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Incredibly Rare Pokémon Card Auctioned For $480,000, Nobody Bids
7.3.2023
Everyone knows old Pokémon cards are incredibly hot right now, but nobody knows exactly what they’re worth to collectors. Exhibit A: Someone put a holographic Illustrator Pikachu in near-perfect condition up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $480,000, and it went over like a lead...
Michael B. Jordan’s Top 5 Anime Recs Will Consume All Your Free Time
7.3.2023
Last week, director and actor Michael B. Jordan revealed his top five anime recommendations during a press junket interview for Creed III.Read more
10 Star Wars Things To Check Out If You Love The Mandalorian
7.3.2023
So you love Grogu, aka Baby Yoda. We all do. And his television series, which is oddly named The Mandalorian, is now back for its third season. How exciting! And who knows, maybe you also like the bounty hunter action, western tropes, and maybe even the Mando himself. If any or all of that is true...
Here's Why Resident Evil 4 Remake Is Powering Up Your Humble Knife
7.3.2023
Remakes, adaptations, reimaginings, reboots, they’re all tricky business. And with a game as celebrated as Resident Evil 4 next up on the remake meat grinder of modern video games, you might be curious as to what’s gonna get left on the cutting room floor. Well, a recent interview with the game’s...
The Week In Games: Reimagined Roguelites And Spooky Snapshots
7.3.2023
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Chill Japanese Classic Is Finally Getting An English Translation
7.3.2023
Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that, with a weird and bad exception, has never been officially released in the West. That’s a shame! Where publishers have failed us, though, fans are stepping up and delivering the goods.Read more
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s Most Frustrating Enemy Can Go To Hell
6.3.2023
After about 40 hours of hellish action and sitting around level 95, I’m stuck on Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s last boss. I guess that makes sense. This is the end of the game, after all, so of course the finale would be difficult. But reaching this point was perilous for one specific reason: Despite...
These 4 Horror Titles Are The Ultimate Anti-Cozy Games
6.3.2023
There are different kinds of “scary” things. There’s what I’d call “haunted house scary,” anything that immediately elicits a sharp scream, like a plate falling on the kitchen floor, that you forget about as soon as it’s over—you gather up the shards and move on. Read more
Pokémon Fans Love This Gym Leader Because He's Just Like You, FR
6.3.2023
Welcome to the first edition of Exp. Share, Kotaku’s new Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week we’re taking a look at one of the breakout characters from Pokémon...
A Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Bug Is Deleting Players’ Save Files
6.3.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet launched in an incredibly rough state last November, and it seems that the latest patch has introduced an even bigger problem for its players. Fans on Reddit have reported that connecting to the Pokémon Go app or downloading the DLC has caused them to lose their entire...
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated Movie Looks Incredible
6.3.2023
Today, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon released the first trailer for the upcoming animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. And it’s not only a cute trailer that promises a fun, teen-focused TMNT story, but it also looks amazing. Just ignore the weird Seth Rogen stuff. Read more
Town Using $20K Of Covid Relief Cash On TMNT Manhole Covers
4.3.2023
Northampton, Massachusets officials have greenlit a plan to create and install four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed manhole covers to celebrate the fact that the massive franchise was originally created there. And to pay for it, the town is using funds intended to help rebuild towns...
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...
The Most Stunning Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet Cards
3.3.2023
The arrival of the new era of Scarlet & Violet Pokémon TCG cards is now only four weeks away. As worldwide players prepare themselves for the big shift from the V cards to the rebirth of “ex,” in Japan the base sets have already been out for over a month, and now the follow-up set, Triple Beat...
Forever Gamer Steven Spielberg Has A Star Wars Arcade Cabinet
3.3.2023
In a recent, wide-ranging interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert, uber-successful director Steven Spielberg talked about his family, his long career, and his love of films. But we aren’t here to talk about that. Instead, what’s that over there behind you Stephen and Steven? Is that…oh yup....
Escape Room Worker Uses Metal Gear Solid Sneaking Skills To Help Unwitting Players
2.3.2023
There are so many games focused on sneaking, but so few opportunities for most of us to ever get to perform such acts in real life, at least without breaking the law. While that’s likely for the best, one worker at an escape room has discovered the perfect reason to use such skills in real life...
Over $30 Million Worth Of Funkos Are Headed To The Landfill
2.3.2023
The company that makes Funko Pop! collectibles is in so much trouble it’s preparing to throw hundreds of thousands of its pop culture-inspired figurines into the garbage. Funko revealed the plans in a recent earnings call filled with so much bad news its stock price fell off a cliff the next...
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty: The Kotaku Review
2.3.2023
The term “Soulslike” generates a specific kind of game in the mind. It conjures something that’s hard as hell, with fearsome bosses to beat, intricate levels to explore, tight combat to experience, and a world rife with enough lore to fill several tomes. You may call games in the genre alluring...
Hogwarts Legacy Certainly Seems Like It Was Supposed to Have Quidditch
1.3.2023
Just outside the main castle grounds in Hogwarts Legacy, the vibrant and towering Quidditch stands sit on the horizon, beckoning. If you hop on your broomstick, you can soar up the pitch’s shorter walls and down onto the field itself, the impossibly green grass begging to be sullied by your...
Free Horror Game Is A Corrupted, Nightmare Version Of N64's Goldeneye
1.3.2023
The opening level of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 is one of the most iconic video game areas out there. The overcast skies, the low-res rock walls, the sniper towers, and the tunnel leading to an underground maze. Remember how it slowly causes your game to become more and more glitchy due...