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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Made A Very Wholesome Appearance On Twitch

And onto the list of totally normal 2020 things: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talking about KFC emojis on Twitch. The New Zealand Prime Minister, a walking reminder for many of what life with competent management looks like, casually jumped onto a Twitch stream yesterday. You know, as most heads of state tend to…

Doom Kinda Running On A Pregnancy Test

The other day Foonedecided to hack an improved screen inside a…pregnancy test. And when you do something like that, it’s not a matter of if you can get Doom running on it, but when They were initially happy to just get the pregnancy test working as a screen, able to show videos of games and…

It’s Mario Picross’s 25th Anniversary-Ish! Come Celebrate!

As Nintendo extravagantly celebrates Super Mario Bros.’s 35th birthday, I keep coming back to one thought: But what about the greatest of all the Mario games, Mario Picross? 2020 isn’t only the 35th birthday of Mario’s Super era—and what kind of anniversary is 35 anyway?—but it’s also the 25th anniversary of one of the finest…

As Sonic Turns 30, Sega Plans Multiple New Games

As Mario turns a positive decrepit 35, the young, sprightly (spritely?) Sonic next year celebrates his 30th birthday. And news has slipped out that Sega is planning to celebrate the anniversary with multiple new Sonic games. It seems an advertisement was sent from Sega to investors (thanks Tails Channel) that as well as rather boldly…

Minecraft Is Coming To PSVR This Month

As Sony begins a week of announcements for forthcoming PSVR games (although they stress, lacking any PS5-specific news), the first big reveal is that Minecraft is coming to the console goggles. First and most importantly, it’s free to anyone who already owns Minecraft. The VR version will be arriving as a patch to the game…

Take A Hike: Call Of Duty: Warzone Temporarily Removes All Vehicles

If you’re playing Call Of Duty: Warzone you’re going to need to re-polish those soldiery boots. Infinity Ward have temporarily disabled all vehicles from the game. It seems they were breaking stuff. A recently discovered glitch, as noted by Eurogamer, saw players having discovered a point on the map boundary where the “return to combat…

How’s It Going? Labor Dabor Edition

Day off, or off-day? Welcome to our daily open thread, but with an accent. As a Brit, I honestly have barely any idea what Labor Day is, other than you can’t even spell it properly. My primary source is a thousand-year-old Homestar Runner puppet cartoon, and now hopefully you too shall be singing this over…

Track: Time | Artist: Hikaru Utada | Album: Time

Crusader Kings III’s Loading Screens Are Masterpieces

Paradox’s grand strategy games have always had loading screen art—something you see a lot of over the months/years you play these games—that can best be described as “functional”. Crusader Kings III throws that tradition straight off the parapet with some absolutely gorgeous works of art by industry legend Craig Mullins. When Paradox first announced Mullins’…

Bowser Gets Modded Into The Original Super Smash Bros.

Smash Remix, a very cool fan project that’s constantly adding new fighters and stages to the original N64 game, has just got Bowser up and running. You can see him in action below, not just in the main game but some mini-games as well: Considering he had to be pretty much built from scratch, he…

EA Adds, Then Quickly Removes, Ads From UFC 4 After Fans Go Ballistic

At some point over the last week, Electronic Arts took a game already full of ads—it’s a sports game, it comes with the territory!—and added more. Only this wasn’t an in-world kinda deal, it was a literal commercial flashing around in the middle of a fight. You can see an example in the gif above,…

Modded Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Designed To Hunt Cheaters

Team Fortress 2 has a problem with bots, but not all of its bots are there for cheating. Some have been programmed to hunt down the cheaters. Apparently this has been a thing in the TF2 community for a little while now, but it’s only after this Tweet that the wider world got some insight…

The Week In Games: My Kingdom For A Reckoning

Prepare for a reckoning, again! Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning comes out this week for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. If you locked me in a room with a list of every video released in the last 10 years and asked me to pick 100 of them that I figured would get remastered or remade this…

Track: Original Sin | Artist: INXS | Album: The Swing

‘Shop Contest: Cleaning Robot

Yesterday, I wrote a small post about a robot I found in the Avengers game. This robot, like a robot you can find in Destiny, sweeps and sweeps and sweeps. Poor bastard. Let’s help it out. Your challenge this week: Send this sweeping robot to other games. I mean, it will still have to sweep,…

Watch Tony Hawk Collect S-K-A-T-E In Real Life

Normally, you won’t find floating letters hanging around skateparks waiting to be collected. But yesterday, Tony Hawk encountered this strange scenario and he did what anyone who’s played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater would do: He collected S-K-A-T-E. I’m happy to see he collected the letters in the correct order. Sure, like in the games, you…

How’s It Going?: Comics Edition

I see you out there, wanting to come in and chat. Quit being shy! Our daily open thread is live and ready for you! For a few years, I had a nice tablet that I read tons of comic books on. But sadly its battery went bad and after spending over a year going back…

Sunday Comics: WRONG OPINION!

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 Sep. 3. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Aug 31. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Lonely Crash Bandicoot, Winners!

Last week I asked you all to take a strange and sad image of Crash Bandicoot all alone and have some fun with it. You all delivered. Crash still looks sad and lonely, but at least he’s getting to visit some cool, new places! Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who subtly improves…

You Ever Wonder What The Bottom Of Spider-Man’s Shoe Looks Like?

This week on Snapshots we have a nice selection of screenshots from a wide variety of games. Some from Ghost of Tsushima, others from Spider-Man, and a few from some games we have never featured in this series before today. Exciting! I realize some of you might not get the whole “bottom of an avatar’s…