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Man Arrested For Re-selling Game Consoles That Were For Delivery
26.11.2021
A 50-year-old man has been arrested by the Tokyo police for allegedly reselling approximately two hundred video game consoles and games that were set for delivery. The suspect has confessed to the charges.Read more
Japan Has Black Friday For Some Reason
26.11.2021
Thursday was Thanksgiving, but Japan doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. That hasn’t stopped Japanese retail from rolling out Black Friday sales. Read more
Get 'Em, Jinx
26.11.2021
Carla Antonia is an artist and illustrator based in France.Read more
Live Footage Of Sonic The Hedgehog's Infamous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Disaster
26.11.2021
Anyone who’s a serious fan of Sonic, or of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is probably aware of the 1993 event in which a Sonic the Hedgehog float became caught in high winds, struck a lamppost and injured two people. The thing is, despite knowing this happened, we didn’t have any surviving video...
Woman Steals $680,000 To Spend On Gambling Game That Never Paid Out
26.11.2021
A woman has plead guilty to fraud charges after using her position as the accounts manager at a veterinary hospital to steal around $680,000, which she spent entirely on a mobile gambling game that did not and could not ever pay out with real cash.Read more
New Shouting Game Will Really Boil Your Piss
25.11.2021
That Really Boils My Piss is a neat little itch.io game that lets you vent your frustrations with the office in the most direct, cathartic way imaginable: by screaming.Read more
Meet The Minecraft Players Who Beat The Game Without Leaving Spawn
25.11.2021
Minecraft is nothing less than the best selling video game in history. It’s no mistake that Mojang’s masterpiece has ended up where it is: It is a game of infinite possibilities, where players are free to create whatever they want, with only their own imaginations as a limitation. It turns out that...
The Nintendo Switch Has Crazy Sales On Right Now
25.11.2021
Black Friday is awful, and we should all refuse to take part. But in other news, goodness gracious, there are a lot of amazing prices on Nintendo Switch just now. Publishers like Capcom, Ubisoft and EA have joined Nintendo’s own first-party titles in luring you toward the evils of capitalist...
Adventure Games Saved My Life (Well, My Afternoon)
25.11.2021
Warning: this headline is possibly a slight exaggeration. But adventure games certainly saved my afternoon, and some enormous embarrassment. Because earlier this week, I found myself locked in my bathroom, with no sensible means of rescue. Then immediately fell back on 40 years of adventure gaming...
The Top 15 Halo Multiplayer Maps
25.11.2021
By my own rough count, the Halo series has seen some 150 or so multiplayer maps over the course of its two decades. Many of these are good. Some are great. And of course, some are terrible. For this list, I and my fellow Kotaku Halo fans tried to narrow this extensive field down to what we consider...
The Biggest Fan Theories For Netflix's Second Season Of Arcane, Explained
25.11.2021
Surprising no one, Arcane, the wildly popular Netflix interpretation of a similarly blockbuster video game, is getting a second season. Netflix officially announced the news over the weekend, the next step on the path of League of Legends’ apparent (but kinda out-of-left field) quest for total...
7.6 Tons Of Fake Pokémon Cards Seized By Chinese Authorities
25.11.2021
Customs officials at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport have seized 7.6 tons of fake Pokémon cards. The cards were shipped from a company in China’s Qingdao province and headed for the Netherlands. Read more
Fire At Super Nintendo World, But Thankfully No One Was Injured
25.11.2021
On Tuesday, a maintenance worker discovered at fire in the indoor area of the Yoshi’s Adventure attraction at Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan. Fire trucks and emergency vehicles were called, but thankfully no one was injured as the park was already closed for the day. Read more
Ubisoft Threatens Splinter Cell Fans With Bans If They Ask About Multiplayer Servers
25.11.2021
Splinter Cell: Blacklist was the last proper Splinter Cell game to be released and, I’m sorry to remind everyone, that was eight years ago. Nevertheless it still has some fans, who have banded together enough to really piss Ubisoft’s customer support off.Read more
Sports Game Delayed Over Cover Star's Dick Pic Scandal
25.11.2021
Sometimes, sports video games need to change their covers just before they’re released. It’s happened with FIFA and PES, it’s happened with Madden, it’s happened to NBA 2K. It’s now also happening with Cricket 22, but for slightly more scandalous reasons.Read more
Video Game Faces Might Finally Start Bridging The Uncanny Valley
25.11.2021
Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic, as while we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley.Read more
Arknights Tells A Compelling War Story With, Err, Catgirls
24.11.2021
For a long time, I ignorantly assumed that anthro art was...unserious. Anime catgirls and dog boys generally seem pretty upbeat, drawn with bright colors and cheerful expressions. I’d never encountered a furry story with riveting character arcs, having only ever accidentally stumbled upon...
Cloud Strife Voice Actor Fired From Soap Opera For Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination
24.11.2021
Steve Burton, who previously voiced brooding Final Fantasy hero Cloud Strife, has been fired from his long-standing role on General Hospital after refusing to comply with the soap opera’s vaccine mandate, the actor recently announced (h/t Variety).Read more
Roblox Sues YouTuber For $1.6 Million Over Terrorizing Kids Platform
24.11.2021
Roblox is finally taking notorious YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon to court over his alleged attacks on the gaming social media platform and its young fans. A lawsuit filed in California court on Tuesday wants the longtime banned player to pay $1.6 million in damages and stop harassing Roblox...
Bobby Kotick Has Always Been A Siimy Douchebag
24.11.2021
Bobby Kotick is a weasel of the highest order. And while he may finally be facing a reckoning for some of his actions as CEO of Activision Blizzard, it’s been a long time coming.Read more