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13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Back 4 Blood
18.10.2021
At first glance, Back 4 Blood might seem like a paint-by-numbers co-op shooter whose lineage traces back to Left 4 Dead. You might think you know the drill: point, shoot, pick up weapon, point, shoot again. Make it to the end of the level. Try not to die. But there’s a deceptive layer of complexity...
Animal Crossing Fans Are Deeply In Love With Wardell The Manatee
18.10.2021
Between the upcoming massive free update and the paid Happy Home Paradise downloadable content, Nintendo announced a whole lot of stuff for Animal Crossing: New Horizons last Friday. But none of those announcements, even the return of the fabled froggy chair, are as important as our new friend...
Pokémon Cards Of Katy Perry, Post Malone, And J Balvin Are Too Good To Be Real
18.10.2021
Celebrating last week’s launch of Pokémon 25: The Album, The Pokémon Company has mocked up a trio of trading cards featuring anime versions of artists Katy Perry, J Balvin, and Post Malone with various pocket monster partners. None of them are real, physical cards, but dammit, they should be.Read...
Player 67
18.10.2021
Vimal Kerketta is an artist at DNEG, a visual effects studio that has recently worked on stuff like No Time To Die and Star Trek: Discovery.Read more
Former Pac-Man Champ Billy Mitchell Can Now Sue World Record Leaderboard Group
14.10.2021
Billy Mitchell, a pro gamer best known for making the numbers on an arcade machine get really big, is going to court. As spotted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, a U.S. appeals court gave the green light yesterday for Mitchell to proceed with a defamation suit against Twin Galaxies, the popular gaming...
Ugh, Nazi-Themed Host Bar Opens In Osaka
13.10.2021
At host clubs, men serve customers their drinks, light their cigarettes, and make small talk with them. At a newly opened one in Osaka, they also dress as Nazis. That’s pretty fucked up. The name of the bar is Unfair, and its tagline is, “Life is a bet.” Reddit spotted a truck driving through Osaka...
Report: Xbox's Last-Second Intel Switcheroo Left AMD Engineers Heartbroken
13.10.2021
When the first Xbox console was revealed on stage back in 2001, it was announced that it was packing an Intel CPU. This had been a last-minute decision on Microsoft’s part; so last-minute, in fact, that according to the “Father of the Xbox” Seamus Blackley AMD engineers were sitting in the front...
Our First Look At The Shenmue Anime Series
8.10.2021
First announced over a year ago, today we got our first look at the Shenmue anime series. I hope you like punching. And kicking.Read more
World Of Warcraft Update Removes Suggestive Flirts & Jokes
7.10.2021
Blizzard’s work on cleaning up World of Warcraft in the wake of historical allegations of harassment at the company continue, with the latest round targeting a series of suggestive jokes and flirts that are being removed as part of update 9.1.5.Read more
After Hours
5.10.2021
John Macaraeg is an artist at Mr. X, a visual effects studio that has recently worked on stuff like Foundation and Raised By Wolves.Read more
Our Favorite Cosplay From Dragon Con 2021
5.10.2021
WELCOME BACK EVERYONE. It has been over 18 months since we were last able to run a proper cosplay showcase from a major convention, but with vaccines and Covid-safe policies in place, Dragon Con 2021 was able to take place in Atlanta last month.Read more
Three Years Later, The Epic Games Store Gets Achievements
5.10.2021
Having launched in 2018, it’s only now, in October 2021, that the Epic Games Store is getting around to implementing proper achievements in the games being sold and played there.Read more
Help Me, I Can't Stop Playing Cookie Clicker
4.10.2021
It was September, 2021 when it started. Kotaku editor-in-chief Patricia Hernandez asked me to handle a post, a story about a clicker game on Steam getting patched to allow cheating. What a fun, novel notion, certainly worthy of a story. No problems there. That was how my problems with Cookie...
New Open-World Horror Game Features An Evil Spider Train Named Charles
2.10.2021
If you are afraid of spiders and trains, you really shouldn’t have clicked on this blog. I’ll give you a chance to leave now, because this new horror game coming out in 2022 is going to be too much for you and your fears. Read more
A List Of Your Fave Celebrities Who Are Now Peddling NFTs
1.10.2021
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have exploded in popularity in 2021. This sucks. NFTs use blockchain technology to allow artists and creators to sell a “special type of cryptographic token which represents sgomething unique”, so each token is one-of-a-kind. Though to be clear: only the token itself...
King Of Fighters XV Director Dishes On The Series' New, Possibly Best Girl
30.9.2021
When King of Fighters XV comes to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on February 14, it’ll do so with a bevy of characters, including all four heroes from past sagas of the decades-long storyline, long-dead fighters revived by the events of the previous game, and a pair of very...
How Dare Neopets Taint My Childhood With NFTs
28.9.2021
The Neopets developers recently revealed on their website that they are creating NFTs for over twenty thousand customized pets, all in partnership with several blockchain companies. So far, the public response from past and present community members has been overwhelmingly negative. Read more
First Image Of The Last Of Us Live-Action Series From HBO
27.9.2021
Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic survival yarn is getting a live-action series from HBO. Here’s a first look at the upcoming show.Read more
Step Aside Lady Dimitrescu, There's A New Evil And Tall Video Game Queen
26.9.2021
Lady Dimitrescu aka the tall vampire woman from Resident Evil Village is great. She quickly became super popular online and around these parts, many Kotaku staffers adored her too. But when the game came out she fizzled out and was barely involved in the overall story or action of Village. That’s...
We're Just Never Getting Another Titanfall, Are We
23.9.2021
Look, Apex Legends is a fine shooter, but Titanfall 2 was one of the greatest first-person games of all time, so you can understand why folks just will not shut up about wanting another entry in the series.Read more