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Crisis!! Super Street Fighter II Turbo Weird-Version Music Deathmatch!

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, a knock-down, drag-out brawl to the death between two little-heard arranged versions of Capcom’s most enduring fighting game. Fight! 1994’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) was the final form, at…

Track: Blade Runner Blue | Artist: Vangelis | Album: Blade Runner OST 

RIP Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager, one of the United States Air Force’s greatest ever pilots and the first man to break the sound barrier, has died at the age of 97. Yeager was a decorated Second World War fighter pilot—famous for shooting down five Germans in a single day in 1944—and his exploits later became the subject of…

Hohokum Was Almost The Perfect PS4 Game

I’ve done a lot of big-picture stories for our Last Generation roundup, but tonight I want to zoom in a bit and talk about one game in particular: Hohokum, aka the most relaxing video game of the PS4 era. Released in 2014 for the PS4 (but also the PS3 and Vita), at first glance there’s…

40 Boxes Of RTX 3090 Graphics Cards Stolen From Warehouse In China

It’s bad enough that bots and scalpers are buying up all the stock of Nvidia’s new graphics cards, but some thieves in China have taken things to the next level and stolen 40 boxes of RTX 3090s, valued at around $340,000, from an MSI warehouse. As Tom’s Hardware reports (via a @GoFlying8 translation), the cards…

Square Enix’s Project Athia Is Console Exclusive On PS5 For ‘At Least 24 Months’

Project Athia, the next game from the team behind Final Fantasy XV, will be console-exclusive to the PlayStation 5 for “at least 24 months,” a new Sony demo reel of upcoming games revealed. Little is known about Project Athia (apparently a working title) apart from it being some sort of fantastical action game from Square…

Call Of Duty: Warzone Players Are Hunting Glitchers Who Spawn Unlimited Juggernauts

The massive armored suit upgrades known as juggernauts are proliferating in Call of Duty: Warzone thanks to a new glitch, leading some skilled players to go out of their way to hunt down opponents who are using them. The glitch to spawn duplicate juggernauts is straightforward to attempt but can be difficult to pull off.…

WoW’s Revendreth Makes Me Question If Bad People Deserve To Go To Hell

I really didn’t want to have to think about my country’s carceral state while playing a video game and yet, while strolling through Revendreth, learning about its vampiric venthyr denizens and where they fit into the bureaucracy of Death that is the Shadowlands, my mind couldn’t help but make the connections. Revendreth is a miserable…

Medal Of Honor Bigger

Call of Duty big. Medal of Honor bigger (depending on how you count). According to Polygon, EA VR shooter Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is 340 GB of raw bigness. It becomes less big—a mere 170 GB (giga bigs)—once you unpack and install it. For comparison’s sake, Call of Duty, the previous king of big,…

Quick Resume Is Working For More Xbox Series X Games

Microsoft is slowly starting to roll out more Quick Resume support on Xbox Series X|S again, after it took the supposedly signature next-gen feature offline for some games right before the console’s launch last month. This is according to Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald. “As launch games were coming in, we identified some…

Nintendo Cancels Splatoon Stream After Teams Show Solidarity With Smash Community

Over the weekend, Nintendo quietly canceled a Splatoon 2 tournament livestream, and participants believe it’s due to the names of some of the participating teams. While Nintendo hasn’t publicly stated their reasoning, the result was a last-minute makeshift replacement tournament for the multiplayer Switch shooter. The fill-in event was a big success. Word of an…

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game makes its comeback on January 14, 2021 The retro-style beat ’em up has been MIA since it’s original 2010 release.

Only One RPG Has Music From The Rocky IV And Transformers: The Movie Guy

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to music from an indie RPG composed by Vince DiCola and Kenny Meriedeth. DiCola of course, is best known for the synth-driven soundtracks to Staying Alive, Rocky IV, and (lest we forget) 1986’s…

Track: Hakushunmu | Artist: My Hair Is Bad | Album: Life

NBA Team Releases Incredible Video Game Tribute For Basically No Good Reason

The schedule for the upcoming NBA season was released the other day, and feeling like they had to do something to mark the occasion, the Utah Jazz went and made this video game montage highlighting some of the better matchups. Street Fighter, Outrun, Mario, Pokemon, there’s loads to get through. The Joe Ingles likeness in…

The Week In Games: Wake Up Samurai, Cyberpunk 2077 Is Almost Here

After countless delays, literal years of hype and trailers, and a ton of controversy, Cyberpunk 2077 is here. Easily the most anticipated game of the year for a lot of folks, Cyberpunk 2077 featuring Keanu Reeves drops later this week on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Stadia I’ll be sitting out Cyberpunk 2077 for now. I…

Track: Wonderful Christmastime | Artist: Paul McCartney 

I’ll Never Get Tired Of Sending Enemies Flying In Immortals

Immortal Fenyx Rising, Ubisoft’s cartoonish take on an open-world game, has fine combat. It’s not amazing, being lifted straight from Assassin’s Creed Odyessy, but it works and it feels nice. However, killing enemies in Immortals is amazing because they don’t just collapse and die, but instead shoot off into the sky, like Team Rocket or…

‘Shop Contest: Monoliths

Over the last few weeks, strange monoliths have been appearing around the world. Is it the work of aliens? Secret government agencies? Time travelers? Bored artists, who have a bunch of free time during the pandemic? (It’s probably that last one…) And now I hear they are appearing in video games?!?! Your challenge this week:…

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory’s Soundtrack Was Perfectly Chaotic

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m talking, quietly, about Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory’s soundtrack. You might not think Tom Clancy games from Ubisoft have great soundtracks, and for the most part you’d be right. That’s not to say the music…