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Genshin Impact's Latest Update Shows MiHoYo's Deep Respect For Japanese Culture
19.10.2021
Genshin Impact’s Inazuma region is based on Japan. The country’s culture can be incredibly complex. Whether that’s sakura or swords, it’s easy to not get things quite right. MiHoYo’s decision to push through a subtle fix underscoring those nuances is impressing Japanese players. Before the update...
Oh No Oh No
19.10.2021
Vii Wong is an artist based in China.Read more
Report: Yes, Twitch Once Had A ‘Do Not Ban’ List
18.10.2021
Twitch’s big leak this month included more than just source code and payday info. Details emerged about a “do not ban” list, which sure sounds like the sort of nefarious document that allows certain people to play the same game by different rules. But a new Washington Post report indicates that...
Pokémon Cards Of Katy Perry, Post Malone, And J Balvin Are Too Good To Be Real
18.10.2021
Celebrating last week’s launch of Pokémon 25: The Album, The Pokémon Company has mocked up a trio of trading cards featuring anime versions of artists Katy Perry, J Balvin, and Post Malone with various pocket monster partners. None of them are real, physical cards, but dammit, they should be.Read...
Player 67
18.10.2021
Vimal Kerketta is an artist at DNEG, a visual effects studio that has recently worked on stuff like No Time To Die and Star Trek: Discovery.Read more
You Can Now Play Doom Via Twitter
17.10.2021
Are you bored, sitting in some waiting room? Maybe, instead of just doing nothing you want to play some Doom? Well you could download the fantastic mobile ports of Doom or play it on Switch. Or, why not play Doom using Twitter via short commands and videos?Read more
Sunday Comics: Incredible, Sam!
17.10.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Remastered GTA Trilogy Will Seemingly Feature GTA V-Style Controls And High-Res Textures
16.10.2021
If Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition was a boat, it would have sunk by now after all the recent leaks. First, there was the leaked rating information, then leaked achievements. Now, more details about how the game will play, box art, and its apparent PC specs have also slipped...
The Moment That Sold Me On Back 4 Blood, The New Shooter By L4D Devs
15.10.2021
Confession time: I’ve never played Left 4 Dead. I’m obviously aware of what Valve’s iconic shooter is all about—team up with friends and shoot zombies—and that a ton of players sucked it up like zombies feasting on cerebral miasma. Still, despite the game’s ubiquity, I just...never got around...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' K.K. Slider Is Getting New Music
15.10.2021
During the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct, Nintendo announced that the music performer K.K. slider will be adding additional songs. These include titles such as K.K. Break and K.K. Polka. Players will also be able to play them from a new music box item.Read more
GTA Trilogy Remaster's Achievements Seem To Have Leaked, And They're Great
15.10.2021
Another day, another bit of information leaks out from Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. This time, dataminers have dug into files found in the Rockstar Games Launcher on PC and retrieved a full list of achievements players can attain in the remakes when they release later...
GTA Online Update Keeps Teleporting Entire Lobbies To A Single Player's Home Base
14.10.2021
Picture this. You’re playing GTA Online in a public lobby, doing your personal crimes and heists while other players go about their business. Suddenly, the screen goes black, and when it comes back up you’re in front of a home or garage entrance along with every other player in the lobby. Everybody...
All The Possible Video Game TV Series Announced In The Last 48 Hours
13.10.2021
On Monday, publisher Raw Fury announced a new first-look deal with dJ2 Entertainment for adapting their publishing catalogue into film and television series. And in the same moment, we’ve just heard word of a live-action version of the classic action-adventure, System Shock.Read more
Cowboy Bebop's Original Japanese Voice Cast Returns To Dub Netflix Series
13.10.2021
Yoko Kanno, who scored the original anime, isn’t the only one returning to Cowboy Bebop. The entire, original voice cast is, too, and will be dubbing the live-action Netflix show’s Japanese language track. That’s right, not just some of the original Japanese language cast, but the entire Japanese...
Old Video Shows The Birth Of Mortal Kombat's 'Get Over Here' Move
13.10.2021
You’d be forgiven for thinking that every move and every system you’ve ever enjoyed in a video game has been planned to the last meticulous detail. But hey, sometimes a thought just comes to you, and the results stand the test of time.Read more
Squid Game’s Success Is Giving Fall Guys Some Ideas
12.10.2021
During a recent TechRadar interview, Fall Guys lead game designer Joe Walsh said the dev team at Mediatonic is currently toying with the idea of retrieving an unused minigame from the cutting-room floor. And it’s all thanks to Netflix’s latest original series, Squid Game.Read more
D&D Fans Want Wizards Of The Coast To Use The Metric System
12.10.2021
Dungeons & Dragons has come a hell of a long way, except in one very precise area: units of measurement.Read more
Squid Game Knock-Offs Are Taking Over GTA 5 Servers
11.10.2021
Netflix’s Squid Game has taken the world by storm, and now it’s taking over Grand Theft Auto V role-playing servers. GTA fans are recreating the show’s grim children’s games across the streets of Los Santos. Winners get big cash prizes while the losers get sued into oblivion by Take-Two. Just...
Deux Ex Gender Swap Lets You Play The Whole Game As A Woman
11.10.2021
The Lay D Denton mod is a huge project that takes the original Deus Ex and lets you play through the whole thing not as a gruff cyberpunk dude, but as a gruff cyberpunk woman instead.Read more
Sunday Comics: Fun Game
10.10.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more