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Fortnite In Legal Trouble After Adding AI Darth Vader
19.5.2025
SAG-AFTRA, the massive actors and media union with over 160,000 members, has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against Epic Games over its inclusion of an AI-powered Darth Vader in a recent Fortnite update. Read more
The Internet Reacts To AI Darth Vader Saying Wild Things In Fortnite
16.5.2025
An AI Darth Vader chatbot voiced by a digital clone of James Earl Jones’ voice joined Fortnite on Friday and players wasted no time trying to break it. It took no time at all for them to get it to start cursing at them, but the controversial Star Wars experiment has yielded all kinds of other weird...
AI Darth Vader Voiced By Fake James Earl Jones Has Been Added To Fortnite And He Already Said 'F***'
16.5.2025
Star Wars and AI are colliding in one of the biggest games around. Darth Vader once again joined Fortnite on Friday, except unlike so many crossover cameos in Epic’s game, this one will talk back to you and your friends while you’re running around Junk Junction looking for easy pick-offs. It’s...
13 Things We Noticed In The New GTA VI Trailer And More Of The Week's Top Stories
10.5.2025
After last week’s announcement that GTA VI was being delayed into next year, Rockstar Games surprised us this week with a new trailer for the upcoming crime epic, and we studied it for every cool detail it might offer and every hint it might provide as to what we can expect from the game. Also,...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We're Escaping Into After A Crappy Week
2.5.2025
It’s been a week, huh? It looks like we’ll be paying a whole lot more for consoles and games as well as reading and watching a whole lot less great gaming journalism, and on top of all that, GTA 6 isn’t even coming out this year! Read more
Fortnite's Star Wars Season Adds Darth Jar Jar
21.4.2025
Epic and Lucasfilm announced the next Star Wars-themed season of Fortnite starts on May 2. And one of the new characters skins being added to the popular free-to-play shooter is Darth Jar Jar, a fan-created meme character from a 2015 Reddit post. We live in the weirdest timeline. Read more
All The Big Star Wars News Out Of Celebration Japan
18.4.2025
A new Darth Maul animated TV show! A new movie starring Ryan Gosling! A Turgle action figure! We’ve rounded up all that news and more cool reveals from Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025. Read more
Andor Creator Says A Star Wars Horror Project Could Be On The Way
11.4.2025
The Star Wars universe has expanded into LEGOs, animation, The Muppet Show, and even figure skating. Now, the storied franchise might be venturing into a space it’s never officially gone but always been adjacent to: horror. According to Andor creator Tony Gilroy n comments to Business Insider...
Fortnite's New Adventure Time Skins Leak And Look Amazing
10.4.2025
Fortnite dataminers have pulled out our first look at the recently teased Adventure Time skins and cosmetic items coming to the battle royale game later this week. And folks, they look pretty dang cool, and very accurate to the original cartoon versions of these popular characters, like Jake...
How To Defeat Oda Nobunaga In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
25.3.2025
Our girl Naoe’s slit a whole lotta throats to get to this point, but it’s finally time to slit the one throat that matters: Oda Nobunaga. Warlord. Bastard. Tea enthusiast, apparently. But also, he’s NEXT.Read more
Fortnite's New FPS Mode Is Good, But A Bit Janky
11.12.2024
Fortnite’s latest game mode, Ballistic, plays a lot like Valorant or Counter-Strike. The mode, currently labeled as being in “Early Access,” is rough around the edges and feels more like a demo than a full game. However, Ballistic is also proof that Epic can build first-person shooters that work...
Ewan McGregor Keeps The Dream Of Live-Action Star Wars: Clone Wars Alive
7.10.2024
Star Wars is a mess at the moment. There are unvarnished bright spots like Andor, and then there’s everything else. There’s always a new hope though, and right now that’s seeing Obi-Wan Kenobi get a second season and go full live-action Clone Wars with flashbacks galore. Despite no confirmation...
Transformers One: The Kotaku Review
12.9.2024
Maybe ten minutes into Transformers One, the computer-animated prequel to the entire existing saga of Hasbro’s robots in disguise, Scarlett Johansson’s focused mining manager Elita says to Chris Hemsworth’s idealistic worker Orion Pax, “You don’t have the touch or the power.” It’s a clunky, forced...
Disney Sued For Using Peter Cushing's Face In Star Wars: Rogue One
11.9.2024
Remember that moment during Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when you felt pure, unadulterated horror, brutal shivers down your spine as a flock of geese trampled your grave? Brrrrr, that first time you see the ghoulish CG soup that is supposed to be a reanimated Grand Moff Tarkin. It turns out that...
James Earl Jones, The Iconic Voice Of Darth Vader, Has Died
9.9.2024
Earlier this morning, talented and beloved screen and stage actor James Earl Jones died in Dutchess County, NY. Jones was 93 years old. Read more
Get The Star Wars Jedi Games For Cheap If Outlaws Has Left You Wanting More
4.9.2024
Star Wars Outlaws has been out for just about a week now, and I’m sure lots of folks are still poring over the details of its various worlds and wrapping up quests in Kay Vess’ adventure. However, if that game has left you wanting a more typical lightsaber-swinging odyssey across the stars,...
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Is A Good Remaster Of A Meh Game
1.8.2024
In 2002, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter launched on PS2 and GameCube. The third-person action-adventure game let players hop into the bounty-hunting boots of Jango Fett aka Boba Fett’s clone dad from Attack of The Clones. It wasn’t great, but was a fun prequel to Episode II. Now, 20 years later, it’s...
The Acolyte Episode 8 Review: Torn Between Risk And Safety
22.7.2024
The Acolyte is done, and now we are left to ask: In the sea of content that we are flooded with, does the finale achieve something deeper than just continuing to sell us the Star Wars brand? Partially, yes. It gives us reveals that could have been delivered episodes earlier, action that would have...
The Acolyte Episode 7 Review: The Price Of Misunderstanding
11.7.2024
For those of you who’ve felt like any sense of real meaning was gone from the Star Wars franchise since it was acquired by Disney, you’re in for a real treat. The Acolyte episode 7 offers a kind of emotional intelligence and narrative pacing that I would normally associate more with that other...
If You’re Mad About The Acolyte, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention To Star Wars
10.7.2024
The Acolyte, the new Disney+ Star Wars series set in the High Republic era, has been open about its intentions from the jump: portray the Jedi Order at the height of its power and show how they are responsible for their own fall from grace, the same fall we watched play out in the prequels over...