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Sunday Comics: I Ain’t Gonna Waste Them

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 March 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…

‘Shop Contest: Toilet Paper, Winners!

Last week I asked you all to create some ‘shops featuring toilet paper since it seems lately that’s the most purchased item on the planet. Due to the growing pandemic, many are stocking up on food, medicine, water and LOTS of toilet paper. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who knows the real…

Room For One More?

This week on Snapshots, dead pirates, fancy flying, cool wings, some pretty flowers in Horizon: Zero Dawn, a glowing lightsaber and a really big whale. The world needs more games like Wipeout. I want more hovercar racing games! More futuristic racing games in general. Remember Jet Moto? We don’t get a lot of these games…

Half-Life 2 Devs Thought About Fixing Bugs Speedrunners Use To See How They Would React

There is a large and active speedrunning community around Half-Life 2. And Valve is aware of this and during a recent IGN video explained that at one point they had thought about patching some of the popular bugs speedrunners use to see if the runners would like having to find new ways to beat the…

Two Explosive Jackasses Invaded My Camp In Red Dead Online

Let me tell you the story of two random men who decided to recreate the TV show Jackass in my camp in Red Dead Online. I was just hanging out in Red Dead Online with some friends. We were hunting and chatting. Suddenly, two random players started attacking us. We headed to my camp, where…

Slurpuff Can Smell How Sad You Are

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 Slurpuff! Slurpuff Details Type: Fairy Average Height: 2′ 07 Average Weight: 11.0 lbs. First Added In Generation VI Having…

Giant Kitten Is A Threat To The City, But Also Really Cute

Hello! This week we remember our old Neopets, check out the new costumes being added to Doom Eternal, play Jenga with long and creepy fingers, celebrate the seven-year anniversary of Warframe and watch a city get attacked by a giant kitten. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Oh no…please…don’t make me watch this gif…

Amidst Coronavirus, The Fighting Game Community Faces An Uneasy Future

The global spread of the novel strain of coronavirus known as covid-19 has impacted the gaming industry in various ways, from convention shutdowns to the enacting of work-from-home policies at major studios. Fighting game community gatherings are being canceled and players are pulling out of tournaments, all of which constitute a serious threat to the survival…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for making some more bread. I made an actual successful loaf of bread last weekend and I’m totally roaring with confidence to try some new recipes. (Did that sound convincing?) Bread needs a lot of time to do its solo bread magic thing, so that’s plenty of time to play video games…

Pokémon Go Makes It Easier For Players To Stay Put During The Pandemic

Pokémon Go encourages players to go out into the world and meet each other, but that’s not the best idea when the world is trying to slow the spread of coronavirus covid-19. Developer Niantic has implemented temporary changes in the game to make catching Pokémon without going anywhere easier. Along with postponing the Abra Community Day…

Track: The Waterfront | Artist: John Lee Hooker | Album: The Best of John Lee Hooker

Nara Last October. Nara, Japan. By David Parham. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line 

AT&T Is Suspending Bullshit Data Caps

Broadband data caps, which exist solely as a means for telecommunications providers to gouge you on pricing, are some grade-A bullshit. As proved by the fact AT&T has today made the decision to suspend all of them for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic. As VICE reports, AT&T is the first major company to make…

Coronavirus Has Broken Some Of NBA 2K20’s Simulation

The entire NBA season has been suspended until further notice, in a move that’s so unprecedented that NBA 2K20 just doesn’t know how to handle it. The game has a feature called Start Today in its MyLeague mode, which lets you begin a career based on the current standings and stats of the NBA and…

Professor Calls Student’s Idea To Teach Class On Twitch ‘Terrible,’ Does It Anyway

NYU Game Center professor and independent developer Robert Yang never thought teaching a class on Twitch would be a good idea, but only once he was in the thick of things did the enormity of the task dawn on him. “Oh hello, Amber,” he said to a student who’d identified herself in chat. “And hello,…

Speedrunners Can’t Stop Playing The Final Fantasy VII Remake Demo

The Final Fantasy VII Remake demo has only been out for a week, but already speedrunners have played through it dozens of times trying to master it as if it were a standalone game. The demo, which went live last Monday, runs barely an hour, only showing off the first mission of what promises to…

My Little Pony-Inspired 2D Fighting Game Will Leave Early Access April 2

Them’s Fightin’ Herds began in 2011 as a fan-made fighting game called My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic. The project was shut down by Hasbro’s lawyers in 2013, only to return in 2015 with a new name and original characters designed by My Little Pony series creator Lauren Faust. On April 2, the four-legged fighter…

Borderlands 3 Patch Will Rebalance Late-Game Areas For New Characters

Most of the Borderlands 3 hotfixes have focused on adjusting characters and weapons, but the next update will also pay attention to balancing late-game areas. “We found that new players were consistently entering certain areas over-leveled for the content they were playing,” wrote Gearbox in the company’s latest Borderlands 3 blog. “This occasionally trivialized those…

The Prince Of Persia Is Coming To For Honor

Ubisoft’s medieval fighter For Honor is getting a new limited-time mode featuring the Prince of Persia, starting today. The new game mode, called Ruler of Time, is a variation on Dominion, the game’s traditional capture-the-zone mode. Ruler of Time features a tornado that whips around the map and occasionally spawns the Prince of Persia, the…

As Naughty Dog Crunches On The Last Of Us II, Developers Wonder How Much Longer This Approach Can Last

Some developers at Naughty Dog continue to ask themselves a question that has haunted the studio for years: Is it worth it?