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Mind Blown: Across The Spider-Verse Has Multiple Versions Out In Theaters
23.6.2023
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse viewers’ collective spidey senses have unearthed yet another spectacular detail in the record-breaking box-office animated film: There are multiple versions of the film doing the rounds in theaters.Read more
The Hideo Kojima Documentary Is The Worst Kind Of Fan Service
23.6.2023
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds—PlayStation Studios and Kojima Productions’ hour-long documentary on Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima—is too in awe of its subject to see him clearly. Premiered at Tribeca Festival on June 17, the documentary inflates Kojima’s mythology as an untouchable auteur...
Our Favorite Cosplay From Dreamhack Melbourne 2023
23.6.2023
From Comic-Con to C2E2, the vast majority of cosplay coverage you see on this website comes from American conventions. Which is fine! This is an American website, many of the world’s biggest shows are in the US and our intrepid cosplay photographer Mineralblu is also American.Read more
Pokimane Says Moving From Twitch To Kick Isn't Worth Compromising Morals, Is 'Cringe'
22.6.2023
Imane “Pokimane” Anys, would never stream on rising platform Kick, which already lured big names xQc and Amouranth away from Twitch with high profile contracts. Read more
Steam's Subreddit Is Running An Excellent Protest
22.6.2023
As we’ve been covering, things are not going well over on Reddit at the moment, with the site’s ownership currently engaged in a running battle with readers and moderators. Users are so annoyed at attempts to monetise the site that they’re working through a variety of protests, but one of...
New Marvel TV Show's Credits Were 'Made' By 'AI', Look Terrible
22.6.2023
Hollywood’s writers are currently striking for a number of reasons, but one of the big ones is to ensure their work is safeguarded from the advances of “AI”. And right in the middle of it all, Disney has dropped its new Marvel TV series, Secret Invasion, which features an opening credits made by...
Smosh Co-Founders Buy Back Popular Video Game Let's Play Channel 12 Years Later
21.6.2023
Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, the co-founders behind the formative YouTube let’s play and sketch comedy channel, Smosh, broke the internet with the surprising announcement that they bought their old channel back from fellow comedic YouTubers Rhett & Link.Read more
Fans Think Mario’s Voice Sounds Weird In The New Game
21.6.2023
Mario is back in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but longtime fans don’t think the Italian plumber sounds like his old self. They’re now listening to a one-second clip of Mario saying “Wonder” over and over again to try and decipher if it still sounds like longtime series voice actor Charles...
Princess Peach Is Getting Her Own Switch Game After Kicking Ass In The Movie
21.6.2023
Nintendo announced an untitled game centering Super Mario’s Princess Peach at its Direct showcase on June 21. It’s been nearly two decades since we last saw the smiley pink princess as a true protagonist; the last time she got her own game was 2005 platformer Super Princess Peach.Read more
Reddit Is Forcibly Removing Mods Over NSFW Protests
21.6.2023
In the wake of sitewide protests, ostensibly over some API changes but really about an increasingly corporate squeeze of a historically community-run site, some Reddit moderators have decided to hit CEO Steve Huffman in the only place it seems to hurt: the site’s wallet.Read more
Should You Play Cyberpunk 2077 Now Or Wait For Phantom Liberty?
20.6.2023
If you’ve been on the internet between December of 2020 to right now, you’ve probably heard something about the supposed Cyberpunk 2077 renaissance. That redemption arc seems to be finally coming to fruition with the upcoming Phantom Liberty expansion, which promises a complete overhaul of...
Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Sizable Patch Right Before Phantom Liberty Expansion
20.6.2023
Developer CD Projekt Red is still tinkering with Cyberpunk 2077 ahead of DLC Phantom Liberty’s September release. Case in point: The studio dropped a new patch for the open-world sci-fi RPG on June 20, detailing fixes for a number of bugs, including a few that seem to have been around since...
McDonalds & Fandom Replaced A Wiki Page With An Advertisement
20.6.2023
Grimace, an ancient McDonalds character who—recent marketing blitz aside—may be so unknown among younger readers they will actually need to consult a website to find out who the hell he is, has for a very long time had an extensive page up over at the unofficial McDonalds Wiki. Until this week,...
There Would Have Been A Woman At Summer Game Fest, But She Couldn't Make It
19.6.2023
During 2023's Summer Game Fest, something really rather awkward became all too apparent as the gruelling hours of commercials wound on: there were no women on stage. At the time, Kotaku and others wondered of frontman Geoff Keighley why this happened, but answers weren’t forthcoming. Since...
Gaming Just Isn't About You: Consoles Are Thrashed By Casual Games
19.6.2023
Gaming still isn’t all about you. New data released by PwC shows that “traditional” games make up only 26.7 percent of the revenue earned by the U.S. games industry, the vast majority of 2022's $54.1 billion coming from social or casual games. Esports, meanwhile, contributed just 0.8%. Added...
Twitch Mega Streamer xQc Signed By Gambling Company For $100 Million
17.6.2023
Twitch’s biggest streamer, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, is signing with the company’s newest rival, Kick, a streaming platform that offers better revenue splits and also appears to be centered around online gambling. The non-exclusive deal is valued at up to $100 million over two years, and is the latest...
The Last Of Us Comes To Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights
16.6.2023
If you’ve ever found yourself playing The Last of Us and getting frustrated that the horror was only happening behind the safety of a screen, well, I have good news for you. Starting in September, The Last of Us’ signature brand of post-apocalyptic terror is coming to Universal Studios during...
Concept Art From A Canceled, Live-Action Robotech Movie
16.6.2023
For 15 years now, people in Hollywood have been trying to get a live-action Robotech movie made. Specifically, a movie based on Robotech’s first and most popular season, which was a Western repackaging of Japanese masterpiece Macross. Read more
Reddit's CEO Is Just Making Everything Worse
16.6.2023
As you may have seen over the past week, Reddit—the “last page of the internet”—has not been having a good time, after the company’s CEO decided to oversee some changes that affected some very popular apps that people were using to access the site. That CEO, Steve Huffman, is now doing some...
Tears Of The Kingdom Players Are Making Music With Lasers And Zonai Stakes
15.6.2023
Not only does The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom simulate wind, electricity, aerodynamics, and inertia, it also simulates the phenomenon of pressure waves detected by our ears: i.e. sound. As players have been slowly realizing, when stuck in the ground to various depths, Zonai Stakes vibrate...