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CultureSmash Bros. Ultimate‘s Next Fighters Are Steve And Alex From Minecraft
Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai announced today during a brief video that Steve from Minecraft will be joining the game’s roster. He’ll be joined by Alex, Zombie, and Enderman. Steve and co. will be able to use pickaxes, throw down blocks, and even have a crafting ability. Sakurai added that every stage currently in…
By Ethan Gach Published October 1, 2020 -
CultureStadia Doesn’t Even Work On Google’s New Chromecast
Google revealed its new Chromecast device yesterday and it does a lot more than the previous versions. One thing it doesn’t do, however, is stream Stadia games. Officially called ‘Chromecast with Google TV’, the new device comes with a remote and functions more like a standard streaming box, letting you watch stuff on Netflix or…
By Ethan Gach Published October 1, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicGoing Under’s Lo-Fi Soundtrack Makes Me Feel Like I’m Not Working At All
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we’re heading into the office in Going Under, a roguelite dungeon crawler where work is hell. Going Under (playlist / longplay) is a game about navigating the hellscape of working in America. In Going Under,…
By Ash Parrish Published October 1, 2020 -
Kotaku EastFans Think They Hear The Final Fantasy “Prelude” In Genshin Impact
While, yes, Genshin Impact is more than a Breath of the Wild clone, the free-to-play RPG’s background music is reminiscent of another iconic game’s theme song, say some fans. As reported on Japanese site Hachima, it’s been pointed out that the music during the menu screen below seems to apparently resemble the Final Fantasy “Prelude.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Akarui Mirai (Live) | Artist: Never Young Beach | Album: Hall Tour 2019
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 1, 2020 -
CultureArtist Animates Anime-Style Among Us Kills
Okay, hear me out. What if Among Us, but anime? Artist and content creator Landonardo recently shared a couple of great videos featuring his takes on what anime-style kill animations would look like in Among Us, the multiplayer deception game from 2018 that only recently went supernova on Twitch I’m crossing my fingers he hits…
By Ian Walker Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureReport: Warner Bros. Games President Says Transphobe J. K. Rowling Has “The Right To Hold Her Opinions”
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is a transphobe. Maybe someone could let Warner Bros. Games president David Haddad know that that should be called out and condemned. As Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports, Haddad was asked in an internal Q&A today about the widespread criticism of Rowling over her public and toxic transphobic views, which have…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureSpelunky 2 World Record Speedrun Is Only Three Minutes Long
The current world record Spelunky 2 speedrun is a sight to behold and won’t take up hours of your time. A legendary Spelunky speedrunner by the name of d_tea recently uploaded a video in which they complete the sequel in just under three minutes. While the run is obviously full of the precise running and…
By Ian Walker Published September 30, 2020 - Uncategorized
The Root Jesse Collins Becomes 1st Black Producer of Super Bowl Halftime Show | The A.V. Club Play the show?: 11 baffling TV-to-board-game adaptations | Gizmodo Google’s Pixel 5 Is Finally Here | Lifehacker All the Specs Google Didn’t Share at Today’s ‘Launch Night In’ | Jalopnik This Is One Of The Worst Cars America…
By G/O Media Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureXbox’s New Parents App Is Great
A couple of years agoI spoke very highly of Nintendo’s parental controls app for the Switch. Microsoft have recently released something very similar, and it’s just as good. The beauty of the Switch’s app wasn’t the fact it had parental controls—all consoles do, and have had them for a while!—but the way it took them…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsGenshin Impact Is More Than A Breath Of The Wild Clone
There’s a lot to like about Genshin Impact, a free-to-play action-RPG that came out this week for PC, PlayStation 4, and mobile. While it might look a bit like Breath of the Wild, with its art style and mechanics, Genshin Impact stands on its own thanks to its combat, its quest and leveling systems, and,…
By Ari Notis Published September 30, 2020 -
CulturePokémon Go To Pokémon Home Transfers Will Be A Little Annoying
The Pokémon Company announced yesterday that Pokémon Home support for Pokémon Go will arrive before the end of the year. But when it does it sounds like it will come with a weird caveat. Pokémon Home is the new version of the Pokémon Bank which lets you house Pokémon from just about every modern game…
By Ethan Gach Published September 30, 2020 -
ReviewsMultiplatformHades: The Kotaku Review
Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the best, because that’s an impossible metric (and also Baldur’s Gate 3 isn’t out yet). Rather, developer Supergiant’s Greek mythology-flavored action roguelike is, improbably, the game that best characterizes the year 2020.…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureBlack Ops: Cold War Zombies Revealed, Will Connect To The Game’s Battle Pass This Time
Cross-play and Battle Pass Progression are finally coming to Call of Duty’s Zombies mode with the launch of November’s Black Ops: Cold War, meaning playing the popular mode will be less of a departure from the rest of the Call of Duty experience. That was the stand-out detail from today’s reveal video and trailer, which…
By S.E. Doster Published September 30, 2020 -
CulturePeter Parker Looks Very Different In Spider-Man Remastered On PS5
Spider-Man Remastered puts players back in the latex suit of the arachnid superhero, but this time around civilian-mode Peter Parker is going to look a little different thanks to a new facial capture for the PlayStation 5 upgrade. In new videos and screenshots released today, Insomniac Games gives us our first glimpse of what Marvel’s…
By Ian Walker Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureTwitchTwitch is introducing a new feature that gives streamers access to rights-cleared music. “Soundtrack by Twitch” will circumvent the DMCA takedown issues that have plagued streamers for years (and especially recently) by giving them access to Twitch-curated songs that the company actually has the rights to include in broadcasts. The feature also separates music into…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 30, 2020 -
CultureNeed For Speed: Payback and Vampyr Are October’s PlayStation Plus Games
October’s PS Plus games are a weird combination, but not a bad one: I’m totally charmed by Vampyr, despite its stumbles. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. October’s PS Plus games are: Need for Speed: Payback Vampyr Both games are available October 6 through November 2.
By Riley MacLeod Published September 30, 2020 - Uncategorized
The A.V. Club The best movies on Hulu | Gizmodo The LG Wing Is the Funnest Phone of 2020 | The Root 5 Things We Learned From the Worst Verzuz Battle in American History | Jalopnik I Knew My Car Was A Ticking Time Bomb And Yet I Did Nothing. Then It Blew Up |…
By G/O Media Published September 30, 2020
