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The Borderlands Movie: The Kotaku Review
8.8.2024
An hour after leaving a screening of the new Borderlands movie, directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ariana Greenblatt, I’m staring at a blinking cursor in a blank Google Doc, urging inspiration to strike. Read more
The Return Of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar Gets Delayed
7.8.2024
Christopher Nolan didn’t release a movie this year, so theaters are bringing back one of his old ones to compensate. Interstellar was set to return to theaters next month but will instead be delayed until December, Variety reports. Read more
Diablo IV Glitch Lets Player Gain 30+ Levels In One Second
7.8.2024
A new and powerful weapon added to Diablo IV’s latest season suddenly led to some players leveling up incredibly fast, with one player jumping over 30 levels after one boss kill. Blizzard has since tracked down the cause of this bug and released a temporary fix. Read more
Disney+ Cracking Down On Password Sharing In September
7.8.2024
Since Disney+ launched a few years ago, people have been sharing their passwords with family and friends, letting them log in and watch Star Wars and more at no extra cost. But those days are coming to an end, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger during a recent earnings call. Read more
Borderlands Movie First Impressions Call It 'Lifeless' And 'Really Bad'
7.8.2024
After a very long wait, the live-action Borderlands movie finally arrives in theaters this weekend. But before that, the movie was screened for fans and critics in Los Angeles. And, based on the first impressions being posted online, the Borderlands movie sounds like a complete mess.Read more
Borderlands Star Says Tenacious D Will Return After Joke Fallout 'When It Feels Right'
7.8.2024
Jack Black, who voices Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands live-action movie, says that Tenacious D isn’t permanently done after all. The initial announcement followed a joke by longtime bandmember and friend Kyle Gass, about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Instead, Tenacious D...
I Played A Reality TV Show Game With A Jersey Shore Producer And A Fight Broke Out
7.8.2024
“That’s a great wide shot,” Chris Daly, a reality TV producer for over 17 years, says generously. “That shot helps the cast not feel like they’re being watched, and the audience like it’s not a planned shot. It’s not a set scene, it feels more ‘real’.” I’m playing the demo for The Crush House,...
Disney+ Gets Another Price Increase, Will Cost Twice As Much As It Did In 2019
6.8.2024
Disney’s popular streaming service is set to receive yet another price hike, marking the fourth increase for the streamer since it launched in 2019. The new ad-free tier of Disney+ will soon cost $16 a month. It comes as Disney and other companies continue to try and squeeze more profit out...
OG Dune Director David Lynch 'Loved Smoking' Too Much And Has Empysema, But 'Will Never Retire'
6.8.2024
Famous director David Lynch explained in a recent interview that he has emphysema, a lung disease that causes shortness of breath. He blames this on his love of smoking and tobacco. But despite rumors that he was retiring, Lynch says he has no plans to do so. Read more
Diablo IV Players Encounter A Generous Seasonal Bug And Blizzard's Not Stepping In To Patch It Out
6.8.2024
Today is the start of Diablo IV’s Season of the Infernal Hordes. It adds a new mode, quests, and a ton of rebalancing. It also accidentally let players carry over their Legendary Tempering recipes from last season, and Blizzard is being generous and giving the bug a pass this time around.Read more
Spooky-Looking Quiet Place Game Launching In October
6.8.2024
Saber Interactive’s upcoming horror game based on the popular Quiet Place films finally has a release date and a price. And the new creepy-looking game, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, is dropping in the spookiest time of the year: October. Read more
Tales From The Borderlands Convinced Gearbox A Movie Was A Good Idea
6.8.2024
The upcoming Borderlands movie might not have happened if it wasn’t for the spin-off narrative game Tales from the Borderlands, which gave Gearbox confidence that the universe could be more than just a looter shooter playground.Read more
Game Pass Super-Hit High On Life Is Getting A TV Show
6.8.2024
When sci-fi comedy shooter High On Life launched on Game Pass in 2022, it quickly became one of the service’s biggest hits. And now, following all that success, one of the game’s actors, J.B. Smoove, is using his newly-formed production studio to help create an animated TV show based on...
John Wick TV Series Announced, Doesn't Star John Wick
6.8.2024
Entertainment studio Lionsgate is going to expand its enormous John Wick franchise by spinning off a second TV series, one that continues directly from the end of John Wick 4. Deadline reports that the ludicrous, long-running fight scene will extend to smaller screens in John Wick: Under The High...
Sad News, Roblox Has Come For Beetlejuice
5.8.2024
After 30 years, we’re finally getting a sequel to 1988's creepy comedy Beetlejuice. Do we need one? I don’t know. But because everyone involved waited so long to make Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice we now have to watch Michael Keaton’s “Ghost with the Most” get shoved into Roblox in another desperate...
There Are At Least 7 More Game Of Thrones Spin-Offs Coming, George R.R. Martin Says
5.8.2024
The author behind A Song of Fire and Iceis busy finishing the final two volumes in that acclaimed fantasy series, but not so busy that he doesn’t have time to tease audiences about all of the new Game of Thrones spin-offs currently being made for TV. By George R.R. Martin’s count there are seven...
10 Things We Noticed In The Last Of Us Season Two Trailer
5.8.2024
HBO dropped the first teaser for The Last of Us’ second season as part of a preview reel for Max’s next year. While it focuses on Pedro Pascal’s Joel, who seems to be undergoing some kind of therapy after the violent events of season one’s finale, there’s a lot more to pick through in the brief...
First Teaser For The Last Of Us Season Two Puts Joel In Therapy
5.8.2024
HBO has released the first footage of the second season of The Last of Us, and it implies that things for Pedro Pascal’s Joel may be a little bit different than they are in the game. No, not that different, but it seems like he might be going to therapy.Read more
Star Wars Outlaws Preview, Destiny 2's Future, And More Hot Takes
3.8.2024
It’s been a helluva week for video games, with mass layoffs at Destiny 2 studio Bungie, and a few hands-ons for upcoming high-profile releases like Marvel Rivals and Star Wars Outlaws. As usual, we weighed in on the goings-on of the week, so click through to read all of our big opinions and spicy...
MrBeast's Nice Guy Empire Starting To Show Cracks After Recent Controversies
2.8.2024
MrBeast, one of the most popular content creators in the world, is seen by many as a family-friendly and mostly good dude who does a lot of charity work. But recent controversies, including one over his use of slurs in the past, have put a dark cloud over the famous YouTuber’s massive empire. Read...