Zack Zwiezen

Unlimited Power!

This week on Snapshots: More Ghost of Tsushima screenshots! It’s a gorgeous game with the best photomode…ever? So it makes sense it once again dominates this week. But some other games, like Last of Us and Gran Turismo, get in the mix too. I think that fox might be a Sith Lord… Kotaku Snapshots is…

Playing Video Games While Pooping Is Terrible

My new apartment is nice for a lot of reasons. But one stranger reason is that it includes a bathroom connected directly to my office via one of two doors. And in front of that door to my office and the TV is a toilet. It’s an odd layout, but I had an idea. Do…

Toucannon Has A Powerful Gun Beak And It Ain’t Afraid To Use It

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 Toucannon! Toucannon Details Type: Normal/Flying Average Height: 3′ 07″ Average Weight: 53.7 lbs First Added In Generation VII Sometimes…

How’s It Going?: New Apartment Edition

Hello from my new apartment. I’m back after a week and a half long vacation. But our daily open thread never takes a day off. Come on in. I say I was on vacation, but 9 out of those 10 days were spent moving, unpacking, setting stuff up, dealing with buying items during a pandemic,…

Why Do We Fall, Giant Monster?

This week we celebrate learning how long it took to make Mario 64, fall in love with the dragon from Ring Fit Adventure, watch C-3PO finally get some revenge, check out the new trailer for Battletoads, and laugh at a monster falling down. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week So what if I wanna…

Players Think Red Dead Online’s Latest Update Made Their Horses Dumber

Following the recent update in Red Dead Online, many players are convinced something is wrong with their horses. Horses are ignoring players, crashing into objects more often, and even flying. It’s funny, but also annoying. While playing Red Dead Online last night I was off in the woods, studying animals as part of the new…

All Three Hitman Games Will Be Playable In VR

Revealed today during Sony’s State of Play, IO Interactive is bringing Hitman to VR. The upcoming game, as well as the previous two games in the current trilogy, will be completely playable in VR via PSVR on PS4 when it comes out January 2021.

Red Dead Online’s New Role Makes Me Appreciate The Game’s Animals

Red Dead Online got a major update last week. The update is all about wildlife, giving players new ways to interact with critters. It’s a nice addition that makes me think about the game’s world in a new way. Players have been waiting a while for this update, which arrived on July 28. The update…

The Week In Games: Destroy All Humans Later This Week

Cult classic Destroy All Humans! returns this week with some fancy new graphics. But don’t worry, you can still probe and kill humans. And cows. I played the demo for this game a few weeks back and I’m excited to play the whole game as soon as I can. I was a big fan of…

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‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Brute

We got to see some gameplay from that new Halo game coming out later this year. It didn’t look…amazing. But it did give us a next-gen Brute. And he looks sad. Let’s get him out of Halo Infinite and let him explore other worlds! Your challenge this week: Add this new Brute to other games,…

How’s It Going?: Frozen Food Edition

It’s Sunday and like every other day during this pandemic, that means once again it is time for another daily open thread. Come on in and chat! This is the last day before the big move and so over the past week, we have been trying to eat up all the frozen food and leftovers.…

Sunday Comics: The Horror!!!

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 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 20. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Special Eyes, Winners!

They say eyes are the windows to the soul. I assume that if the eye in question is super high resolution, then you probably have a 4k soul. Regardless, last week I asked you folks to take a high-quality Luigi eye and create images with it. Our winning image this week comes from Raptureiscoming who…

Ghost of Tsushima Has The Best Photo Mode

This week on Snapshots: Ghost of Tsushima might have the best photo mode I’ve ever seen and folks are using it to take some amazing shots. So this week, most of the pics are from that game. Though there are few shots from other games like Death Stranding mixed in below. Each time I see…

Video Game HUDs Used To Be Cool

Video games look really good these days. I boot up almost any PS4 game released in the last few years and I’m impressed. But while games might look nicer than ever before, we lost cool looking “heads-up displays”, HUDs, in the process. Was it worth it? I’ve been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey…

Amoonguss Is Basically An Enemy From The Last of Us

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 Amoonguss! Amoonguss Details Type: Grass/Poison Average Height: 2′ 00″ Average Weight: 23.1 lbs First Added In Generation V When…

How’s It Going?: Painting Edition

It’s Saturday! Did you know that? Well, now you do. Welcome to another open thread. We do this every day. Come on in. As I get ready for my upcoming move, I’ve been working on fixing up the walls in our current place. It’s always surprising how dinged up white walls can get, even if…

Spider-Man Is Having A Rough Day

This week we celebrate Waluigi’s birthday, watch how evil Magpies are, twirl some hotdogs, get spooked by some big spiders and feel sorry for Spider-Man. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I’ve gone down a rabbit hole and discovered that Magpies fucking suck. Mario seems REALLY excited about this thing. Ain’t no shame ladies,…

I’m Finally Clearing My Gaming Backlog, And It Rules

We all have backlogs of games we keep meaning to get to, all those games we promised ourselves we would totally, for sure, for real, play eventually. Recently, I’ve started actually finishing up some games on my backlog. It feels amazing. I love finishing a game. It’s satisfying to see the credits roll, and even…