‘Shop Contest: Super Bowl 2021, Winners!

Well, as someone who doesn’t like Tom Brady and lives in the Kansas City area, that wasn’t my favorite Super Bowl to watch. But it did provide us with a great topic for last week’s contest. Our winning image this week comes from Richardrae1 who sends Luigi to the moon, like a GameStop stock. Some…

Bending Over Backwards

This week on Snapshots we get some more Ghost of Tsushima screenshots, see what the Avengers are up to, spy on Spider-Man, look at pretty flowers, get angry and bend over backward. Yoga classes at the Oldest House are free, but also really weird. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best,…

Please, Just Let Me Be The Dog

There’s a new game out. It lets you play as a dog (or wolf I guess, but whatever). But then, throughout the game, it turns you back into a human against your will. Hey, stop that. Video game. Stop. Let me be the dog, please. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood isn’t great. It’s a lot…

Cosmog Is An Idiotic, Naive Ball Of Gas

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 Cosmog! Cosmog Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 0’08” Average Weight: 0.2 lbs First Added In Generation VII One of…

Dance Team Perfectly Recreates Apex Legends Character Intros

Monster Hunter Dancers, a dance group in Japan, has recreated some of the character intros featured in Apex Legends during the selection process before a match. It’s fantastic. As you might expect with a dance group, the video features dancing after the intros. I wish Apex Legends randomly loaded into a dance battle, sounds like…

Drifting PS5 Controllers, Video Game Movies Casting Big Names, 60 FPS Bloodborne, And More

This week on Morning Checkpoint, we rant about PS5 scalpers, check out some new gameplay of Nier: Replicant, play Bloodborne at 60FPS, crush a bunch of people in Hitman 3 and get an update on the GameStop stonks fiasco. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Everything I knew was a lie. My world is…

In Militsioner, Tall Cops Are Bastards

Russian studio TallBoys has released a few more minutes of footage from Militsioner, its upcoming “try to escape a town watched over by a gigantic policeman” simulator (h/tRock Paper Shotgun). Since last July, the game has been updated with voice acting as well as a system that allows you to speak to the giant cop…

Today, the law firm of Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP filed a class action complaint against Sony in New York’s Southern District. The complaint seeks damages for defective DualSense controllers. A class has not been certified yet.

Foregone Is So Much More Than A Dead Cells Clone

If you missed Foregone, fix that immediately. Foregone is incredible. Full stop. At first glance, you might think Foregone—which released last year for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC—is a carbon copy of Dead Cells, Motion Twin’s eternally popular roguelike. For sure, the two share a lot of DNA in terms of art style, animation,…

Those Are Strawberries (Not Hearts) On Arthur’s Boxers In Ghosts ‘N Goblins

Ghosts ‘n Goblins creator Tokuro Fujiwara recently shared a mind-blowing factoid from the development of Capcom’s fiendishly hard platformer: Arthur’s iconic heart-patterned boxers are actually covered in strawberries. Okay, maybe it’s just mind-blowing to me. “There’s one very important detail I need to share with you that people might not know: the pattern on his…

The Division 2 Will Get More Updates, Announce Seemingly Surprised Developers

Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have confirmed today that The Division 2 will receive more content this year, doubling down on statements made by Ubisoft’s CEO earlier this week during a call with investors. The current season of The Division 2 is named “End of Watch” and wraps up a storyline and character arc that began…

My Son Inadvertently Designed A Metroid Xbox Series X/S Controller

Overwhelmed by the options available at custom controller shop Mega Modz, I turned to nine-year-old Seamus Fahey for design advice. What at first seemed like a completely arbitrary selection of colors and buttons coalesced into this purple, green, red, and orange homage to Metroid, a series that will never be officially playable on an Xbox.…

Even The Justice Department Is Looking Into The GameStop Stock Fiasco

While the dust starts to settle around GameStop’s meme stock phenomenon, investigations into the hedge funds, trading platforms, and the Reddit community that fueled it are just getting started. Many people have already lost a lot of money, but even more could be on the line if lawmakers and regulatory agencies discover that actual laws…

Super Mario 3D World Penis Uncut On Switch

Super Mario 3D World, out today on Switch, is pretty much the same game that appeared on Wii U with a few minor changes. As such, the large, dong-shaped bridge in the World 4 castle remains gloriously intact. (h/t Akfamilyhome) And here’s a different angle, just for funsies. Look, there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit…

Halo 3 Is Getting A New Map Over A Decade After Release

Halo 3 received its last official new map all the way back in 2009, as part of the Mythic II Map Pack release. Now, 343 Industries has announced that a new map, first featured in Halo Online, will be added to the next round of Master Chief Collection beta testing. In a blog post released…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for getting together with the family for a nice meal, preferably without being stuffed and posed around the table by a deranged maniac. It’s also for having some little nightmares, as a treat. Little Nightmares II came out this week, and I am slowly working my way through its dark and gloomy…

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Not Selling Great On Console

Cyberpunk 2077‘s console launch was a disaster, and sure enough sales on console now seem to reflect that, with the game tumbling off of last month’s best seller list according to the latest report by the NPD market research group. Even the nearly four-year-old Switch exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold…