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Dota 2‘s New Summer Battle Pass Adds Female Anti-Mage, Guilds, And More

Valve unveiled Dota 2‘s long-awaited summer battle pass today and it’s full of stuff to get even lapsed players like me excited about playing again The International Battle Pass is Valve’s main mechanism for funding the prize pool for its big annual Dota 2 tournament and building up excitement around it. While the event has…

A Bet Over Animal Crossing: New Horizons Screwed Me Out Of $30

Over the past few months, I haven’t been shy about my feelings for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I’ve called it “seriously stressful,” an “exercise in patience,” and a “shoddy Xerox of life’s daily headaches.” I’ve publicly insulted Tom Nook and Jolly Redd. I compared a recent event to socks. Well, last week Animal Crossing: New…

Call of Duty: WWII Is One Of June’s PlayStation Plus Games

If you’ve had a hankering to play the Call of Duty from three years ago, PlayStation Plus has you covered next month. Although technically one of June’s PS Plus games, Call of Duty: WWII will actually be available to download starting May 26. Maybe it’s a day-after-Memorial-Day thing? Of course, good luck finding space for…

Modder Makes Resident Evil 3‘s Nemesis Even Scarier

Sometimes things are more than they appear. In this Resident Evil 3 mod that’s not the case. It replaces Nemesis with Shrek. That’s it. That’s the entire mod. We saw a ton of mods transforming Resident Evil 2’s Mister X into the likes of Thomas the Tank Engine and others when it came out last…

How’s It Going?: Memorial Day Edition

It’s Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer. But this year who even knows what that means. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Maybe you saw this video going around of a Memorial Day weekend pool party at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. You’d never know the covid-19 pandemic was still…

Track: Caught By The Fuzz (Acoustic Version) | Artist: Supergrass | Album: I Should Coco

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The Midnight Train

Kevin Moran is a concept artist and matte painter who has worked on stuff like Apex Legends You can see more of Kevin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Manchester United Trying To Sue Sega Over PC Mods, Team Name

Global marketing powerhouse and occasional football side Manchester United are suing both Sega and developers Sports Interactive over their Football Manager series, claiming that the game’s use of “Manchester United” as an unlicensed team name is “wrongful”. As The Guardian report, United say that “the products and services that are licensed by the claimant benefit…

The Week In Games: Dungeons And Creepers

Minecraft Dungeons releases this week and brings simple hack and slash action to almost every platform out there. I’ve been playing Dungeons for a few days and I’m enjoying it. It’s not a new Diablo or something that has the same depth as that game or other similar dungeon crawlers, but it’s enjoyable. And it…

Track: Rain On Me | Artist: Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande | Album: CHROMATICA 

Fan Discovers Division 2 Audio Files That May Spoil Months Of Upcoming Storylines [UPDATE]

A datamining fan has found and shared what seems to be the possible next few months of story updates for The Division 2 buried in the new Public Test Server build of the game. On May 22nd The Division 2 got a Public Test Server and players could download and play this new version of…

‘Shop Contest: SHARK!

I have been thinking about sharks a lot lately, after playing and reviewing Maneater earlier this week. So let’s have some fun with sharks! Your challenge this week: Add sharks where they don’t belong! Going a bit more open-ended this week. As long as your image includes a shark and is funny, it might win…

How’s It Going?: Skateboarding Edition

Grab your skateboard and take a seat here at our latest daily open thread. Come chat about kickflips or anything. Thanks to the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remake being announced recently, it seems the world is filled with skateboarding everywhere I look. Which is fine with me. I’ve always enjoyed skateboarding in video games,…

Sunday Comics: Praise Be To Money!

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 21. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Tony Hawk, Winners

We are getting a (sort of) new Tony Hawk game this year and that means we are also getting a new digital Tony Hawk. So I asked you folks to take this new virtual Tony and add him to anything you wanted. Our winning image this week comes from Tiger-Nemesis who created a big Tony.…

Spider-Man, Please Put Me Down

This week on Snapshots we have cool looking cars, gorgeous nighttime skies, creepy skeletons, far away fighting and Spider-Man continues to be a menace. Three weeks in a row. This weekly feature wasn’t supposed to be a showcase of Spider-Man being a dick to people, but here we are. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look…

Perfect Dark: 20 Years Later

Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from a fairly major fault. It’s nigh-on unplayable. Those sleek offices and twisting tunnels have morphed into poorly textured geometric mazes. The explosions and effects, brilliant in memory, are muted. Most of all, the always-suspect framerate is…

A Very Important Question: Is Knack Naked?

Stop whatever you are doing and help the internet answer this question about Knack. ResetEra user Lant_War posted the question “Is Knack naked?” earlier today and asked others to vote yes or no. As of this writing nearly 200 folks have voted and the vast majority (94%) believe that Knack, the lovable star of the…

Whismur Breathes Through Its Ears And Screams So Loudly It Scares Itself

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 Whismur! Whismur Details Type: Normal Average Height: 4′ 03″ Average Weight: 58.6 lbs First Added In Generation III One…