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The New Olympics Game Lets Me Be Tubby, And I Appreciate That
21.6.2021
Sega’s Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 lets players who’d otherwise never see the inside of an Olympic stadium imagine themselves taking on the world’s finest on the global stage. Thanks to the game’s character creator that includes my avatar, the completely lovable chonkiest Olympian.Read more
Lego Mario Leak Shows Massive Bowser Airship
17.6.2021
On Wednesday, Amazon Australia uploaded a listing for the next big Lego Mario seemingly ahead of its official reveal. It’s a full Lego build of Bowser’s classic airship. While it has since been removed from Amazon, the internet never forgets. Lego fans quickly downloaded and shared images of...
Man Pirates Anime At Movie Theater To Watch At Home, Gets Arrested
17.6.2021
A fifty-year-old man has been arrested in Osaka for filming the anime feature Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet with his smartphone at a shopping mall movie theater.Read more
GTA Online Player Tries Performing Hamlet, Dies
16.6.2021
It is not uncommon for people to put on performances in Grand Theft Auto Online. These days, there are entire role play servers with special modifications that allow players to better strut and fret their hour upon the stage, and they’re hugely popular. But players don’t usually do much acting...
Niantic Is Making An AR Transformers Game
14.6.2021
Niantic of Pokémon Go fame is bringing their real-world augmented reality know-how to Transformers.Read more
Ubisoft’s Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Coming 2022
12.6.2021
Today, we finally got a fresh glimpse at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ubisoft’s new Avatar game that’s been in development for the last four years. Originally going by “The Avatar Project,” Frontiers of Pandora was teased during today’s Ubisoft E3 presentation. The video revealed more of Ubisoft’s...
'Shop Contest: LeBron James Toy, Winners!
12.6.2021
LeBron James might be one of the best basketball players in history, but he’s also in a movie called Space Jam: A New Legacy. And as such he is now a toy. So we had some fun with this piece of movie merchandise. Read more
Beautiful Hand-Written Walkthrough Found In Old PC Game Box
11.6.2021
Younger readers will just take things like YouTube walkthroughs, or even sites like GameFAQs, for granted, but old heads will remember days when finding their way through a video game was hard work. Which could, in rare instances like this, also be beautiful work.Read more
Jurassic World Evolution 2 Coming This Year
10.6.2021
Today during Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest, a different Jeff—one of the Goldblum variety—announced Jurassic Park Evolution 2.Read more
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
What The Hell Is Happening In Palworld?
6.6.2021
Yesterday, developer Pocketpair released a trailer for its upcoming game Palworld, which describes itself as a “multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game” with some Pokemon-looking companions. Things seem to start off fine, before the trailer takes a dark turn.Read more
Super Mario Bros. Movie Restoration Adds 20 Minutes Of Deleted Scenes
2.6.2021
For years now, Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive has been working to obtain and restore a bunch of deleted scenes from Nintendo’s 1993 disaster. That work is now largely done, leaving us with a sort of “director’s cut” of the film that runs for 20 minutes longer than the original.Read more
Ubisoft's Second Movie Is Looking Much More Entertaining Than Assassin's Creed
27.5.2021
In theaters on June 25 and on demand July 2, Ubisoft Film & Television’s Werewolves Within is a supernatural whodunnit described in its trailer as “a good old-fashioned sleepover with guns.” Judging by the trailer it might just be a lot of fun. See for yourself. Read more
Monster Hunter Rise Update 3.0 Adds More Monsters And A New Ending
26.5.2021
Just when you thought you were done hunting monsters, bam! Capcom drops a free title update adding two new ferocious beasts to conquer and “a new ending to advance the story,” which is not how endings work but that’s what Capcom says, so we’ll run with it. Read more
Who Goes There?: The Kotaku Review
26.5.2021
You’ve seen The Thing, right? Well this is the board game adaptation.Read more
I Studied The Blade
25.5.2021
Pavel Hristov is a freelance artist working in the video game business.Read more
Lego Celebrates Diversity With A Rainbow Of Minifigures
20.5.2021
Going on sale on June 1, “Everyone is Awesome” is a 346-piece Lego set meant to celebrate the diversity of Lego fans and the world around them. It features 11 faceless monochrome minifigures arranged in the colors of the LGBTQIA+ rainbow flag. It’s a bit on-the-nose, but I dig it. Read more
Lies Of P Is A (Checks Notes) Pinocchio Souls-Like
20.5.2021
Round8 Studio and Neowiz today announced Lies of P, an upcoming Souls-like based on the classic story of Pinocchio, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Just typing that out makes me feel a little like I’m losing my mind.Read more
Even Video Game Sneakers Are Getting Delayed
19.5.2021
We’re so used to video game delays that we now come to expect them, doubly so during a global pandemic, but in 2021 even video game sneakers are throwing their release dates out the window.Read more
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