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Zombie Army 4 Sounds Like A John Carpenter Joint

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re preparing to fight off the undead as we listen to fantastic tunes from Zombie Army 4: Dead War. I played Zombie Army 4 (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) back when it came out last…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 19, 2021

Anime

The Mysterious Girl On The My Neighbor Totoro Poster

On the original poster for Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro, as well as on the DVD and Blu-ray cover, there is a mysterious girl standing next to Totoro. She isn’t Satsuki or Mei, and this girl does not appear in the movie. Yet, there she is. Below is the scene that appears in My Neighbor…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

You Don’t Want Resident Evil Village‘s Tall Vampire Lady To Step On Your Face

You really don’t! Clocking in at 2.9m (or 9’6″) tall, Lady Dimitrescu is probably the absolute last individual you’d want stepping on you. Previously, we saw how the character compared to real humans—she towered over them. In a sponsored clip, YouTuber Kyle Hill did the math to figure out what would happen if she actually…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Super Mario 64 Plus Adds Very Cool Settings And Ideas To Nintendo’s Classic

Super Mario 64 Plus is a modified version of the PC port of Super Mario 64, which takes the original and adds loads of stuff like 60FPS, bug fixes, a ton of in-game options and, best of all, “The ability to continue the level after getting a star.” Don’t think of it as a completely…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Even As A Pacifist You Will Still Kill Over 700 People In Grand Theft Auto V

Like they did with Max Payne, Sex Positive Gamer have sat down with Grand Theft Auto V and played it as peacefully as possible, keeping murders to the absolute minimum required to progress the story. And it’s still a lot of murders. 726, to be precise, most of them as part of missions where the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

Culture

Path Of Exile Let Streamers Bypass Long Server Wait Times

During the launch of its new expansion Ultimatum, Path of Exile’s servers were having some problems over the weekend, leaving players with wait times to get in that sometimes stretched into hours. Unless, that is, you were a streamer paid to broadcast the game, in which case you got straight in. Fans stuck waiting quickly…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

Culture

Homeworld 3, It’s Nice To See You Again

It has been almost two years since Homeworld 3 was announced alongside a slightly suspicious crowdfunding model, and in those two years we’ve barely seen or heard a thing about the game. We still haven’t, really, but at least today we got to see something This short video of a Railgun Frigate blowing a hole…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Sorry, But The Chug Jug Song

I’m in charge of the website this weekend, which means I get to spread my suffering to you under the guise of Content. I’m sorry. Surely you are aware of “Chug Jug with You,” a Fortnite-themed parody of Estelle and Kanye West’s “American Boy.” If somehow you are not, or you just wanna hear the…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

ReviewsBacklog

A Lunch Break With This Cyberpunk 2077 NPC

This is Ana Muñiz. They’re a random person in Cyberpunk 2077, with a pretty cool haircut and a nifty fashion sense. How do they spend their time? Since I finished Cyberpunk’s story back in December, I’ve been poking around Night City off and on, admiring the landscape and looking for interesting things to get up…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

Culture

Sunday Comics: Remaster

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 April 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

ReviewsBacklog

Help Me Finish Hollow Knight

In that dark, dark time before I fell in love with The Witcher 3, I asked you all to help me finish it. You gave me great advice that changed my gaming life. Today, I am here to ask for your assistance once again, with Hollow Knight Everyone loves Hollow Knight. I want to love…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

Culture

Report: Amazon Cancels Lord Of The Rings MMO

Amazon has cancelled an in-development Lord of the Rings MMO it first announced in 2019, Bloomberg reported today. The MMO was being developed by Amazon and Chinese company Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited, which was purchased by Tencent in December 2020. Sources told Bloomberg contract disputes between Amazon and Tencent have caused the game to be cancelled.…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

Culture

Troll Makes Up Path Of Exile Ban Over Accessibility, Is Asshole

This week, a supposed player claimed to have been banned from action RPG Path of Exile for using a macro to make the game accessible. Other players and accessibility activists took up their cause. Now, it appears the whole thing was a troll. In my professional journalistic opinion: what the hell? PC Gamer has an…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

Culture

Some Previously Banned Players Can Now Compete In Counter-Strike Events

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has changed its rules for competitive players who’ve been banned for violations of Valve’s Anti-Cheat system. Previously, those bans were permanent; now, players who’ve been banned for VAC violations in the past can compete in Valve-sponsored events under specific circumstances. In a post on the CS:GO blog earlier this week about the…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

OpinionImpressions

A Horror Game Where Reloading Is The Scariest Part

Reloading in video games is rarely something you think a lot about. Often it’s a moment in time when you’re forced to stop shooting. But a new indie horror game makes reloading fun, nerve-wracking, and interesting. And it’s just one part of a great collection of horror games released earlier this week. Released on April…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 17, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

No-VR Mod Brings Half Life: Alyx To Players Who Can’t Afford Headsets

By all accounts, Half Life: Alyx is a phenomenal game. But because it’s VR-only, large swathes of gamers simply cannot play it.

By Ash Parrish Published April 16, 2021

Culture

Arcade Stick Pioneers Die In Tragic Accident

In the early hours of March 29, an accidental, cooking-related fire in Westminster, California claimed the life of 63-year-old Reynalda Lynn Nguyen. Her husband, Thao Nguyen, survived for two weeks in critical condition before also passing away on April 13. They leave behind two children, Anthony and Alexandria Kristen Nguyen, who are accepting donations so…

By Ian Walker Published April 16, 2021

Culture

No One Asked For This NFT Version Of ‘80s Hit ‘Pac-Man Fever’

Buckner & Garcia’s hit ‘80s song “Pac-Man Fever” was a wholesome, catchy tune, but nothing’s safe from the climate-wrecking tech scam known as NFTs. Now, because 2021 is trying to be as bad as 2020 I guess, Buckner decided to grace the world with a single called “NiFTy Fever.” The new song is out now…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 16, 2021

Culture

IO Interactive Opens Third Studio, Working On Third Game Alongside Hitman And 007

Danish developer IO Interactive announced today that it has opened a third studio in Barcelona, Spain to work alongside its existing locations in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. “All three of the IO Interactive studios are treated as Elite studios and will each make a significant impact to ongoing development and publishing efforts across all…

By Ian Walker Published April 16, 2021

CultureSplitscreen

Why Video Game Loot Is So Addictive, According To The Creators Of Diablo

Colors mean different things to different people, but very specific colors mean the exact same thing to everybody who plays video games. You know the ones: gray, green, blue, purple, and gold. You covet the latter and revile the former. Loot is a universal language at this point, but it wasn’t always. On this week’s…

By Nathan Grayson Published April 16, 2021