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RIP Roblox's Famous 'Oof' Sound, Which Has Been Removed

27.7.2022
If you have ever been around Roblox for any extended amount of time, you’ll already be familiar with one of the game’s platform’s most well-known (or annoying) quirks: that every time a player dies, there used to be a childish “oof” sound that was played.Read more

RIP Bernie Stolar, Who Helped Launch Both The PlayStation And Dreamcast

27.6.2022
Bernie Stolar, one of the most important video game executives of the 1990s, has passed away at the age of 75, GamesBeat reports.Read more

RIP Fantasy Artist Ken Kelly, 1946-2022

6.6.2022
Ken Kelly, one of the most talented fantasy artists of the past 50 years, has passed away at the age of 76.Read more

RIP iPod, Home Of The Mobile Gaming Renaissance (2001–2022)

12.5.2022
Pour one out for every kid who one-strapped a backpack in middle school, as they’re likely in mourning today. With Apple’s discontinuation of the 7th-generation iPod Touch, announced yesterday, it’s official: the iPod is dead.Read more

Elden Ring's Legendary '50 Hit' Illusory Wall, Murdered In The Big Patch (RIP)

20.4.2022
In the wake of Elden Ring’s latest game-upending patch, players are combing through the Lands Between to see what may have been quietly added—or lost. Among the wreckage: YouTuber Zullie the Witch found that the game’s infamous gazillion-HP illusory walls are no more, a change that wasn’t indicated...

RIP Sora's Big-Ass Clown Shoes, 2002-2022

10.4.2022
Big news! Kingdom Hearts IV was just announced today. We don’t know much about the game’s plot, when it will be released, or how it connects to other games, but we do know one thing: Series protagonist Sora no longer has his big clown shoes anymore. And the internet isn’t taking it very well. Read...

Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Inventory Expansion Is A Rip-Off

31.1.2022
I’ve found my mortal enemy in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and no, it’s not the surly-faced captain who threatened to leave me to die in the wilds. It’s the guy standing right outside of her office. You know who I’m talking about. It’s Bagin, the guy who offers to expand your inventory–for a price.Read...

RIP Mick McGinty

20.9.2021
Mick McGinty, an artist responsible for many of the most memorable pieces of video game artwork from the 1990s, has died.Read more

RIP To Me, The Person Writing This, A Real One

23.7.2021
Are you allowed to call yourself a real one? No, I would argue, you are not. That pretty much immediately disqualifies you from being a real one, so I’m already off to a rough start here. But today’s my last day at Kotaku, so I consider it my solemn duty to close out my award-wanting “RIP To A Real...

RIP Netflix On Nintendo Consoles

2.7.2021
On June 30, Nintendo quietly pulled the plug on the Wii U and 3DS Netflix apps. Not only does this mean anybody still using these older consoles to watch Netflix are now screwed, but it also officially means that in the year 2021 there is no way to watch Netflix on a Nintendo device. This would...

RIP The Xbox Game Pass Joke

29.6.2021
Fact: If you cover games, someone will call you a “shill” at some point. Over the weekend, a contingent of games-focused writers and influencers pushed back on that claim by plastering Twitter with tongue-in-cheek posts about the purported value of Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription-based...

RIP To Outriders' Weird Cowboy NPC, A Real One

15.4.2021
I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces are minor variations on Beefy Woodsman. Hair colors range from black to dull brown. Every decal is an unobtrusive scar, except for a lone chrome eyebrow implant that may as well be...

RIP Enzio Sciotti, Badass 80s Movie Poster Artist

12.4.2021
Enzo Sciotti is an absolute legend, and anyone who spent time in a video rental place looking at posters and VHS covers—especially in the horror and “shitty action movie” sections—will instantly be able to recognise his work, even if they never knew him by name.Read more

RIP, Xbox Live (2002-2021)

22.3.2021
The name “Xbox Live” is dead. You’ll still be able to play Xbox games online, but the suite of Xbox’s online services will now be known as Xbox Network, Microsoft confirmed today to The Verge.Read more

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

Abandoned MF DOOM Game Sounded Cool

14.1.2021
News of MF DOOM’s death a couple of weeks ago led to an outpouring of tributes from artists around the world, from movie-makers to his peers and fans in the rap game, but one that caught my eye in particular was this project by Chafomon, an abandoned fan project for the Game Boy called MF Doom:...

Rare Gokus Possibly Lost At Sea After Major Shipping Accident

22.12.2020
Goku collectors are left wondering what fate awaits their beautiful sons after a bad storm caused the massive One Apus container ship to potentially lose over $200 million worth of cargo in the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii late last month. Read more