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‘Shop Contest: SHARK!

I have been thinking about sharks a lot lately, after playing and reviewing Maneater earlier this week. So let’s have some fun with sharks! Your challenge this week: Add sharks where they don’t belong! Going a bit more open-ended this week. As long as your image includes a shark and is funny, it might win…

How’s It Going?: Skateboarding Edition

Grab your skateboard and take a seat here at our latest daily open thread. Come chat about kickflips or anything. Thanks to the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remake being announced recently, it seems the world is filled with skateboarding everywhere I look. Which is fine with me. I’ve always enjoyed skateboarding in video games,…

Sunday Comics: Praise Be To 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 May 21. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Tony Hawk, Winners

We are getting a (sort of) new Tony Hawk game this year and that means we are also getting a new digital Tony Hawk. So I asked you folks to take this new virtual Tony and add him to anything you wanted. Our winning image this week comes from Tiger-Nemesis who created a big Tony.…

Spider-Man, Please Put Me Down

This week on Snapshots we have cool looking cars, gorgeous nighttime skies, creepy skeletons, far away fighting and Spider-Man continues to be a menace. Three weeks in a row. This weekly feature wasn’t supposed to be a showcase of Spider-Man being a dick to people, but here we are. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look…

Perfect Dark: 20 Years Later

Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from a fairly major fault. It’s nigh-on unplayable. Those sleek offices and twisting tunnels have morphed into poorly textured geometric mazes. The explosions and effects, brilliant in memory, are muted. Most of all, the always-suspect framerate is…

A Very Important Question: Is Knack Naked?

Stop whatever you are doing and help the internet answer this question about Knack. ResetEra user Lant_War posted the question “Is Knack naked?” earlier today and asked others to vote yes or no. As of this writing nearly 200 folks have voted and the vast majority (94%) believe that Knack, the lovable star of the…

Whismur Breathes Through Its Ears And Screams So Loudly It Scares Itself

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 Whismur! Whismur Details Type: Normal Average Height: 4′ 03″ Average Weight: 58.6 lbs First Added In Generation III One…

How’s It Going?: Nice Glass Of Tea Edition

The weekend is here, it’s time to relax, kick off your shoes and find a nice chair. Oh and it’s time for another open thread! Finally, after what I believe was 17 years, warmer weather is returning to my neck of the woods out here in Kansas. Which means it’s the perfect time to start…

Assassin’s Creed Developer Shares Funny Story About Last Minute Changes To Original Game [Correction]

Some of the original Assassin’s Creed’s side missions were added during a short five-day sprint, according to a viral Twitter thread shared online today. Correction: May 23, 12:50 p.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that all of the game’s side missions were added at the last minute. That was an incorrect interpretation…

Please Enjoy This Giant Nintendo DS

Hello! This week we learn about the latest Twitch controversy, celebrate the 40th anniversary for Pac-Man, check out the new Paper Mario game and look at some REALLY big Nintendo DS consoles. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week A fantastic and well written deep dive into one of the most famous arcade games ever…

Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that after Area F2 was recently removed from Google and Apple’s app stores by Ejoy.com, it has now dropped a lawsuit against those three companies. The suit was filed last week over the mobile game, which Ubisoft called a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege.

Museum Experts Weigh In On Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Museum

In order to get some museum experts to join me on a tour of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ museum, I had to spend a recent Friday afternoon converting my living room into a makeshift streaming studio. One of them had a copy of the game; the other didn’t. So, I needed to prop up my…

Let’s Settle Splatoon’s Mayo vs. Ketchup War, With Science

Splatoon 2′s first post-launch Splatfest kicks off tomorrow, and fans are passionately rallying for their favorite the upcoming Mayo Vs. Ketchup battle. Snacktaku removes passion and common sense from the equation to try and determine a winner using the magic of snack science. Originally posted 8/03/17. Re-upped in honor of this weekend’s encore of Splatoon…

Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For The Original Xbox

Word emerged Wednesday of a new project, called Insignia, that aims to recreate the original Xbox Live service, potentially restoring online play to many dozens of classic Xbox games that fell offline when the original Xbox Live service (hereafter, “Xbox Live”) closed on April 15, 2010. The project’s announcement on the r/originalxbox subreddit came from…

Overwatch Player Uses New Feature To Fuse Entire Team Into A Single, Hulking Monstrosity

Overwatch is, at its core, a game about teamwork. Individual heroes do their own things—Reinhardt shields, Mercy heals, and Genji dies—but they’re ultimately contributing to a greater whole. One player, Andy Bohan, has gone and made that idea all too literal. I’m talking “end of Akira” literal. As part of the Overwatch public test server’s…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for a long weekend, which is kind of a ripoff when you have to stay inside but is welcome nonetheless. More time to play video games, I guess! I’m probably the only person in the world who has never actually played GTA V, which I always flirted with buying on Steam sale…

Instead of filling downtown Atlanta with anime and gaming cosplayers, this year’s installment of MomoCon is happening online. The popular convention is hosting streaming events on Twitch all weekend, with guests including Suda 51 and David Hayter, exclusive merchandise, and even its own Animal Crossing islands.

Track: Big Decision (Live) | Artist: Elliott Smith | Album: Elliott Smith: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

Pac-Man Is Getting His Own Version Of Super Mario Maker

As part of Pac-Man’s 40th birthday celebrations, Bandai Namco and Amazon just announced Pac-Man Live Studio, a new game that lets you play multiplayer and upload custom maps. While it’ll include the classic, original way to play the game, Live Studio also includes the tools to create your own levels, as well as play them…