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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Death Stranding Baby
We finally have a release date for Death Stranding and it actually turns out this game is coming out and will soon be playable. WEIRD! The star of these past trailers hasn’t been Mads Mikkelsen or any other actors. Instead, the real star has been that strange baby in a bottle. Your challenge this week:…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 2, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: Digital Toilet Paper
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published June 1. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by Luis…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 2, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Let’s Make Our Own Splinter Cell Sequel, Winners!
Last week I asked you, fine folks of Kotaku, to pitch some Splinter Cell sequel ideas, but only crossovers. That’s how we make this series big again. I got some wonderful entries this week and hopefully, Ubisoft is watching. I think we got some really good ideas in here. The winning image this week comes…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 1, 2019 -
CulturePokemonSpoink Will Die If It Ever Stops Bouncing
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 Spoink! Spoink Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 2‘04“ Average Weight: 67.5 lbs. First Added In Generation III Sometimes, Pokemon…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 1, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointShhh! Don’t Wake The Whales
Hello! Today we try to figure out what Death Stranding is, discuss pornography playing cards, prank The Master Chief, watch creepy whales and kill some Nazis. 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! I can…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 1, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for it not raining anymore, hopefully. It’s also for playing video games if it does rain (or even if it doesn’t). I’m super excited to start playing Outer Wilds, a game I’ve been following for years. There’s also, of course/always, so much more Witcher 3. Looks like I’m in for a fun…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 31, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDeciding Whether To Restart A Video Game Is My Latest Debilitating Crisis
Sometimes, life presents you with a choice that you just know is going to Change Everything. It’s in these moments that we must take decisive action, plunge headlong into the abyssal unknown with nothing but resolute self-belief to shield us from the grasping black. Anyway, it’s with this in mind that I tell you I’ve…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 31, 2019 -
CultureSome Of The Art Behind Game Of Thrones: The Final Season
Kieran Belshaw is an artist who has worked on Game of Thrones for a few years now, including the eighth and final season, where he helped out on some of the series’ most iconic moments. He’s also worked on movies like the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans and Guy…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Buckles Down On Security After Artifact Page Gets Spammed With Memes And Porn
Earlier this week, the Twitch category for Valve’s card game Artifact made a miraculous resurgence—but not for the right reasons. A horde of slavering meme lords were laying siege to Artifact’s abandoned e-fortress, flooding the Twitch category with streams of other games, jokes, porn, and in one especially ugly moment, a recording of the Christchurch…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Whatever That Death Stranding Trailer Was
We now know when the highly anticipated Death Stranding comes out and what it’s about (kind of), which ends some of the mystery around this absurd and fascinating-looking game. But not all of the mystery has been unraveled yet, so we can all still make jokes about it. After Kojima left Konami in 2015, people…
By Gita Jackson Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Division 2 Replaced A Mystery With An Anticlimax
I don’t play games for rewards. I never minded much that collecting the flags in the first Assassin’s Creed gets you nothing, didn’t mind that grabbing all the stars in Mario 64 lets you talk to Yoshi but not ride him. The journey’s the fun and whatnot. There was, however, this one mission in The…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureSplitscreenDeath Stranding Is Going To Make No Sense And That’s Just Fine
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, how could we not dive into the delicious insanity of yesterday’s nine-minute Death Stranding trailer? First we talk about some video games we’re playing, from Dark Souls 3 to Observation, then dive into news of the week (29:00) including Death Stranding’s ridiculous new trailer (and 2019 release date!), Call of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureKFC Is Now Serving Chicken Skin In Indonesia
As far as ideas go, KFC serving bags of crisp, fried chicken skin is an excellent one. Who doesn’t love the skin? KFC is offering bags of chicken skin at six locations in Indonesia: MT Haryono, Salemba, Cideng, Kemang, Kalimalang and Kelapa Gading. One order is the equivalent of 95 cents. This isn’t a first…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 30, 2019 -
CultureGato Roboto is a Metroidvania where you play as a cat in a mech suit. In space. However, there are locations that your mech suit—and I’m sure all the cats in mech suits out there can identify with this—is too bulky to traverse, forcing you to pop out and be a regular little kitty in…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 29, 2019
