Zack Zwiezen

Social Distancing With Style

This week on Snapshots, trippy orbs, a creepy computer, a cool looking arrow, a sign left forgotten in the wasteland, a fast car, and social distancing in Animal Crossing. You might be alone right now, but you can still look cool. Also, if you can, step outside folks. Get some fresh air. Even sitting outside…

The Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records

Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had…

Animal Crossing Players Are Playing High Stakes Musical Chairs

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are using, chairs, tree stumps, pipe flutes, in-game emotes, and text chat to set up games of musical chairs where the winner walks away with over 100k bells. As seen over on the Animal Crossing subreddit, user Tetratera has figured out a way to play musical chairs online. Using…

Claydol Is Over 20,000 Years Old And Was Brought To Life By Aliens

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 Claydol! Claydol Details Type: Ground/Psychic Average Height: 4′ 11″ Average Weight: 238.0 lbs First Added In Generation III There…

Netflix Is Making A Live-Action Dragon’s Lair Movie

Netflix is planning to create a live-action movie based on the 80s arcade game Dragon’s Lair and Ryan Reynolds is set to produce and star in the film. When it first was released back in the 1980s, Dragon’s Lairwas one of the best looking games ever made. Thanks to its amazing animation, colorful art, and…

How’s It Going?: Movie Theater Edition

It’s another weekend at home for many. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I miss going to the theater and seeing a movie.  I know some folks hate going to the theater to see a movie, but I love it. With phones in our pockets, a million movies and shows on our TVs and…

Someone, Please Help Roald

Hello! This week we use Half-Life to teach math, watch the trailer for next big Animal Crossing update, shock ourselves while we play Smash, learn how Nintendo is helping healthcare workers fight the pandemic and trap poor Roald in a cage made of concrete walls. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week We have reached…

The Week In Games: A Red Letter Day

Well, it took a little longer than I had expected, but finally, a new Half-Life game, Half-Life: Alyx, is coming out this week. For most things, I can control myself. I love Star Wars, but I know that a lot of Star Wars books and games are mediocre at best. I love Star Trek, but…

Track: Down With The Sickness | Artist: Richard Cheese | Album: Aperitif For Destruction 

Why Can’t The Doomguy Break Windows?

The Doomguy is an incredibly strong and powerful warrior who can smash through concrete walls, rip off limbs and survive falls that would kill most humans. But he can’t break a window. Why is that? Last night I waited patiently for Doom Eternal to unlock. The moment I could, I jumped in and started playing.…

The Half-Life Games That Don’t Star Gordon Freeman

The latest Half-Life game comes out tomorrow. But unlike Half-LIfe 2 and its episodes, where you play as Gordon Freeman, Half-Life: Alyx has players taking on the role of Alyx Vance. While it has been a while since this last happened, this isn’t the first time a Half-Life game has ditched Gordon Freeman. Half-Life: Opposing…

‘Shop Contest: Respect Your Cat Day

Next weekend, on March 28th, is Respect Your Cat Day. It’s a real thing. I swear. Look it up. So what better way to show cats respect then to add them into video games. I can’t think of a better way. Can you? Your challenge this week: Add cats (real or fake) to video games.…

Sony Pulls Popular Mario Creation From Dreams After Nintendo Complaint

One of the most popular and downloaded Mario character models in the PS4 game Dreams has been removed after Sony received a complaint from Nintendo. As reported by Eurogamer, a Dreams creator by the name of PieceofCraft, who made the popular Mario model, recently Tweeted the news that Sony had pulled their Mario from the…

How’s It Going?: Pizza Edition

Hi! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Who else here loves pizza? My girlfriend and I have been limiting how often we go out to grab groceries. But we also don’t want to panic-buy $400 worth of cereal or bread or other useful things that are hard to find. So instead I’ve been slightly…

Sunday Comics: Is This Hacking?

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 March 19. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…

‘Shop Contest: Going To Hell, Winners!

Last week I asked you all to send some video game characters to Hell. None of you objected and did as you were told. Which is really messed up. Come on, folks. Don’t let me push you around like that. None of these game characters deserved to go to Hell. Well..okay, maybe some of them……

Stuck Inside All Weekend? Get Drunk

This week on Snapshots, cool lighting, dangerous monsters, a wolf, explosions, a poor robot getting sliced in half and Kratos hits day 5 of staying home, so he starts drinking. Drink responsibly. Unless you are a demi-god badass. Then you can just get wasted all day. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of…

Animal Crossing Players Are Cluttering Their Islands With So Many Cages And Crates

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a peaceful game about living on an island and slowly building up a small town, complete with its own museum. But the museum, where you can donate animals and other items, doesn’t open up until you play for a few days. And because Animal Crossing is in realtime, that means…

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition has been removed from Steam A notice on the game’s store page states it was removed “..at the request of the publisher.” WB Games originally published Mortal Kombat back in 2011. The game can still currently be bought on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Stunfisk Smiles When It Hurts People

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 Stunfisk! Stunfisk Details Type: Ground/Electric Average Height: 2′ 04 Average Weight: 24.3 lbs. First Added In Generation V Some…