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Sunday Comics: Sweaty Armpits

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

Longtime Street Fighter Producer Yoshinori Ono Is Leaving Capcom

Today, Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono announced via a message on Twitter that he is leaving the franchise and Capcom after nearly 30 years. The message also contained his thoughts on the criticism to the changes made to the Capcom Pro Tour, which in the wake of COVID-19 has moved entirely online. In his statement,…

‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Brute, Winners!

Whoops! Due to a communication and planning error, I accidentally left you all without winners for a week. I hope you survived this week of suspense and chaos! Our winning image this week comes from Neuroplastique who lets this sad brute have some ice cream. How nice. A lot of great entries this week. This…

Unlimited Power!

This week on Snapshots: More Ghost of Tsushima screenshots! It’s a gorgeous game with the best photomode…ever? So it makes sense it once again dominates this week. But some other games, like Last of Us and Gran Turismo, get in the mix too. I think that fox might be a Sith Lord… Kotaku Snapshots is…

Playing Video Games While Pooping Is Terrible

My new apartment is nice for a lot of reasons. But one stranger reason is that it includes a bathroom connected directly to my office via one of two doors. And in front of that door to my office and the TV is a toilet. It’s an odd layout, but I had an idea. Do…

Toucannon Has A Powerful Gun Beak And It Ain’t Afraid To Use It

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 Toucannon! Toucannon Details Type: Normal/Flying Average Height: 3′ 07″ Average Weight: 53.7 lbs First Added In Generation VII Sometimes…

How’s It Going?: New Apartment Edition

Hello from my new apartment. I’m back after a week and a half long vacation. But our daily open thread never takes a day off. Come on in. I say I was on vacation, but 9 out of those 10 days were spent moving, unpacking, setting stuff up, dealing with buying items during a pandemic,…

Why Do We Fall, Giant Monster?

This week we celebrate learning how long it took to make Mario 64, fall in love with the dragon from Ring Fit Adventure, watch C-3PO finally get some revenge, check out the new trailer for Battletoads, and laugh at a monster falling down. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week So what if I wanna…

PlayStation 4’s Firewatch Theme Is My Window To A Better World

The world is cold and unfeeling, so it’s a small comfort to know I’ll always have the Firewatch theme on my PlayStation 4. I’m a pretty basic dude. I like my user interfaces clean and as free of clutter as possible. But when Campo Santo’s first-person adventure Firewatch arrived on PlayStation 4 a few years…

Dr Disrespect Resumes Streaming To Over 500,000 Viewers And Plenty Of Questions

In June, Twitch permanently banned one of its biggest stars, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, with no public indication as to why. Today, Beahm streamed for the first time since getting the big, purple boot from Twitch—now on YouTube. He was met by hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. And questions. Beahm announced his return yesterday,…

Guilty Gear Creator Thought He Was Done With Fighting Games In 1998

Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari has held multiple major roles on every game in the series since its 1998 debut on the original PlayStation. But in a newly surfaced interview, Ishiwatari seemed hesitant to commit to any future fighting games, let alone the multiple Guilty Gear sequels he’s developed since. Shmuplations recently translated a pair…

Players Think Red Dead Online’s Latest Update Made Their Horses Dumber

Following the recent update in Red Dead Online, many players are convinced something is wrong with their horses. Horses are ignoring players, crashing into objects more often, and even flying. It’s funny, but also annoying. While playing Red Dead Online last night I was off in the woods, studying animals as part of the new…

I’m Really Into That New Dragon-Dating Sim, Ring Fit Adventure

Can I tell you a secret? Is this a safe place? Because what I’m about to say could potentially expose some of my stranger… predilections, let’s say. Are you ready? Okay. I think the bad guy in Ring Fit Adventure is smokin’ hot. He’s a tall, dark, and dummy thicc dragon traipsing about in a wrestling…

Fall Guys‘ Catchy Music Is What Keeps Me Coming Back

I keep losing at Fall Guys and if it wasn’t for the weird and peppy music hammering my brain after every failure I would have given up by now. Games don’t have to be fun and I certainly haven’t been having fun getting chewed up and spit out by Fall Guys’ multiplayer chaos over and…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend is for fast cars in unlikely scenarios. It’s about desperately trying to not make every post about Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, even if that means playing a questionable movie tie-in. It’s about Vin Diesel’s giant, computer-generated face. I have got a lot of cleaning to do around my house this weekend, and what…

A Nintendo-Friendly Studio Takes Their Next Game To Xbox (But Isn’t Exactly Done With Nintendo)

The recent debut of a game called The Gunk during a late July showcase of next-gen Xbox games wasn’t an obvious stunner. But, if you’ve been paying close attention to indie games on the Nintendo Switch, it was a surprise. The Gunk is a third-person action game featuring a pair of explorers who discover a…

Official: Rocksteady Is Making A Suicide Squad Game

The makers of the Batman Arkham games at Rocksteady Studios have finally officially teased their next project: a Suicide Squad game. It’s been five years since Arkham Knight came out, and, ever since then, people have wondered what the hell Rocksteady Studios has been up to. For a long time many assumed it might be…

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President Trump Now Targeting Tencent, Who Own Riot Games And 40% Of Epic [Update]

US President Donald Trump’sattacks on TikTok escalated wildly today, after he signed an Executive Order that not only seeks to prevent Americans from doing business with ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), but also targets Tencent, the Chinese giant that among other things owns Riot (League of Legends), along with partial stakes in everyone from Ubisoft to…