Isaiah Colbert, Author at Kotaku

CultureNews

TMNT Movie Gets Shell-Shockingly Existential New Trailer

The turtles face off against new villain Superfly in the latest trailer

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 31, 2023

CultureNews

Game Gets Wrongfully Banned On Switch After A Child Gambling Joke

Sunshine Shuffle studio head ‘goofed too close to the sun’ joking about gambling on TikTok

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 31, 2023

CultureNews

Game Developers Open Up About The ‘Worst’ Games They Worked On

The Lord of The Rings: Gollum ’s poor reviews inspired developers to share lessons they learned from their own ‘lowest-reviewed game’

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 30, 2023

CultureNews

Legendary Final Fantasy Artist Is (Probably) Coming To Fortnite

Leaked images of Fortnite ’s ‘Amano’s Heart’ set are giving big vampy anime vibes

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 19, 2023

CultureNews

Super Mario Bros. Movie Pirates Getting Hit With Malware

Some illegal downloads of Nintendo and Illumination’s Mario movie come with a malicious Trojan virus

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 18, 2023

Image: Yasuhiro Nightow / Shonengahosha / Dark Horse Comics / Kotaku

AnimeManga

Classic Trigun Manga Gets Fancy Reprint After Being Gone For 15 Years

Trigun and Trigun Maximum are getting the Berserk treatment with their very own giant hardcover books

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 17, 2023

CultureNews

BioWare Is Selling That Framed Photo Of Tali From Mass Effect

Only a heartless bosh'tet wouldn’t understand why Tali’s romantic gift is so special

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 17, 2023

OpinionVG Chat

Mourning Overwatch 2’s Story Mode, A Tragedy That Didn’t Need To Happen

With Blizzard gutting Overwatch 2 ’s story mode, we find ourselves asking ‘why did we need a sequel again?’

Isaiah Colbert & Alyssa Mercante & Kenneth Shepard Published May 17, 2023

CultureNews

Everybody Thank This Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Designer For Making Ganon Hot

Nintendo staffer Satoru Takizawa had a ‘sparkle’ in his eyes when he was tasked with making Ganon so attractive

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 16, 2023

Gif: Cartoon Network / Toei Animation / Kotaku

Anime

Lost Johnny Bravo, Dragon Ball Z Episode Found After 23 Years [Update]

Johnny Bravo has seen the DBZ episode where Goku kills ‘that Frieza guy’

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 15, 2023

Anime

Weeb Hacks Popular Anime Database Just To Recommend One Show Over And Over Again

The hacker changed every title on MyAnimeList to one supporting supernatural anime Serial Experiments Lain

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 12, 2023

Image: Nintendo / Illumination / Disney / Kotaku / Archive Photos

CultureNews

The Mario Movie Is So Successful Disney’s Giving It Props

Iger cited The Super Mario Movie Bros. Movie ’s success as evidence that audiences still love animated films

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 11, 2023

CultureNews

Mortal Kombat Twitter Account Seemingly Teases Timeline Reset (Again)

Mortal Kombat 12 ’s clock-themed teaser trailer hints at yet another timeline reset

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 10, 2023

CultureNews

Breath Of The Wild Ranked Best Game Of All Time By (Some) Devs And Critics

GQ ’s list of 100 video games included newcomers like Disco Elysium and OGs like Resident Evil 4

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 10, 2023

AnimeManga

Viz Media’s New Manga App Is The Criterion Collection Of Romance, Horror Series

The new manga app’s catalog includes Nana , Goodnight Punpun , Junji Ito’s Uzumaki , and more non-shonen series

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 9, 2023

CultureNews

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3‘s Final Needle Drop Had Its Songwriter In Tears, Too

Florence and the Machine’s frontwoman was crying about baby Rocket Raccoon just like the rest of us

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 8, 2023

CultureOdds and Ends

Street Fighter 6 Comic Confirms Ken Is A Crypto Bro, Bad Father

The ‘Sad Ken Masters’ memes were right on the money about him shilling cryptocurrency

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 5, 2023

CultureNews

Final Fantasy XVI Banned In Saudi Arabia

FFXVI has a ‘Mature’ ESRB rating for drug use, hate crimes, and some sex scenes

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 4, 2023

Image: Junji Ito / VIZ Media / Shogakukan / Kotaku

AnimeManga

Legendary Horror Manga Creator Is A Little Worried About AI Artwork

Junji Ito hopes to create a horror manga that’s so creatively creepy AI tools can’t match it

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 4, 2023

CultureNews

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Prequel Comic Pulls New Villain Into The ‘Gamerverse’

We’ll see what the gang’s been up to since Miles Morales and meet The Hood

By Isaiah Colbert Published May 3, 2023