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CultureTwitchTwitch’s Pogchamp Removal Was Never Enough, And Now It’s Turning Into A Disaster
It’s not every day you hear about an enormous platform like Twitch swatting the face of one of its most popular emotes clean off and rendering the president’s account indefinitely inert, as it did in the aftermath of last week’s Capitol Building insurrection. But Twitch does do similar things from time to time, on a…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureRazer’s Project Hazel Is A Translucent Face Mask With RGB Lighting
If you’ve got to wear a mask (and you do), it might as well be a super-cool, high-tech mask with a translucent plastic front, voice-amplification tech, and RGB lighting effects. Every year at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, gaming hardware maker Razer demos conceptual projects that may or may not wind up becoming real. This…
By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsGrand Theft Auto V Actors Recreate ‘Lamar Roasts Franklin’ Scene
Grand Theft Auto V, now available across two platform generations with a version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on the way, refuses to die. The game’s latest contribution to the online zeitgeist is the brief scene where side character Lamar Davis roasts protagonist Franklin Clinton, which has become the basis of an exceedingly…
By Ian Walker Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Now Runs at 60 FPS On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S
2019’s excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order now looks a little bit better on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S thanks to its latest update, though the improvements aren’t as dramatic as some other games have seen. Jedi: Fallen Order’s new optimized version runs at a crisp 60 FPS on all three next-gen consoles, but at…
By Ethan Gach Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsOh No, He’s Hot
A new trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario 3D World arrived earlier today featuring a first look at Bowser in Bowser’s Fury and y’all…damn. Bowser’s hot. Super hot. Bowser-Jr.-ain’t-the-only-one-calling-me-daddy hot. There’s something undeniably sexy about a dangerous creature. Bowser’s hit the gym and gotten bigger and more muscly since last we saw…
By Ash Parrish Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureMachine Games Is Making An Indiana Jones Game
Bethesda studio Machine Games is making a new Indiana Jones game, the publisher announced in a short teaser on Twitter today. The game will feature an original story and be a collaboration between Machine Games and Lucasfilm Games, with Todd Howard as the executive producer on the project. Bethesda didn’t reveal anything further about the…
By Ethan Gach Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureIt’s Giant Cat Mario Versus Kaiju Bowser In Bowser’s Fury
With a month remaining until its February 12 release, Nintendo gives us a peek at what the new Bowser’s Fury portion of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury looks like. They had me at Giant Cat Mario. In Bowser’s Fury, Bowser’s gotten big. Too big. So big that Bowser Jr. and Mario team up…
By Mike Fahey Published January 12, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanLast Fall’s Cyberattack On Capcom Compromised Personal Info On Over 16,000 People
Last November, Capcom suffered a cyberattack. As previously reported, the group claiming responsibility for the attack said they downloaded around 1TB of data, containing things like employee’s visa records, customer bank details, and internal Capcom information. At that time, Capcom confirmed that the personal information of nine people had been compromised in the attack. Today,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2021 -
AnimeFans Surprised By New CG Anime Show’s Quality
Cyberpunk manga Ex-Arm is getting a TV anime adaptation this month. The show, which is a CG anime, was originally slated for release last summer but got pushed back due to the pandemic. When the Ex-Arm trailer first debuted, fans were not complimentary. “The anime is about bad CGI vs bad CGI,” wrote one YouTube…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureView from Ebisu Tower, 2016. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Lehrmann | Flickr
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 12, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsA Full Throttle Movie Script Has Been Written By Moon’s Director
Duncan Jones, director of movies like Warcraft and Moon, has spent his time in lockdown better than most of us. He’s written a full-length “fan script” for classic 1995 adventure game Full Throttle It’s pretty good! While it deviates in some parts and whips up some new material in others—the original game is a lot…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureJapan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation
The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a fan translation for…
By Ian Walker Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureThe Lucasfilm Games Name, At Least, Is Back
LucasArts is dead, but for some reason, the powers behind The Brands have decided that the company’s previous name—Lucasfilm Games—is something that needs to be resurrected, so will now be on the box and the ends of trailers for every Star Wars game going forward. The announcement of the brand’s return means it is “now the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureSony Gives Release Windows For Project Athia And Other PS5 Games
The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show began today—virtually, of course—and during a video presentation Sony revealed new release date information about half a dozen games. But it didn’t announce these dates as you might expect. Instead, all the new info came from text that appeared at the bottom of the screen for only a few seconds…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureTwitchSpanish Streamer TheGrefg Obliterates All-Time Twitch Viewership Record
For years now, Twitch’s record for most concurrent viewers on a single streamer’s channel has been hotly contested, with streamers topping each other in slow-building increments. Today, however, Spanish streamer TheGrefg made everybody else look like they’d been wrestling for discarded peanut shells. As of writing, he topped out at nearly 2.5 million—a new all-time…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryNier: Automata Dumped Me And I’m Okay With It
I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god the game is over, I am free now,” way that I felt finishing The Last Of Us 2—a game hellbent on holding on to you long after what any normal, non-sadistic storyteller…
By Ash Parrish Published January 11, 2021 -
OpinionAsk KotakuWhat’s Your Favorite Jump In Video Games?
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take. This week we Ask Kotaku: What’s your favorite jump in video games? Ethan The dash jump in Mega Man X. I’ve never felt anything quite like it to this day. Mega…
By Alexandra Hall Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsBreath Of The Wild Player Snipes Guardian From Over 1,400 Meters Away
Although The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out almost four years ago, folks continue to pull off incredible feats in the game. Case in point: this player nailing a Guardian with an arrow from over 1,400 meters away. Neko is a Breath of the Wild player from Japan with an extensive resume…
By Ian Walker Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureOtterbox Is Making Mobile Gaming Gear Now
Otterbox, one of the biggest names in phone and tablet cases, has teamed up with Microsoft to create a new line of clips, cases, and grips aimed at making the most of mobile gaming services like Xbox Game Streaming and Apple Arcade. Otterbox has been making rugged cases for mobile devices since there have been…
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2021 -
CultureAGDQ 2021 Raises $2.7 Million For Charity
Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $2,764,437 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is the second-highest amount raised at AGDQ, only beaten by last year’s total of over $3 million. AGDQ 2021 was held online this time around due to the continuing…
By Zack Zwiezen Published January 11, 2021