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CultureThe Week In Games: World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands And… Not Much Else
It’s time for a new World of Warcraft expansion. Call your old WoW buddies, buy some sodas and get ready to grind, Shadowlands drops later this week. There’s not much else coming out this week, as you might expect. Thanksgiving week tends to be when the year’s big releases have either come out already or…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 23, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicI Don’t Actually Play Melty Blood, I Just Listen To It
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. The other day I mentioned to someone that I was going to write up Melty Blood, and they replied, “wtf is ‘Melty Blood,’ that’s such a metal name!” Well. It’s a good thing you don’t have…
By Alexandra Hall Published November 23, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsDoom Running On A Nintendo Game & Watch
Nintendo’s new Game & Watch re-release is of course built on new hardware, not stuff from the 80s, so folks have been able to do some interesting things with the handheld’s code. Like, first things first, getting Doom up and running. stacksmashing had to make a few modifications to pull this off—like stripping the world…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureNintendo’s Theme Park Is Looking Fantastic
Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan wassupposed to be open by now, but you know, stuff has happened. It’s almost done though, and even if none us are likely to be travelling there anytime soon, we can at least press our disgusting faces up against the glass and admire it from a distance. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureTrack: This Is My Time | Artist: Lecrae | Album: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Soundtrack
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CulturePSVR Brought Virtual Reality To The Masses
Virtual reality has become much easier to jump into these days. Headsets are becoming cheaper and cheaper and some, like the Quest 2, don’t even need a powerful PC. But not that long ago VR was expensive, hard to hook up, and a mess. And PSVR was an imperfect but exciting solution. On paper, PSVR…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: New Steppenwolf
We are getting a big, new version of Justice League, a movie that nobody really loved and you probably forgot about already. And, for some reason, Zack Snyder is changing Steppenwolf, the big bad guy of the film, and giving him spikes. Lots of spikes. Your challenge this week: Have some fun with this new…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureSomeone’s Already Playing Cyberpunk 2077
It seems at least one PS4 copy of Cyberpunk 2077 is in the hands of someone a little early. That person decided to stream about 20 minutes of the game, showing off part of the opening section in the game’s “Nomad” lifepath. Yesterday, rumors began to appear online that some retail copies of Cyberpunk 2077had…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureSunday Comics: Demon’s Souls
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 Nov. 19. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Nov. 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicAstro’s Playroom Made Me Love My PS5’s GPU
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m here to discuss the music in Astro’s Playroom, which might be one of the best video game soundtracks of 2020. Astro’s Playroom (playlist / longplay) is a cute platformer that comes pre-installed on every…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Team Beats Raid, Unlocks New Beyond Light Quests For All Players
Destiny 2: Beyond Light’s Deep Stone Crypt raid went live yesterday and after nearly six hours fireteams began to emerge victorious, unlocking a bunch of new content for the entire game in the process. If you logged onto Destiny 2 around 1:00 p.m. ET yesterday you would have been invited to attempt the game’s latest…
By Ethan Gach Published November 22, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: The Metapod Man, Winners!
Last week, I asked you all to create art using a sad-looking man inside the fluffy shell of a Pokemon. Oddly, this isn’t even the strangest thing we’ve done around these parts since I became Weekend Editor. Our winning image this week comes from sciteach who sent Metapod Man flying through the air. Hope he…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
CultureYEE-HAW!
This week, some great screenshots from Spider-Man: Miles Morales, as you would expect. That game just looks amazing and has some incredible photo mode tools, so I’m not surprised people are filling my feed with wonderful snaps from it. Beyond Spidey pictures, we got some lovely photos from a bunch of games this week, including…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
CultureUnreleased Green Lantern SNES Game Found
Video game historian and YouTuber Liam Robertson, with the help of fellow game historian Frank Gasking, found a prototype cartridge of an unfished and never released Green Lantern game from Ocean Software. And luckily for us, they also got the game running, letting us see what might have been. The story behind this prototype cartridge,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
CulturePokemonSwinub Is Just Begging To Be Spiral Cut And Honey Glazed
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 Swinub! Swinub Details Type: Ice / Ground Average Height: 1′ 04” Average Weight: 14.3 lbs First Added In Generation…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
OpinionNext-Gen Consoles Load So Fast I Can’t Doomscroll Anymore
2020 hasn’t been a good year to check the internet. So, a nice bonus of playing on new, faster consoles is that I no longer have time to doomscrollthrough Twitter anymore. I first started noticing this when I played Godfall, of all games. I like Godfall. It’s mindless fun with some shiny, fancy graphics and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
CultureMorning CheckpointThis Cat Wanted An Xbox Series X
This week we turn a PS5 into an anime character, fart during a snooker match, check out the new trailer for Cyberpunk, wonder what is leaking from Rudy’s head, read a great story about Dragon Age, and break a PS5. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week The right video game and that right time…
By Zack Zwiezen Published November 21, 2020 -
CultureThe PS5 Is Kind Of Buggy Right Now
Stalled downloads. Crashes while games are suspended. Occasional freezing. The PS5 has some great games, and it’s been fun to finally get some hands-on time with PlayStation’s future, but the next-gen console has had some weird issues. Today, Sony offered a workaround for one of the most widely discussed issue, known as the download queue…
By Ethan Gach Published November 20, 2020 -
CultureSplitscreenWhat Even Is A Video Game Sequel Anymore?
Change is inevitable. It happens every day, bit by bit, to everything in existence—except, for a time, video games. It used to be that games came out, they were more or less static objects, and then, years later, they might get a sequel featuring an additional gun and all of that year’s football players. Now…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 20, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsKingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Might Be Enough To Save A Lapsed Keyblade Master Like Me
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. You know my heart; I loved Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, but after those two the games got weird and inaccessible. I dutifully bought Chain of Memories on the Playstation 2, but…so much had changed. I couldn’t understand how to use the card system to play properly, and…
By Ash Parrish Published November 20, 2020