Track: Corona | Artist: The Minutemen | Album: Introducing The Minutemen Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
The CBC reports that Magic: The Gathering cards are part of the $12.6 billion in goods from the United States that are now subject to a 10% tariff by Canada. Won’t they think of the Canadian planeswalkers? The United States has been embroiled in a trade dispute with Canada since May 31st, at which point…
In the World Cup final between France and Croatia, player Antoine Griezmann celebrated in the rudest way possible: with an emote dance from Fortnite “Take the L” is an emote in Fortnite that truly, brutally taunts other players. As you can see in the video below, the character puts their hand up to their face…
Earlier this week the Battlefield V development team released a blog post chock full of information about what they learned from the game’s recent closed alpha. It also contained a couple beautiful heat maps. Heat maps are ways of visualizing certain kinds of data that are distributed across space. In the screenshot from Battlefield V…
Dice have decided that Emperor Palpatine is too powerful, so they have removed him from the game until he can be brought down to normal human power levels. That dude’s a Sith lord, though, so he should be powerful. And he should also be everywhere. I have a lot of love in my heart for…
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 12. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
Some intrepid Silent Hill 2 players have recently discovered a hidden mini map in the game alongside a much-needed “save anywhere” feature. Twitter user punk7890 posted about the discovery on July 13, linking to a page on The Cutting Room Floor where the conditions to be met and the button presses necessary are laid out…
Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t a great game. It was plagued by a troubled development, and Kotaku’s official review flatly called the game “awful.” However, a modder has discovered a critical spelling error in the game files that might be responsible. In a post on ModDB linked in a thread on Resetera, Colonial Marines modder jamesdickinson963…
Track: Baby Don’t Go | Artist: Katie Von Schleicher | Album: Bleaksploitation Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
There have been a lot of peripherals in the history of video games. Light guns, fishing rods, and that giant Steel Battalion control board have graced store shelves and personal collections alike. But you might not know about the sewing machine for the Game Boy Color. In a video posted this week, video game YouTuber…
Steam Workshop support for Final Fantasy XV has created some great costume creation opportunities, but this “1997 Retro Noctis Outfit” takes the cake. Modder Kyriya has created some great costumes for the PC version of Final Fantasy XV so far, including Lifeguard Gladiolus and Chef Ignus, but this 1997 skin outdoes those in its sheer…
Fornite keeps upping the ante with its strange world developments from season to season, and last week’s ‘Shop Contest was all about adding even more mysteries to the pile. I’ve had a chance to play in the altered, post-anchor world of Fortnite since last weekend, and I have to say that the game would be…
It’s very hot right now, so I guess it’s time for a hot week of games. There are a lot of thinks I am excited for this week. The Lion’s Song is hitting the Switch, an adventurous Captain Toad is coming to the Switch, and Octopath Traveler is finally coming out, also on the Switch.…
A new video series called “The Cutting Room Floor” delves into the cut content of Fallout: New Vegas, and host Griffin Lambert sorts out information gleaned from strategy guides, patch changes, game files, and dialogue to paint a picture of what New Vegas was meant to be. In the first episode, with is dedicated to…
I experience a lot of secondhand embarrassment when I hear someone in the world of video games attempting to rap, but streamer MelloFlowz really pulls out all the stops with a couple bars about, well, streaming and Mega Man. The link between video games and hip hop is a strong one. Video game soundtracks, especially…
Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that are housed in other fictional universes are usually pretty cool. If you want a robust, fiddly ruleset, then D&D is very useful. Reddit user SnicklefritzSkad has built up a Dark Souls story inside of D&D, and it is very, very excellent. In D&D, there is a difference between the rules…
Fortnite is chock full of mystery right now. The sky has broken and weirdness is on the loose. In this week’s ‘Shop Contest, we’re going to get even stranger. Things are blinking out of existence within Fortnite, and some of them are even appearing in our world, so there is literally nothing that could happen…
Warframe is coming to the Switch, but there is no announced release date. The trailer specifically highlights a co-op mode, although there are no details on how that works as of yet. The game is currently available for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 5. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
The most recent episode ofBoundary Break scrounges through lots of interesting hidden content in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, but the best thing is a clarification of Pinstripe Potoroo’s deepest desires. In an older episode of Boundary Break, host Shesez showed viewers a weird little detail in the the boss arena for Pinstripe Pootoroo, the…
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