Zack Zwiezen

Poipole Is The Terrible Mascot Of Anti-Vaxxers

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Poipole! Poipole Details Type: Poison Average Height: 2′ 00” Average Weight: 4.0 lbs First Added In Generation VII Right…

Community’s Paintball Episodes Have Been Turned Into A Free Online Game

I liked the first two seasons of Community. Then I liked the third season a bit less and then I just stopped watching. But those first seasons were good and I loved those paintball episodes a lot. And what do you know, some folks who are clearly streets ahead, created and released a free online…

Don’t Worry, Big Frog Is Here

This week we rank a bunch of Sonic games, control a fox with a controller, play Pokemon in a weird place, check out some of the new content coming to Puyo Puyo 2 and meet the wonderful and amazing Big Frog. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week How much longer before we are playing…

Capcom has announced that due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic the company has canceled the upcoming Capcom Cup and Steet Fighter League World Championship. Instead, the publisher will be holding an online season final in February. All players who won an online premier will be invited to participate.

Sony Scrubs Release Dates From Trailer Fine Print

Sony uploaded a video earlier this week that included some new release date info about some upcoming games buried in some fine print text. Now, a part of that video wasuploaded to YouTube today but with all that info removed. The original and full video of a showcase for the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show was…

Ubisoft Pushes Riders Republic To ‘Later This Year’, Adding To Wave Of Game Delays

Riders Republic, the next game from the team behind Steep, has been delayed until “later this year.” The delay adds to a growing number of games that have been pushed back recently, including Hogwarts Legacy and Outriders Riders Republic was originally scheduled to be released on February 25 but now has no specific date. Ubisoft…

Sony Gives Release Windows For Project Athia And Other PS5 Games

The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show began today—virtually, of course—and during a video presentation Sony revealed new release date information about half a dozen games. But it didn’t announce these dates as you might expect. Instead, all the new info came from text that appeared at the bottom of the screen for only a few seconds…

AGDQ 2021 Raises $2.7 Million For Charity

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $2,764,437 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is the second-highest amount raised at AGDQ, only beaten by last year’s total of over $3 million. AGDQ 2021 was held online this time around due to the continuing…

The Week In Games: Hello Again, Friend Of A Friend

After years of people asking, begging, and hoping, the Scott Pilgrim game is back this week. I’m not much of a Scott Pilgrim game fan, but I do hope you folks who have wanted the game to return enjoy it. Me, I’m way too excited about Hitman 3. It’s out next week. I’m currently playing…

Track: It’s The End Of The World | Artist: R.E.M | Album: Document 

I Accidentally Ordered Burgers From A YouTuber

Popular YouTuber MrBeast recently started a virtual chain of burger joints and I, being an old man who avoids non-gaming YouTube like the plague, had no idea. This is how I ended up eating some bland burgers over my Christmas vacation. Sometimes when you are hungry, you want something besides the food in your house.…

‘Shop Contest: Gengar Plush

Surprising absolutely nobody, this week’s Photoshop Contest is devoted to that wild new Gengar plushie-bed-pillow thing. Your challenge this week: Have fun with that Gengar thing. I’ve said this before, but sometimes a thing falls in my lap and it’s like the universe giving me a gift. Last weekend I struggled to come up with…

Let’s Rank The Half-Life Games, From Worst To Best

The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. While the vast majority of the series is very good, they can’t all be equally great. Let’s rank ‘em! Before this list starts, a bit of housekeeping. First, this list omits Deathmatch Classic, because that’s more of a Half-Life multiplayer…

Sunday Comics: I Won’t Fail!

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 Jan. 4. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 4. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: 2021, Winners!

We are now living in the future, which is not the future, but the present day, which is the future’s past. I think. Anyway, 2021 sounds sort of futuristic and Sealab 2021 was a good show, so I asked you all to make 2021 images. Our winning image this week comes from… Bob The Rock…?…

Let Me Just Check Twitter Real Quick…

This week on Snapshots we got some wonderful Assassin’s Creed images, a bit of Cyberpunk, some more Spider-Man, a creepy looking cat, and a cool bow and arrow shot from Red Dead Redemption II. Oh and more cool screenshots from other games too. “Wait, now Twitter banned THAT account too!? 2021 is looking up!” Kotaku…

Defunctland VR Lets You Experience A Classic Disney Ride 25 Years After It Was Closed

Way back in the groovy 70s, Disney World had a ride based on the classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea film released in the 50s. Sadly, in 1994, the popular ride closed. But now, thanks to a YouTuber dedicated to covering the history of classic theme park attractions, you can experience the old ride virtually,…

Magnezone Might Be An Alien UFO

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Magnezone! Magnezone Details Type: Electric/ Steel Average Height: 3′ 11” Average Weight: 396 lbs First Added In Generation IV…

Jonas Neubauer, Legendary Tetris Player, Dies At 39

Legendary Tetris player Jonas Neubauer has died, according to a statement on his Twitter account, after a “sudden medical emergency.” He passed away on January 4, at the age of 39. Neubauer was one of the all-time great Tetris players, winning seven Classic Tetris World Championships from 2010 to 2017. As he told Kotaku in…

The Fastest Hat In All The West

This week we check in some old Fallout 3 questions, rebuild Nancy Pelosi’s garage door, go snowboarding in The Witcher 3, assassinate people in VR, play a canceled Tomb Raider game, and reach for the sky. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Try to think about how you would even BEGIN to explain this…