Stunfisk Smiles When It Hurts People

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 Stunfisk! Stunfisk Details Type: Ground/Electric Average Height: 2′ 04 Average Weight: 24.3 lbs. First Added In Generation V Some…

How’s It Going: Pets Edition

Hi! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Let’s talk about our wonderful pets. My girlfriend has started working from home. She has always had retail or office jobs and working from home has been weird for her. What has helped, a lot, is having our two cats around. She pets them and kisses them…

Her One Weakness Was Gravity

Hello! This week we hear what the White House thinks about video game speedrunners, buy all the Gundam kits at the store, check out the new Sonic trailer, play some Doom to feel better and watch a superhero lose her face. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week There is something truly satisfying about being…

Cool, Creative Video Games For Your Kids To Play While Social Distancing

Hi! I’m Keza MacDonald, a video games journalist of 15 years’ experience with two small kids and a teen stepkid. I’m currently The Guardian’s games editor and I also run a podcast for gamer parents called Spawnpoint (if you play games yourself, give it a listen). In an effort to do something useful in these…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to calm down, take stock, and press onward. It’s also for totally ignoring my feelings by playing video games. I’ve never played an Animal Crossing game before, but our EIC Stephen told me about the series so eloquently a few weeks ago that I’m totally sold on New Horizons. I…

GameStop Shuts Down Stores In California

GameStop is shutting down its stores in California, Kotaku has learned. This news comes one day after the struggling retailer told all of its U.S. employees to ignore state lockdown measures in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, insisting that it was an “essential retail” business. “We are closing our stores in California,” the company…

The Messenger Developers Raise Over $150,000 To Make Classic JRPG

The makers of the spectacular retro action platformer The Messenger have announced their next game: a gorgeous-looking turn-based role-playing game called Sea of Stars Sabotage revealed the upcoming game on Kickstarter yesterday, where it’s already broken its $90,000 funding goal. While not planned to release on consoles and PC until sometime in 2022, what the…

How’s It Going?: Shake It Off Edition

Good morning! Welcome back to our daily open thread. This is the most human contact I’ve had in days, so I’m glad you’re here. Friday feels a little weird when I’ve been stuck at home all week. It’s the weekend—time for more…sitting at home? Still, it’ll be nice to have less reasons to look at…

The Origin Story Of A Very Sharp Outfit

Beth Hobbs is an artist at Creative Assembly, where she’s worked on Total Wars like Three Kingdoms and Warhammer What I love about some of this is how it gives us a look at the earliest stages of some of these designs. I appreciate a good desktop wallpaper-type image as much as anyone else, but…

The big March 24 update coming to Ghost Recon Breakpoint won’t just add a free overhaul that lets players ditch the game’s annoying tiered loot system. It will add a paid expansion (first mission is free) that, according to a new trailer, brings Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher into the mix.