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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Party Nearly Had An Unlikely Inquisition Villain
6.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has an excellent cast of characters, almost all of which are new to the series. However, it looks like there were once plans for a few characters from previous games to appear as party members. And now that fans know this, they’re in their feelings.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Knull, Venom: The Last Dance’s Thrilling Villain
13.9.2024
It’s almost time for one last ride with Eddie Brock and Venom. The final movie in the Tom Hardy-led series of films set in Sony’s Spider-Man-less Spider-Man universe is set to release this October and just dropped its final trailer. Venom: The Last Dance looks to be a wild finale to the trilogy...
Final Venom: The Last Dance Trailer Showcases Buddy Comedy Hijinks And Teases A Surprise Marvel Villain
12.9.2024
Marvel’s disgusting brothers are back for one more charmingly gross ride-along to save themselves, and possibly the planet. The final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance is here ahead of the film’s October release, and the trilogy closer looks poised to send the codependent duo off with a comedic...
Fallout: New Vegas Villain Tease For Season 2 Raises All Sorts Of Questions
25.6.2024
The Fallout series from Amazon isn’t done teasing fans over the potential canonicity of Obsidian’s beloved New Vegas. After constant questions about whether that game even existed in the show’s world (which were pretty definitively answered by the first season’s final episode), the second season...
MultiVersus Adds Murderer Jason Voorhees And Matrix Villain Agent Smith
20.5.2024
MultiVersus, WB’s Smash Bros. clone which launches next week, has just added two more popular faces to its odd roster: Agent Smith from The Matrix films and Friday The 13th’s hockey-mask-wearing killer Jason Voorhees. Watch out, Fortnite, there’s a new IP fever dream simulator on the block.Read more
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Defense Challenges ‘Super-Villain’ Narrative in Sentencing Debate
21.3.2024
In a detailed letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, the legal representatives for Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, have vehemently argued against the government’s recommendation for a 50-year prison sentence, labeling it as a “medieval view...
Avengers: Kang Dynasty Is Getting A Major Rework And Ditching Its Villain: Report
21.2.2024
Superhero movies are in a weird place right now, especially at Marvel’s house of ideas. Even as recent films struggle to land with audiences like the surefire hits of old, the studio is ready to look ahead with the heightened interest in what’s on the horizon. But part of that horizon includes...
A Runescape Player Is My New Fave 90 Day Fiancé Villain
12.1.2024
Confession time: When I need a break from video games, my go-to comfort food is the trashiest reality TV possible. My knowledge of Real Housewives and Vanderpump Rules lore may go even deeper than that of Final Fantasy or Yakuza. So you can only imagine my delight when I found out that one of...
2023's Best Video Game Villain Isn't Who You Think
25.12.2023
Mech pilots have feelings, too. Armored Core VI is a game about blowing up everything in sight with a smorgasbord of overpowered weapons. But it’s also a game about vain, self-righteous men who think it’s their God-given right to take over a planet. While you only know them as codenames, characters...
Did You Know Henry Kissinger Is A Canonical Villain In Assassin’s Creed?
30.11.2023
You probably know by now that Henry Kissinger, a notorious war criminal who was the U.S. Secretary of State during Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford’s presidencies, died yesterday, November 30, at the age of 100. You might also know that he was behind the carpet bombings in Cambodia that took place...
The Prosecution and the Defense in SBF Trial Face-off during Closing Arguments
1.11.2023
Defense attorney Mark Cohen claimed the prosecution in the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried “has sought to turn Sam into some sort of monster.” The defense likened the prosecution’s characterization of Bankman-Fried as a villain in a movie while failing to take “a...
What We Loved And Hated In Spider-Man 2 On PS5
30.10.2023
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is one of the biggest games of 2023 and a few of us at Kotaku have been playing it quite a bit in recent weeks. After wrapping the main story, Kotaku writers Ethan Gach and Zack Zwiezen (along with a surprise cameo from Kotaku’s new Editor In Chief, Jen Glennon) came together...
Unhinged Baldur’s Gate 3 Villain Is Voiced By Lady Dimitrescu Voice Actress
28.7.2023
Upcoming fantasy role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 just released a character trailer for a villainous new big bad character who’s quite likely to take the internet by storm just like Resident Evil Village’s Lady Dimitrescu. Why? Because she’s played by the same voice actress and seems to have that...
Spider-Man 2 PS5 Will Be Darker Than The Tobey Maguire Movie
1.6.2023
The developers of the upcoming PlayStation 5 sequel Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 say that the game will try to strike a balance between humor and heart while respectfully depicting the darker tones of Peter Parker when he is using his Venom symbiote suit. Read more
Spider-Man 2 PS5 Gameplay Shows Kraven Villain, Symbiote Suit
24.5.2023
Developer Insomniac Games came through the PlayStation Showcase on May 24 with a new trailer for the web-slinging PS5 exclusive, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.Read more
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Prequel Comic Pulls New Villain Into The ‘Gamerverse’
4.5.2023
PSA to all my fellow true believers and web-heads around the world: the hotly-anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is getting a prequel comic on May 6, also known as Free Comic Book Day.Read more
Indiana Jones 5’s Mads Mikkelsen On Why He’s Always The Evil Dude
10.4.2023
Despite being called the Star Wars Celebration, this past’s weekend’s event didn’t just showcase a bunch of trailers and panels from a galaxy far, far away. The event also hosted a panel for LucasFilm’s upcoming Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny starring Harrison Ford....
Soccer Story Is An RPG Where Football Is The Villain
29.11.2022
Soccer Story, out this week, is a new RPG from PanicBarn, the team behind Not Tonight. It is an RPG devoted entirely to the sport of football. It is not, as the combination of name and art style might have you initially believe, a sequel or successor to Golf Story.Read more
Disney Dreamlight Valley's Big Scar Update: All The Changes You Should Know About
19.10.2022
Today, about two months after its initial early access release, Disney Dreamlight Valley has received its first major content update. This new patch adds the evil Lion King baddie Scar as well as some spooky, villain-themed decorations and clothing. But many players will likely be more excited...
Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Are Dying To Take Revenge On Edgerunners’ Cruelest Villain
26.9.2022
If you’ve spent any time on the internet this past weekend, whether Reddit or Twitter or YouTube, you’ve undoubtedly seen Cyberpunk 2077 all over the timeline again—and for good reason. With the recent debut of Studio Trigger’s excellent anime adaptation, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, fans the internet...