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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.…

‘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…

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…

How’s It Going: Pets Edition

Hi! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Let’s talk about our wonderful pets. My girlfriend has started working from home. She has always had retail or office jobs and working from home has been weird for her. What has helped, a lot, is having our two cats around. She pets them and kisses them…

Her One Weakness Was Gravity

Hello! This week we hear what the White House thinks about video game speedrunners, buy all the Gundam kits at the store, check out the new Sonic trailer, play some Doom to feel better and watch a superhero lose her face. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week There is something truly satisfying about being…

In Hell, All Fonts Are The Size Of Doom Eternal‘s

Please, not like this. For some reason, I thought we were finally starting to turn a corner on tiny fonts. More and more games that launched with them were also getting patches to fix them. The Outer Worlds even got its font-size update updated But now Doom Eternal is here, and despite adding twice as…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to calm down, take stock, and press onward. It’s also for totally ignoring my feelings by playing video games. I’ve never played an Animal Crossing game before, but our EIC Stephen told me about the series so eloquently a few weeks ago that I’m totally sold on New Horizons. I…

The wait is finally over! Come hang out with me on Twitch while I stream Animal Crossing: New Horizons LIVE.

The Messenger Developers Raise Over $150,000 To Make Classic JRPG

The makers of the spectacular retro action platformer The Messenger have announced their next game: a gorgeous-looking turn-based role-playing game called Sea of Stars Sabotage revealed the upcoming game on Kickstarter yesterday, where it’s already broken its $90,000 funding goal. While not planned to release on consoles and PC until sometime in 2022, what the…

Poor Pay, Abuse, And Harassment: How The World’s Biggest Wizard School Lost Its Magic

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include details relating to the allegations that a Dziobak writer had engaged in sexual misconduct. Those allegations were subsequently retracted following a libel suit. We regret the omission. Cheyenne Rain had never been to wizard school. Or Poland, for that matter. But all that was about to…

How’s It Going?: Shake It Off Edition

Good morning! Welcome back to our daily open thread. This is the most human contact I’ve had in days, so I’m glad you’re here. Friday feels a little weird when I’ve been stuck at home all week. It’s the weekend—time for more…sitting at home? Still, it’ll be nice to have less reasons to look at…

Tiny Ergonomic Keyboard Gets It Done With Only 44 Keys

This is the Keyboardio Atreus. It’s an ergonomic mechanical keyboard that’s less than 10-inches wide. It only has 44 keys, but that’s all the keys it needs. It’s a beautiful piece of typing hardware. It might not look like it has enough keys, but the Atreus has all the functionality of a full-size keyboard, just…

The Origin Story Of A Very Sharp Outfit

Beth Hobbs is an artist at Creative Assembly, where she’s worked on Total Wars like Three Kingdoms and Warhammer What I love about some of this is how it gives us a look at the earliest stages of some of these designs. I appreciate a good desktop wallpaper-type image as much as anyone else, but…

The big March 24 update coming to Ghost Recon Breakpoint won’t just add a free overhaul that lets players ditch the game’s annoying tiered loot system. It will add a paid expansion (first mission is free) that, according to a new trailer, brings Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher into the mix.