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Lunatone Is Probably An Alien And Has The Ability To Make People Fall Asleep

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 Lunatone! Lunatone Details Type: Rock/Psychic Average Height: 3′ 03″ Average Weight: 370.4 lbs First Added In Generation III Last…

The World Ends With You Anime Releases Next Year

Announced this weekend at the digital FunimationCon 2020 event, The World Ends With You The Animation is a new anime launching in 2020 and is based on popular RPG game The World Ends With You. This new anime uses the same art style as the original game, as seen in a newly released trailer. Funimation…

How’s It Going?: Grinding Edition

Hello! I’m happy to see you all. Come on in, we got some chatting to do! It’s weird what we find relaxing in these anxiety-filled months. For me, grinding in a few online games has become my therapy. Recently, I’ve been playing a lot more of The Division 2. The new season went live not…

What’s The Best Reese’s Cup Shape?

This week we review GTA Online, watch a parrot attack, check out Horizon: Zero Dawn running on a PC, remember Amazon’s failed game, and debate the best Reese’s Cup shape. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week On the one hand, this is embarrassing. On the other hand, a bunch of people just remembered this…

The Very First Rocko’s Modern Life Game Was Also The Last

Long-running video game franchises (or uh, in this case very short ones) all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back to that origin point can show us not just how the greats began, but how far they’ve come since. Today we unearth the very first Rocko’s Modern Life video game. So,…

Horizon: Zero Dawn Releases On Steam And The Epic Games Store On August 7

Today, Guerrilla Games announced the PC release date for Horizon: Zero Dawn. The open-world game will launch on both the Epic Game Store and Steam on August 7. The developer also revealed some new features via a trailer for the PC port. This version of the game will include new graphical options and settings, letting…

How’s It Going?: Fireworks Edition

Hello, it’s Friday! Relax and come chat in our daily open thread. It’s not July 4th yet, but already I’ve begun hearing fireworks going off each night the moment the sun starts to set. When I was younger I was a firework hooligan. I would light bottle rockets in my hand and toss them into…

Bethesda Announces Fallout TV Show

Today, Amazon and Bethesda officially announced a TV show set in the Fallout universe, being produced by the creators behind HBO’s Westworld Bethesda posted a short teaser video for the show on the official Fallout Twitter account. The teaser contains almost nothing beyond an old TV and a test pattern asking folks to “Please stand…

Iron Man VR: The Kotaku Review

Iron Man feels like a perfect fit for virtual reality. In the movies, Tony Stark’s advanced armor operates like VR, with a virtual screen projected inside his helmet. So when I put on my PSVR headset and started playing Iron Man VR I felt like that famous, armor-wearing superhero. Unfortunately, I didn’t have to just…

Grand Theft Auto Online: The Kotaku Review

Rockstar never meant to support GTA Online for nearly a decade and counting. That was never the plan. Yet GTA Online continues to be updated, and oddly, now in 2020, it’s bigger than ever. Grand Theft Auto Online launched as part of something else. It was the multiplayer mode attached to Grand Theft Auto V,…

The Week In Games: I Am Iron Man VR

Thanks to Iron Man VR releasing this week on PS4 you no longer need to be a billionaire to fly around in a suit of armor and fight bad guys. After playing a bunch of Half-Life: Alyx not that long ago, I’m a bit nervous about going back to my PSVR headset to play Iron…

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Your Character In Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is A Never Nude

You may not know this about your player character in Animal Crossing, but they will never be naked. Never. This knowledge comes from a Boundary Break video all about Animal Crossing. Thanks to new tools and a new camera, the channel was able to poke around the popular Switch game more thoroughly and discover some…

‘Shop Contest: Vault Boy From Smash

Vault Boy is being added to Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Well, not actually as a full-on new character, but as something called a “Mii Fighter.” I don’t understand what that means, but hey Vault Boy seems like a fun ‘Shop Contest! Your challenge this week: Add Vault Boy from Smash into other games. I’ve taken…

Fans Are Digitizing And Translating A Persona Trading Card Game From The Late ’90s

Dedicated fans are digitizing an entire Persona card game that was released back in the late ‘90s in Japan and was never released in the West. They’ve already scanned over a thousand cards and all the rule books. As spotted by VG 24/7, weaK_willO over on the ResetEra forums posted that they had bought up…

How’s It Going?: Pool Edition

Hello, hello, hello! I’m so happy to have you here today for another open thread. Come on in! I’m extremely lucky to have access to a pool during the summer. My girlfriend’s parents, who live only a couple blocks away, have a nice, big pool and it just opened. Because her and I both work…

Sunday Comics: Is This True?

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 June 25. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 22. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Summer 2020, Winners!

Summer is finally here. Turn on those fans, jump into a river, or go buy some ice cream. In honor of the hottest time of the year, I asked you folks to show how video game characters are enjoying the summertime. Our winning image this week comes from Badonkagronk who shows how handy it is…

I Saw A Spider In My Bedroom

This week on Snapshots: Some more (non-spoiler) Last of Us 2 photos, one of the coolest Spider-Man pics I’ve seen, some lovely plants, a creepy tree, a nice sit on a bench and a flamethrower. A moment after reading the comments on a YouTube video. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the…

Shiftry Is Over A Thousand Years Old And Can Read Your Mind

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 Shiftry! Shiftry Details Type: Grass/Dark Average Height: 4′ 03″ Average Weight: 131.4 lbs First Added In Generation III Shiftry…