Riley MacLeod

Sunday Comics: Mad Worlds

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. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 30. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 27. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

Call Of Duty Players Compete In Person, Despite Tournament Officially Moving Online [Updated]

Video on social media appears to show Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players gathering in person during an amateur tournament, American Gaming Network’s Indianapolis Open, despite the event officially being moved online due to concerns over covid-19. According to Dotesports, AGN Indy was to be the first American LAN tournament hosted during the coronavirus pandemic.…

My PlayStation 4 Keeps Beeping But It’s Fine, Really, Whatever

Recently, my PlayStation 4 has developed the annoying new habit of beeping a lot. Not predictably, or consistently, but just enough that I’m always waiting for those next beeps. This is fine, I guess. I first noticed the problem while playing Ghost of Tsushima a few weeks ago. Every so often, my PS4 would let…

How’s It Going?: Joy Edition

Welcome to Saturday! I’m working this weekend, which I guess would feel weirder if weekends meant anything besides getting to sleep in a bit. As is, a work weekend basically means looking at the same browser tabs I looked at yesterday, instead of different ones. Despite this dour opening, and despite how down in the…

Rumored ‘Atlantis’ Area Appears In Fortnite

Fortnite’s water level has been going down throughout the season, unearthing old points of interest that are a little worse for wear. Dataminers have been finding hints of a new area, which players have named Atlantis. That area appeared on the map today, officially named Coral Castle Coral Castle (not “Carl,” alas, as an early…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for filling in for our usual weekend guy, which will be a nice chance to fill the blog with things I like. That doesn’t leave time for very many video games, so enjoy them in my absence, reader. I’m curious about Thousand Threads, a Steam open-world game my colleagues were excited about…

How’s It Going?: Future Edition

It’s Thursday already, woo! Welcome back to our daily open thread. A friend and I were talking over Zoom about the future earlier this week, namely the near future of America’s November elections. Given how grim everything is these days, I tend to panic when I think too hard about what’s going to happen, which…

Oh God, Fortnite Made Peely Worse

Fortnite’s terrible banana has a new summer look, as part of yesterday’s Summer Legends cosmetic pack. It raises some questions, mainly: Dear God, why? This isn’t the first time Peely’s gotten a new skin. We’ve seen him dressed as 007 and as a half-rotten monster full of—oh my god—bones. He had his peel in those…

How’s It Going?: Old House Edition

It’s already Wednesday, we’re doing great! Welcome back to our daily open thread. A friend of mine showed me an Instagram account of cheap old houses, so now I’m obsessed with that. (I’m hesitant to share the link with you because now you might buy the houses that clearly I was going to buy.) I…

Frostpunk’s final expansion, On The Edge, comes to PCs August 20. It will have a new map, new mechanics, and “new methods to divide or unite people.”

Here’s August 2020’s Xbox Live Games With Gold

There’s a nice mix of genres in August’s Xbox Live Games with Gold. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. August’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Portal Knights (Aug 1-31) Override: Mech City Brawl (Aug 16-Sept 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with Xbox One) MX Unleashed…

How’s It Going?: More Cake Edition

It’s Tuesday, so we’re getting there. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Last weekend I baked a very fancy layer cake that took all day and was freaking delicious, but was tragically far too much cake for one person. I told myself not to bake another entire cake, then last night, I baked this…

August’s PlayStation Plus Games Are Fall Guys And Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered

You can scratch both your multiplayer and single-player itch with August’s PlayStation Plus games. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. August’s PlayStation Plus games are: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered Fall Guys will be available August 4-31, while you…

How’s It Going?: Cold Brew Edition

Oh no, Monday. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve gotten into cold brew lately, after a lifetime spent insisting coffee that isn’t hot isn’t worth drinking. I’ve been drinking it with milk, a coffee habit I weaned myself off of to, as I put it at the time, break free of the tyranny…

After Leaks And A Tweet From Epic, Fortnite Players Are Still Waiting For Drivable Cars

Fortnite players have been looking forward to drivable vehicles since they were teased at the start of Season 3. Rumors suggested we’d see them this week, but development studio Epic has now said it will be a few more weeks before they’ll appear. Players are speculating what that will mean for the rest of Season…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for maybe baking another cake, which I did last weekend, only to end up with far too much cake, just like last weekend. It’s also for playing video games while the cake cools. I’m really excited to play Roki, a folklore adventure game that came out this week. I got excited about…

How’s It Going?: Focus Edition

It’s Wednesday; we’re getting there! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’m having a hard time concentrating lately, though I’m trying to just make myself start tasks. Once I get started on something it’s easy to keep going, but I’ve been having a hard time picking what to do next and spend a lot…

Risk of Rain 2 leaves Steam early access August 11, developer Hopoo Games announced today. The developer “will have more information on the Console launch of 1.0 in the future – but it should follow a very similar cadence to the previous console launches.”

How’s It Going?: Moving Ahead Edition

It’s Tuesday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’m having a tough time putting one foot in front of the other these days. This probably hasn’t been helped by either worrying too much about the state of the world or having doom-ridden Zoom calls with friends about the state of the world. I know…

How’s It Going?: Reading Edition

Here we are at Monday again, alas. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Pretty much all I did this weekend was read and bake a cake, which was really nice. I finished two books: The Only Good Indians and Fleishman Is In Trouble. They’re both not my usual thing: the first is a horror…