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CultureOdds and EndsI Figured Out How Tall The Sexy Resident Evil Lady Is Because Of Course I Did
Oh, Tall Lady, how do I love thee, let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth, breadth, and height so much so that I took great pains to actually calculate your height. First, I downloaded Resident Evil Village’s Maiden demo on PS5. Even in my brightly lit living room, in the middle…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryToo Fast, Too Fantasy XV: Eight Days To Go
There are eight days left until Final Fantasy XV disappears from Xbox Game Pass and thereby, my Xbox Series S. Yesterday, I embarked on an epic quest to start and finish Final Fantasy XV in the few days remaining, and after Day 1, I’m only [checks watch] three hours in. Oh boy. Technically that number…
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CultureBugsnax Devs Say The Ending Could Have Been A Lot Darker
I’ve been thinking about Bugsnax so much that it feels like I’ve eaten one of the suspiciously addicting little critters myself. It’s been a week since I’ve finished the game and I still catch myself muttering “bunger bunger bunger” as I go about my day. To satiate my hunger for more Bugsnax without actually consuming…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryMy Nine-Day Final Fantasy XV Blitz Commences Tonight
Let me explain. Final Fantasy XV is one of my “ones that got away”—a game that I deeply enjoyed without ever finishing despite getting very close to its end. One day I just put down FF15 and walked away, like Andy abandoning Woody. Thanks to Xbox Game Pass, however, I have the opportunity to correct…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryBugsnax Is Mass Effect And I Can (Somewhat) Prove It
I enjoyed Bugsnax far more than I thought I would. At first, it didn’t strike me as my kind of game when I judged it by its saccharine advertising billing it as a cutesy adventure romp in which I would eat my way through an island of colorful foodbugs. The reality of Bugsnax is much…
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EsportsOverwatch League Announces 2021 Season Details
With around three months to go until Overwatch League Opening Day (for which we still don’t have a firm date), the League has released a new video detailing how the OWL 2021 season will play out. Here’s a look at what to expect. Heck Yeah Tournaments! For the entirety of the first and second seasons,…
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The BestsLet’s Rank (A Few) Sonic Games
There are a lot of Sonic games. There aren’t too many Sonic games because one can never get enough of the blue streak, but in order to keep this list from spiraling out of control I created a few ground rules. 1. It must be a platformer. Sorry Sonic Team Racing and Sonic Spinball, we…
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CultureOdds and EndsOh No, He’s Hot
A new trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario 3D World arrived earlier today featuring a first look at Bowser in Bowser’s Fury and y’all…damn. Bowser’s hot. Super hot. Bowser-Jr.-ain’t-the-only-one-calling-me-daddy hot. There’s something undeniably sexy about a dangerous creature. Bowser’s hit the gym and gotten bigger and more muscly since last we saw…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryNier: Automata Dumped Me And I’m Okay With It
I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god the game is over, I am free now,” way that I felt finishing The Last Of Us 2—a game hellbent on holding on to you long after what any normal, non-sadistic storyteller…
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CultureOdds and EndsAfter A Very Shitty Day, The Mr. Bones Speedrun Helped Me Cope
The speedrunning festival Awesome Games Done Quick is not yet over but the greatest run of the event has already been crowned. There’s a good chance you might not have even seen it. No, I don’t mean Argick’s Sonic Mania run that might have broken the Guiness record for fastest commentating. I’m talking about Lizstar’s…
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CultureOdds and EndsSonic Speedrunners Go Fast, Break World Records Back-To-Back During AGDQ
The Sonic block of games is mandatory watching in my house for every Games Done Quick event and this year’s block—that took place yesterday—has already claimed GOAT status when not one but two runners achieved world records back-to-back Flying Fox’s earned the first world record for her run of 2013’s Sonic The Hedgehog Android port.…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewThe State Of Diversity In Big Budget Video Games
When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of PlayStation’s marquee games, for example, featured some of the most diverse casts I’ve seen with men of color and queer women front and center as main characters. But there’s still work to be done in…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryWith Xbox Game Pass I Am Too Powerful
Through a bit of luck, I managed to acquire an Xbox Series S for the holidays. I’ve only had it for about a week now, but the slim, be-speakered machine—and, more specifically, the Game Pass subscription I purchased for it—has utterly changed my gaming life in ways I’m still trying to process. For those of…
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CultureOdds and EndsI Went On Vacation And Ended Up In A Video Game
On a trip to a state park, I’m pretty sure my partner, my dog, and I stumbled into a video game. My own personal isekai Last weekend, my partner Travis and I took my dog and traveled three hours south to the Hocking Hills area of Ohio, where we stayed in a rented cabin for…
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ReviewsYear in ReviewAsh Parrish’s Top 10 Games Of 2020
Ahh! My first “Top 10 Games” post for Kotaku, so exciting! Arriving here has fundamentally changed my relationship with gaming. I have a lot more time to play a lot more brand-spankin’ new games, versus the slow arrival to already well-beloved titles that was typical of my pre-Kotaku life. So if you see some non-2020…
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CultureKotaku Game DiaryReturn Of The Obra Dinn Is Scratching My Cyberpunk 2077 Itch
There are a lot of “want to play something cyberpunk without playing Cyberpunk 2077” posts going around and I have an addition to suggest: claims adjuster with a twist simulator Return of the Obra Dinn Wait, let me explain. I’ve played very little of Cyberpunk 2077, confining myself to the character creator and the prologues…
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ReviewsMultiplatformCyberpunk 2077’s Character Creator: The Kotaku Review
The thing that interested me the most about Cyberpunk 2077 was its character creator. I’m someone who’s spent a lot of her time thinking about character creators and how they work for people who are not cis, white, able bodied, or male. I had hope that Cyberpunk’s creator would meaningfully include the wealth of human…
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CultureWhat The Hell Is Going On In That Mass Effect Trailer?
I have not been able to stop thinking about the Mass Effect trailer from last night’s Game Awards. After the seemingly definitive end of the Shepard trilogy and the personally unsatisfying Mass Effect: Andromeda, I had given up hope that BioWare could create a new Mass Effect game that I could be excited about. But…
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CultureNew Mass Effect Game Very Briefly Teased At Game Awards
A new Mass Effect was teased during the the 2020 Game Awards. Once a critical darling, the future of the Mass Effect franchise fell into doubt after its 2017 entry, Andromeda, shipped in a shoddy state and was poorly received by players and critics. Check out the teaser trailer below. No word on if this…
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