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We All Know Gackt’s Track, But Dirge Of Cerberus’ Other Songs Were Good Too
5.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re kicking open the vault of weird-ass Final Fantasy spin-offs and unearthing Dirge of Cerberus.Read more
Horror Manga Hellsing Getting A Live-Action Hollywood Adaptation
5.3.2021
Derek Kolstad, best known for writing the John Wick films, is bringing Hellsing to life for Amazon Studios as a live-action feature.Read more
Hogwarts Legacy Developer Quits Following Backlash Over YouTube Channel
5.3.2021
Troy Leavitt, the game developer at the centre of a controversy last month after it was discovered he had run “a reactionary YouTube channel focused on attacking feminism and social justice”, has resigned from his position at Avalanche Software, developers of the upcoming Harry Potter game...
Space Jam 2 Sounds Weird
4.3.2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy—or as I will be referring to it for the rest of this blog Space Jam 2—is coming out later this year. Thanks to a new story from Entertainment Weekly we now know what the movie is actually about and folks, it’s some wild shit involving VR, Casablanca, Don Cheadle playing...
Report: Florida Super Nintendo World Delayed To 2025
4.3.2021
After being delayed for nearly a year, construction on Universal Orlando’s new theme park, Epic Universe, has resumed. This new park will contain a US version of Super Nintendo World, but it won’t be open until early 2025, two years later than first expected.Read more
Maquette's Love Story Has Already Broken My Heart
3.3.2021
Ever listen to a song so powerful you stop, drop, and roll to frantically figure out what it is? That’s what happened to me last night while playing Maquette, a puzzle game out this week for PC, PS4, and PS5. Yes, the game’s fantastic, which we’ll get to in a moment, but first: that song.Read more
Damn You, Fortnite Butter Barn Song
3.3.2021
This season of Fortnite has been a whirlwind of crossover skins and deranged players hoping that Epic puts Family Guy’s Peter Griffin in the game. But the latest in-demand item is a possible music track—the song “Butter Barn Hoedown.” The supposedly leaked track somehow, impossibly, rules?Read more
Legend Of Mana’s Grand Score Helps Me Take Its BS Seriously
3.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, it’s time to revisit an obscure PS1 classic from Square Soft’s JRPG heyday, which had some of the chillest city-builder tunes around. I’m talking about Legend of Mana,...
PlayStation Store Will Stop Selling Movies Nobody Bought
2.3.2021
Have you ever bought a movie or TV show through the PlayStation Store? Me neither. As a result, Sony announced today it will remove them, starting August 31, 2021.Read more
How to Filter Spotify Playlists by Genre or Mood
1.3.2021
Odds are good that your “Liked Songs” playlist on Spotify is a mishmash of genres and artists that don’t exactly flow together. Personally, I don’t necessarily want to listen to songs from Gorguts, Megan Thee Stallion, and the Spirited Away soundtrack back-to-back-to-back. No DJ in their right...
Zero Divide Is A Primordial PlayStation Synth-Fusion Treasure
1.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s pick comes from the dawn of the 32-bit era, when makin’ “Virtua Fighter, but with robots” just seemed like a natural thing to do.Read more
Chiliz $CHZ Growth Continues With Trio of New Listings
1.3.2021
Chiliz $CHZ – the digital currency for sports and entertainment – has announced listings on the Bitcoin.com Exchange, HitBTC and Changelly platforms. Chiliz is the on-platform currency of fan engagement platform Socios.com, which is built on the Chiliz blockchain infrastructure....
RIP Legendary Artist Gary Meyer
1.3.2021
Gary Meyer, an artist who has worked on everything from Star Wars to theme park rides to video games to album covers, has died at the age of 86.Read more
I Love The Roku Screensaver
28.2.2021
The past six months (or more) have been a whirlwind of shit news, terrible events, and moments of pure absurdity and horror. It’s been bad, is what I’m saying. Because of this, I often get lost doomscrolling on Twitter or reading another horrible news story about something dreadful. Meanwhile,...
Someone Recreated The Entire First Act Of Hamilton In Animal Crossing
28.2.2021
Hamilton is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games around right now. I guess it only makes sense that someone would combine them, but I didn’t expect it to be so damn good. Read more
Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms
28.2.2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.Read more
'Shop Contest: The Legend Of Zelda 35th Anniversary, Winners!
28.2.2021
Last week marked the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise. To celebrate the iconic series, I asked you all to create Zelda-themed images. You didn’t disappoint.Read more
E3 2021's Live Show Has Been Cancelled According To LA Tourism Documents
27.2.2021
Shocking nobody, it seems there won’t be a big, physical live E3 event this year in Los Angeles. Read more
The Boys Season 3 Will Be a Supernatural Reunion
27.2.2021
SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you.Read more
How One Of The Worst Video Game Movies Of All Time Got Made
26.2.2021
Somehow, miraculously, video game movies and TV shows are suddenly good. The Witcher is fun, Sonic inhaled box office money like so many chili dogs last year, and star-studded renditions of Borderlands and The Last of Us are on the way. Also, the new Mortal Kombat movie looks dumb as hell in...