-
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: More Donald Ducks!
One Donald Duck ain’t enough for my colleague Ian Walker. So let’s give him more Donalds! Your challenge this week: Give me more Donalds! I’m not sure why Ian didn’t just ask us to give him more Donald Ducks. That’s right in our wheelhouse. But when I read his blog about a cool mod and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureEpic CEO Tim Sweeney Is Very Excited About The Epic Games Store Losing A Ton Of Money
Epic is going to lose at least $330 million as a result of all those Epic Game Store exclusives and free games. But on Twitter, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney considers this an investment and seems surprisingly excited about losing hundreds of millions of dollars. This information was spotted and reported by PC Gamer from new…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureSunday Comics: Two Games!
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 April 8. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 11, 2021 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Easter Sunday 2021, Winners!
Easter is over and so too is Kotaku’s yearly Easter-themed ‘Shop Contest. We had some fun, now let’s figure out who won. Our winning image this week comes from Badonkagronk! Look at this thing. I want to print it off and go to some of my very religious family members’ homes, so I can replace…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 10, 2021 -
CultureI Want To Go On Vacation In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
This week on Snapshots, some empty areas, a few bits of urban sprawl, a nice looking car, a superhero shot, and a lovely landscape from Assassin’s Creed. I mean, once I’m fully vaccinated and I’m allowed to leave the United States. And I get the money saved up. I also guess I have to figure…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 10, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsA Well Hidden Halo 5 Easter Egg Was Finally Found After A Dev Shared Some Hints
Halo 5: Guardians was released back in 2015. But it was only a few days ago that finally, after six years, players found a secret race involving mongoose four-wheelers. All it took to find this Easter egg was a little help from the developer who added it to the game. On Easter Sunday, game developer…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 10, 2021 -
CulturePokemonPoliwhirl Is Covered In Mucus And Smooth Like A Shark
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 Poliwhirl! Poliwhirl Details Type: Water Average Height: 3′ 03″ Average Weight: 44.1 lbs. First Added In Generation I Poliwhirl…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 10, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsMore Donald Ducks In Kingdom Hearts, Please
With the arrival of the Kingdom Hearts series on PC last week, enterprising players can now tinker with the games in ways that were either too difficult or downright impossible to achieve on consoles. Naturally, this has resulted in a mod that lets folks spawn (among other things) hundreds of Donald Ducks “You thought having…
By Ian Walker Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureKorean Overwatch League Player Shares His Experience With Anti-Asian Racism In America
As opening day for the fourth season of the Overwatch League looms, Korean players on North American teams are dealing with the precipitous rise in anti-Asian racism. On April 5, Eui-Seok “Fearless” Lee, main tank for the Dallas Fuel, talked about his experience being Korean and living in America on his Twitch channel. “Being Asian…
By Ash Parrish Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureSplitscreenIn 2007, Video Game Memes Took A Dark Turn
Memes. These days, they’re everywhere. They are the pillars upon which internet culture—and by extension, pop culture—stands. But once upon a time, memes dwelled in the internet’s dankest sewers, traded in the darkness by geeks, nerds, and outcasts. On this week’s Splitscreen podcast, we examine how video games helped propel memes into the mainstream consciousness—and…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureSomeone Recovered The Code To Unlock A Full Version Of Timesplitters 2 In Homefront: The Revolution
Back in 2016 players of Dambusters Studio’s Homefront: The Revolution easily found an Easter egg featuring two levels from 2002’s Timesplitters 2. Now a code until recently thought lost has been recovered that unlocks a complete playable port of the time-traveling first-person shooter. Responding to an April 4 Twitter thread asking developers the best Easter…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureTwitchThe NFT Bubble Might Be Bursting, But Streamers And Esports Orgs Are Still Getting In On It
As of last month, the age of NFTs was officially upon us. As of this month, it might be on its way out. Average prices have declined by as much as 70% since a peak in February, according to Bloomberg. That, however, has not stopped big-name streaming and esports figures from announcing their own NFT…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for playing a 20-year-old action RPG classic with a substantial glow-up. Unless you’re not in the Diablo II: Resurrected alpha test. Then you should probably play something else. I’ve been fiddling with Diablo II: Resurrected’s alpha since yesterday and shall continue to do so over the weekend. So far I’m quite pleased.…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureNeo: The World Ends With You Returns To Shibuya July 27
It took nearly 14 years, but the long-awaited sequel to 2007 action RPG The World Ends With You is right around the corner. Neo: The World Ends With You launches for PlayStation 4 and Switch on July 27, setting a new cast of characters, as well as some familiar faces, loose on the 3D streets…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureMorning MusicQuartet’s Music Is So Nice Sega Reused It Twice
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to listen to some synthtastic music from 1986 arcade classic Quartet, which also happens to be music from 1991’s Spider-Man: The Video Game, as well as 2010’s Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Arcade Sega’s…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureReport: Naughty Dog Is Working On A Last Of Us Remake For PS5
Originally released in 2013 for the PS3, The Last of US is getting a PlayStation 5 update, reports Bloomberg Naughty Dog released a sequel, The Last of Us Part II, in 2020. According to the publication, at some point a development unit within Sony that was headed up by Michael Mumbauer had started work on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2021 -
CultureNew Space Game Puts You In Control Of Everyone, Like A God
The Fermi Paradox is “a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game,” that’s coming later this year on PC, where instead of taking control of a single space-faring faction, you’re more of a “gardener”, tending to loads of factions and trying to guide them from the stone age into the depths of space. A bit like Suzerain,…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2021 -
CultureAfter Decades Of Conflict, We’re Finally Getting Official Macross Releases In The West
Macross is one of the finest and most influential anime of all time, but for over 20 years the international distribution of the series’ later instalments—basically everything made after 1995’s Macross Plus—has been held hostage by a fierce legal struggle between several companies. We wrote an explainer on the whole mess back in 2013 if…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2021 -
CultureThat Dusk Puzzle Game? Not Actually An April Fool’s Joke
Dusk, the decidedly old-school first-person shooter from 2018, is getting an even older-school demake that riffs on classic puzzle games like Chip’s Challenge and Sokoban. And no, this isn’t a joke, despite first word of its existence having dropped on April 1. Dusk ’82 has everything you’d expect from a Dusk game—shotguns, cultists, explosions—except now…
By Ian Walker Published April 8, 2021
