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Players Are Using God of War‘s Photo Mode To Turn Kratos Into A Goofball

Finally, Kratos can crack a big smile. The new photo mode for God of War dropped yesterday, and players are having a blast with it. You can change Kratos and Atreus’s facial expressions with it, which players are using to their full advantage: It’s nice to see those two enjoy themselves for once! Players aren’t…

Google Updates Chrome, Breaks Tons Of Web Games

The latest update for Google Chrome has stopped videos from autoplaying with sound, which is great. It’s also had the side effect of removing audio entirely from web-based games, effectively breaking them. Earlier this week, Google implemented its new policies regarding autoplaying videos for its Chrome browser. Videos will still autoplay on many sites, but…

Overwatch Fans React To The New Pink Mercy Skin

Blizzard is releasing a special Mercy skin where all the proceeds go to breast cancer research. Fans are in love with it, and have been drawing it non-stop. This skin is part of a breast cancer awareness charity event that Blizzard is running through May 21st. Although there’s also a t-shirt, new sprays and charity…

God of War’s photo mode is coming today with patch 1.20! You’ll be able to change Kratos and Atreus’ expressions, as well as fiddle with the aperture, add some borders and throw on a filter. Some God Of War emoji stickers are also hitting the app store today, and yes, one of them is just…

The Writer Of The Weirdest Harry Potter Fanfic Has A Few Regrets

It should be clear from the very first line of “HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,” also known as “30 Hs,” that it is not fanfiction in the traditional sense. “Dobby relished his groinsaw’s roar,” the fic begins, “as he withdrew the flesh-choked blade from the astronaut’s ruined skull.” What follows is a short chapter about Harry Potter eating Ron…

The Internet Reacts To Celebrities Wearing JRPG Outfits At The Met Gala

Last night was the annual Met Gala, where celebrities go to have a very expensive dress-up party. This year’s theme inspired a lot of the guests to dress like your next Dungeons & Dragons character. Last night’s theme was “Heavenly Bodies and The Catholic Imagination,” and like every year, a lot of people whiffed it.…

You Should Play This Game About Piloting Mechs To Deliver Pizzas

When you load up the PC game Pizza Titan Ultra, you may notice scrolling text in the bottom corner of the screen, complete with a follow-the-bouncing-ball karaoke prompt. This is the kind of irreverent game that has its own catchy theme song and wants you to sing along. Pizza Titan Ultra is a game where…

Fans Turn Darling In The Franxx‘s Tender Reunion Into Dub Fiasco

Darling In The Franxx fans are remixing a touching scene from the latest episode into an internet joke that made me laugh so hard I cried. At the end of the latest episode of horny mech anime Darling In The Franxx, Hiro and Zero Two finally get to have a heartfelt conversation that the show…

Musician FKA Twigs Gets Into Cosplay, Poses With Sephiroth

Singer FKA Twigs spent the past few days cosplaying as her original character Anomalie for her Instagram magazine Avantgarden, and it finished with a snap of her and a Sephiroth cosplayer at MCM Comic Con. FKA Twigs is multitalented artist known mostly for her moody, haunting music. Her first album, LP1, was released in 2014…

My Hero Academia Is Superhero Anime For People Tired Of Superheroes

Hit anime My Hero Academia premieres on Adult Swim tomorrow, its first time on television. If you’re feeling superhero fatigue, don’t sit this one out. It may just remind you of why people love superheros in the first place. My Hero Academia takes place in a world where most people have a super power of…

Kotaku Reacts To God Of War

Almost everyone at Kotaku is playing God of War, and we cannot stop talking about it. Here’s what we’re saying. Here’s something I need you to know about Jason Schreier. He will sometimes drop messages like this into slack with no provocation or follow up: He offers no details. He sits directly to my left,…

Teenagers Love The Hot New Game Fork Knife

If you’ve heard a young person talking about “fork knife” in the past few days, they not talking about their finishing school curriculum. They’re talking about Fortnite Fork Knife has been slang for Fortnite for a couple of months, but it didn’t truly catch on until April 29th, when Twitter user Kung Fu Renny posted…

Sims Developer Responds To ‘General Unrest’ Among Series Fans

One of the public facing members of The Sims’s dev team took to the forums to address rumors of the end of The Sims 4‘s development. The Sims’ fandom has had a fraught relationship with the most recent game in the franchise. Some fans see the game as a step down from The Sims 3.…

Struggle Just To Act Like A Normal Human In This Physics-Based Dating Game

I love going on dates. What’s not to like about nice food, a good movie, and someone cute to get to know? Check Please casts my assessment of dates into doubt. Billed as a “physics based dating sim,” the game is as painfully awkward and hilarious as your worst date ever. In this game you’re…

Cecilia and I are going to stream Monster Prom, a spooky scary dating sim. Come watch along and help us find our perfect prom date.

There’s A New Anime About Being A Secret Otaku

One of the season’s best animes is a cute show about a girl who doesn’t want people to know she’s a nerd. Wotakoi: Love Is Hard For An Otaku, which is airing on Amazon Prime, is about an office girl named Narumi who’s trying to hide her nerdy hobbies at her new job. Specifically, she’s…

Stardew Valley’s Multiplayer Has Been Worth The Wait

Playing Stardew Valley with another person is more fun than I expected. The idea of tilling virtual soil with a buddy was something I was looking forward to, for sure, but actually doing it makes me feel like I don’t want to play the game any other way. The allure of co-op multiplayer was a…

Rolling A New Character Is My Favorite Part Of Dungeons & Dragons

This Sunday, my D&D group got to the halfway point of our adventure. We all chatted about things we wanted to try in the next half, which means I get to do my favorite thing to do in a roleplaying game: roll a new character. When I joined this game, I took over for a…

New Sanrio Netflix Anime Shows The Anger and Despair of Working A Shitty Job

Aggretsuko, the anime about a red panda who hates her office job so much she sings metal karaoke after work as an outlet for her anger, is almost crushingly real. Retsuko the red panda is one of the new Sanrio characters, introduced in 2016. Unlike the other sickly sweet characters like Hello Kitty and Kero…

The Internet Reacts To Hogwarts Mystery’s Microtransactions

Hogwarts Mystery, a new mobile game based on the popular fantasy books, can be fun, but a lot of its content is gated behind some gnarly microtransactions. Harry Potter fans are not pleased. When I checked out Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery yesterday, I was having a blast living out my dreams of being a wizard……