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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Happy 10 Years Stephen
This month marks Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo’s 10th anniversary at Kotaku. A whole decade! Wow! In honor of this milestone, let’s take a look back at one of his most famous photos and see what fun we can have with it! Your challenge this week: Have some fun with my boss! The portable Wii U is…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 12, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Star Wars X Sonic, Winners!
Last weekend was filled with Sonic and Star Wars news. So I asked you, the wonderful readers of Kotaku, to mash up these two franchises in our latest contest. Our winning image this week comes from Mrichston who seems to hate us. Why else would this person ruin our lives with this monstrosity? You win,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 11, 2019 -
CulturePokemonBewear Will Crush You To Death With Its Hugs
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 Bewear! Bewear Details Type: Normal/Fighting Average Height: 6‘11“ Average Weight: 297.6 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Bears in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 11, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointHiding Outside With Your Wii U While Your Family Yells About Politics
Hello! Today we watch Sonic tap his foot, cheer on a mini-Shrek, crash some Xbox consoles, skin some nuggets and ignore the yelling. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Contest From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here are a few of my favorites! I always love that moment…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 11, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Star Ninja Is Turning Off His Camera While Eating Throughout Ramadan
Streamers, like other humans who for some reason choose to not spend most of their day on camera, have to eat. Most streamers casually snack or have meals while streaming, which adds to the feeling that viewers are watching a regular person go about their daily routine. However, for Twitch’s headband-wearing money king Tyler “Ninja”…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureMordhau Players Are Using Bots To Play The Lute Better
There are many ways to be good at popular medieval combat game Mordhau. You can sling cold steel with the best of them. You can fire arrows from afar. You can build fortifications that help your buddies. But the only way to truly win, if you ask me, is to become the greatest lute player…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureThe First Video Game Convention Hosted Entirely On Steam
Video game conventions have their upsides; you get to play all the latest games and meet people who are interested in the same stuff as you. But big conventions are also a reminder that human beings are loud meat megaphones that constantly emit a dying bouquet of foul odors. Playing video game demos while overstimulated…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for taking up running again, or at least plodding around the park cursing myself for saying “I’ll just start again when it’s warm out” last winter. It’s also for video games. The Long Dark got a cool-sounding update this week, which reminded me how long it’s been since I’ve spent time with…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDota 2‘s New Battle Pass Has Some Unwelcome Changes
I’m playing Dota 2 again following the release of the game’s 2019 battle pass. There are new treasures to collect. Big tournaments are just around the corner. And I’ve spent another $10 on that battle pass. I can’t tell if this game is actually exciting again or if I just feel compelled to play because…
By Ethan Gach Published May 10, 2019 -
CultureBarotrauma is a game where up to 16 players cooperatively pilot a submarine—in space. You play as a captain, engineer, mechanic, medic, or security officer to help your teammates survive or, ominously, “make sure no one does.” Along the way, you’ll explore alien ruins and the darkest corners of the deep space-sea. There’s a Sunless…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 9, 2019 -
CultureTaiwanese Game With Art Insulting China’s President That Was Pulled In February Is Still MIA
Back in February, the makers of the P.T.-inspired Steam horror game Devotion experienced a haunted house horror story of their own. The game came out, and at first, everything seemed to be going all right—great, even. Reviews were unanimously positive. Sales were good. Then players discovered a piece of in-game art that seemed to disparage…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 9, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenBoth Democrats And Republicans Agree: Loot Boxes Bad
Earlier this week, Republican senator Josh Hawley announced a bill that would regulate the use of loot boxes and microtransactions in “games played by minors.” But aren’t Republicans typically against any type of regulation on the free market? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we talk about the idea of politicians seeking out the gamer vote,…
By Maddy Myers Published May 9, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Sims Changed How I Think About Moving Apartments
My brain is so poisoned by video games, that while I was recently moving my furniture into my new apartment all I could think about was The Sims My move, from one New York City apartment to another, was expensive and complicated ordeal. I’m so, so close to finally being finished with it. I’ve got…
By Gita Jackson Published May 9, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From PAX East 2019
PAX East was a few weeks back now, but we’ve just got all our footage and pics together to run this gallery of what was an amazing cosplay showcase. All video and photos were shot by Dave Yang, while the clip below was edited by Mineralblu. You’ll find each cosplayer’s credit, site link and the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 9, 2019 -
CultureThe Witcher 3’s Creators Have Imagined Geralt As A Samurai
CD Projekt Red have opened a new online store, and while that’s not usually something we’d pay much notice to, there’s one item launching alongside it that caught my attention: a very fancy statue of Geralt that was designed by some of the artists who worked on The Witcher 3 Because of that direct involvement,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 8, 2019
