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NBA 2K Players Are Paying Their Respects To Kobe Bryant

The NBA 2K community has, as you’d expect given his impact on both the series and basketball itself, been deeply affected by Kobe Bryant’s death yesterday, with players (and the developers) spending the last 24 hours finding ways to pay their respects. 2K Director of Digital Marketing Ronnie Singh, the public face of the series,…

Being Muted In A Video Game Doesn’t Violate Civil Rights, Federal Court Declares

If you or a loved one has been muted in a video game, you may not be entitled to financial compensation. Exposure to muting might finally wake you up to the idea that there are consequences to your actions. Please do wait. Do not call now! This take on a weirdly beloved commercial from the…

Fallout 76 Players Who Had Their Inventories Hacked Say Bethesda Returned Their Stuff By Cloning Their Characters

Last month someone managed tosteal a number of Fallout 76 players’ items and gear using a cheat program. Now some of those players say Bethesda has finally managed to restore their lost valuables by giving them access to cloned versions of their characters from before the incident. Player IGN Romulox reported on Reddit last week…

Tekken 7 Finals Overtaken By Leroys At Evo Japan

Tekken 7 newcomer Leroy Smith is cool as hell, with a lovely dog companion to boot. He’s also very strong, so strong that almost every player in last weekend’s Evo Japan finals used him to get there. For many, this was the inevitable conclusion to a month of heated conversations concerning Leroy’s place in Tekken…

Torchlight Spin-Off Is Now Officially A Numbered Torchlight Sequel

Announced in August 2018 as a free-to-play shared-world action RPG, Torchlight: Frontiers is now Torchlight III, a premium PC action RPG that developer Echtra Games considers a true successor to Torchlight I and II. According to Max Schaefer, founder of Echtra Games and co-creator of the original Torchlight with the now-defunctRunic Games, the change from…

There’s A Perfectly Good Reason A Switch Was On Stage At The Grammys Last Night

When Tyler the Creator accepted an award for Best Rap Album for Igor during last night’s 62nd annual Grammys, he was joined on stage by his mother, longtime friend and collaborator Jasper Dolphin, and Jasper’s Nintendo Switch. “I was playing Pokémon,” said Jasper on Twitter. Fair enough. It’s not like he could have just left it…

The Week In Games: Something Need Doing?

Get ready to build some barracks and click some peons—Warcraft III: Reforged is coming out this week for PC and Mac. I’ve barely played World of Warcraft, but I’ve played HOURS of Warcraft 3. I would make my own maps, play online with random players or play the campaign. To this day, my brother and…

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What Video Game Level Have You Played The Most?

A great level is like a warm bowl of mac and cheese. You can come back to it whenever you need to feel good and happy. Without thinking you can load it up and know you are going to be okay. So what level do you keep coming back to over the years? When I…

‘Shop Contest: RIP Mr. Peanut (1916-2020)

We lost a good one. A few days ago Mr. Peanut, the famous mascot himself, was confirmed dead after sacrificing his life for two nobodies that honestly weren’t worth his death. Let us celebrate the life of Mr. Peanut in this dark time. Your challenge this week: Add Mr. Peanut to games, movies, TV shows,…

Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Isn’t Great (But It’s Better Than Diet Dew)

I’ll admit I was excited about Moutain Dew Zero Sugar, which for the rest of this post I will be referring to as just Zero. I was excited because I really don’t drink soda anymore, outside of reviews, mainly because I’ve been trying to cut my sugar intake down in recent years. So a new…

Sunday Comics: Pay Up, Dude

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 Jan. 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Jan. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Goku Needs A Better Game, Winners!

Last weekend I asked you folks to help poor Goku out. He saves the world all the time and still has to appear in some really mediocre and bad video games. Thanks for looking out for Kakarot in his time of need. Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who creates the next great…

Oh No, Is The Bear Behind Me?

This week on Snapshots, big explosions in Ghost Recon, angry Star Wars people, a lonely little hat in Red Dead Redemption II, colorful fireworks in Mad Max and one really scary bear. That Days Gone photo makes me want to go back and explore that world more and maybe also eventually beat that game. I…

Grumpig Controls Other Pokemon By Shaking Its Ass

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 Grumpig! Grumpig Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 2′ 11″ Average Weight: 157.6 lbs. First Added In Generation III Remember…

Gorgeous Tactical RPG Duelyst Is Shutting Down Next Month

Duelyst’s servers will go offline on February 27 the game’s developers announced yesterday on Steam, bringing the ingenious tactical RPG card game hybrid’s nearly four year run to an end. “Saying goodbye to any game is never easy, and it’s always hardest when you love the game as much as we all love Duelyst,” the…

The Deadliest Deer In The World

Hello! This week we use old Xbox consoles to get around a new Xbox Live rule, see what Untitled Goose Game would look like in LEGO form, watch robots fight each other and meet the most badass deer in the world. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week HONK He was like super racist and…

Five-Year-Old Batman: Arkham Knight Gets New Cosmetic DLC

Rocksteady, a studio fans have been waiting to hear something, anything, from for eons, finally emerged from its cone of silence today, but not to say anything about a new game. Instead, it announced a sorta-new, sorta-not-new costume for 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight. If that sounds weirdly complicated to you, it’s because it is. Today,…

Which Fallout 76 Faction Is Cooler, The Crashed Space Station Or The Log Cabin?

Fallout 76’s upcoming Wastelanders expansion will add two new faction settlements: settlers and raiders. One of these looks like a Lincoln Log fort while the other is made out of a crashed space station. Can you guess which one players are already gravitating towards? Yesterday, Bethesda shared some screenshots of the two new locations and…