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CultureOdds and EndsMonster Hunter Fans Point Out A Problem In The Movie Poster
If you had issues with the live-action Monster Hunter trailer, the movie poster might also give you pause. In it a Diablos looms over star Milla Jovovich, who is wielding fire dual blades. But… As Twitter user Xyless points out, fire is the least effective element against the monster. My Game News Flash reports that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 15, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsOh No Steve
Minecraft’s Steve went live in Smash Bros. Ultimate overnight, and yup, no problems there. None whatsoever. Enough beating around the block: Steve looks like he’s got a massive boner every time he wins a match. He’s actually just holding a hunk of, well, meat at a weird angle, but the way the camera zooms in…
By Ethan Gach Published October 14, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDark Souls Player Drenched In Blood Every Time He Gets Hit
A YouTuber named Big Secret recently uploaded a video to his channel chronicling his adventures in building and using a contraption that sprays him with fake blood every time he gets hit in Dark Souls 3. I’m both fascinated and repulsed. The machine has two modes: “easy mode,” which sprays Alex every time he dies,…
By Ian Walker Published October 13, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFootball Player Changes His Name To “Goku”
Joan Román, a 27 year-old footballer formerly on the books at both Manchester City and Barcelona, has officially changed his name to Goku. Yes, like Dragon Ball Goku, who currently plays in Poland for Miedź Legnica, seems to have made the change a few weeks back, but given the relative obscurity of the league he’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsRapper Logic Just Paid Over $183,000 For A Pokémon Charizard Card
Late last week, a gem-mint first-edition shadowless holographic Charizard #4 from 199 sold for $183,812 at Iconic Auctions. With the twenty percent buyer’s premium, the grand total was over $220,000. This is the highest price ever paid for this Charizard card. And it was paid by retired rapper Logic. The card was graded gem mint…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 12, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsIt Ain’t An Elder Scrolls Game Until I Kill A Mudcrab
For me, it’s not Halloween season until the trees start to turn orange and yellow. It’s not a Mission Impossible movie until that theme song plays. And it ain’t an Elder Scrolls game until I kill a Mudcrab. Yes, I know that means that technically the older games, like Daggerfall, aren’t Elder Scrolls games if…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 11, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsThere’s A Toad In Super Mario Sunshine That Is Trapped Alone Beneath The Map, Forever
There are a lot of fun characters and enemies in Super Mario Sunshine, which was recently re-released on Switch alongside Mario 64 and Galaxy via the Mario 3D All-Stars collection. But one character, a single yellow Toad, is trapped forever under the map, alone and forgotten. Boundary Break, the popular YouTube channel that uses camera…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 10, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’s Gate 3 Players Called Out For Their Basic-Ass Character Creations
Mere minutes after I posted my take on Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creator, Larian Studios (coincidentally) announced the release of a third hotfix for its long-awaited CRPG, which contained this intriguing morsel: “Before the fixes, let’s share something you’ve created yourselves (this is your own fault) through your choices in character creation. We took the…
By Ash Parrish Published October 9, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsNicolas Cage Does His Best Travis Touchdown Impression
Croatian newspaper DuList recently snapped some photos of actor Nicolas Cage filming his upcoming movie, the aptly named The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in the village of Cavtat. As many folks have pointed out on Twitter, the pink leather jacket makes him the spitting image of Travis Touchdown, the otaku protagonist of the No…
By Ian Walker Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMaybe Rhythm Games Can Help Teach Fighting Game Skills
Fighting games are hard, but what if they taught players how to perform combos with concepts from a more approachable genre? A new video imagines what it might be like to learn important techniques by way of a rhythm game-style tutorial. The proof of concept, which is actually the product of clever video editing rather…
By Ian Walker Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsGhost Of Tsushima Will Now Let You Pet The Beautiful Dogs
We’ve already told you all of the big things coming in Ghost of Tsushima’s 1.1 update coming next week, but we haven’t told you the most important thing: you’ll now be able to pet the dogs. While playing in the new New Game+ mode, if you equip the Charm of Canine Recruitment, you’ll be able…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsXbox Deletes Tweet Dunking On PS5 For Having A Removable Stand
The UK Twitter account for Xbox fired some shots at PS5 yesterday in one of the silliest ways possible because it’s 2020 and these are the console wars we deserve. It all began after Sony released a tear-down video of the PS5 highlighting all of the next-gen console’s internal components. The first step in that…
By Ethan Gach Published October 8, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDLSS On 240p Video Games Is Some Witchcraft
Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) tech is one of the most impressive advances in recent video game history, able to take images that look fine and, through a process involving magic, make them look better. Even if you’re playing at some of the lowest settings imaginable. While most of you will be using it…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsStreets Of Rage 4 Elevator Skip Turns Into Dance Party
Sometimes, you just gotta dance. And what better time to work on your moves than when skipping a huge section of Streets of Rage 4? In a recent clip, speedrunner Greenalink demonstrates a new bug that allows Streets of Rage 4 players to bypass an auto-scrolling elevator section. While there’s still a bit of downtime,…
By Ian Walker Published October 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsI Can’t Wait For Yakuza: Like A Dragon‘s Goofy Minigames
With singing, racing karts, playing arcade machines, practicing batting, and vocational tests to perform, it’s amazing down-and-out Yakuza scrapper Ichiban Kasuga gets anything else done in Yakuza: Like A Dragon. The game’s latest trailer demonstrates all the ways I’ll be driven to distraction come November 10. Give me fun side activities over actual game progression…
By Mike Fahey Published October 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsA Few Alt-Reality Takes On Smash‘s Latest Character Reveal
Last week, Nintendo revealed that Steve Minecraft of Minecraft fame will be the next character added to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster. As is often the case, some folks were excited, some weren’t. More importantly, eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed a particularly memeable moment in the reveal trailer, wherein Steve crashes through a cave wall…
By Ian Walker Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsYou Can Install And Run Crysis From An RTX 3090’s VRAM
The new RTX 3090 graphics card has 24GB of virtual memory, which is a lot. Enough to be able to install Crysis 3 on it, and then run it, all off the card. Software engineer Strife used a program called GpuRamDrive to create a partition on the 3090, carving out 15GB to install the game,…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsLate-Game Super Mario Bros. 35 Is A True Gauntlet Of Death
Depending on who you’re playing against, Super Mario Bros. 35 doesn’t always feel as adrenaline-fueled as certain other battle royales. But this look at some skilled survivalists shows just how intense its late game can get. Whenever you kill an enemy in Super Mario Bros. 35 the game send it to the screen of one…
By Ethan Gach Published October 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsHere Are Some Great Video Game Victory Fanfares For No Reason At All
With the world in crisis, just straight-up, feel-good moments are few and far between. So some of us here at Kotaku, for no other reason at all, much less one dominating the current news cycle, have grabbed a bunch of our favorite fanfares from a bunch of our favorite video games to help you close…
By Ian Walker Published October 2, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhy Everyone’s Horny For Hades
Hades is perhaps one of 2020’s games of the year. It’s an excellent roguelite, with an amazing story and addictive gameplay. But there’s another big reason why Hades is seeing such a massively positive response: Everyone is so friggin’ hot! Take main character Prince Zagreus, for example. I knew I was in trouble the moment…
By Ash Parrish Published October 1, 2020