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ReviewsToysWhen Skeletor Meets Shogun Warriors, Everybody Loses (Except Toy Fans)
When Mattel’s senior manager of Masters of the Universe Ruben Martinez applies the aesthetic of He-Man’s greatest foe to a legendary line of giant 1970s robots, two-foot-tall, $300 Shogun Masters Skeletor is the result. Yes, his massive blue fist is a projectile. Yes, He-Man is in for an incredibly bad day. Shogun Masters Skeletor is…
By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2021 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Nier-ly There
It’s another week, which means another batch of new games. We’ve got some exciting things on the horizon, like NieR Replicant Don’t Make Me Type The Numbers and the next gen version of Judgment. Here are the video games coming this week: Tuesday April 20 MLB The Show 21 | PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 19, 2021 -
CultureMorning MusicZombie 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 -
AnimeThe 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 EndsYou 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 EndsSuper 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 EndsEven 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 -
CulturePath 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 -
CultureHomeworld 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 EndsSorry, 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 -
ReviewsBacklogA 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 -
CultureSunday 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 -
ReviewsBacklogHelp 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 -
CultureReport: 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 -
CultureTroll 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 -
CultureSome 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 -
OpinionImpressionsA 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 -
CultureArcade 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 -
CultureNo 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
