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One Of The Best-Looking Turn-Based RPGs In Years Just Revealed An All-Star Cast That Includes Gollum
16.10.2024
With its reveal buried in the middle of Microsoft’s mammoth Xbox showcase over the summer, you could be forgiven for not being aware of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a fantasy RPG from French studio Sandfall Interactive that looks like a mashup of Dragon Age and Final Fantasy. The turn-based...
The Rings Of Power Season 2 Episode 4 Introduces An Iconic Lord Of The Rings Character In The Best Way Possible
5.9.2024
Despite its faults, The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power remains a treasure trove of Tolkien lore for superfans of the fantasy franchise—and season two episode four succinctly showcases the Amazon Prime series’ love for its source material. From the debut of a fan-favorite character to...
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season Two Opens Strong, Then Stumbles
29.8.2024
The opening scene of the second season of Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings series The Rings of Power lingers long after I finish the first episode, through the second, and well after the credits roll on the third. It’s stunning, immediately making me feel like this season could put things back...
Lord Of The Rings Anime Prequel Looks Killer In Its First Trailer
22.8.2024
Oliphaunt battles. A killer squid monster. Brian Cox as a proud and angry old king of Rohan. The first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim has it all, including the reveal of a December release date. Read more
Black Myth: Wukong: The Kotaku Review
22.8.2024
There’s a moment in Black Myth: Wukong that would be the perfect visual metaphor for the game’s hopeful, proud ascension as China’s big breakthrough into the Western AAA pantheon. Unfortunately, that moment is restricted, and we can’t talk about that.Read more
Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power Shows Middle-Earth Falling Apart In New Season 2 Trailer
14.8.2024
Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power season 1 left me pretty cool. As a fan of Tolkien’s fantasy world, I thought it had its moments, but a lot of it felt like a waste. Season 2, based on the trailers at least, feels like it’s shaping up to be something else entirely. A second look at the upcoming...
Cate Blanchett Says She Was 'Basically' Paid In Sandwiches For Lord Of The Rings
9.8.2024
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy made over $1 billion at the box office, but apparently none of that really trickled down to the actors. At least not ones like Cate Blanchett, recent star of the less-esteemed Borderlands adaptation, who said in a new interview she basically got paid...
What We Loved And Miss About The Xbox 360
30.7.2024
Microsoft shutdown the Xbox 360's marketplace this week and nearly two decades after the console first launched it feels like the final nail in the coffin for a particular era of gaming we’ll probably never see again. Read more
A New Lord Of The Rings Movie Starring Gollum Is Coming
9.5.2024
A new Lord of the Rings film is officially in the works, and it will feature some key personnel from both the original trilogy and the Hobbit trilogy. However, it won’t be original director Peter Jackson in the chair, but rather Gollum actor Andy Serkis.Read more
Lord Of The Rings Moneyball Is the Perfect Meme To End 2023
27.12.2023
I didn’t think it was still possible, but Twitter just served up my favorite crossover of the year: Lord of the Rings Moneyball. You see, you take the plot of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and then talk about it using Moneyball quotes. It’s simple, stupid, and so satisfying I can’t believe nobody...
Zelda Movie Director Wants It To Be More Miyazaki Than Lord Of The Rings
5.12.2023
Ever since it was announced, it’s been hard to fathom what a live action Zelda movie might look like or what it will be about. Will it follow the archetypal events of the games or chart a completely new story? Will Link still have pointy ears and a green tunic? Well, today the upcoming Nintendo...
Report: Awful King Kong Game Was Made In A Year By Overworked Devs
20.10.2023
Skull Island: Rise of Kong was released earlier this week and was quickly derided as one of the worst games of 2023. What happened? Well, a new report claims it was made by a small team of developers on a tight budget in just one year, putting the studio in a situation where making something good...
New King Kong Game Is Very, Very Bad
17.10.2023
Hey, good news! It’s been a long time, but we finally got a new King Kong video game. Bad news, Skull Island: Rise of Kong appears an ugly mess of a thing and it might be the worst game of 2023. Yes, even worse than Gollum. Read more
Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
29.6.2022
Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, has recently laid off hundreds of staffers, multiple sources tell Kotaku.Read more
The Best Lord Of The Rings Video Games
16.5.2022
Tolkien’s influence on video games stretches back decades. Fans have been playing games based on The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) for almost as long as there have been video games, and for every misguided flop there has been a game that has been surprisingly OK for a licensed product. And...
The Witcher TV Series Needs A Map
21.12.2021
I’m about halfway through the second season of The Witcher on Netflix, and for the most part I’m loving it. It feels a lot more Witchery than the first season did, and is moving at a refreshingly brisk pace. One thing that’s really bugging me, though, is that series seems to have wildly...
The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Films on Paramount+
5.3.2021
Another day, another streaming service. Yesterday marked the debut of Paramount+, the new name of the service formerly called CBS All Access. With it came a lot of new content to consume. io9 has some suggestions so you don’t have to endlessly scroll.Read more