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‘Shop Contest: Giancarlo Esposito, Winners!

We now officially know that Far Cry 6 is a thing and does in fact star Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad.) But last week we first heard about this via a leak. So I asked you all to take the actor’s digital avatar and have some fun. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who…

What A Good Boy

This week on Snapshots: Ghost of Tsushima is out and folks are already taking amazing pictures with its photo mode, a guitar-playing superhero, a calm cliffside sunset, a visitors from another planet, and a cute little fox. Does this fox have any “mysterious leaves?” Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best,…

Politoed Hangs Out In Groups And Shouts All Night

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 Politoed! Politoed Details Type: Water Average Height: 3′ 07″ Average Weight: 74.7 lbs First Added In Generation II 2020…

How’s It Going?: Fake Radio Stations Edition

It’s another open thread. It’s also another Saturday. It’s a lot of things. But whatever, come on in and chat. One of my favorite parts of GTA games, and all open-world games set in the modern world, are the radio stations. I don’t listen to the radio in real life anymore. And the few times…

What’s The Deal With Sesame Seeds?

This week we learn about Yoshi’s tax evasion crimes, learn which member of congress is really good at League of Legends, discuss loading times, and question the point of sesame seeds on buns. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I wonder if the next generation of consoles will have to do stuff like this…

Stuck At Home, I Can’t Stop Upgrading My Gaming Setup

If you give yourself an absurd but subtly practical gamer chair, you’ll ask yourself for a new microphone. When you give yourself the new microphone, you will ask yourself for an all-in-one audio mixer with a studio-quality preamp. When you have the microphone and mixer, you will look into your monitor and realize it is…

Madden 21 Will Drop Washington NFL Team’s Former Name And Logo

Next month’s Madden NFL 21 is being altered at the last minute to remove mentions of the Washington Redskins team name and logo imagery, a rep for publisher Electronic Arts has told Kotaku This comes at the end of a week that began with the NFL team’s management finally listening to calls for the team’s…

Worms Armageddon Just Got A Major Patch 21 Years After Its Release

Worms Armageddon was released over 20 years ago and since then has remained a fan favorite. And to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the entire Worms series, developer Team17 has released a treat for longtime fans: A brand new update for Armageddon on the PC, filled with seven years worth of fixes, changes, and…

To The Random No Man’s Sky Players Who Gave Me Free Stuff

Hi. You probably don’t remember me. I was the chubby Gek pilot exploring the Nexus for the first time when you both handed me some supplies. I didn’t catch your names, but I want to say thank you! I’m betting all the credits in my spacesuit that I looked pretty lost. My last go at…

Metacritic Will Now Make Users Wait 36 Hours Before Posting Reviews

Weeks after The Last of Us Part 2 was review bombed on Metacritic, the video game review aggregation website now requires people to wait more than a day after a game’s release to submit their personal reviews. Metacritic publicizes two review scores for any game: the Metascore based on critic reviews and the User Score…

GameStop Will Require All Customers To Wear Face Masks [UPDATE: But Employees Can’t Enforce It]

GameStop will require all customers to wear face masks in its United States locations starting on July 27, the company announced via press release today. “We believe this is the right thing to do to ensure the health, safety and well-being of our associates and customers from the growing spread of COVID-19,” said GameStop CEO…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for no longer being sure exactly how the weekend differs from the week, but being excited for it nonetheless. It’s also for playing video games. I’m going to be playing some Ghost of Tsushima, but it’s also eating at me—as it periodically does—that I never got very far in Hollow Knight. I feel…

Nintendo Veteran Explains Some Of The Restrictions Around Creating New Paper Mario Characters

Last month, Nintendo revealed that some of Paper Mario: The Origami King’s boss fights would be against office supplies instead of traditional Mario villains, and a new interview sheds some light on why. “Since Paper Mario: Sticker Star, it’s no longer possible to modify Mario characters or to create original characters that touch on the…

Track: Fly Me to the Moon | Artist: Tony Bennett | Album: N/A (Live At Home) 

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Mecha Pikachu Chooses You

Guillaume Tiberghien is an artist based in Canada who has worked on stuff like Assassin’s Creed, Fortnite, Far Cry, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Thief and Deus Ex. You can see more of Guillaume’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Hey Let’s Watch Henry Cavill Building A Gaming PC

The Witcher isn’t back filming yet, so noted heartthrob/PC gaming nerd Henry Cavill has some time on his hands. Enough to get to work building a new gaming PC, filming it, setting it to sexy music then letting us all watch. Note from the blurred logos that this isn’t a sponsored video. It’s just a…

Ghost Of Tsushima‘s Loading Times Are So Good That They Had To Be Nerfed

Ghost of Tsushima, out tomorrow, features some of the fastest loading times I’ve seen in a modern game despite its beautiful, expansive environments. They’re so short, in fact, that it’s often hard to read more than one or two of the gameplay tips the developers included as filler between gameplay. But it was almost even…

Yoshi’s Tax Fraud Story: A Hardboiled Detective Tale

He came into my office, shadows trailing in behind him like he was being followed by the specter of Death. He was a short, squat man; Italian, by the look of him. Honest guy, works with his hands for a living. My guess: plumber. I don’t see too many plumbers on my beat. It’s mostly…

Microsoft Is Already Stopping Production of Xbox One X

Microsoft is stopping production of the Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition consoles, it told The Verge today. It will continue to produce the standard Xbox One S. The news comes after many would-be Xbox owners have had trouble finding the consoles at stores. “As we ramp into the future with Xbox…