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Welcome To Kotaku Royale, Exploring The Genre That's Defining Modern Gaming
27.3.2023
It’s Aries season, Women’s History Month, the start of spring, and Kotaku Royale week. What’s that last one, you ask? Well, we’re spending all week bringing you exclusive interviews with the teams behind your favorite battle royales, pointed opinions about the state of Warzone and the genre...
Gritty New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Takes After God Of War
24.3.2023
The Last Ronin comic is being adapted into an action-focused single-player video game that will play similarly to God of War. The popular and gritty 2020 comic, a spin-off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, stars the last remaining turtle in a war-ravaged wasteland. Read more
The Mandalorian Finally Honors Star Wars' Most Unfairly Abused Actor
23.3.2023
On the newest episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, a cool Jedi appeared to save the day in a short but awesome flashback. However, what really made this sequence so memorable and exciting was that finally, after over two decades, the man who played the widely reviled prequel CG character Jar...
The Lego Racing Game Looks Like A Chaotic Open-World Mario Kart
23.3.2023
After leaking ahead of schedule earlier this week, Lego 2K Drive has been officially unveiled.Read more
10 Badass Action Games That Will Make You Feel Like John Wick
21.3.2023
As John Wick 4 hits screens this week—likely before kicking screens, then shooting them seven times, before sticking a sword in the screen’s face—it seems an excellent time to consider which games can evoke a similar feeling of glorious mass slaughter.*Read more
New Lego Racing Game Appears In Leaked Screenshots
20.3.2023
More details and reputed screenshots from Lego 2K Drive, a yet-to-be-announced Lego racing game from 2K, have leaked online. This aligns with past reports that 2K was working on a series of Lego games. Read more
The Internet Once Again Loses It Over Dudes Playing With Water
16.3.2023
TikTok isn’t just an algorithmic time waster for discovering viral dances and new memes. It’s also full of new niche genres like grindset grifting, chefs doing cooking commentary, and ASMR deep cleaning. Oh, and challenge-based trends like dudes playing with cups of water.Read more
Mindblowing: YouTuber Creates A Game Boy Advance SP Out Of Lego Bricks
16.3.2023
I just watched a guy build a fully functional Game Boy Advance SP out of Lego bricks, and you should too. The machine already looked great, but it became truly magical when its creator booted up a copy of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. It’s a tragedy this was never an officially licensed...
Upcoming Lego Star Wars Set Finally Gives Mando A Good Darksaber
16.3.2023
I bring good news for all you Lego Star Wars nerds: After a decade of multiple sets coming with a crappy, generic Lego Darksaber piece that no one likes, things are finally changing. An upcoming new Mandalorian-themed set will include a more accurate Darksaber piece instead of the current, lacking...
Resident Evil 4 Recreated In Lego Form Looks Awesome
14.3.2023
Later this month, Resident Evil 4’s big, fancy remake will be released on consoles and PC. And it looks great! However, someone has remade the iconic opening of the game as a Lego video game and now I want to play this different but awesome-looking take on an RE4 remake.Read more
Russian Hackers Threaten Ukrainian Stalker 2 Devs, Things Go Badly
13.3.2023
On the 11th of March, a post on a Russian fan page for the Stalker series boasted of having hacked the in-development Stalker 2, and started making threats to the Ukrainian developers of the game. Those developers have now responded, and basically told them to go to hell.Read more
April's Air Combos Make Her TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge’s Raddest Playable Character
10.3.2023
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Report: Michael B. Jordan Wants To Make A Creed Anime Spin-Off
10.3.2023
Creed III, the latest Rocky spin-off starring (and this time directed by) Michael B. Jordan, is currently killing it at the box office. So it’s not surprising to hear that MGM and its parent company Amazon have big plans for the franchise. However, it’s a little odd that those plans might include...
New Lego Jurassic Park Set Contains Giant Pile Of Poop
8.3.2023
Today, Lego officially announced five new Jurassic Park-themed sets that are all inspired by scenes and locations from the iconic first film, which will release in June to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. But who cares about that? Let’s talk about the fact that Lego made sure to include...
Three Things Keanu Reeves Has Kept From Movie Sets In The Last 24 Years
8.3.2023
Over the weekend, one of the most beloved celebrities in the world gave Redditors the chance to, well, ask him anything. Topics ranged from what characters he always wanted to play in movies, which of his films he likes the most, why he’s so compassionate, and whether or not he’s engaged in a...
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated Movie Looks Incredible
6.3.2023
Today, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon released the first trailer for the upcoming animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. And it’s not only a cute trailer that promises a fun, teen-focused TMNT story, but it also looks amazing. Just ignore the weird Seth Rogen stuff. Read more
Town Using $20K Of Covid Relief Cash On TMNT Manhole Covers
4.3.2023
Northampton, Massachusets officials have greenlit a plan to create and install four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed manhole covers to celebrate the fact that the massive franchise was originally created there. And to pay for it, the town is using funds intended to help rebuild towns...
Detective Pikachu Sequel Inches Closer To Being Real
3.3.2023
Neo-noir comedy Pokémon: Detective Pikachu came out in 2019, and it was surprisingly good. In the era of risk-averse studios rebooting and remaking everything under the sun, a sequel seemed inevitable. Sure enough, one was already in development when the first debuted. No one’s heard about...
Fortnite Is Adding Cyborgs To The Rocky Universe
28.2.2023
The first Rocky film was released way back in 1976. It was a gritty, well-written, and heartfelt movie about a down-on-his-luck boxer given one last chance to make a name for himself. Decades later, Creed was released as a spin-off for that franchise, and it kept the same gritty tone...
Death Stranding Is Secretly A Stealth Retelling Of This Japanese Legend
28.2.2023
Death Stranding is undeniably an odd game. It has floating spirits, rain that makes you older, ghost-detecting babies, and pee bombs. That’s not to say that the weirdness makes it bad, though. Even its harshest critics, who deride it as a “massive failure” or (gasp!) a “walking simulator” will...