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CulturePokemonDrampa Will Burn Your House Down
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 Drampa! Drampa Details Type: Normal/Dragon Average Height: 9′ 10″ Average Weight: 407.9 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Sometimes…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 6, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointIsabelle Is Having A Good Time
Hello! Today we learn about a canceled Toy Story game, get some flashlights, drink some “Vacation Juice” and watch some chickens talk about kart racing. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here are a few of my favorites! This sounds like…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 6, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for finally pulling my stock bags out of the freezer and making soup stock, even though it’s a zillion degrees outside. That’s a long, hands-off process, though, so there’s plenty of time to play video games. I’m excited to check out Sea of Solitude, which came out today. Look out for my…
By Riley MacLeod Published July 5, 2019 -
CultureGwent Is Still The Best-Looking Card Game Out There
Daniel Valaisis is an artist at CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 The pieces you’re seeing here were all done for the latest Gwent expansion Novigrad, which has only recently gone live. You can see more of Daniel’s work at his ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published July 4, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Will Never Make A Mario
Super Mario Maker 2 gives players a chance to flex their creative muscles and craft their own levels. These can be difficult, trap-laden hell worlds, oddball narratives, or classic platforming romps. As I’ve started playing, I’ve realized that I’m never making a Mario. And while that means missing out on a large part of the…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 4, 2019 -
CultureCosplayCosplayer’s Giant Rifle Prompts Sheriff’s Warning
A cosplayer taking some photos earlier today at Seacliff State Beach in Monterey Bay got a little more attention than she was expecting, when concerns from other beachgoers and a local news crew prompted a warning from the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office. Speaking to KRON 4 news, the representative took the opportunity to remind cosplayers…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureDota Underlords, As Told By Steam Reviews
Are you someone who still battles in video games by using your fingers to directly input commands, like some kind of barbarian? That’s old hat. Today, auto-battlers are all the rage. Simply buy some guys, arrange said guys, and they (the guys) will do the battling for you. With Dota Underlords, Valve rushed to capitalize…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureE3Let’s See How Much Fun We Can Squeeze Out Of The Last Half Hour Of E3
Yes, E3 2019 ended three weeks ago. However, in my nightmares, I’m still there, slamming energy drinks and binge-sitting in every gamer chair my eyes can see. As long as my neck still hurts from the flight back, I cannot refrain from scraping the bottom of the E3 barrel. Watch me try and fail to…
By Tim Rogers Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenGood Luck Stopping Students From Playing Stadia Games In Class
If Google Stadia games work as advertised, it’ll become all too easy for students everywhere to play video games on their school-issue laptops instead of listening to their teachers’ lectures. On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we answer questions from listeners, including one from a high school teacher about how much of a pain Stadia will…
By Maddy Myers Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Love When Video Game Music Is So Good I Forget To Actually Play The Game
One of my favorite games of the last several years is Facepalm Games’ The Swapper.I like it for a lot of reasons: it’s got this beautiful stop-motion clay art style, an immediately compelling hook in the titular Swapper, a gun that lets you clone yourself and zap your consciousness between those clones, and a disconcerting…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureRonald McDonald’s Name Is Slightly Different In Japan
One of the world’s most famous corporate mascots has a slightly different name in Japan, where Ronald McDonald is known as Donald McDonald. In Japanese, the character’s name is written as ドナルド・マクドナルド (Donarudo Makudonarudo). Similarly, the McDonald’s backed charity is locally known as the Donald McDonald House. The burger chain first came to Japan in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 3, 2019 -
CultureThe Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs
When Scott Udall first played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance shortly after it came out in 2005, he was in a vulnerable spot. Udall, who grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City, Utah, was very religious, and his family were all politically active Republicans. His parents had gone through a messy divorce, and he’d lost…
By Gita Jackson Published July 2, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Randomly Generated Art Made By My Dwarf Fortress Dwarves Is Terrible
One of my favorite parts of playing Dwarf Fortress is the randomly generated legendary artifacts that my dwarves make. Usually, they’re epic pieces of armor or furniture or crafts that are decorated in brilliant gems and images from the dwarves’ memories. In the game I was playing yesterday, the dwarves kept giving me dumb pieces…
By Gita Jackson Published July 2, 2019
