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The 15 Best Simpsons Musical Numbers
23.2.2024
The Simpsons has been on for over 30 years at this point. In that time, the show has produced some amazing episodes and some real stinkers. But let’s not forget that Fox’s hit animated show about a suburban family trying to make ends meet in Springfield has also provided us with some incredible...
Every Marvel TV Show, Ranked From Awful To Sublime
17.1.2024
Updated 1/12: The MCU shows no signs of getting any smaller, does it? And now that Echo is here, it’s time to see where it sits in our ranking, from worst to best, of the whopping 26 Marvel shows that have premiered since 2013. Prepare for some ambitious Netflix fare, sturdy star vehicles, head...
Switch 2, Pokémon With Guns, And More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming News
13.1.2024
It’s CES week! That doesn’t typically mean a whole lot to video game fans, but this year was a bit of an exception, as ‘90s cheat peripheral standby GameShark appears to have rebranded as “AI Shark,” (sigh) and may have accidentally leaked key information about Nintendo’s next console. And speaking...
Spider-Man's MJ Face Model Asks Fans To Stop Stalking And Harassing Her
8.1.2024
Stephanie Tyler Jones, the woman behind Mary Jane Watson’s face in Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, recently said she’s received harassment from fans, including phone calls to her workplace where callers demand to speak to her. In a public post on social media, she asked these fans to stop.Read more
The Scott Pilgrim Anime Backlash, Explained
22.11.2023
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the new animated series based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels, is out on Netflix. The eight-episode series reunites the voice cast of the 2010 live-action movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and is a hilarious blend of the series’ quick wit and well-measured...
Spider-Man 2 Players Are Roasting MJ’s ‘Trash’ Podcast Setup
21.11.2023
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 players are mocking Mary Jane “MJ” Watson for something that is both hilariously silly and professionally questionable: her meek podcast setup.Read more
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: The Kotaku Review
17.11.2023
Let’s get it out of the way: This is not a spoiler-free review of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Netflix’s anime take on Brian Lee O’Malley’s video game reference-ridden romantic comedy graphic novels and their subsequent live-action movie adaptation is impossible to talk about while tiptoeing around...
Spider-Man 2 Update Fixes Some Game-Breaking Bugs
8.11.2023
Developer Insomniac Games dropped a new update for its action-adventure game, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which addresses game-breaking bugs, gives MJ some buffs, puts your phone on silent, and improves overall stability.Read more
Spider-Man 3 Has Plenty Of Ways To Bring Back Venom
1.11.2023
It’s hard to say no to more Symbiote. Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 explores a totally new story about iconic alien parasite, and while many of the game’s plot threads get resolved by the end of the story, there’s still plenty of room for future DLC or a sequel to bring Spider-Man’s beloved foil Venom...
Spider-Man 2's Stealth Missions Turned Mary Jane Into John Wick
25.10.2023
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 sees the return of Mary Jane Watson’s dreaded stealth missions from the first game. However, this time out developer Insomniac Games upgraded MJ’s combat abilities to the point where she might as well be in a different video game with how good she is at taking down bad guys...
Limited Edition Spider-Man 2 Wheaties Selling For $70
19.10.2023
Spider-Man 2 has seen its fair share of unusual, occasionally absurd marketing tactics deployed to get players hyped for the PlayStation 5 exclusive’s release on October 20. By far the most hilarious bit of marketing was PlayStation UK’s infamous tweet beckoning fans to buy Spider-Man 2’s expensive...
Our Fave Cosplay From New York Comic Con 2023
17.10.2023
New York Comic Con takes place every year at the massive Jacob Javits Center on the west side of Manhattan, and it never lets me down when it comes to cosplay. I’ve cosplayed there myself, though my look paled in comparison to the most impressive fits and mechanical feats on display at the annual...
Anime Fans Are Laughing At MJ's Botched 'Akira' Slide In Spider-Man 2
16.10.2023
A new Spider-Man 2 launch trailer debuted just ahead of its October 20 release, and it’s got a brief clip that has anime fans going wild. The trailer, which shows off villains like Sandman, Mr. Negative, and Venom, also has what looks to be an attempt at an iconic move from the beloved 1998 anime...
Spider-Man 2: The Kotaku Review
16.10.2023
Being Spider-Man never gets old. The rush of swinging like a pendulum through Times Square, the thrill of pirouetting through a high-stakes crime bust, the satisfaction of watching a chorus of tiny Spidey gizmos wrap up another band of bad guys with elegant ease—even after completing everything...
Ex-Dragon Age Devs Sue BioWare Over Denying Full Severance
4.10.2023
BioWare laid off 50 employees at the end of August. Mary Kirby was one of them. A 17-year veteran of the studio beloved for its story-driven RPGs, Kirby has worked on every Dragon Age game, and her contributions have shown up in some of the series’ most memorable characters and questlines....
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...
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 5 Review: The Ghost Of Anakin Skywalker
13.9.2023
Ahsoka episode 5 is here, something we—and by “we” I mean Clone Wars fans, Anakin Skywalker apologists, and Star Wars nostalgists—have been awaiting for a very long time. Will Anakin get redemption? Will Ahsoka get closure? Will the live-action version of this thing we’ve seen before crackle with...
Castlevania: Nocturne’s New Trailer Drips With Action, Incredible Animation
7.9.2023
Netflix dropped a new trailer for its upcoming Castlevania sequel anime, Castlevania: Nocturne, giving fans a closer look at its cool new cast of characters, story details, and typically awesome bloody vampire-killing action sequences.Read more
Ahsoka Episode 3 Review: Bizarrely Brief But Promising
30.8.2023
Blink and you’ll miss the third episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka, which sped by so fast as I watched it that I worried my cat had sat on the remote and skipped forward several scenes (again). But the episode, titled “Time to Fly,” really is just over a half-hour long—a stark contrast to the...