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OpinionIt’s Weird To See Ryu Use A Gun In Fortnite
Yesterday, after some hints and leaks, Street Fighter characters Ryu and Chun-Li came to Epic’s mega-popular battle royale game, Fortnite. Watching Ryu run around shooting people with an assault rifle is weird. It’s also just one more example of how Fortnite consumes popular characters and franchises without much care or celebration. Guest characters have been…
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CultureHogwarts Legacy Lead Designer Used To Run Anti-Social Justice YouTube Channel
Troy Leavitt is a lead designer at Warner Bros. development studio Avalanche Software currently working on controversial Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy. He also ran a reactionary YouTube channel focused on attacking feminism and social justice for over a year. This information was first provided by Did You Know Gaming? contributor Liam Robertson, who highlighted…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: The Legend Of Zelda 35th Anniversary
This year marks the35th anniversary of the Zelda franchise. But specifically, it seems today Feb 21 is the actual day the series hits the big 3-0 (plus five.) Let’s celebrate the long-running franchise by creating silly images. It’s how we do things around here. Your challenge this week: Celebrate the anniversary of The Legend of…
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CultureSunday Comics: Shut Up Now
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 Feb. 18. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Feb. 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Thicczilla, Winners
Godzilla is old news. Last week, Netflix introduced the world to the glorious Thicczilla. We here at Kotaku decided to celebrate this big, beautiful boy. Our winning image this week comes from MonoArtan who shows us how Thicczilla got those mega-thighs. You aren’t born like that. You earn it. I was going to apologize for…
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CultureGo Ahead And Jump!
This week on Snapshots we have more Spider-Man and Assassin’s Creed screenshots, some nice shots from Ghost of Tsushima, half of a scary lady, leaping, running, and Lara Croft. And one big jump. In video games, I like to make a mental note of where I would personally be stuck and unable to move forward.…
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CulturePokemonPyukumuku Can Spit Its Organs Out And Use Them As A Weapon
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 Pyukumuku! Pyukumuku Details Type: Water Average Height: 1’oo” Average Weight: 2.6 lbs First Added In Generation VII Pyukumuku (double-checks…
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CultureRock N’ Roll Racing Music Might Get Twitch Streamers In Trouble
Yesterday, Blizzard released a collection of the studio’s classic games. But the studio also gave a warning to those looking to stream one of the games, Rock n’ Roll Racing on Twitch: Turn off the music. All of it. Announced and released yesterday, the Blizzard Arcade Collection contains three classic games: The Lost Vikings, Rock…
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CultureA Fully Playable Build Of Rare’s Unreleased N64 Game Dinosaur Planet Has Leaked Online
A group of gaming preservationists has released online a fully playable (and a bit buggy) build of Dinosaur Planet, a canceled Nintendo 64 project developed by Rare. It would eventually become Star Fox Adventures, which was released on the Gamecube in 2002. Game preservation group Forest of Illusion uploaded the unreleased build of Dinosaur Planet…
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CultureThere’s Been An N64 Mini-Game Hidden Inside The Switch Version Of Firewatch All This Time
Yesterday Cabel Sasser, the co-founder of Panic, revealed a little-known secret only found in the Switch port of Firewatch, a game his company published back in 2016. Turns out, there’s a fun platformer hidden in it. And (almost) nobody found it! To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Firewatch, Sasser shared a fun and surprisingly elaborate…
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CultureMorning CheckpointSplatoon 3 Coming 2022, New Mortal Kombat Film Trailer, Texas Devs Struggling During Brutal Weather, And More
This week on Morning Checkpoint, we check out the new Mortal Kombat trailer, catch up with all the news from BlizzCon and the latest Nintendo Direct, hear how developers in Texas are dealing with the terrible weather and eat a stupid-big gummy controller. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week It’s nice to see other…
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CultureThe Overwatch 2 Panel Was Cool But Please, Give Us The Damn Sojourn Reveal
Judging from its complete absence from BlizzConline’s opening keynote, you’d never guess Overwatch 2 was part of the Blizzard family of games, much less in the works. Thankfully, watching the “Behind the Scenes of Overwatch 2” panel put to rest any fears that the game might’ve been forgotten. Led by lead designer Jeff Kaplan, the…
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CultureOdds and EndsGuilty Gear Strive Already Has An Infinite
A beta version of the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive is currently being explored by the fighting game community and, surprise surprise, someone has already discovered an infinite combo. The wildly normal Giovanna is a newcomer to the Guilty Gear universe, but she and her ghostly wolf are making their presence known with a simple loop…
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CultureDiablo II Remaster Coming To All Major Platforms In 2021
Blizzard kicked off BlizzConline (a portmanteau I whole-heartedly protest) with the announcement everyone has been waiting for: remasters of Diablo II and its Lord of Destruction expansion are coming to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC this year, all of which will support cross-progression with the others. In…
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CultureThe Rogue Returns As Diablo IV‘s Latest Class
Having peaced-out at the end of the 1996 original, the bow-wielding rogue hasn’t shown their face around Sanctuary for nearly a quarter of a century. Consider their stealth-imposed exile over—the rogue returns in Diablo IV Announced today during the BlizzCon 2021 keynote, Diablo IV’s rogue is a highly-customizable class that can fight with a bow…
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CultureThe Blizzard Arcade Collection Bundles Three Classics For $20
Available now for PlayStations, Xboxes, Switch, and PC, the Blizzard Arcade Collection bundles together The Lost Vikings, Rock n’ Roll Racing, and Blackthorne, those early games Blizzard made before the days of Diablo, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft Were it a normal BlizzCon weekend, these three games would be featured in the Blizzard Arcade booth…
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CultureWorld Of Warcraft Leak Includes Showdown With Sylvanas, Burning Crusade Classic [UPDATE: Confirmed]
[Update 5:20 p.m. February 19: During Blizzconline’s opening ceremony, Blizzard debuted the newest story trailer for Shadowlands and a trailer for Burning Crusade Classic confirming some of the information leaked a day prior. Original story follows.] A leak surfacing the day before Blizzconline’s opening ceremonies revealed possible details of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands’s first major…
By Ash Parrish
