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From Blackest Night to Brightest Day: How the Present Has Seen the Glorious Rise of the Black Superhero
24.2.2021
Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 2Read more
Final Fantasy Got It Right With Two Black Fathers
23.2.2021
Lately, dads have become the video game industry’s pet trope. There are a ton of games that have won a lot of awards about trying, failing, and in very few cases, succeeding at being a dad. But that trend largely excludes Black fathers (with one extremely notable exception), since the video game...
Star Wars Stories From Tartakovsky's Clone Wars That Should Rejoin Canon
23.2.2021
Dave Filoni has created a vast swath of the Star Wars universe through his Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons, The Mandalorian, and whatever else he has in the works next. He’s been such a driving force in the franchise that it can be hard to remember he didn’t actually make the first modern Star Wars...
Society6 Teams up With Disney for a Star Wars Collection That’ll Put Your Home Into Hyperdrive
23.2.2021
Society6 is a wonderful place where independent artists can share their work with a vast audience. Finding talent and putting the spotlight on them is what they do best. It always seemed like a matter of time before they combined forces with a massively beloved franchise. That day has come....
WandaVision's TV Fakeness Gave Way to a Moment of True Love
22.2.2021
One of the many, many things that’s made WandaVision so compelling to watch are the ways it has poked and prodded at the format of television to tell the story of Scarlet Witch and Vision’s unlikely love. But in an episode that was all about the fakeness of that metatext finally breaking down,...
Hogwarts Legacy Lead Designer Used To Run Anti-Social Justice YouTube Channel
21.2.2021
Troy Leavitt is a lead designer at Warner Bros. development studio Avalanche Software currently working on controversial Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy. He also ran a reactionary YouTube channel focused on attacking feminism and social justice for over a year.Read more
PSA: Go Sit At The Campfire In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
19.2.2021
Last night, former MTV News staffer Stephen Totilo sent me a text about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: “Go sit at the campfire.”Read more
Oh Hey, They're Bringing Back Stubbs The Zombie
18.2.2021
Remember Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse, the 2005 action game for PC and Xbox about a depression-era zombie eating brains in the late 1950s? Maybe? Either way, it’s coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, Switch, and PC on March 16.Read more
What's Star Wars Going to Do With All This Gina Carano Merchandise?
17.2.2021
Toys and Star Wars are almost inextricably linked. From the days of the Early Bird preview set to modern collectibles lining the shelves and desks of ardent fans, the galaxy far, far away’s relationship with merchandise is as old as Star Wars itself. But what’s going to happen when paraphernalia...
Everything You Need to Know About Lord of the Rings' Second Age
16.2.2021
Even though we first learned about it in 2017, we barely know anything about Amazon’s plans for its Lord of the Rings series. One thing we do know—other than that a bucketload of talent is running all around New Zealand to make it—is that it’s set in the Second Age of Middle-earth’s long history....
Thank God, Blaseball Returns On March 1
16.2.2021
The cultural event of Blaseball returns on March 1, developer The Game Band announced today.Read more
Today’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Update Finally Adds Those Mysterious Skills
16.2.2021
Last month, three skills mysteriously showed up in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but only if you disconnected your console from the internet. Now, those skills are officially available, included in the game’s 1.1.2 patch, out today for all platforms.Read more
The Week In Games: Sure, More Werewolves!
15.2.2021
WolfTeam: Classic is coming to Steam, to let others and myself relive the bygone era of free-to-play PC shooters like Combat Arms. Read more
Modder Adds Tifa Lockhart To Tekken 7
14.2.2021
Tekken 7 already has a large roster of characters, including some odd guest characters. But now, thanks to a talented modder, you can play as Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 Remake.Read more
Please, Just Let Me Be The Dog
13.2.2021
There’s a new game out. It lets you play as a dog (or wolf I guess, but whatever.). But then, throughout the game, it turns you back into a human against your will. Hey, stop that. Video game. Stop. Let me be the dog, please.Read more
Pedro Pascal To Portray Joel In HBO's The Last Of Us
11.2.2021
Deadline reports that Pedro Pascal, well known for Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian, will be starring as Joel in HBO’s upcoming television adaptation of The Last of Us.Read more
Grand Theft Auto Role-Playing Is Big On Twitch Again, Starring, Uh, Johnny Silverhand From Cyberpunk
10.2.2021
The scene: Grand Theft Auto V’s iconic city of Los Santos. People mill about outside an apartment building, likely plotting crimes. Nothing seems out of the ordinary—except for a lone figure. Clad in suffocatingly tight leather pants and a bulletproof vest, he looks prepared for anything...
The True Monster in Silence of the Lambs, Still Rearing Its Ugly Head 30 Years Later
10.2.2021
Clarice Starling first appeared onscreen in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs; the 2001 feature Hannibal followed, and the CBS series Clarice debuts this week. The lead’s immediate association has always been with the killers she pursues for the FBI—but rewatching Lambs offers a reminder of...
Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Brand-New Tracks Kick Ass, Too
10.2.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m going to gush about just how amazing Final Fantasy VII Remake’s music is, and specifically a few of its new tracks that weren’t in the original.Read more
Decades Later, Sailor Saturn's Transformation Scene Appears In Anime
9.2.2021
For well over two decades, we haven’t seen the henshin shiin (変身シーン) or “transformation scene” from Sailor Moon’s Sailor Saturn in an anime. That is, it seems, until now.Read more