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How To Unlock All Six Hidden Weapon Aspects In Hades
25.8.2021
Hades, the Greek mythology-themed action-roguelike from Supergiant Games, ostensibly gives you six weapons to play with. Beyond that, each one has four “aspects,” or weapon-altering forms. But you’ll only have access to three for each at the start.Read more
Everything You Need To Know To Beat Hades (For The First Time)
16.8.2021
If you haven’t cleared a run in Hades, you’re not alone. Supergiant’s Greek-themed roguelike is many things, but “easy” sure isn’t one of them. Beating the game the first time will happen eventually, but the following advice should help you speed up the process.Read more
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New DLC Adds Cavalry Units That Keep Kicking My Ass
14.8.2021
I really enjoyed the new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC, Siege of Paris. Exploring the new map was great and the storyline was perfectly paced. Good stuff! But there is one part of the DLC that sucks shit: The cavalry soldiers. They are annoying and because of how Valhalla works these assholes...
Tips For Playing Hades [Updated: More Tips!]
13.8.2021
Hades is amazing. The latest from developer Supergiant Games (Transistor, Bastion, Pyre) is a roguelike set in the unforgiving underworld of ancient Greece. Playing this game means you’re going to die—a lot. These tips should help make sure those (many, many) deaths aren’t in vain.Read more
The Witcher Fan Wins Gold At The Tokyo Olympics
26.7.2021
We wrote about Russian athlete and The Witcher superfan Vitalina Batsarashkina back in 2016 when she won a silver medal in the 10m air pistol at the Rio Olympics. At this year’s games she’s back with the same Witcher gear, only this time she won gold.Read more
Marvel's Loki Joins Fortnite Because That's What You Do These Days
2.7.2021
Loki Laufeyson, adversary and half-brother to thunder god Thor, is taking a break from his hit Marvel streaming show to make an appearance in Fortnite.Read more
Record of Ragnarok Isn't Streaming on Netflix India
21.6.2021
Earlier this month, Netflix India reportedly listed Record of Ragnarok as starting streaming on June 17. The day came and went, but the show was missing.Read more
Howdy Snake
18.6.2021
Richard Anderson is a veteran artist who has worked on everything from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thor, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy) to Paddington to the Arkham games to Guild Wars.Read more
E3 Avatar Creator: The Kotaku Review
8.6.2021
E3 is here. Registered participants will soon be able to log in to the E3 portal to connect with developers, industry professionals, and fans. Since the event is purely digital, the ESA is encouraging participants to create avatars so exhibitors who may or may not be there and who may or may...
A Group Of Hades Fans Are Staging The Entire Iliad On Twitch
4.6.2021
Hades, the well-received roguelike from Supergiant Games, is very obviously rooted in Greek myth. So what better way for a cadre of the games’ most devoted fans to pay homage to the source material than by staging a cover-to-cover reading of The Iliad, arguably one of the most recognizable stories...
Loki's Latest Trailer Is a Timey Wimey Joyride Through the MCU
5.4.2021
Loki, the Asgardian royal family’s resident enfant terrible, has broken many a law in his time traipsing across the universe in Marvel Studio’s films, and Disney+’s upcoming Loki series, it seems as if the mischief maker’s finally going to do the time for at least some of his crimes.Read more
Immortals' New DLC Taught Me A Lot About Chinese Mythology
26.3.2021
It’s probably fair to say most DLC isn’t that great or memorable. That was the case with the first download for Immortals Fenyx Rising, which added a bunch of new puzzles and not much else. However, the game’s second DLC, Myths of the Eastern Realms, is a rare example of good downloadable content....
Hades Almost Starred Theseus, Which Would've Been Boring AF
9.3.2021
Imagine playing Hades, working to escape the underworld, fighting, and succumbing to swarms of relentless enemies. Every time your character perishes, you hear the low, sinister chuckle of the King of the Dead in your ear, mocking you for your weakness. Until finally, after countless attempts,...
Hades Is Life
11.1.2021
While playing through Supergiant Games’ Hades I kept asking myself, why is this game so freaking good?Read more
The Shadow of Satoshi’s Ghost: Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters
22.5.2020
How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies
Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS
13.6.2019
Greek mythology tells the story of Zeus creating the cloud nymph, Nephele. Like other Greek myths, this tale gets pretty bizarre and X-rated. Here’s a very abridged, polite version.
Nephele, we are told, was created by Zeus in the image of his own beautiful wife. A mortal meets Nephele, falls...