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US Open Tennis Champion Does Video Game Celebration After Winning
13.9.2021
Big congratulations are in order for Daniil Medvedev, who earlier today not only did the world a service by defeating Novak Djokovic, but in doing so somehow found a way to slip a tribute to, of all things, EA Sports’ FIFA series into his celebrations.Read more
NFT Game Steals Artwork, Gets Called Out, Deletes Account
13.9.2021
NFTS (Non-Fungible Tokens) are an environmental disaster and an enormous scam, and perhaps the funniest thing about their persistence is how little effort purveyors of this modern snake oil are putting into it.Read more
The Week In Games: Deathloop De Loop And Pull
13.9.2021
I feel like I’ve seen 200 trailers for this game, but finally, Deathloop is out on PS5 and PC later this week. Read more
Incredible Death Stranding Cosplay Even Gets The Landscape Right
13.9.2021
There’s plenty of great Death Stranding cosplay to go around already, but this new video piece really goes the extra mile by having even the place it was shot look just like the game’s desolate future America.Read more
Fortnite's Cube Returns For Season 7's Explosive Finale
13.9.2021
Fortnite players have spent the entirety of the game’s seventh season dealing with a growing alien threat. Now it’s time for the aliens to deal with the threat of us as we storm the alien mothership and liberate dangerous-looking glowing cubes in the explosive season finale event.Read more
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
New Rocky Game Is Basically A Visual Novel With Arcade Boxing Action
12.9.2021
As somebody who loves underdog stories and punching, you know I enjoy me some Rocky. I’ve watched all the movies (good and bad) and I’m a big of the recent sequel franchise, Creed. So when I got sent a code to check out a new Creed/Rocky boxing game, I was excited. When I saw it was a throwback...
Two Popular Team Fortress 2 Mods Temporarily Removed Due To 'Arrangements' With Valve
12.9.2021
Here’s an odd bit o’ news: Two popular Team Fortress 2 mods have suddenly and mysteriously been removed from the internet and can no longer be downloaded. According to the devs, this is due to “arrangments with Valve” but neither team has explained what that means. According to devs for both mods...
Sunday Comics: What If?
12.9.2021
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
Destiny 2's Most Bugged Gun Strikes Again
12.9.2021
The gun that keeps breaking Destiny has struck again. Bungie announced it’s once again taking the Exotic fusion rifle Telesto offline in PVP activities after Destiny 2 players were caught exploiting a new bug to demolish their opponents in this week’s returning Trials of Osiris competitive mode....
Alan Wake Remastered Is Ditching The Energizer Batteries And Verizon Billboards
11.9.2021
Alan Wake is a spooky third-person action game with creepy shadow monsters and weird characters. It also contained a ton of product placement, including an Energizer-branded flashlight you use in the game to push back the evil. Next month’s remastered re-release removes that and all the other bits...
Uh... Jake From State Farm Is In NBA 2K22
11.9.2021
NBA 2K22 was released yesterday across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One. Like previous NBA 2K games, 2K22 features The City, a large online open-world mode that lets players walk around, play basketball, shop in stores, and uh... I guess hang out with Jake from State Farm.Read more
Google Stadia Loses Another High-Profile Exec
11.9.2021
The last year or so hasn’t been great for Stadia, Google’s game streaming service. And now its Director of Games is leaving to join a different part of Google. This follows other high-profile exits from Stadia earlier this year and seems to signal that Google is truly done making or funding...
Bonsly Will Die If It Doesn't Cry Enough
11.9.2021
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Bonsly!Read more
Get This: 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand Started Out As A Tom Clancy Game
11.9.2021
In an interview with NME, a developer who worked on 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand revealed that originally the game was going to be a Tom Clancy title. But because the publisher didn’t actually own the rights to Clancy’s name, this plan was scrapped. Read more
True Roguelikes Like This Are For Sick People, Drink From My Poison Chalice
10.9.2021
There are over 40 blood wolves around me, and they are absolutely kicking vampire ass. Those are wolves made of blood, in case you weren’t sure that’s what I meant. You’d think the vampires would be drinking that blood, but no, there are just too many blood wolves. They’re getting owned. I am...
Before You Start: Tips For Playing Tales Of Arise
10.9.2021
Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of games about spiky haired boys who scream “You bastard!!!” and then stab an evil dude, is a notable deviation from established formula. Rather than an action-oriented RPG, as you may expect by now, this one’s more of...
Breaking: Fortnite Banana Man Saga Ends With Official Court Ruling
10.9.2021
Fortnite’s Peely is a grotesquery of the highest order. You know it, I know it, and even Apple knows it. Yet somehow, Epic Games managed to convince a United States district judge that this elongated, yellow monster is “just a banana man,” at least according to today’s ruling in the contentious...
Epic Wins Big Fortnite Lawsuit Against Apple
10.9.2021
Today a U.S. District Court judge ruled in Epic Games’ favor in its lawsuit against Apple. As a result, Apple can no longer dictate that purchases made in apps on its own devices go through the App Store. Apple had previously collected 30% of the revenue for purchases made in Epic Games’...
Twitch Sues ‘Hate Raid’ Organizers
10.9.2021
Twitch is taking a big stand against the organized harassment campaigns, widely known as “hate raids,” that have proliferated over the past few months by filing a suit against two possible coordinators of the attacks.Read more