How’s It Going?: Cold Brew Edition

Oh no, Monday. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve gotten into cold brew lately, after a lifetime spent insisting coffee that isn’t hot isn’t worth drinking. I’ve been drinking it with milk, a coffee habit I weaned myself off of to, as I put it at the time, break free of the tyranny…

The Razer Huntsman Mini Is An Excellent Intro To 60 Percent Keyboards

Smaller keyboards can be better keyboards. The 60 percent form factor strips away unnecessary keys and uses layers to stack important functions to create a pleasantly compact, perfectly functional and efficient keyboard. Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts have been singing the 60 percent keyboard’s praises for years. Now mainstream keyboard maker Razer gets in on the act…

The Week In Games: Destroy All Humans Later This Week

Cult classic Destroy All Humans! returns this week with some fancy new graphics. But don’t worry, you can still probe and kill humans. And cows. I played the demo for this game a few weeks back and I’m excited to play the whole game as soon as I can. I was a big fan of…

Color Japan the way you want to. Artist Surudenise, whom I follow on Twitter, depicts Japan with a Sailor Moonesque colors. Surudenise is self-publishing a coloring book, allowing you to bring your own palette to the streets of Japan. The book, titled Daydreaming in Japan, is out July 30. More on the artist’s site

Track: Sweet Caroline | Artist: Neil Diamond | Album: Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show | Mood: UTV

Comic-Con Was Cancelled, So Let’s Remember The Good Times

With the San Diego Comic-Con cancelled (at least in person) for 2020, one of the best cosplay events on the planet ended up being cancelled along with it. Bummer. To help remember a time when people could get together in crowds and dress up, then, here’s a retrospective of the last few year’s worth of…

Track: Halloween | Artist: Shawn Lee | Album: Bully Offical Soundtrack

‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Brute

We got to see some gameplay from that new Halo game coming out later this year. It didn’t look…amazing. But it did give us a next-gen Brute. And he looks sad. Let’s get him out of Halo Infinite and let him explore other worlds! Your challenge this week: Add this new Brute to other games,…

How’s It Going?: Frozen Food Edition

It’s Sunday and like every other day during this pandemic, that means once again it is time for another daily open thread. Come on in and chat! This is the last day before the big move and so over the past week, we have been trying to eat up all the frozen food and leftovers.…

Sunday Comics: The Horror!!!

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 July 23. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 20. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: Special Eyes, Winners!

They say eyes are the windows to the soul. I assume that if the eye in question is super high resolution, then you probably have a 4k soul. Regardless, last week I asked you folks to take a high-quality Luigi eye and create images with it. Our winning image this week comes from Raptureiscoming who…

Ghost of Tsushima Has The Best Photo Mode

This week on Snapshots: Ghost of Tsushima might have the best photo mode I’ve ever seen and folks are using it to take some amazing shots. So this week, most of the pics are from that game. Though there are few shots from other games like Death Stranding mixed in below. Each time I see…

Video Game HUDs Used To Be Cool

Video games look really good these days. I boot up almost any PS4 game released in the last few years and I’m impressed. But while games might look nicer than ever before, we lost cool looking “heads-up displays”, HUDs, in the process. Was it worth it? I’ve been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey…