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Sunday Comics: Worth It!

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 June 18. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: The PS5 Cat, Winners!

One cute and futuristic cat caught my attention during the PS5 reveal. So I asked you folks to add this furball to more games, movies and TV shows. Everyone deserves a good, future cat. Our winning image this week comes from sciteach who pulls off the rare back-to-back wins! Can they be stopped next week?…

Folks Are Already Taking Great Photos In The Last Of Us Part II

This week on Snapshots: A bunch of Last of Us 2 photos, some creepy Star Wars ruins, a tiny squirrel, and one cool looking Spider-Man. (I don’t believe any of the photos featured here contain spoilers as they all seem to be taken early on in the game. But if you don’t want to be…

Depixelizing Video Game Characters Creates Monsters

A new digital tool built to depixelize photos sounds scary and bad. Another way to remove privacy from the world. But this tool is also being used for a sillier and not terrible purpose: Depixelizng old game characters. The results are…nevermind, this is also a terrible use of this tool. “Face Depixelizer” is a tool…

Honchkrow Is A Shitty Boss

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 Honchkrow! Honchkrow Details Type: Dark/Flying Average Height: 2′ 11″ Average Weight: 60.2 lbs First Added In Generation IV Have…

How’s It Going?: Backlog Edition

The rumors are true! Kotaku’s daily open thread has once again returned. Come on in and chat with us! We all have backlogs. A list of games we always wanted to get around to playing or finishing, but for various reasons haven’t. I have a large backlog. And I’ve been making more time to knock…

Animal Crossing Player Has Too Many Fans

This week we celebrate Juneteenth, clean up an apartment in Deus Ex, meet the snake who swallowed an AK-47, find out when Horizon Zero Dawn 2 is releasing on PS5 and find out how many fans in Animal Crossing is too many. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Ashely Parrish’s latest big piece is…

Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, announced earlier this week for Japan, is officially getting a Western release this fall. The rhythm game features more than 140 songs spanning the series’ history, and features an all-new Kingdom Hearts story. Look for more info soon on KingdomHearts.com.

Crash Bandicoot 4 Is Coming

Between Gematsu discovering listings for the Xbox One and PS4 game on Taiwan’s Digital Game Rating website, a mailing I received from Activision containing a Crash-themed puzzle, and developer Toys for Bob teasing a Monday game reveal, the bandicoot is out of the bag. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is in the works. I…

Can You Identify These Badly Described Classic Games?

Atari collectors all know about the so-called “Taiwan Cooper” line of bootleg cartridges that were sold around the world back in the ‘80s. They were knock-off copies of Atari 2600 games both popular (Space Invaders) and obscure (Bobby Is Going Home), with weird cover art and bizarre descriptions on the backs of the boxes. Nobody…

The Best Assassin’s Creed Game Is Free This Weekend

Ever wanted to scale the Pyramid of Khufu? How about the Great Sphinx of Giza? The Lighthouse of Alexandria? Well, you’re in luck: This weekend, Assassin’s Creed Origins is totally free-to-play on UPlay. If you missed it the first time around, now’s your chance to play the best Assassin’s Creed Ubisoft’s 2017 entry in the…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for so many chores that I’ve put off that now there are far too many. It’s also for playing video games while I try to decide if I can put off the chores some more. I imagine a lot of you are playing The Last of Us 2 this weekend, and I’m…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s next fighter will be revealed in a 35-minute video that Nintendo will post online at 10 a.m. ET on Monday morning, the company announced this morning We know the character will be from Nintendo’s fighting game Arms, but we don’t know which one.

Track: My Own Version of You | Artist: Bob Dylan | Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways

Is This Going To Be A Standup Fight, Sir, Or Another Bughunt?

Yuri Quirino is an artist from Brazil currently based in Charlotte . You can see more of Yuri’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Staff Quit After Board Game Site Refuses To Support Black Lives Matter

At least 17 staff (and counting) contributing to Everything Board Games have left the site after its current owner, Lake Leafty, not only refused to issue a statement in support of Black Lives Matter, but said such a statement would be “virtue signalling”. In a statement released on June 17, staff say that in response…

Everything Announced At EA Play Live 2020

Electronic Arts had a small slate of announcements for its not-E3 presentation today, including a new Skate game that is very early in development, Apex Legends coming to Switch, and more details on Star Wars: Squadrons. Here’s the complete rundown. Skate is coming back—eventually. They have “a long way to go” and this is “just…

Here’s Our First Look At Star Wars: Squadrons Gameplay

Today at EA Play, the publisher revealed the first look at gameplay from the upcoming Star Wars: Squadrons. Squadrons is being developed by EA Motive, the same studio that worked on the singleplayer campaign featured in 2017’s Star Wars: Battlefront II. The game is set during the aftermath of the second Death Star’s destruction and…

Apex Legends Heading To Steam, Switch With Crossplay

During today’s EA Play Live broadcast, Respawn Entertainment announced that Apex Legends will be coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch, with crossplay across all platforms, this fall. Apex Legends is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and EA’s own Origin launcher, but these new versions will allow players to grab the game on the…

This War Of Mine Added To Poland’s High School Reading List

This War of Mine, the wartime survival game from Polish developer 11 bit studios, will be part of the recommended reading list for Polish high school students during the 2020-2021 school year. “Games are works of culture,” 11 Bit Studios CEO Grzegorz Miechowski wrote in the company’s official statement. “Modern ones, natural and attractive for…