune that’s guaranteed to get you in the mood for an epic journey on a mysterious island, which is a thing we used to be able to do in…

Anime Created On Nintendo 3DS Took Four Years To Make

YouTuber Mirror Panel-3 spent four years creating an anime on Flipnote Studio 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. Titled Flipnote Warrior, the 34-minute anime will be released on December 4, and is about a young girl’s life that forever changes thanks to an unexpected encounter on a Nintendo 3DS. According to Mirror Panel-3, all the animation…

Pokémon Air Is A Rubber Pikachu Folks Can Ride

This isn’t a video game, but rather, a rideable rubber Pikachu toy. Say hello to Pokémon Air. According to the official site, while Pokémon Air is listed as age three and up, it claims that even adults can ride the rubber Pikachu. Pokémon Air can hold up to 100 kilograms (220 pounds), so not all…

Track: Mugenmirai | Artist: Perfume | Album: Future Pop 

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EA Is Killing Off The Origin Name Entirely

After nine anticlimactic years the Origin name is no more. Going forward, EA will simply refer to its PC gaming client as the “EA desktop app.” The video game publisher announced the move inan interview with GamesIndustry.biz, saying the name change is part of a larger overhaul of the platform intended to “to create a…

Avengers Players Are Frustrated By Its Terrible AI Teammates

Marvel’s Avengers includes the option to play online, or you can play solo with computer-controlled teammates. Playing with AI means you don’t have to deal with the game’s lousy matchmaking, but it does mean you have to deal with the game’s terrible AI, who appear in every mission where you don’t have a full roster…

Is 512GB Enough Storage For The New Xbox Series S?

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take. This week we Ask Kotaku: Is 512GB enough storage for Microsoft’s just-announced, next-gen console Xbox Series S? Ethan I am very lazy at loading the dishwasher. When I finish, it kind…

We Asked A Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Master How To Combo Like A Beast

There are people out there who don’t play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater like you and me. Where I’m happy with barely reaching the high-score goals on each level, more serious players have been pushing the limits of the series to rack up millions (and sometimes billions) of points for years. With the release of Tony…

The Outer Worlds’ First DLC Is Too Cynical For Its Own Good

Peril on Gorgon is a good excuse to return to the Outer Worlds’ retro-futurist dystopia. I only wish doing so had finally given me some hope that its neo-feudalist colonies might someday be saved. Out last week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC (it will arrive sometime later on Switch), Peril on Gorgon is the…

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), Advent Children’s stunningly rendered CGI…

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Here Are The 172 Xbox Cloud Gaming Launch Games

Tomorrow is the official launch day for cloud streaming with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Microsoft has revealed the full list of 172 titles users will be able to stream to their Android phones and tablets, from A Plague Tale: Innocence to Yakuza Kiwami 2. It’s not the full Xbox Game Pass library, but a…