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Remember How All The Big Games Used To Come Out Right When School Started?
3.9.2021
Remember back in the day, when the new school year would coincide with the fall video game boom, inexorably intertwining the acts of learning and playing? When you’d come home from a long, hard day of trying to stay awake and spend a few hours in front of your favorite games to wind down? If...
Axiom Verge 2 Shows It's Time To Rethink Metroidvanias
27.8.2021
More so than any other medium, video games have a knack for spawning jargon that’s both absurd sounding and inscrutable. Near the top of that list is “Metroidvania,” a term that would prompt any normal person you said it in front of to quickly begin searching for the nearest exit. Even people...
Is This The Real Life Or Is It Just A Sims Stream?
24.8.2021
Life imitates. Or art imitates life. Or the two imitate each other enough that we can’t tell which is which. And if we can’t tell which is which, then how can we know if we exist in life or in art? How are we to know that this life isn’t just a giant Sims playthrough?Read more
Turmoil For Japanese Anime Power Couple
19.8.2021
Voice actor Tatsuhisa Suzuki and his popstar wife LiSA are an anime power couple. But earlier this month—following revelations about Suzuki’s alleged extra-marital activities—they suddenly announced they were taking a break from the entertainment industry. Read more
Let’s Give All The Video Game Cats A Scritch Behind The Ears
6.8.2021
It’s any given moment in time, and you all know what that means: It’s time to celebrate everyone’s favorite fluffy little bundles of chaotic indifference, cats. Whether they’re sneaking through the back streets of a cyberpunk dystopia or being loaded into a cannon to be sacrificed for the greater...
Goodbye Ash, Hornt Correspondent Extraordinaire
5.8.2021
Ash Parrish, Kotaku’s co-host of Splitscreen and esteemed expert on all things Lady Dimitrescu, Final Fantasy, and hornt, has left us. Read more
Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and 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 Article Was Written By A Cat
17.7.2021
The following blog was written by a cat named Milo. According to Milo’s owner, Kotaku’s own Lisa Marie Segarra, he’s a rascal who enjoys cuddling and will cry until you pick him up. His favorite toy is his ball tower and he enjoys watching Criminal Minds with his human mom. Read more
Do You Feel Comfortable Attending PAX Or Another Gaming Event Yet?
30.6.2021
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
Bitcoin Keys Cannot be Hacked: Skeptics Question the Official Colonial Pipeline Bitcoin Seizure Story
9.6.2021
On June 7, the United States Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the “recovery” of 63.70 bitcoin from the funds Colonial Pipeline sent to the hackers. The official story has a number of inconsistencies and federal investigators did not disclose...
FBI Agent Recovers Private Key to $2.3M in Bitcoin Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers
8.6.2021
U.S. law enforcement officials from the Justice Department on Monday announced the seizure of $2.3 million dollars worth of crypto assets that were paid to the Colonial Pipeline hackers. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco explained during a news conference that federal agents “recaptured...
Dissecting The Ridiculousness Of Resident Evil Village
3.6.2021
Resident Evil Village is all Kotaku’s staff has been talking about since it came out. Between the plot twist, hand gore, and Tall Lady Thirst, there was much to discuss, so staff editor Lisa Marie Segarra, weekend editor Zack Zweizen, and staff writer Ian Walker got together for a spoiler-heavy...
Apparently Tesla Cars Have Enough Graphical Horsepower To Play Cyberpunk 2077
2.6.2021
You shouldn’t take a call while driving, you shouldn’t text while driving, and you certainly shouldn’t game while driving. And yet, that’s exactly what you might be able to do with the Tesla Models X and S. As spotted by The Gamer, bazillionaire Tesla CEO and failed Deus Ex cosplayer Elon Musk...
Are You A Mass Effect Paragon Or Renegade?
24.5.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.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
How Big Is Your Backlog?
20.4.2021
It’s once again time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Sony Quietly Adds ‘HDMI Link’ Function To PS5, But It’s Kind Of A Bust
14.4.2021
Today, Sony released an update for the PlayStation, adding, among other things, support for external storage of PS5 games. But, as reported by The Verge, Sony quietly snuck in a handful of bonus features in the update, including the ability to automatically deactivate HDR, plus a new suite...
What’s Your Worst Gaming Habit?
12.4.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
The 10 Best Deals of April 5, 2021
5.4.2021
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Have You Ever Raged And Thrown A Controller?
5.4.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more