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$400 Spider-Man NFT Looks Like A PS2 Cutscene
9.8.2021
By August 2021 it’s clear that the entire concept of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is an enormous pump-and-dump scam, but that’s not stopping Disney and Marvel, who over the weekend released the dumbest, funniest piece of Spider-Man trash imaginable and watched people lining up around the block to...
Back 4 Blood's Beta Hit Nearly 100k Active Players On Steam Over The Weekend
8.8.2021
It turns out, a lot of folks are excited for a new spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead 2 based on player numbers collected via SteamDB. Back 4 Blood’s beta reached nearly 100k active players on Saturday night. Read more
Sunday Comics: Déjà Vu
8.8.2021
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
Back 4 Blood Beta Players Think They Hear Zombies Yelling The N-Word
7.8.2021
Last night, while playing the Back 4 Blood beta on PS5, I was attacked by a large group of zombies. That’s not surprising; it happens all the time in the game. What was shocking was hearing a sound clip from one of the zombies that made it seem like it was yelling out a racial slur. Based on viral...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #28
7.8.2021
A hand-picked collection of the most beautiful and creative web designs from the past month.
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The 5 Best (And Worst) Dunks In Pokemon Unite
6.8.2021
Pokémon Unite, the TiMi Studio Group-developed MOBA released last month, is super fun. But the best thing about Pokémon shifting genres is getting to see the eponymous pocket monsters engage in a much different kind of competition.Read more
Dad Surprises Son With Secret Gundam Model Skills
6.8.2021
Tokyo resident and Twitter user Tokyoboy0701 gave his dad a Master Grade 3.0 RX-78-2 Gundam model kit. This past June, he tweeted out a photo of the said packaged and unfinished model, writing, “I’m giving this for Father’s Day.” Months later, dad is done.Read more
Agent 47, Welcome To The Flower Show
6.8.2021
Hitman 3's latest event, out today, is the Dartmoor Garden Show. Doesn’t it just look serene.Read more
The BBC Still Doesn't Know What Gundam is
6.8.2021
Last week, a BBC commentator struggled mightily to try and explain what the big robot was that triathletes kept cycling past during the Olympics. Now the broadcaster’s social media team is running into the same problem.Read more
Last Of Us 2 Enemies Used To Have Exploding Butts
6.8.2021
There are all sorts of ways for The Last of Us Part II’s infected to kill you, but one of the more entertaining ones never made it out of production. According to pre-alpha gameplay, the game used to have death by ass blast.Read more
No One Can Fully Explain This Baffling Roblox Ad Scam
5.8.2021
Over the past few days, a bewildering TikTok ad featuring clips from Roblox has torn through the internet. Some believe it’s an instance of performatively offbeat marketing. Some think it’s a fairly run-of-the-mill scam. Others say it was an accident, a technical mishap on the app’s backend....
Remember When EA Motion Capped A Baby?
5.8.2021
The fact that the Dead Space developers made a game based on Dante Aligheri’s The Divine Comedy is weird enough, even without thinking about the motion capped, unbaptised children that face you in your descent to hell.Read more
Pokémon Go Tries Enticing Players As They Call For A Boycott
5.8.2021
Niantic announced legendary Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta from Sword and Shield will come to Pokémon Go. In normal times, this alone would be cool news! We do not live in normal times.Read more
Gone Home Studio Co-Founder Steps Down After Allegations Of 'Toxic' Workplace
5.8.2021
Steve Gaynor, the co-founder of Gone Home developers Fullbright, has left his position as creative lead and manager on their latest game Open Roads following allegations he fostered a “toxic” work environment.Read more
Activision Blizzard’s Latest Investor Call Was An Especially Ghoulish Affair
4.8.2021
Every few months big game companies hold investor calls in which one set of rich people reassures another set of rich people that they are both still rich and will, over the coming months, likely get even richer. Sometimes one of the rich people hints at a new game that’s in development. Other...
Competitive Horde Mode Coming To Ghost Of Tsushima
4.8.2021
Last October, Ghost of Tsushima received a surprise multiplayer expansion called Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, which pit teams of players against waves of enemies in various cooperative scenarios. Nearly one year on, Legends is on the edge of some big changes, including a new competitive mode and...
Pharaoh Rebirth+ Has That Nostalgic PlayStation Sound
4.8.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re digging into the music of Pharaoh Rebirth+, a hidden gem buried amid the ever-growing numbers of forgotten games on Steam.Read more
Skyward Sword HD Revisits The Stumble That Lead To Breath Of The Wild
4.8.2021
Almost a decade after its original Wii debut, Nintendo’s released The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD for the Switch. And let’s be frank: Skyward Sword wasn’t the best-received Zelda title ever. Even as it charmed most media outlets, many fans bemoaned its linearity and questionable controls....
Street Fighter V's Last New Character Is A Kickboxer Named Luke
4.8.2021
During today’s Street Fighter V presentation, Capcom revealed that Luke, a new character to the Street Fighter universe, will be the much-ballyhooed final fighter added to the five-year-old game.Read more
Activision Blizzard Is Losing Overwatch Sponsors After Lawsuit
3.8.2021
In the wake of a lawsuit detailing a sickening culture of harassment at Activision Blizzard, the Overwatch and Call of Duty publisher is starting to bleed sponsorships. As spotted by the esports site Dexerto, T-Mobile has apparently pulled support for the professional leagues of both games.Read more