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They Can’t Play These Games Anymore, And They Blame Exes
24.3.2023
Some breakups are so stinging—worse than biting into a lemon slice with a cut lip—that they ruin everything the relationship ever touched, including good memories, sunny places, and your favorite video games. Read more
Reduce Your Screen Time With These Video Game-Inspired Board Games
23.3.2023
Between my PC, PS5, Switch, GameCube (yeah, I still have one of those), iPhone, and my friend’s Xbox 360 (yeah, he still has one of those), it’s hard not to feel completely boxed in by screens leaking evil, sleep-disrupting blue light. Though I like playing games every day, I also have screen...
This Dating Sim Will Help You File Your Taxes
22.3.2023
Filing taxes suck. If it weren’t for the sweet reward of a tax refund, many of us probably wouldn’t be filing our taxes (which are due on April 18th) at all this year to avoid the headache of leafing through physical and electronic paperwork. Luckily, there’s a new dating simulator that’ll help...
12 Awe-Inspiring Video Game Castles Worth Appreciating
22.3.2023
I don’t have time to travel extensively, and New York City (where I live) is made of pigeon feathers and concrete, so I need to rely on video games to transport me somewhere fantastic, like a castle. Read more
Huge NBA Jam Mod Is Basically A New NBA Jam For 2023
20.3.2023
Dedicated fans are out there uploading new rosters for old sports games all the time, but this new update for 2010's NBA Jam goes above and beyond by adding so much new stuff that it’s practically an all-new game.Read more
The Resident Evil 4 Remake Changing Ashley’s Skirt Gives Me Hope
20.3.2023
I’m anxiously awaiting Capcom’s, so far, highly praised Resident Evil 4 remake, but not because I’m preoccupied by updated fight mechanics, or graphical fidelity, or any monsters, really—I’ve been thinking about skirts. Read more
YouTuber Buys Every Single Video Game On The Wii U and 3DS eShops Before They Close
20.3.2023
Nintendo’s decision to close both the Wii U and 3DS eShops might make commercial sense for the company, but for fans and lovers of video game history it’s a disaster, as it’s feared many of the games being removed will disappear and never be seen or made available ever again.Read more
Here’s Every Single Video Game Remake You Can Play In 2023
9.3.2023
This year is completely stuffed with video game remakes and remasters, like the gaming world is an overgrown hermit crab stubbornly holding onto a little cone-shaped shell. While you might wish to be born again every month or so, video games aren’t afraid to rehash what they are again, and again....
An Exploration Of The Ways Our Cities Hate The Young & The Homeless
8.3.2023
“Exclusionary Design”, also known as “Hostile Architecture”, are the names given to the relatively modern concept of “an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour”. Specifically, it targets the homeless and the young.Read more
9 Ridiculously Iconic Video Game Outfit Changes
3.3.2023
“Fashion experiences itself as a right, the natural right of the present over the past,” critic Roland Barthes said in his 1967 book The Fashion System. Likewise, I’m saying that an outfit change can completely usurp a video game, pushing itself to the front of the crowd, making all previous...
5 Huge Games Releasing This Spring (And Music You Should Jam While Playing)
2.3.2023
Congratulations, you made it to March, when it’s still freezing, but you might notice a tulip poke its green head out of the dirt. Like flowers as we get deeper into the year, video game releases are also beginning to flourish. But, perhaps controversially, I rarely manage to get myself excited...
I Love 'The Worst' Video Game Ranking List Of All Time
1.3.2023
Earlier today, The Times published what it hoped would be an esteemed list, an evergreen piece setting in stone what the paper considered the “20 best video games of all time”.Read more
The Last of Us Dev Shares Great Example Of Game Doors’ Absurd Complexity
28.2.2023
The HBO adaptation of apocalyptic survival horror The Last of Us just released its seventh episode on Sunday, and—I don’t know if you know this, but—there were a lot of doors in it. There are a lot of doors in the world all the time: in your house, at your workplace, and in your video games....
What People Get Wrong When They Think About Video Game AI
16.2.2023
Last year, AI generated art finally broke through the mainstream—but not without significant public controversy. The rampant art theft required to build an AI’s dataset and the resulting forgeries eventually led to a class action lawsuit against AI generators. Yet that hasn’t stopped developers...
The Best (And Worst) Super Bowl Video Game Ads
10.2.2023
You might be wondering why a video game website like Kotaku is writing about sports, but the connection between games and sports runs much deeper than the annual release of Madden. One of the most prevalent cultural links between video games and football, even to those who don’t care about...
10 Video Game Kisses We Can’t Forget
9.2.2023
The glorious thing about a kiss is that it can mean anything while, for the most part, looking the same—lips on other lips. In a video game, though, a kiss becomes even more monumental, accompanied by mounting background music and unbound by normal facial muscles. A video game kiss, free...
Assassin's Creed Wins Grammy, Presenter Absolutely Butchers The Pronunciation
6.2.2023
For the first time ever, tonight’s Grammy awards featured a category just for video game soundtracks. And the first ever winner in this new category was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. Congratulations! A momentous occasion for everyone involved, but for the rest of us, also a very funny moment of live...
Debate Intensifies Over Significance and Implications of Ordinal Inscriptions on Bitcoin Blockchain
4.2.2023
During the past two weeks, members of the cryptocurrency community have discussed the non-fungible token (NFT) concept known as Ordinals. Since the 3.96 MB block (#774,628) was mined, there has been a significant increase in Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ordinal Inscriptions...
Apparently Video Game Characters Look Great In Drag
3.2.2023
There are many gifts to be found on self-proclaimed “video game siren” Velvet Caveat’s TikTok, like gay Team Rocket and, most recently, an electric blue Gyrados puppet holding down Ariana Grande’s part of “Rain On Me” during a lip-sync performance. Read more
Tom Brady's Video Game Career Dates Back To The 20th Century
2.2.2023
You can hear someone tell you Tom Brady’s age (45!) and it doesn’t really hit you, because the guy still looks pretty fit and healthy. To fully grasp the length of Brady’s tenure on this Earth, then, you need to realise that the man has appeared in a video game for the PlayStation. Like,...