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Track: Lemon Candy | Artist: Chara | Album: Madrigal

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The Original Doom Is Filled With Toy Guns

Have you ever been playing the original Doom and stopped to look at one of the weird faces that dot the many walls in the game? Or maybe looked at your gun closely and thought about how it was made? Well, it turns out that id Software used an old book by author Stephen King…

‘Shop Contest: Toilet Paper?

The Coronavirus is serious. Wash your hands, avoid other people if you feel sick, cover your mouth when you cough, don’t touch your face and wash your hands some more. As the virus spreads and people stock up on stuff, the strangest item to disappear from shelves and cause actual fights is toilet paper. Your…

Sunday Comics: This Way, Toys!

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 5. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…

‘Shop Contest: Pokemon Of The Year, Winners!

Last week I asked you, yes YOU, to create some images featuring the Pokemon of year. That Pokemon, after all the votes were counted by Google, somehow ending up being Greninja. Our winning image this week comes from Done With Kinja who has created a very different kind of Pokemon fighting game. I feel like…

Stepping On A LEGO Brick

This week on Snapshots, Geralt in the shadows, a creepy giant worm, swimming lions, lonely train tracks in Days Gone, some curious robots and one big and angry demon. I didn’t know there were giant space worms in No Man’s Sky. I feel like every few months I see something wild that got added to…

The Man Behind Pets.Com Bought The ‘Nintendo Play Station’ Console For $360,000

Yesterday, that weird prototype Nintendo Play Station console was sold at auction for $360,000. Today, thanks to Forbes, we now know who bought it, why they bought and what they plan to do with it. Greg McLemore is the founder of Pets.com, a website from back in the early 90s. Amazon bought up half of…

I Love The New Monster Energy Ultra Flavors

Back in late February, two new Monster Energy Ultra flavors were released into the wild. They started popping up in gas stations, Walmarts, and other stores across the United States. Finally, they have appeared in my home state of Kansas. And I’m so happy they have arrived. While I review a lot of sodas and…

2K Games Is The Latest Publisher To Remove Its Games From Nvidia’s Streaming Service

Last month, Nvidia’s game streaming service, GeForce Now, came out of beta officially. And since then numerous publishers have pulled their games from the service. Activision Blizzard, Bethesdaand Hinterland Gameshave already pulled titles from the service. Now Nivida confirms 2K Games is also out. The news came yesterday via a short post on Nvidia’s official forums.…

Charjabug Can Power A House If It Eats Enough Food

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 Charjabug! Charjabug Details Type: Bug/Electric Average Height: 1′ 08″ Average Weight: 23.1 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Okay,…

Building A Wall The Old-Fashioned Way

Hello! This week we watch someone accidentally shoot a gun while streaming, sell a console for $360k, step on some ants, check out a new trailer for that cool PS4 samurai game and build a rock wall using gravity. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I can offer a counterbid of $100 and some…

Player Climbs To The Top Of The Citadel In The Half-Life: Alyx Promo Area

The release of Half-Life: Alyx stands to be a landmark event for two reasons. First and most obviously, it’s a new Half-Life game after 13 years of eerie radio silence. Second, it’s a prime example of gaming culture eating its own tail, since now players are breaking games before they’re even out. Granted, Valve was…

Down The Strange, Sometimes Upsetting Rabbit Hole Of Twitch Streamers’ TikToks

Over the past 72 hours, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time watching TikToks created by Twitch streamers. It all began with a simple question: Can people whose whole line of work is built around creating the lengthiest, least-filtered form of pop culture possible excel in a medium where minimalism thrives? TikTok is a video…

Animators Reimagine LucasArts Classic Full Throttle In Modern 3D

Full Throttle was one of many amazing adventure games developed by LucasArts throughout the 1990s. It got a remastered release in 2017, but an independent studio recently took things a step further with an incredible reimagining of what the game might look like if it was developed today. The short video, an unofficial project from…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for making waffles for dinner, watching the new season of Ugly Delicious, and pretending the world isn’t quite so intense for a while. Maybe some video games will find their way in there too. I’ve been playing The Longing, a partially idle game where your character has to waste 400 days inside…

‘Nintendo Play Station’ Sells At Auction For $360,000

A prototype of a never-produced video game machine colloquially known as the “Nintendo Play Station” has sold at auction for $360,000, setting a new record for the most expensive item of video game memorabilia ever publicly sold. Pop-culture auction house Heritage Auctions offered the device, the product of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony,…

Oh Great, There’s A New Amnesia Game Coming Out This Fall

It’s been a decade since Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent arrived on the survival horror scene, filling YouTube and Twitch with the screams of terrified streamers. Due out this fall for PlayStation 4 and PC, Amnesia: Rebirth challenges players to stay calm in the face of unimaginable terror. The second sequel to Amnesia: The…

Track: Super Star (Live) | Artist: Tokyo Jihen | Album: Adult 

TurboGrafx-16 Mini Delayed Due To Coronavirus

The TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine Minis were scheduled for release on March 19. However, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the miniature consoles will be delayed. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is packed with nearly 50 games, including Dracula X, Bonk’s Revenge, Gradius and more. Konami announced that the coronavirus outbreak has interrupted production in China, which in…