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Agatha All Along's Incredible Twist Forces Us To Revisit Everything That Came Before
18.10.2024
In WandaVision, creator and lead writer Jac Schaeffer firmly established herself as a maestro of the miniseries, demonstrating a meta-layered understanding of television in a way that both relished in and critiqued the form. In Agatha All Along, the writer/director proves herself a master...
Last Of Us Season 2 Star Given Extra Security Because Of Angry Gamers
16.8.2024
The Last of Us season 2 is set to come out in 2025, with the cast expanding to include new characters. It’s now been revealed that Kaitlyn Dever, the actor playing Abby, had to get extra security on set over concerns about the infamously toxic backlash around the Last of Us Part 2's other...
Final Deadpool & Wolverine Trailer Spoils The Whole Damn Thing
19.7.2024
For someone who doesn’t care about Deadpool at all, I sure have been finding myself writing about him, his movies, and playing with his ass a bit more than I anticipated. It’s with that in mind that I come to deliver my latest missive: don’t watch the final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine if...
PSA: Don’t Watch Shadow Of The Erdtee’s Launch Trailer If You Want To Avoid Spoilers
20.6.2024
With less than a day until Shadow of the Erdtree’s release, it’s sad but predictable that spoilers are already on the internet. But what I didn’t expect was for spoilers to come directly from Bandai Namco, the publisher of Elden Ring and its highly anticipated DLC. However, that’s exactly what’s...
PSA: There Are Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Spoilers Out There
17.6.2024
With tiresome predictability, action RPG Elden Ring’s first and only DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, is already being spoiled online, four days ahead of its release. This warning comes from no smaller a source than its own developers, FromSoftware. (There are no spoilers at all in this post.)Read more
Massive Dragon’s Dogma 2 Spoilers Leak Days Before Release
19.3.2024
I come to you bearing bad (but probably expected) news. Spoilers for Capcom’s high fantasy RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 have leaked ahead of its March 22 launch, with some players streaming four-to-six hours of raw, uncut gameplay over the March 15 weekend. As is customary with these sorts of things,...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Best Moment Isn’t The One You’re Expecting
8.3.2024
What if the real “final fantasy” was the friends we made along the way? Final Fantasy VII has the most memorable and adored RPG cast of all time, with fans even falling in love with the optional characters that were a pain to recruit in the original 1997 game. If there’s one thing Final Fantasy...
PSA: FF7 Rebirth Spoilers Leak On Tiktok, Reddit, And Twitter
12.2.2024
Watch out, Final Fantasy VII fans. It looks like clips and details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are starting to leak out onto the internet. If you’re looking forward to the game and want to go in without any spoilers beyond the incredibly spoiler-filled trailer Square put outat its PlayStation...
PSA: Suicide Squad Spoilers Are Floating Around Social Media
30.1.2024
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is out, but only for a handful of people who paid extra money for the Deluxe Edition to play it early. For most of us, Rocksteady’s long-awaited (albeit already divisive) follow-up to the Batman: Arkham series is launching Friday, February 2. However,...
Sonic 3 And Knuckles Storyboards Leak, Beware Of Spoilers
12.1.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog fans should be wary of spoilers making their way online, as storyboards allegedly from the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 live-action movie and the upcoming Paramount+ series Knuckles have leaked on social media.Read more
Fans Freak Out As Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Leaks Two Weeks Early
1.5.2023
Over a week ahead of schedule, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is now out in the wild. After months of dissecting every little leak they could find about the game, , some fans are now descending upon footage of how it starts in search of new information while others try to avoid spoilers...
Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Art Book Leaks Months Ahead Of Release
19.2.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn’t due out until May 12, which means fans heavily invested in the lore and secrets of the game have three months of avoiding (what they will probably think are) spoilers ahead of them.Read more
Hogwarts Legacy Spoilers Are All Over The Internet, As Is Harry Potter Tradition
9.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy spoilers are all over the internet right now. They’re in the Kotaku tips inbox, they’re in the comments on popular gaming website’s tweets, they’re casually getting scattered everywhere on the web, tossed into conversations with reckless abandon.Read more
God of War Ragnarök Leaks Early, Spoilers Are Everywhere
30.10.2022
The upcoming God of War Ragnarök, one of the biggest PlayStation games of the year, isn’t supposed to be out until November 9, but over the past 24 hours video and social media sites have been flooded with clips of people playing their way through the entire game.Read more
God Of War Ragnarök Spoilers Are Beginning To Leak By Accident
24.10.2022
God War Ragnarök releases in just two weeks, which means fans will have to be more protective than ever if they want to avoid any potential spoilers, big or small. Over the weekend, screenshots from the game began showing up on Twitter, and those without qualms about discovering potential clues...
Gotham Knights’ Biggest Spoiler May Have Leaked And WB Is Fighting Back
10.10.2022
With less than two weeks to go before its release, Gotham Knights fans are being asked to dodge spoilers online after a seemingly major leak. Some official art books for the game appear to have shipped early, and at least one player started sharing screenshots of the game’s alleged ending...
Fans Were Upset Over Nintendo Direct "Spoilers"
24.9.2021
Hours before Thursday’s Nintendo Direct, announcements leaked. Kotaku, and other game sites, inevitably published the relevant news. That was expected, but the online pushback wasn’t. Some fans were upset. In the past, these leaks would be called breaking news. In 2021, they’re spoilers—at least...
Legal Action Being Taken To Prevent Attack on Titan Manga Upload Leaks And Spoilers
31.3.2021
After eleven and a half years, the Attack on Titan manga is drawing to a close. There are already steps being taken to prevent illegal uploads.Read more
Video Game Spoilers Are Good, Actually
15.1.2021
For the most part, the internet is a screaming void where nobody can agree on anything—not even what to scream about. But there is one unspoken rule that a remarkably large number of people hold sacred: no spoilers. Is that for the best, though, or is it limiting our ability to talk about games...
The Fictional Characters, TV Shows, and Movies We Lost in 2020
23.12.2020
It was a rough year for all of us in the real world, but those fictional universes we spend so much time in didn’t get off scot-free. A lot of television shows ended their runs this year, and a lot of our favorite characters from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror took their final bows as well. Here...