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Call Of Duty’s Ridiculous Donnie Darko Crossover Is Kinda Funny, Kinda Sad
27.10.2021
Suffice to say, video game crossovers can be pretty bogus outside of the Super Smash Bros. series. But putting Donnie Darko stuff in Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War takes the cake. This might be the single most ridiculous mash-up I’ve ever seen. The whole thing is so stupid that...
Buzz Lightyear Trailer Makes No Sense, Breaks Internet's Brain
27.10.2021
When I woke up today, I expected my kitchen to be a mess because I binged The Morning Show instead of cleaning it last night. Despite it already being Wednesday, I was also prepared to be overwhelmed by the truckload of tasks I have yet to cross off my to-do list this week. What I was not ready...
Dune’s Timothée Chalamet Was Once An Xbox YouTuber
27.10.2021
Timothée Chalamet: Hollywood superstar, GQ cover model, and...former gaming YouTuber? Yes, more than a decade ago, the Dune actor used to operate a YouTube channel under the handle ModdedController360, where he showed off custom paint jobs of Xbox 360 controllers.Read more
Longtime Persona Composer Shoji Meguro Is Leaving Atlus
27.10.2021
Japanese composer Shoji Meguro announced that he has left Atlus, resigning from the Tokyo-based game company this past September. Read more
Spirit Halloween’s Video Game Costumes Are Pretty Good, Actually
26.10.2021
It’s not too late to pick up a Halloween costume—well, so long as you’re down to go as a character from a popular video game. Kotaku (that is, I) recently visited a local Spirit Halloween (“the world’s #1 Halloween store!”) to get a sense of the gaming-themed costume offerings you can expect...
What It's Like To Voice My Hero Academia From Home, According To The Actors
25.10.2021
World Heroes Mission, the third movie to spring from the exceedingly popular shonen anime series My Hero Academia, is about to arrive in theaters. Ahead of the theatrical release, I spoke to the film’s voice actors about the evolution of their characters and how they’ve adjusted to working from...
Sunday Comics: Very Thirsty
24.10.2021
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
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy Priced, Dated And Rated
22.10.2021
After Kotaku was the first to tell you Rockstar were remastering the first three 3D Grand Theft Auto games, all manner of leaks and rumors have flown around, until the developer finally officially confirmed their existence two weeks ago. Today, they’ve announced a release date—November 11 for...
Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Four Copies Of Tokyo Revengers Manga Worth $18
22.10.2021
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing four volumes of Tokyo Revengers, a popular manga about hoodlum high school kids. Illustrated and written by Tokyo Revengers, the award-winning Tokyo Revengers is serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. (Full disclosure: My first...
Big NFT Project Cancelled After Just Five Hours
22.10.2021
Yesterday a group of respected young adult novelists thought it would be a good idea to launch a new project spearheaded by NFT purchases. Sadly/hilariously, their big plans went from “let’s do this” to “we’re not doing this” in a matter of hours.Read more
Star Citizen Players Are Overdosing Each Other Unconscious In 'Safe' Areas
21.10.2021
Perpetual work-in-progress Star Citizen might never be a real game you can just nip down to the shop and buy, but watching developer Cloud Imperium try is endlessly entertaining. In the latest update on the game’s test server, players have figured out how to use newly-added healing guns to deliver...
First Uncharted Movie Trailer Offers A Great Look At Tom Holland As Nathan Drake
21.10.2021
One day after leaked footage from the Uncharted movie made the rounds, Sony officially dropped the trailer for the film. I can’t believe I’m saying this—especially given the, uh, history of films based on video games—but it actually looks pretty sick. Check it out:Read more
Sony Patent Lets Viewers Vote and Pay to Boot Players From Games
20.10.2021
In 2020, Sony filed a patent for allowing livestream spectators and participants to remove players from a game. Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office approved the patent, which you can read in full here. Besides removing unskilled players, the system would allow spectators to...
Dragon Ball Voice Actor Chris Ayres Dies Age 56
20.10.2021
Chris Ayres, perhaps best known as Frieza’s English language voice actor, has passed away. Besides the iconic Dragon Ball character, Ayres also voiced Kei Kurono in Gantz, and Shingen Takeda in Sengoku Basara. He was 56 years old. Read more
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