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Borderlands 3 Fans Vent Over Old Xbox Issue That Won’t Go Away
16.5.2023
On May 9, a Borderlands 3 player lit the popular subreddit r/Gaming ablaze. They posted a photo of an error message on their Xbox Series S, which indicated that the console had run out of video memory. Not long after, the post was inundated with tons of comments saying the same thing: This happens...
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release Day Lines Are Everywhere And Wicked Long
12.5.2023
Alright, the waiting is over. Today, May 12, 2023, is the day. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is here. After years of waiting, it’s time to either buy the game digitally or…get in line and do some more waiting! Read more
Life Is Strange ‘Missing’ Poster Seems Awfully Close To Real Murder Victim’s
4.5.2023
28-year-old Sunday Blombergh was a devoted mother from Florida who loved her siblings and, her family said with tenderness, her cell phone. In 2010, her body was found decomposing in the Georgia woods. Earlier that spring, a black-and-white poster created by her family showed Blombergh how she...
Worst Zelda Game Gets New Life As Fan-Made Game Boy Demake
2.5.2023
Back in the 1990s, Philips tried to break into the video game market with its doomed-to-fail, multimedia set-top box standard called CD-i. Many brands and models of CD-i players were released but all of them were flops and mostly forgotten in 2023. However, Philips did acquire the rights to develop...
Brigitte Shows Overwatch 2 Still Doesn’t Fully Get Body Diversity
27.4.2023
Overwatch’s Brigitte, a plucky, tanky support character first introduced to the hero shooter in 2018, has always stood apart from her counterparts on the game’s roster. In comparison to both the other support characters and many other female characters in the first-person shooter, she’s got more...
Magic: The Gathering YouTuber Says Pinkerton Threatened Him With $200k Fines, Jail
25.4.2023
Yesterday, Kotaku reported that Magic: The Gathering maker Wizards of the Coast had sent Pinkerton detectives after a YouTuber after he had erroneously purchased an upcoming booster box for the collectible card game ahead of its release date. Today, the streamer revealed more details about exactly...
Stardew Valley Is Getting Some Totally New Stuff For The First Time In Years
18.4.2023
Stardew Valley, the reigning champ of cozy gaming, is poised for a content refresh. Stardew creator ConcernedApe (developer Eric Barone) confirmed this week on Twitter that version 1.6 is on its way, sticking to the plan for an update that he originally announced in June 2022.Read more
GameStop Fires Guy After Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch Leak
12.4.2023
In March, an employee at a Massachusetts GameStop leaked on Reddit that Nintendo was probably about to reveal its long rumored special edition Zelda Switch at an upcoming mini-Direct for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Special editions such as these are highly coveted collector’s items...
The Real Impact Of Pokémon Go's Changes That Niantic Won't Face
10.4.2023
Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we talked to rural and disabled Pokémon Go players about the impact of changes to...
Microsoft Escalates War Against PlayStation, Nintendo Emulation On Xbox Series X/S
6.4.2023
Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re calling on the console maker to reverse course and make legal emulation easy again, even if it means...
Funko Collector Trades Rare Pops For Over $150k In Cadillacs
4.4.2023
Most Funko Pops are worthless and getting shoveled into landfills right now. But some are extremely rare, going for exorbitant prices in face-to-face meetups. One recent trade gets at just how bizarre the market for certain Funko Pops has gotten, with one collector apparently swapping half a dozen...
Monster Energy Keeps Pushing Devs To Change Their Game Titles
4.4.2023
Monster Energy, the energy drink company that puts artificially-flavored gloop in cans next to gaming setups worldwide, is pushing an indie studio to change the name of its game. Glowstick Entertainment’s 2020 horror title, Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is apparently “confusingly similar...
Resident Evil 4 Remake Is Getting Review Bombed For The Worst Reasons
3.4.2023
The Resident Evil 4 remake isn’t a one-to-one clone—it’s a sharper copy, with gameplay tweaks, dialogue changes, and new voice actors, including Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City actress Lily Gao reprising her role as red dress assassin Ada Wong. Read more
10 Must-See Battle Royale Moments, From Fortnite To Warzone
1.4.2023
No two battle royale matches are alike. Clever, spontaneous tactics springing from the generative collision of varying skill levels, map layout, and randomized items, weapons, and vehicles can lead to theatrical levels of epicness and hilarity—often both at the same time. So it’s only fitting...
The Steam Card Scams That Keep Some GameStop Employees Up At Night
30.3.2023
Someone walks into a GameStop and asks where the gift cards are. They proceed to buy a bunch of them. Not just $40, or $80, but hundreds of dollars worth of Steam cards, Razer Gold, or some other gaming currency. They don’t look like someone who’s kneed deep in the seedy underworld...
Here’s What $30M Of Funko Pops Going To The Landfill Actually Looks Like
29.3.2023
Earlier this month, the pop culture collectible company Funko announced it was going to throw $30 million worth of Pop! figures in the garbage because its warehouses were overflowing with excess stock. Now images are beginning to emerge of unopened boxes full of Harry Potter-theme Funkos and more...
Dress-Up RPG Has Loophole That Lets Disney Princesses Wield Guns
27.3.2023
The most beautiful thing about the 2021 follow-up to dress-up role-playing game Love Nikki, Shining Nikki, is its arcane strangeness. The clothes are pretty, too—glittery dresses with skirts shaped like a tulip petals’ cup, tiaras with knots of pearls like dollops of cake frosting, one implausibly...
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...
Destiny 2 Fixing Gunship That Keeps Killing Everyone
23.3.2023
If you’ve played Destiny 2 at all in the weeks since Lightfall released, you’ve probably died more than once to a Thresher. The nondescript Cabal gunships have been utterly destroying players since the new expansion hit, but some much needed relief is finally on the way.Read more
Trump Hasn't Been Arrested But AI Images Keep Fooling People
21.3.2023
The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually be held...