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Ubisoft Facing Lawsuit Over Shutting Down Always-Online Game
11.11.2024
Two people in California have filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft after the company turned off servers for 2014's The Crew, an open-world racing game released on PS4 and Xbox One, making it impossible to play the game. Read more
Every Star Wars TV Show, Ranked From Worst To Best
8.10.2024
Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012, there’s been a steady drip feed of Star Wars television shows airing on Disney+. Before that, we had a few shows set in George Lucas’ space opera universe, but they were only animated series (mostly) geared towards children. Since the Disney deluge...
Mortal Kombat 1 Has Brought Back Animality Finishers, And They're Great
1.10.2024
Although some fans have worried about the fatality-filled series’ latest entry, Mortal Kombat 1’s Khaos Reigns addition has introduced a lot of new content, through a free update and a paid expansion (albeit with a much-maligned story mode). One notable inclusion is the return of the Animality...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 5 Games We Can't Wait To Get Back To
13.9.2024
Fall is almost here, we’re officially in the thick of the back-to-school scramble, and I can’t stop buying apple cider spice candles for the house. We’re also officially in the thick of game release season, so why not take a minute to talk about Metacritic?Read more
Mortal Kombat Is Bringing Back Bloody Animalities 29 Years Later: Here Are 6 Of Them
29.7.2024
Revealed at Comic Con, Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns is the fighting game’s year two expansion and its adding more than just a bunch of random licensed characters like Conan the Barbarian. It’s also bringing back Animalities from Mortal Kombat III. Read more
Some Mortal Kombat Fans Worry The Latest Game Is Already Dead, But It Might Be More Complicated
2.7.2024
Mortal Kombat 1 is the latest entry in one of the most iconic fighting game franchises. But compared to other major players like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8, its registration numbers for EVO, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, are minuscule, coming in at 645 compared to SF6’s...
From Chill Jusant To Punishing Lies Of P: Levi Winslow’s Top 10 Games Of 2023
27.12.2023
2023 is nearly over, finally, but at least there were some great games to get us through it, right? This year was full of great releases, but marred by myriad layoffs across sectors (including the games industry), and larger, global issues that made it hard to find the light in the dark. But video...
Ahsoka Episode 8 Review: Right Where We Need To Be
4.10.2023
The final episode of Ahsoka’s first season presents the blooming flowers from the seeds showrunner Dave Filoni has been planting and cultivating since 2008. Now, whether or not you think that’s a good thing depends entirely on how much you like your Star Wars stories to be an ouroboros...
Ahsoka Episode 7 Review: Very Much A Star Wars Show
27.9.2023
The latest episode of the Ahsoka Disney Plus series felt like it was moving all the important chess pieces around the board. And for good reason—the next episode is its last, so showrunner Dave Filoni had to make sure Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson), Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), and the newly...
Mortal Kombat 1: The Kotaku Review
22.9.2023
I’m not a fighting game expert. I can remember a couple of combos and special moves for my favorite characters, but that’s about as far as I get when it comes to games like Tekken, Street Fighter, and Soul Calibur. However, one series, Mortal Kombat, holds my attention more than any other because...
Ahsoka Episode 6 Review: The Threads Of Destiny
20.9.2023
If last week’s episode of Ahsoka—which featured lengthy, surreal scenes centered on Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano—was showrunner Dave Filoni catering to both Clone Wars and prequel fans, then the newest episode, “Far, Far Away,” is for Rebels loyalists. But not just Rebels loyalists, as Ahsoka...
Ahsoka Series Episode 4 Review: You’re Exactly The Way I Remember You
6.9.2023
Leave it to Dave Filoni to pull off a Star Wars nostalgia play that has me sobbing on my living room couch after years of nods to other characters that felt more fan-service-y than impactful. With Ahsoka episode four, the unofficial heir to George Lucas’ empire manages to weave together multiple...
Ahsoka Series Episode 4 Review: You’re Exactly The Way I Remember You
6.9.2023
Leave it to Dave Filoni to pull off a Star Wars nostalgia play that has me sobbing on my living room couch after years of nods to other characters that felt more fan-service-y than impactful. With Ahsoka episode four, the unofficial heir to George Lucas’ empire manages to weave together multiple...
Ahsoka Episode 2 Review: This Is Where The Fun Begins
24.8.2023
Dave Filoni and the other people behind Ahsoka don’t have it easy. The notion of imbuing a live-action series with dozens of hours’ worth of character development and lore from other shows is daunting—and trying to do all that within the larger Star Wars lexicon, whose fans are unyielding and often...
Ahsoka Episode 1 Review: It Really Is Star Wars: Rebels 2
23.8.2023
You could certainly accuse creators within the Star Wars franchise of needlessly injecting their media with heavy doses of fan service, and Ahsoka series creator Dave Filoni might be the guiltiest of them all. There’s a reason a tweet from April 2023 sharing a fake page from a Filoni script that...
Ahsoka Episode 1 Review: It Really Is Star Wars: Rebels 2
23.8.2023
You could certainly accuse creators within the Star Wars franchise of needlessly injecting their media with heavy doses of fan service, and Ahsoka series creator Dave Filoni might be the guiltiest of them all. There’s a reason a tweet from April 2023 sharing a fake page from a Filoni script that...
Your Essential Ahsoka Refresher Before The New Star Wars Series
21.8.2023
Ahsoka, the latest chapter in the Star Wars media monolith, is set to debut August 22 on Disney Plus, and unsurprisingly, it has a ton of buzz around it. Starring Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, and Hayden Christensen...
Your Essential Ahsoka Refresher Before The New Star Wars Series
21.8.2023
Ahsoka, the latest chapter in the Star Wars media monolith, is set to debut August 22 on Disney Plus, and unsurprisingly, it has a ton of buzz around it. Starring Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, and Hayden Christensen...
Hell Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 Makes It Easy To Do Fatalities
29.6.2023
This past weekend I played a beta version of Mortal Kombat 1. I was part of an “online stress test” organized by NetherRealm Studios so the team could prepare the servers ahead of the game’s official launch. To quickly sum things up: So far, so good.Read more
Among Us Is Getting An Animated TV Show
27.6.2023
Among Us, indie studio Innersloth’s online multiplayer social deduction game and unwitting meme bait, is getting its own animated TV show. According to a Variety report, Innersloth is currently working alongside CBS Eye Animation Productions to make it happen. Read more