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Red Bull Summer Edition Is A Great New Flavor And Bad New Slushie

Summer is fast approaching. Days are getting warmer. The sun seems brighter and I’m wearing more shorts. And Red Bull has released a new Summer-inspired flavor but in two forms. The traditional canned energy drink and an icy slush drink at Sonic. Which is better? Read the headline. And the rest of this post! This…

‘Shop Contest: National Eyewear Day

I wear glasses. Many of you wear glasses. And it turns out next week, on June 6, there is a holiday for all of us: National Eyewear Day! Congrats. So let’s give video game characters glasses! Your challenge this week: Give video game characters, creatures and etc glasses or sunglasses. Technically, according to NationalToday.com, sunglasses…

How’s It Going?: Cleaning Edition

Another Sunday, another open thread. Come on in, take a break, grab a snack and chat with folks about…anything you want! The last few days have been a wild time for my girlfriend and me. Good wild! We got approved for an apartment and signed a lease. It’s bigger and should work better for us…

Sunday Comics: Are You Okay?

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 May 28. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 25. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Shark, Winners!

You thought you were safe just because you weren’t in the ocean? Nope! Sharks are everywhere this week after I asked you folks to spread sharks where they don’t belong. Our winning image this week comes from Badonkagronk who reveals the origins behind the Baby Shark song. I’m not surprised. So many different sharks in…

Dancing In The Moonlight

This week on Snapshots we look at some lovely sunsets, a strange monster, a cool jump, a small bird in Red Dead Redemption II, a creepy face, and spot some zombies enjoying a nice run through the dark. It’s caught me in its spotlight. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best,…

Tips For Getting Your Image Picked!

If you are reading this, you take screenshots a lot! I assume. And you are interested in getting some of these screenshots picked by me to appear in our weekly Snapshots feature. (Again, I’m assuming. It would be weird if you didn’t and were reading this.) Here are some tips! 1. No HUD Or In-Game…

Riot Reveals New Valorant Agent, Reyna

The official Valorant Twitter account released a short teaser today showing off a new character coming to the game. Her name is Reyna and she reminds of someone… Reyna is from Mexico and after teasing the character recently, Riot showed off about 30 seconds of gameplay in a small video. The video also seems to…

Munchlax Hides Food In Its Body Hair And Then Forgets About It

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 Munchlax! Munchlax Details Type: Normal Average Height: 2′ 00″ Average Weight: 231.5 lbs First Added In Generation IV When…

The first DLC for Minecraft Dungeons will be released in July and will add new missions, weapons, and a jungle area. Mojang also revealed a second DLC called “Creeping Winter” will be released later this year and that crossplay is coming in a free update, though no release date was given.

How’s It Going?: Lazy Edition

I’m sure you all have been waiting for a long time. So, I’m happy to announce that our daily open thread is…open! These last few days I’ve been extremely lazy. I had Monday off and then had Tuesday and Wednesday off too. (Weekend Editors have weird work weeks.) So I mostly just…did nothing. Which was…

Creepy Monkey

Hello! This week we talk about the latest big-budget video game flop, discover how gross pelicans can be, check out the new Fast & Furious game, play video games while eating, and meet a creepy monkey in Animal Crossing. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I have a few rules in my home. But…

Street Fighter V Costume Design Contest Is Asking For Free Labor

Capcom recently opened a special contest for Street Fighter V, asking fans to submit costume designs for possible inclusion in the fighting game’sfinal season. On the surface this may seem like a cool way to interact with fans, but the lack of any monetary compensation makes it all too easy to view this contest as…

Maneater‘s Orca Tank Is Terrifying, Even As A Godlike Megashark

I’m absolutely in love with Maneater, the new shark game from Tripwire Interactive. Nothing in video games has ever made me feel as powerful as cruising the Louisiana bayou and wantonly chomping passing barracuda. But one setpiece managed to inject my shark-inspired reverie with a terror made only more potent by the rest of the…

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Holy Shit I Found A Switch

A couple of days ago, I wrote a piece about how hard it is to find a Nintendo Switch. With the covid-19 outbreak temporarily halting production of the console in China, and scalpers seizing the opportunity to buy up and flip the Switch for usurious prices, nary a Switch is to be found on American…

GTA Online‘s Mini Cooper Week Hasn’t Won Over The Haters

Small cars are the focus of the latest Grand Theft Auto Online event, and the community has reacted with jokes, anger, and a bit of confusion. For those who are upset, it seems you can blame a classic film from the 1960s for this week’s Mini Cooper themed festivities. The Weeny Issi is GTA’s parody…

As Streamers Spread Dangerous Conspiracy Theories, Twitch Does Little To Stop Them

In the past few days, an alarming headline has made the rounds: “Half of Fox News viewers think Bill Gates is using pandemic to microchip them, survey suggests.” This idea is nonsense, of course, but coronavirus conspiracy theories have spread almost like the virus itself across the meticulously calibrated algorithmic networks of sites like YouTube,…

Sony Will Finally Show PlayStation 5 Games On June 4

Sony will show off games for the PlayStation 5 during an official online showcase at 4pm ET on Thursday June 4. In a blog post today, Sony boss Jim Ryan promised that the showcase will include games and will run “a bit more than an hour.” That’s why I’m excited to share that we will…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for either doing laundry in the tub again (nooo) or trying to find an open laundromat to brave, because the clean shirts situation has grown dire. It’s also for playing video games. The BioShock Collection’s Switch release has got me itching to replay those games, though it’s hard to justify spending money on…