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WWE Hall Of Fame Wrestler Iron Sheik Has Died
7.6.2023
Iron Sheik, an iconic WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, has passed away at the age of 81.Read more
This Mom Didn't Know She Was In A $250K Candy Crush Tournament, But She's Killing It
19.4.2023
Erryn Rhoden is an ordinary person who works at her family’s roofing company in Columbus, Ohio. She’s also the top-ranked player in her semifinal bracket for the Candy Crush Saga All Stars Tournament, the biggest Candy Crush tournament in history, which she entered by accident. That makes her...
Veteran Games, Anime Composer Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Teenage Girl
15.3.2023
Earlier today, Hidekazu Tanaka, a composer whose work includes contributions to Pokémon Journeys: The Series and The Idolm@ster, admitted in court to stalking and soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl, as well as a dozen other obscene public acts from the past 10 years.Read more
30 Rock Predicted Twitch's AI Seinfeld And Milf Manor Because Of Course It Did
8.2.2023
Typically, whenever society finds itself walking the line between normalcy and absurdity, the peanut gallery within The Simpsons’ fandom can pinpoint an episode from the long-running animated sitcom that predicted whatever awful or neat phenomenon we find ourselves in. This time around, however,...
Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia
6.2.2023
In an unfortunate turn of events, the AI Seinfeld show that’s been all over Twitch has been hit with the ban hammer for some terribly transphobic “jokes.”Read more
Apparently Video Game Characters Look Great In Drag
3.2.2023
There are many gifts to be found on self-proclaimed “video game siren” Velvet Caveat’s TikTok, like gay Team Rocket and, most recently, an electric blue Gyrados puppet holding down Ariana Grande’s part of “Rain On Me” during a lip-sync performance. Read more
AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch ‘TV Show’ Is Peak Absurdity
1.2.2023
There’s always something to watch on Twitch, whether that’s your fave musicians talking about video games or your fave streamers discussing politics. Now your choices include an absurd, often nonsensical Seinfeld-like show that runs 24/7/365 and is generated on the fly using artificial...
Meet The Man Who Got Kadabra Banned From Pokémon For 20 Years
30.1.2023
As we learned last week, spoon-wielding psychic pocket monster Kadabra is returning to the Pokémon TCG after a twenty year absence. I wanted to learn the complete story of why it ever went missing in the first place. What I wasn’t expecting in doing so was to accidentally make friends with a...
This Among Us Copycat Is Now More Popular Than The Original On Steam
6.1.2023
Goose Goose Duck—a social deduction game populated by lazy-eyed geese with, apparently, customizable farts—is tearing up the Steam charts. The game has been out since 2021, released in the wake of Among Us’ crewmate-shaped shadow, but its recent surge in popularity isn’t because of an inexplicable...
Netflix Hit Glass Onion's Among Us Scene Is A Big Moment For Gaming
3.1.2023
Gaming’s relationship with Hollywood is fraught. Whether it’s disastrous adaptations of successful gaming franchises, or cringe-inducing moments of 30-something teenagers playing a tragic mock-up of what someone thinks first-person shooters look like, the featuring of games rarely ends well. Which...
Drake Just Went On A Hentai Barrage On Instagram
4.11.2022
Hello, welcome to the end of the week. I’m here to send you off into the night with the news that rapper Drake has posted a bunch of anime porn, aka hentai on his main Instagram account. The porn is seemingly part of his marketing push for his new album “Her Loss.” Just one more thing the rapper...
Ben Stiller As God Of War's Kratos Is As Weird As You'd Expect
1.11.2022
God of War is rolling out its marketing campaign for its impending release, and in this one, Ben Stiller has started a father-child support group. I can see what they’re going for here: At their core, modern God of Wars are about a dysfunctional father-son relationship. And...LeBron James and John...
Fortnite Leak Suggests A Lady Gaga Concert Is On The Horizon
31.8.2022
@FNLeaksAndInfo, a Twitter account dedicated to posting leaked information about the online battle royale Fortnite, discovered on August 30 what might be an even more huge cultural event than the making of the hydrogen bomb: Lady Gaga will have a virtual concert.Read more
Oculus Founder's Vision For Military AI, Which He's Helping Build, Is Kinda Yikes
14.3.2022
One of the founders of Oculus, now called Meta Quest, has been busy since being pushed out of the company in 2018 with, um, military tech that may be involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Read more
Remembering Why The Jackass Video Game Was Terrible
5.2.2022
Yesterday, the world got a new Jackass film. After two years of covid-19, I’ll admit I’m happy to see the old gang back, wild and dumb as ever. It feels like a small piece of normality, one which I’m happy to have in 2022. But back in 2007, following the release of the second film and five years...
Fans Are Harassing Top Twitch Star xQc For ‘Too Much’ GTA Role-Play
28.1.2022
If you’ve frequented Félix “xQc” Lengyel’s Twitch channel recently, you’ll have noticed he’s doing a lot of Grand Theft Auto Online role-play and reactions to video content. That’s fine. It’s his channel, so he can do whatever he wants with it…or maybe not? A small but vocal portion of...
Twitch Streamer Drops Bars, Kicks Ass In Destiny 2
21.12.2021
It takes a tremendous amount of multitasking skills to stream video games while staying engaged with viewers, but this Twitch streamer is so smooth with it, he can freestyle rap while playing Destiny 2. Read more
The Ten Biggest Kotaku Posts Of 2021
15.12.2021
A year ago, many of us had never even heard of NFTs, and Alex Trebek was the only Jeopardy! host most of us had ever known. Well, a lot has changed since then. Relive a time before we knew what a disaster the remastered GTA trilogy would be. Reminisce about how we all got that song from the Ankha...
I Want To Play The Cat Game Right Now
15.11.2021
2022 is shaping up to be a bumper year for Games Where We’re Playing As Cats. We’re finally getting Stray, that sci-fi feline adventure, but now we’re also getting Little Kitty, Big City as well.Read more
We Are Still Living With The Revolution GTA 3 Started
5.11.2021
Grand Theft Auto III launched 20 years ago to rave reviews and mainstream media controversy around its realistic depiction of violence and mayhem in an open-world parody of New York City. Next week Rockstar Games is bringing it back, now as a remastered artifact from a bygone era. Has it aged like...