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The New Jughead Comic Is So Damn Good

Archie Andrews isn’t the cool one anymore. Jughead Jones is. Ever since Archie Comics rebooted their iconic milieu of Riverdaleto be more modern and complicated, Jughead Jones has been stealing just about every scene he’s appeared in. This week, he starts headlining his own ongoing title, written by Sex Criminals co-creator Chip Zdarsky and drawn…

Archie + Betty + Veronica Isn’t a Love Triangle Anymore. It’s a Hate Triangle.

Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper aren’t going out anymore. And Veronica Lodge isn’t really feeling comics’ most famous ginger teen like that. But there they are, getting all entwined in each others’ lives. There’s no romance at all yet, and that’s pretty great. Three issues into Archie Comics’ reboot of its flagship title and none…

Arkham Knight Is Coming Back to PC

Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment says that they expect to put the crippled version of the latest Batman game back on sale by the end of the October. In an announcement last night, the Arkham Knight publisher also said that theDLC already released for the game’s console versions will be supported in the same time frame.…

Neil Gaiman’s Goodbye to The Sandman Ends Exactly the Way It Should

The end of the universe is nigh. The domino that starts existence rapidly spinning towards oblivion is a long-ago crime-of-the-heart by The King of All Imagination. Now the pain is rippling outwards and threatening billions of innocent lives and there’s only one perfectly way to save it all. This week sees the release of The…

New Star Wars Comic Shows Luke Skywalker Growing Up on Tatooine

It may seem like he was a whiny kid who was bored all the time but, according to a new online comic, Luke Skywalker had adventures before he ever set foot in a space ship. Begun by writer/artist Hong Jac-ga in Korea earlier this year, Star Wars: Story Before The Force Awakens is the tale…

Square Enix Cancels Horrible Deus Ex Pre-Order Program

Remember that awful pre-order scheme that the publisher of the next Deus Ex game cooked up? The one that urged fans to plunk down money in advance with the possibility of having the game to come out four days early? Well, Square Enix wised up and ended the shenanigans. In an announcement this morning, Square…

Nightwing DLC Is Arkham Knight’s Best Add-on So Far, But That’s Not Saying Much

The new DLC featuring one of my favorite Bat-characters is the best iteration of a bad formula Story spoilers follow for plot points in Batman: Arkham Knight, including the ending. The latest Arkham Episode designed to extend players’ relationship with the 2015 Bat-game has the same flaws as the Harley Quinn, Batgirl and Red Hood…

Annihilator Gives a Glimpse Inside the Hopes and Fears of People Who Create Universes

The best thing about Annihilator is the subtextual revelation that legendary comics writer Grant Morrison worries if his work is any good. Grant Morrison’s one of the most revered, acclaimed comics writers alive. He’s done defining runs on many of the biggest superhero franchises around like Superman, Batman and X-Men. He’s also turned out genius-level…

Jotun Has One of the Craziest Boss Battles I’ve Played in a Long Time

Yesterday I played one of Jotun’s boss battles over and over for 6, 7, 8 hours. I died dozens (hundreds?) of times. I should hate it, right? Nope, I loved every agonizing second of it. Jotun is an action-adventure/exploration game where players control Thora, a warrior woman trying to ascend to Valhalla after she’s died…

Archie Comics’ New Version of Veronica Is Like, Totally, A Better Type of Kardashian

Archie Andrews is really different now. So is Betty Cooper, the girl-next-door who’s not his girlfriend anymore. But we haven’t seen much of the third part of the classic comic-book love triangle in Archie Comics’ newly-rebooted flagship until today. I dunno, guys… Veronica might be kinda cool? Archie #3 comes out this week, featuring the…

Triforce Heroes sure looks cute, huh? This new trailer gives a sense of how the totem-pole team-up will work in the next portable Legend of Zelda game, which comes out October 23. Contact the author at [email protected]

Batman Day Is Happening on the Wrong Date

Today is Batman Day, a fake holiday invented for the sole purpose of helping market merchandise branded with the Dark Knight. Not that Bruce Wayne needs the help. The worst thing about Batman Day is that it’s happening on the wrong date. It should be on June 26, not September 26. There’s one strain of…

Watching A Guy Run Valve’s Impressive VR Demo Might Make You a Little Nauseous

It’s no secret that the company behind Steam has big plans for virtual reality. Now we can get a look at what those ambitions will look like. When you first start watching David Finsterwalder’s clips of Valve’s VR demos, you might think you’re looking at the real world. Then Portal 2 co-op robot P-Body shows…

Top Nintendo Creator: Link Should Be Played By a Woman in a Zelda Movie

Nintendo doesn’t have plans—that we know of—to put any of their iconic characters into big-budget movies. But the guy who helped shape some of the most beloved Legend of Zelda games thinks that woman should play Link if a movie happens. The MTV video above (via GoNintendo) features Shigeru Miyamoto and A Link to the…

Marvel’s Newest Nick Fury Comic Has a Time-Traveling Super-Racist and a Very Special Guest Star

There are two Nick Furys in the current version of the Marvel Universe: a younger black guy and the original white super-spy who’s his dad. This week, they meet in a time-travel story that shows how the racial tension in America today isn’t all that different from the how it was in the bad old…

Laserlife: The Kotaku Review

I felt like I needed a third eye to play Laserlife. That’s a good thing. Laserlife demands that you look at all of the stuff going on inside its searing psychedelic levels but react to only some of it. The giant flowers snatching miniature stars out of the void? Pay them no mind. The undulating…

Batman’s First Sidekick Comes Home to a Bruce Wayne Who Isn’t the Dark Knight Anymore

Dick Grayson was the first Robin, the first person to be a junior partner to Batman. But then he changed as he grew up, becoming Nightwing and earning the respect of other big-time superheroes. For ages now, his loved ones thought he was dead. This week, they find out he’s not. DC Comics changed their…

Angry Birds Movie Trailer Hits Way After the Fad Is Over

Angry Birds was incredibly hot, like, three years ago. T-shirts, toys and probably too many games… you couldn’t escape the upset avians of publisher Rovio’s hit series. And now that the public obsession has cooled to lukewarm, we get our first look at the Angry Birds movie. The deal to make a movie out of…

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The Only 1TB PlayStation 4 Is Ugly As Sin

If you get it, just put this mega-capacity PS4 behind something else, m’kay? Sony just unveiled a Call of Duty-themed PS4 that boasts 1 TB of internal storage. It is also damn difficult to look at. The orange piping and highlights are already questionable choices. But the Call of Duty: Black Ops III symbols and…