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Detective Pikachu Sequel Inches Closer To Being Real
3.3.2023
Neo-noir comedy Pokémon: Detective Pikachu came out in 2019, and it was surprisingly good. In the era of risk-averse studios rebooting and remaking everything under the sun, a sequel seemed inevitable. Sure enough, one was already in development when the first debuted. No one’s heard about...
Fortnite Is Adding Cyborgs To The Rocky Universe
28.2.2023
The first Rocky film was released way back in 1976. It was a gritty, well-written, and heartfelt movie about a down-on-his-luck boxer given one last chance to make a name for himself. Decades later, Creed was released as a spin-off for that franchise, and it kept the same gritty tone...
Death Stranding Is Secretly A Stealth Retelling Of This Japanese Legend
28.2.2023
Death Stranding is undeniably an odd game. It has floating spirits, rain that makes you older, ghost-detecting babies, and pee bombs. That’s not to say that the weirdness makes it bad, though. Even its harshest critics, who deride it as a “massive failure” or (gasp!) a “walking simulator” will...
Six Anime Characters With Permanent Invitations To 'The Cookout'
28.2.2023
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Studio Behind Megan And The Purge Also Making Horror Games Now
21.2.2023
Announced earlier today, Blumhouse—the Hollywood production company behind hit horror films like Megan and Get Out—is launching its own video game studio led by some game dev vets. The new studio, like its parent company, will focus on scary games with smaller budgets.Read more
Lego Zelda All But Confirmed After Copyright Strikes
20.2.2023
Nothing confirms the existence of something like the copyright holder doing everything it can to hide it. So it is that Lego is issuing takedown notices on YouTube videos with the temerity to repeat the leak of a forthcoming Zelda-based The Great Deku Tree set.Read more
Keanu Reeves Continues To Have The Best Tech Takes
16.2.2023
Keanu Reeves, the breathtaking Hollywood action movie star, unaging vampire, and Cyberpunk choom everyone wants to smooch continues his streak of having the absolute best takes on deepfake technology, NFTs, and cryptocurrency in film.Read more
The Last Of Us Episode 5 Recap: The Saga Of Henry And Sam
11.2.2023
Episode five of HBO’s The Last of Us marks the midpoint of our nine-episode journey. That’s right, we’re halfway there, and Ellie and Joel are definitely living on a prayer. Look, I’m sorry for the bad Bon Jovi reference but man, this episode is The Last of Us at its most relentlessly bleak....
You Haven't Played A Survival Game Like This Creepy Car One
9.2.2023
You hop into a rundown station wagon in the Pacific North West and start driving down a beat up road as rain begins to pitter patter across the windshield. Trapped in a paranormal playground called the Olympic Exclusion Zone, strange anomalies appear outside the windows. Rock formations suddenly...
Genshin Impact Characters As Valentine Dates, Ranked
7.2.2023
As the local Genshin Impact scholar at Kotaku, it is my solemn responsibility to compile a list of most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes on this most sacred Feast of Saint Valentine. Read more
Season: A Letter To The Future - The Kotaku Review
3.2.2023
Season: A Letter to the Future is the disappointing evidence that beauty is only skin and texture deep. This slow-paced explore ‘em up, in which you must chronicle and journal the end of an era, is rigid-jawed with sincerity, though lacking in anything meaningful to say.Read more
The Last Of Us Fans Are Are Creating Amazing Bill And Frank Fan Art
1.2.2023
Reader, I have a question for you: do you like art of gay old men living their best post-apocalyptic lives? Well, The Last of Us fans have you covered this week, as artists are coming out of the woodwork to draw some amazing art of Bill and Frank from this week’s episode of the HBO adaptation.Read...
Spongebob’s New Game Isn’t Quite The Sequel To Battle For Bikini Bottom I Wanted
30.1.2023
Back in 2020, after years of fans begging, THQ Nordic released a high-quality, beloved remake of the 2003 platformer Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Now three years later, developer Purple Lamp Studios is back with a brand new Spongebob game: The Cosmic Shake. And while it shares...
This Surprise New Game Pass Gem Feels Like Moshing Through A Battlefield
27.1.2023
Have you ever caught yourself walking to the beat of a song you’ve got playing? If so, you’ll probably vibe pretty hard with Hi-Fi Rush. I’ve put a few hours into Tango Gameworks’ rhythm-action game, and I’m delighted at how satisfying it is to gel with a game that more or less asks you to dance...
Twitter’s ‘Useless’ Animation Facts Will Change How You See Your Favorite Show
27.1.2023
Each day, I walk down the path of blue-lit internet highways, through Instagram rabbit holes to nowhere, across Wikipedia pages I don’t remember why I was scanning, my face painted a clinical white by my favorite Google question, “Do I have a UTI?” Read more
Forspoken Release Trailer Exploits Bogus Accolades
23.1.2023
Everything about the leadup to the release of Forspoken, Square Enix’s big new open-world action RPG, has been a lowkey mess. But you wouldn’t know that from the launch trailer which stays upbeat on the modern-day magical adventure by taking a bunch of words out of context and spinning them into...
Spectacular Destiny 2 Fit Is Right Out Of The Mummy
20.1.2023
PSA for my fellow Destiny players and Brendan Fraser appreciators: A fellow comrade in arms has gifted us with a Destiny 2 transmog kit that recreates Fraser’s iconic, dare I say heartstopping fit from The Mummy. Warning: I’m gonna unabashedly gush about Brendan Fraser.Read more
Hear Me Out: Mob Psycho 100 Is The Anime Of The Decade
18.1.2023
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Rainbow Six Film In Works From John Wick Director And Michael B. Jordan
17.1.2023
The upcoming Rainbow Six film from Paramount, starring Michael B. Jordan, has a director: Chad Stahelski. He’s best known for his work on the popular John Wick films and will produce the movie alongside Jordan, who stars as John Clark, a popular character from Tom Clancy’s books. Read more
The Official Pokémon TikTok Accidentally Makes Pikachu A Potty Mouth
13.1.2023
Most of us have only heard Pikachu, the lovable mascot of the all-ages multimedia franchise Pokémon, say his name when he speaks through the anime. Although, there was that time he spoke real human words to his trainer Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon: I Choose You movie, and when Ryan Reynolds gave...