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Cloudinary Tricks for Video
30.12.2020
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that’s before we start talking about making that video consistent with all the other videos on your site.
When we took …
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What to Do If You've Let Your Animal Crossing Island Go to Hell
29.12.2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the games that saved our sanity in 2020, but not everyone plays it every day. Maybe you found something else to play on your Switch or just got tired of the daily grind—and that’s okay! But you may notice your island looks a bit different when you come...
The Week In Games: Birds
27.12.2020
It’s a pretty quiet week for game releases. Look at it as a chance to catch up on your backlog.Read more
The CT blooper reel: our video team’s most unexpected moments of 2020
27.12.2020
The CT video team’s 2020: getting bonked by the YouTube ban hammer, AK-47s and pure cringe
Who’s The Strongest Video Game Character?
26.12.2020
If all the video game characters ever created got together in a big rumble, who’d come out on top? Kratos, the one who took down the gods of Olympus? What about Asura who fought off a deity the size of a planet? What about the ancients who wore Majora’s Mask and caused so much havoc, it was sealed...
The Video Game Music That Helped Us Through 2020
26.12.2020
2020 was tough. There were nights we wondered where and how this year would end. Just when things seemed like they couldn’t get worse, they did time and again. On every level, it was difficult just to get through the day. One of the things that helped us through was music. Specifically, video game...
Why Ice Levels Keep Showing Up In Video Games, Even Though Most Of Them Are Bad
25.12.2020
In games as in life, slipping and sliding on ice patches while torrents of snow transform your eyelashes into crystalline daggers can be frustrating, to say the least. And yet, ice and snow levels are a time-honored trope in video games. On this week’s episode of Kotaku’s Splitscreen podcast,...
I Went On Vacation And Ended Up In A Video Game
25.12.2020
On a trip to a state park, I’m pretty sure my partner, my dog, and I stumbled into a video game. My own personal isekai.Read more
The Biggest Video Game Disappointments Of 2020
24.12.2020
God, this year sucked. Video games were supposed to be a reprieve from that, and in many ways they were. But in other ways they were just as messy, ill-fated, and broken as the year itself.Read more
The Biggest Video Game Surprises Of 2020
23.12.2020
Every year, we run down the best annual surprises from the world of video games. Needless to say, 2020 was not like previous years. That’s why, this year, we’re reorienting our annual tradition to focus on the biggest—not necessarily the best—ones.Read more
The Games That Got Us Through 2020
23.12.2020
I had high hopes for 2020, if for nothing else than the coolness of how the year sounded on paper: twenty-twenty. But as we all know, this year was a complete dumpster fire across any number of individual categories: politics, treating others as equals, accepting inconvenience to prevent others...
YouTube’s Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique—And It’s Getting Worse
22.12.2020
In July, Harry “hbomberguy” Brewis shared a video on his popular YouTube channel called “RWBY Is Disappointing, And Here’s Why.” The two-and-half-hour video — a sharp, detailed critique of the cartoon RWBY — was the result of a lot of work by Brewis and his producer, Kat Lo. It also took an extra...
This Incredible Link's Awakening Song Is Actually From Its Commercial
21.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s frequent hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s column is all about a reinvigorating classic that didn’t actually make it into the game it was used to promote.Read more
The Week In Games: Meat Boy Is Back
20.12.2020
A decade is a long time to wait for a sequel, but Super Meat Boy Forever is almost here after some delays and hiccups.Read more
Move over, Kickstarter: NFTs are the newest way for indie games to fundraise
20.12.2020
When NFTs and crowdfunding meet, game developers and players can both win
The Worst Video Games Names Of 2020
20.12.2020
What’s in a name? When it comes to games... not much. Games can be great and have terrible, awful, dumb names. In fact, many games on this list are good games that are just unfortunately saddled with an awful title.Read more
SimCity 4’s Soundtrack Is So Good You’re Already Reinstalling The Game
20.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m going to remind you all how much the music in SimCity 4 slaps. Granted, I just did, but now I will go into greater length.Read more
What Is Even The Point Of Giving Awards To Video Games
18.12.2020
‘Tis the season to feel mildly embittered at basically all times. I speak, of course, of awards season, during which countless games take home trophies and plaques (or pictures of trophies and plaques), but not the ones you want to win. What, really, is the point, though? On this week’s episode...
VIDEO: Jaké to je komentovat zápas v esportu?
18.12.2020
Podíváme se na celebrity, které investují do esportu. Vyzpovídali jsme také Marka Hovance, který komentuje zápasy v PUBG a Counter-Striku
Call Of The Sea Is A Welcome Reprieve From All My Recent Video Game Murdering
17.12.2020
There have been a lot of harsh, dour video games this fall. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla centered on conquest and amputation. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War featured history’s most cynical dirtbag. Cyberpunk 2077 is Cyberpunk 2077. If it’s all been a lot to stomach, consider a change of pace:...