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CulturePretzel Pop-Tarts Aren’t Nearly As Bad As They Sound
Here at Snacktaku, we’re big fans of Kellogg’s popular line of filled cardboard breakfast rectangles. We have tried and tested many varieties—basic, peanut butter, soda-flavored, Jolly Rancher—and we’ve come through only slightly scathed. Now Kellogg’s is making the tops of Pop-Tarts caramel-colored and sprinkling them with salt. Fine. We’ll bite. Pretzel Pop-Tarts is Kellogg’s taking…
By Mike Fahey Published February 4, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Terminal Slam | Artist: Squarepusher | Album: Be Up A Hello
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanComposer Joe Hisaishi Describes His Creative Process
Princess Mononoke. Castle in the Sky. Kikujiro. It’s hard to imagine any of these films without composer Joe Hisaishi’s iconic scores. Decade after decade, he’s consistently written some of the most memorable movie music of our time. Thank goddess for that. This month, Hisaishi is releasing a best-of, 2-disc compilation album Dream Songs: The Essential…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2020 -
Kotaku EastChinaDragon Ball‘s Failure Meme Got An Enormous Sculpture
Yamcha sucks, sure, but an enormous statue of the character’s famous meme pose does not. Pictured is Yamcha’s Death Pose. The character met this grim fate at the hands of the weak baddie Saibaman, and the pose has come to symbolize utter failure. This huge statue version of that pose is anything but. It was…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2020 -
UncategorizedSony says it has shipped a total 108.9 million PS4s worldwide as of December 2019. Sales were down 20 percent in the last quarter due to lower PS4 console and game sales, which Sony attributed to the PS5 announcement and the PS4 being in its seventh year.
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2020 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From PAX South 2020
After the briefest of layoffs for the holiday period, 2020’s cosplay calendar is already up and running with PAX South, which was held in San Antonio a couple weeks back. Our photographer Mineralblu was there taking shots and video of the show, the best of which you can see below. And as usual, you’ll find…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2020 -
UncategorizedGTA V Mod Lets You Play The Whole Game In Virtual Reality
Modders have been messing with VR and Grand Theft Auto V for as long as the two things have co-existed, but the results have often been mixed, compromised or are no longer supported. Unlike this one by LukeRoss00, which does pretty much everything you’d want. It works with both Oculus Rift and SteamVR, and its…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2020 -
UncategorizedFortnite Players Divided Over Whether Streamer Cheated In Charity Tournament
Streamer Nicholas “NickEh30” Amyoony has been accused of cheating during a Fortnite game in last week’s charity Twitch Rivals Streamer Bowl. In a clip circulating online, Nick and his duos partner, NFL player David Morgan, can be heard discussing what sounds like a plan to land in an off-limits part of the map. While some…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureWarCraft 3’s Remaster Is So Unpopular Blizzard Is Offering Instant Refunds [Update: Blizzard Responds]
So loud has uproar among fans been, and so damning the shortfalls of the project, that Blizzard has begun offering instant refunds to anyone who bought WarCraft 3: Reforged Normally refunds have to go through a process of actually finding out what was wrong with your purchase, and won’t apply if you’ve had the game…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureTwitchHow Twitch Encourages Fans To Obsess Over Streamers’ Viewership Numbers
Sit in any sizable streamer’s Twitch chat for long enough, and the topic of numbers is bound to come up. Why isn’t viewership what it used to be? Why has the streamer plateaued? Why aren’t they as big as [insert bigger streamer here]? After a while, it starts to wear on some streamers. Cory “King…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureThe Wii U Games That Still Need To Come To Switch
With Platinum Games bringing The Wonderful 101 to Switch via a Kickstarter campaign, that’s one more former Wii U exclusive that’s being moved to Nintendo’s newer, much more successful console. As of now, there are a few major games still stuck on the Wii U, but only a few that will likely end up on…
By Chris Kohler Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureA Hectic Management Sim About Sanitizing The Nightly News
In Not For Broadcast, a new left wing government comes to power, with the threat of police crackdowns looming on the horizon. My job is to make it all palatable for the masses by seamlessly packaging the changes together with celebrity scandals and mind-numbing ads. While Not For Broadcast flounders as a political parable, its…
By Ethan Gach Published February 3, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Squeeze The Most Legendary Gear Out Of Borderlands 3‘s New Event
There’s really only one reason people play Borderlands 3, and it’s not the story. It’s the guns. And right now, there are more awesome guns than you can shake a Claptrap at. Borderlands games feature a mind-boggling amount of weaponry. It’s kind of their thing. The first game featured 17.75 million different guns. In pre-launch…
By Ari Notis Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureWhy Platinum Games Wants Another Shot At The Wonderful 101
Platinum Games is hoping to crowdfund The Wonderful 101 to the Nintendo Switch—and maybe even Steam and PS4. That could mean the quirky 2013 Wii U action-strategy game gets introduced to a whole new generation. It could also result in a nicer, gentler Hideki Kamiya on Twitter. Temporarily, at least! “We weren’t originally aiming to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 3, 2020 -
CultureOcarina Of Time Speedruns Are Now Under Ten Minutes Because Reality Is A Lie Made To Be Broken
If you were a Zelda fan in 1998, you probably took your sweet time playing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Exploring the world could easily take days, and if you were like me or other unfortunate souls, you got lost in the now-infamous Water Temple. Speedrunners have whittled that wandering down over the…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 3, 2020 -
ReviewsKeyboardsThe Best Rhythm Game Controller Is A Keyboard, Specifically This One
To make up for all those times I used a console gamepad to play first-person shooters on PC, I’ve purchased a mechanical keyboard specifically designed for playing rhythm games on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It’s called the K28 Keyboard Style Controller, and it is almost perfect. A mechanical keyboard is the absolute shizz…
By Mike Fahey Published February 3, 2020 -
UncategorizedAnime mech fighter Daemon X Machina is coming to PC on February 13. Previously released on Switch last summer, where it was published by Nintendo, the game is being distributed on Steam by Xseed where it’ll have all of the current updates and add-ons minus “some licensed DLC.”
By Ethan Gach Published February 3, 2020
