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The Ones Who Live Proves It's Time To LetThe Walking Dead Die
23.2.2024
A decade ago, The Walking Dead wasn’t a mere TV show, it was an impossible-to-escape cultural phenomenon. Crafted with precision, powerful performances, and prosthetics, early TWD rose above regular zombie fare upon its 2010 premiere—that pilotremains flawless even today. In its first few seasons...
Every Marvel TV Show, Ranked From Awful To Sublime
17.1.2024
Updated 1/12: The MCU shows no signs of getting any smaller, does it? And now that Echo is here, it’s time to see where it sits in our ranking, from worst to best, of the whopping 26 Marvel shows that have premiered since 2013. Prepare for some ambitious Netflix fare, sturdy star vehicles, head...
The Last Of Us Is The First Game Adaptation To Get Emmy Noms—24 Of Them
12.7.2023
The 75th Emmy Awards revealed its nominations on July 12, and a video game adaptation is one of the most nominated shows of the year. HBO’s The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, has 24 total nominations, second only to HBO’s other powerhouse show, Succession, which has 27....
Guy Dislocates Shoulder Celebrating On The Price Is Right
21.6.2023
Last week on The Price is Right, two of TV’s favourite things happened: somebody won a big prize in a game show, and a dude got hurt. Handily, both of them took place within the same 30 seconds.Read more
The Witcher 3 Meets Tense Roguelike PvE Card-Battling In Rogue Mage
8.7.2022
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Fan Wants To Build An Open World Simpsons: Hit & Run
28.6.2022
Hey, remember this time last year when Reubs whipped up a more modern version of the classic Simpsons: Hit & Run in just a week? Well he’s back in 2022 and has far more ambitious goals for the project.Read more
Vilifying Amber Heard Shows We Learned Nothing From GamerGate
22.6.2022
“She’s not a perfect victim,” Mariska Hargitay says in Law and Order: SVU. Recent headlines say the same about Amber Heard. Heard said as much about herself. “But,” Hargitay says, “she is not making this up.” Read more
TMNT Illustrator Re-Imagines King of the Hill As Junji Ito Horror Manga
22.6.2022
Horror manga fans already know that Junji Ito is the king of the genre, but what if his art style featured the likes of King of the Hill’s Hank Hill, the king of all things propane and propane accessories? Well, first off, weird question, but if you happen to be a fan of these two disparate media...
New Dragon Age Anime Suffers From Typical Netflix Blandness
10.6.2022
I started screaming in Kotaku Slack when my fellow weeb (and staff writer) Isaiah linked a screenshot of Dragon Age: Absolution. My favorite western fantasy RPG is getting an anime adaptation? Sign me up. But then I started watching the trailer, and my enthusiasm deflated immediately. Absolution...
The Decade-Long Struggle To Fund Oakland’s Scrappy Video Game Museum
9.6.2022
Back in September 2021, The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, California, better known as The MADE, began tweeting about how impossibly difficult it seemed to fund a video game museum.Read more
Consent And Compassion: How Devs Are Reshaping The Conversation Around Content Warnings
6.6.2022
It should be no surprise to anyone that the very mention of “trigger/content warnings” is likely to spark politically driven, reactionary rejections that whine about “snowflakes” and spoiled experiences. Years of poisoning the well in this area have made the terms frustratingly charged. But if...
Someone Just Bought Two Super-Rare Golden Funko Pops For $100k Cash
25.5.2022
On May 5, a man in Glendale, California met up with another man to buy from him a sealed two-pack of ultra-rare Funko Pops for $100k cash. This deal, the first six-digit Funko Pop sale ever recorded, is believed to be the largest in Funko Pop collecting history, and it might just be the start...
Stanley Parable Fans Find Ultra Rare Creeps You Likely Missed
10.5.2022
Starting out in 2011 as a mod for Half-Life 2 before getting its own Source engine release on Steam as a standalone game just two years later, The Stanley Parable has become an undeniable classic. Its bizarre premise of the titular character stuck in an office, hopelessly navigating a labyrinth...
And Now, A Game Where You're A Serial Killer (But Also Have No Bones)
22.4.2022
Shhh…be very quiet if you are reading this in bed. I don’t want to alarm you, but there might be a serial killer hiding under your mattress. However, he might also have no bones and can only wiggle and flail about to get anywhere, which gives you a big advantage. It’s also the setup for a silly...
Touching One Piece Moment Turned Into Hilariously Frustrating Minigame
15.4.2022
The emotional scene where Shanks gives Luffy his omnipresent straw hat in the first chapter of legendary shonen manga One Piece is no doubt seared into readers’ minds. But what if it was used in a goofy, slapstick comedy game à la those masochistic diversions that were all the rage around 2010?...
'Sus' Has Made It Onto Jeopardy
8.4.2022
Among Us didn’t invent the word, I know, but it’s certainly responsible for its explosion in popularity over the last few years, so it shouldn’t be too surprising to see “sus” finally make it onto the game show Jeopardy.Read more
The New Kamen Rider Black Sun Suits Look So Edgy And So Cool
22.3.2022
What better way to celebrate fifty years of Kamen Rider than with some badass new suits? This fall, Kamen Rider Black Sun hits Japan, bringing some ridiculously cool outfits, masked helmets, and sweet motorcycles with it. Read more
He Says It's The 'Best Grass' In Video Games, Daring Other Devs To One-Up Him
18.3.2022
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New York Times Shuts Down Wordle Archive, Bumming Everyone Out
16.3.2022
In a move that’s as unsurprising as it is disappointing, The New York Times is beginning to throw its weight around when it comes to Wordle’s former freedom. The first big sign of this, as spotted by Ars Technica, is their forcing a Wordle Archive to shut down.Read more
SNL Showed A Perfect World Where Pokémon Control The White House
28.2.2022
What’s a term for the midpoint between avidly viewing for entertainment, and hate-watching? That’s where I am with Saturday Night Live, as it meanders its way through these peculiar years. But this weekend’s episode was just outright funny, in a way I can’t remember the show being in years....