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CultureSunday Comics: Is This Hacking?
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 March 19. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 22, 2020 -
UncategorizedGameStop Finally Closes Stores To Customers
GameStop will close all of its stores to customers tomorrow, switching to a “delivery at the door” service for locations that remain open, company CEO George Sherman said in a letter to employees today that was obtained by Kotaku Shoppers will be able to order games online, by using the GameStop app, or with QR…
By Jason Schreier Published March 21, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Going To Hell, Winners!
Last week I asked you all to send some video game characters to Hell. None of you objected and did as you were told. Which is really messed up. Come on, folks. Don’t let me push you around like that. None of these game characters deserved to go to Hell. Well..okay, maybe some of them……
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
CultureStuck Inside All Weekend? Get Drunk
This week on Snapshots, cool lighting, dangerous monsters, a wolf, explosions, a poor robot getting sliced in half and Kratos hits day 5 of staying home, so he starts drinking. Drink responsibly. Unless you are a demi-god badass. Then you can just get wasted all day. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
UncategorizedAnimal Crossing Players Are Cluttering Their Islands With So Many Cages And Crates
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a peaceful game about living on an island and slowly building up a small town, complete with its own museum. But the museum, where you can donate animals and other items, doesn’t open up until you play for a few days. And because Animal Crossing is in realtime, that means…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat: Komplete Edition has been removed from Steam A notice on the game’s store page states it was removed “..at the request of the publisher.” WB Games originally published Mortal Kombat back in 2011. The game can still currently be bought on PS3 and Xbox 360.
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
CulturePokemonStunfisk 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…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
CultureHow’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…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
CultureMorning CheckpointHer 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…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 21, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesI Restarted Animal Crossing: New Horizons For 2 Hours Because Peaches
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, out today for the Switch, is a relaxing, slow-paced game in which you, over time, build up a thriving yet self-sufficient community of anthropomorphic animals. I wouldn’t know. I’ve started the game, but I haven’t actually played it yet. In Nintendo’s placid life simulator, you set off on an island getaway.…
By Ari Notis Published March 20, 2020 -
CultureIn Hell, All Fonts Are The Size Of Doom Eternal‘s
Please, not like this. For some reason, I thought we were finally starting to turn a corner on tiny fonts. More and more games that launched with them were also getting patches to fix them. The Outer Worlds even got its font-size update updated But now Doom Eternal is here, and despite adding twice as…
By Ethan Gach Published March 20, 2020 -
CultureWhat 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…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 20, 2020 -
UncategorizedGameStop 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…
By Jason Schreier Published March 20, 2020 -
CultureThe 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…
By Ethan Gach Published March 20, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out today. I’ve spent a lot of time with this massive game over the last few weeks, and while that may not be enough to truly grasp the entirety of what it has to offer, I do have a few tips for folks looking to make the most out of…
By Ian Walker Published March 20, 2020