Zack Zwiezen

There’s A First-Person Mortal Kombat 11 Mod, For Some Reason

Have you ever wanted to play Mortal Kombat 11 in first-person? Probably not. But, regardless, there’s now a mod that lets you do just that. As spotted by DSOGaming, MK11Hook is a PC mod created by Ermaccer that adds some new features to Mortal Kombat 11, including the ability to change the game’s speed and…

A Canceled 2006 Tomb Raider Game Is Now Playable

Back in 2006, Core Design, the original studio behind the Tomb Raider series, was working on a 10th-anniversary remake of the first game for PSP. While a lot of progress was made, the game was eventually canceled. Now, that original PSP game has resurfaced and is playable, PC Gamer reports. On December 31, Tomb Raider…

Video Games Predict A Grim 2021

2020 was a bad year for most of us, but a surprisingly good year for video games. As we enter 2021 with the hope offered by the vaccines, and the light at the end of the tunnel just about visible, it might soon be possible to allow hope back in. Unless, it seems, video games…

The Week In Games: Werewolves

Another quiet release week. One of the biggest games coming out later this week is the Switch port of Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest. As usual, the first few weeks of January are mostly empty. Consider this a good time to dig into your backlog, read some books, or do what I…

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Sunday Comics: Almost Done

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 Dec. 31. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: 2021

It’s a new year. We are in the futuristic-sounding year of “2021!” How exciting. Let’s have some fun… in the future! (Which is now.) Your challenge this week: Make Some Games More 2021-y. This is a more freeform and open contest than usual. I figured this could be a fun way to start the year…

Nier: Automata’s “Final Secret” Has Been Found And It Lets You Skip The Whole Game

A new secret cheat code has been found in Nier: Automata that lets players skip the entire game after only beating the first boss. This new discovery has also been confirmed to be the “final secret” that the game’s developers teased a few years ago. Released back in 2017, Nier: Automata is a game with…

How To Watch Awesome Games Done Quick 2021

Awesome Games Done Quick, back for its 12th year, startstoday. After a terrible 2020, these fun and impressive speedruns might just be the best way to kick off 2021. Like last year, all donations will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. However, because of covid, the event is being held virtually, to help keep everyone…

‘Shop Contest: Miyamoto In A Pipe, Winners!

2020 is over. But we got some unfinished business to take care of: one last 2020 ‘Shop Contest needs to be judged. So, let’s get to it. Let’s see what you assholes did to Miyamoto. Our winning image this week comes from Arai-the fly on the wall who has decided to curse 2021. We just…

Look, The Spider-Signal!

This week on Snapshots we start the new year with some great new screenshots! Welcome to 2021! Good news, folks are still taking cool screenshots in a bunch of games, including Spider-Man, Alan Wake, No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, and more. “Same spider-time, same spider-place!” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the…

The ‘Shop Contest Awards: 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to this year’s ‘Shop Contest Awards. This year, like last year, we will be looking back at the best, worst, funniest and weirdest images you all created over the course of 2020. And as always, I’ll be handing out some awards! No, these awards aren’t called the ‘Shoppies. Stop trying to…

Hariyama Slaps So Hard They Stop Trains And Send Trucks Flying

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 Hariyama! Hariyama Details Type: Fighting Average Height: 7′ 07” Average Weight: 559 lbs First Added In Generation III When…

The Worst Games Of 2020 According To Metacritic

2020 was a terrible year in many, many ways, but we did get some great games too. Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Fall Guys, Miles Morales, Crusader Kings III, and more all released this year. But as usual, it’s not all good and this year saw the release of some games that weren’t well-reviewed by critics…

The Robot Apocalypse Looks Like A Lot Of Fun

Happy new year! This week we check in on the best games released in 2020, hang out with Dunkaccino, learn what this month’s PS Plus games are, mourn the lack of people playing Dreams and watch some robots dance like nobody is watching. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Just add Half-Life: Alyx, my…

The Week In Games: Meat Boy Is Back

A decade is a long time to wait for a sequel, but Super Meat Boy Forever is almost here after some delays and hiccups. I wanted to like the first Meat Boy game but it just wasn’t for me. However, I know some folks who dug the hell out of that quirky platformer and they…

FIFA 21 Has Some Good Looking Hair

I don’t play sports games. I don’t even watch sports. But I’m always impressed by some good looking, next-gen hair. And the latest FIFA game on next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X has some damn fine hair. I know nothing about soccer games, so it’s possible FIFA 21 is a terrible game filled with…

A Strange Game That Lets You Create A Digital Art Gallery About Anything

Art galleries can be cool. But they are hard to create, so we don’t get as many galleries as we deserve. For example? Where are the galleries and museums for things like broken extension cords? Or people like Keanu Reeves? Well, thankfully, with The Anything Gallery, you can create a gallery about whatever you want.…

The Worst Video Games Names Of 2020

What’s in a name? When it comes to games… not much. Games can be great and have terrible, awful, dumb names. In fact, many games on this list are good games that are just unfortunately saddled with an awful title Some of these names are silly, some are dumb, some don’t really make sense, others…

‘Shop Contest: Miyamoto In A Pipe

Shigeru Miyamoto hosted the most recent Nintendo Direct, which was all about the Super Nintendo World park in Japan. It opened with the legendary designer jumping out of a pipe. Thank you, Nintendo for this ‘Shop Contest gift. Your challenge this week: Have some fun with Miyamoto in a pipe! I was originally planning on…