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What Are You Playing This Weekend?
4.6.2021
The weekend is for dressing up in colorful spandex outfits and fighting crime alongside your besties. Failing that, you could probably just play a video game with the same premise. Read more
Injustice 2 Mobile Celebrates Pride By Having Players Beat Up A Queer Character
4.6.2021
The mobile version of DC Comics’ fighting game Injustice 2 found itself in hot water earlier today after announcing an in-game challenge meant to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. The problem was that the event tasked players with beating the shit out of Poison Ivy, a canonically bisexual character...
Pokémon Products Don't Get Much Better Than This
1.6.2021
Over the years, there have been oodles of Pokémon branded products. For example, I bought Pikachu toothpaste earlier today in Japan for my youngest son, but if you really think about it, that doesn’t have much to do with Pocket Monsters. This product, though, definitely does.Read more
Thanks To Demon Slayer, Fans In Japan Rush To Donate Blood
31.5.2021
In Tokushima, the Red Cross featured Demon Slayer characters on blood drive posters. Sign up and give, and the prefecture would give out one of those posters as a present. Fans were more than happy to oblige.Read more
The Last Of Us Game Actor Will Be In The TV Series
28.5.2021
Well, this is neat! While the upcoming The Last Of Us TV series has been busy recasting everyone’s favourite murderers, replacing the iconic faces and voices we grew to love (?) over two grisly experiences, one actor from the game will be playing the same character in the show: Merle Dandridge,...
Gastly Lollipops Look Too Cute To Eat
27.5.2021
I recently stumbled upon a wonderful YouTuber named Manna-Tanuki who creates incredible-looking sweets. Their latest video highlights some adorable Gastly lollipops that look more like Pokémon decorations than food.Read more
Sega's Tokyo Olympics 2020 Game (The One Without Mario And Sonic) Drops Next Month
26.5.2021
With the real games delayed until July of this year due to covid-19, Sega’s had plenty of time to cobble together Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game, coming June 22 to PC, consoles, and Stadia. It’s a collection of 18 sports you can play with your own goofy-looking, costume-sporting...
No Need To Wait: Fans Made Their Own Version Of Overwatch 2
24.5.2021
After last week’s Overwatch 2 developer livestream, one fan created some of the changes coming in the new game in Overwatch’s workshop mode.Read more
Four Inches Is A Great Size For A Batman Figure
23.5.2021
A 12-inch Batman is great for kids or serious collectors, depending on the toy line. Six inches is a good size if you want a nice amount of detail and articulation and don’t want Bruce Wayne to get lost under the couch. But for my money and purposes, the four-inch Batman of Spinmaster’s Bat-Tech...
Heatmor Ain't A Fan Of Butt Plugs
22.5.2021
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Heatmor!Read more
Bonkers Returnal Fan Theory Suggests The End Is Actually The Beginning
21.5.2021
Returnal, the PS5-exclusive action game about not having fall damage but then picking up an item that gives you fall damage, has been out for about three weeks, which means more and more players are talking about the ending.Read more
Pikachu Just Got Arrested On The Pokémon TV Anime
21.5.2021
Things sure got real on this week’s episode of Pocket Monster, the latest Pokémon TV anime series.Read more
Overwatch 2 Will Only Have Five Players Per Team
20.5.2021
Today, during an Overwatch 2 PVP livestream, Aaron Keller, Overwatch’s new Game Director taking over for Blizzard veteran Jeff Kaplan, announced that teams in Overwatch 2's PVP will be reduced from six players to five.Read more
Jedi Outcast Is The Latest Classic To Get Ray Tracing
20.5.2021
After teasing the project for months, self-described “ray tracing addict” Zyanide is finally ready to share his work adding the computationally intensive lighting technology to 2002’s Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. And gosh, it’s as impressive as the game’s title is awkward.Read more
I Have Nothing But Shame: I'm Trying To Trick Pokémon Go
19.5.2021
I have reached my lowest ebb. As I write these words, out the corner of my left eye I can see the eternal rocking motion of my cell phone as it sways within its cradle. I have become all things terrible. I have fallen. I’m trying to trick Pokémon Go into thinking I’m far less lazy than I am.Read...
Who Are The Best And Worst Resident Evil Heroes?
18.5.2021
It’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
This Mai Shiranui Statue Is Only $1,000
18.5.2021
No Mai, no buy, right? The iconic King of Fighters character is getting a 1/4-scale, 1.7-foot-tall statue from PJ Studio.Read more
Let's Go Back In Time And Visit A Japanese Arcade In 1992
18.5.2021
The early 90s was a magical time for arcade gaming, especially in Japan, so what better way to take a trip back in time than watching this excerpt from a 1992 documentary series all about the Game Fantasy arcade in Nerima, Tokyo.Read more
Mass Effect Remake Fixes A Character's Race
18.5.2021
For over 13 years, there has been a character in the original Mass Effect who was, well, the wrong race. An oversight the series’ new remasters has finally been able to fix.Read more
Chuck, No, This Is Mario Golf
18.5.2021
Nintendo recently updated the official Mario Golf: Super Rush website with short clips of every golfer performing their Special Shot. None of these powerful moves, however, are more special than Chargin’ Chuck’s.Read more