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This Red Dead Redemption II Mod Lets You Ride A Giant Cougar

Strike fear in the hearts of your enemies in Red Dead Redemption II when you ride up on ‘em mounted on the back of a giant cougar. Horses are great. They are extremely useful and reliable. But they are also so boring. However, folks don’t want to walk around everywhere either. So why not ride…

Fight Off Waves Of Beyblades and Bogglins Inside A Toy ‘R’ Us In Hypercharged: Unboxed

Have you ever wanted to fight off waves of Beyblades inside a Toy ‘R’ Us while playing as a tiny action figure equipped with a laser rifle? Well, you might enjoy Hpyercharged: Unboxed. Part Toy Story, part tower defense, part Horde mode, Hypercharged is a first-person-cooperative online shooter where you and some friends take on…

Shuckle Hides In Its Shell And Makes Booze Using Toe Vomit

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 Shuckle! Shuckle Details Type: Bug/Rock Average Height: 2′ 00″ Average Weight: 45.2 lbs First Added In Generation II I…

How’s It Going?: Chicken Nuggets Edition

Folks, I got some good news for you: A new open thread is ready and waiting, just for you! Come on in! This week I ate one of my favorite foods in the whole world. I drove out to my local McDonald’s and ordered 20 chicken nuggets. I understand that some folks might find the…

Rockstar Offers Free Alien Suits In GTA Online As The Alien War Continues

The Alien War in Grand Theft Auto Online has continued since we last reported on it over a week ago. And now Rockstar is officially supporting the war and offering players both alien suits for free. As with most wars, tracking down the exact moment the conflict began is impossible. But over the last few…

Wookiees Never Miss

Hello! This week we learn more about a small Easter Egg in Final Fantasy 7, watch AOC visit islands in Animal Crossing, check out a cool looking dinosaur game and let Chewbacca take care of some bad guys. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Some of my favorite blogs on this website feature someone…

Yesterday a video on the official Star Wars Youtube page revealed an October 20 release date for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. However, no social media accounts confirmed this date and we got no response from WB Games about the date. The video is now private, so it seems the date was revealed early…

Gameplay Trailers Should Have Gameplay In Them

During today’s Inside Xbox presentation, Ubisoft showed off what they described as “the first look” at gameplay from the recently announced Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. But for many watching, myself included, it wasn’t really what we expected when I heard the term gameplay. The day before the Xbox event, Ubisoft was quick to point out that…

Battlefront II, From Launch To Its Final Update

The last X-Wing has left the station and the Death Star is shutting down: Star Wars Battlefront II will no longer receive big content updates. While the servers will remain up, the game will not be supported in a major way by Dice or EA moving forward. Released back in November 2017, Battlefront II has…

It Took You Cowards Long Enough To Add Yaddle To A Video Game

In 1999, our galaxy received a gift: a wise Jedi Master named Yaddle. This Jedi Master was a female member of Yoda’s species. She never appeared in any video games, but that’s going to change when LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga releases later this year. Finally. Yaddleappeared in a few scenes in the first…

The Week In Games: This Tuesday We Riot

The revolution will be televised and also portable. Tonight We Riot releases this week on Switch. Tonight We Riot looks great. In a time when it feels like governments and large corporations are ruining the world and treating people like crap, it might be nice to have a game where you can rise up and…

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Fans Are Using Forced Perspective In Animal Crossing To Create Some Amazing Things

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a large community of fans who all seem to have endless creative ideas. One new creative trick that’s become popular is using forced perspective to create impressive landscapes and scenes. Forced perspective is when you distance to make something look bigger or smaller. For example, you can have your friend…

‘Shop Contest: National Paranormal Day

Boo! Did I scare you!? Sorry. Well, there won’t be any more scares in this post. Today is, according to countless websites that track this stuff, National Paranormal Day. Let’s have some fun, with ghosts, aliens, and ghouls! Your challenge this week: Create images featuring paranormal monsters, aliens, and creatures from video games. You can…

How’s It Going?: Good News Edition

Hello, hi, welcome. Take a seat and we will start the open thread momentarily. I just need to finddd…the… buttonnnn…AHH! Here we go. The open thread is…LIVE! For those of you who care anddon’t follow me on Twitter, I became a full-time writer for Kotaku last week. This is some good news in a time…

Even After A Large Increase Due To Half-Life: Alyx, Less Than 2% Of Steam Users Own VR Headsets

Half-Life: Alyx helped lead a large surge of new VR headsets being connected to Steam, according to data from Valve. However, the percentage of Steam users who own VR headsets is still hovering at around 1.9%. According to a recent hardware survey from Valve, the first since Alyx was released on Steam back in late…

Sunday Comics: Take Our Money!

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 April 30. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 27. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Astroneer Costume, Winners!

Last week, we all learned not to wear a Halloween costume as a form of virus protection. But also, I tasked you with taking ashockingly silly and dumb ideaand having some fun with it. Our winning image this week was created by Rembrantt who shows us what shopping during a pandemic looks like in 2020.…

One Image Taken Before Disaster

This week on Snapshots a skateboarding president, a big dog, a sad hug, gruff cowboy closeups, Spider-Man kicking in the air and a photo taken right before tragedy. “Hey, clones! What’s this about an order…66? Or maybe 65?” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best, funniest and coolest screenshots players have…

You Have To Use Cheats To See The Only Hidden Watermelon In Half-Life: Alyx

Watermelons could be found hidden in a few spots throughout Half-Life 2. But for whatever reason only one melon is hidden in Half-Life: Alyx and it can’t even be seen unless players use console commands. As documented in a recent video by Half-Life superfan MarphitimusBlackimus, there is a single melon in Half-Life: Alyx. It is…