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UncategorizedAdidas’ New Pokémon Sneakers Are An Improvement [Update]
Adidas’ pop culture tie-in sneaker releases have been unrelenting this year, from Game of Thrones to Star Wars, and if there’s been one thing they’ve all had in common, it’s that they’ve been a little underwhelming. This was also the case with the company’s first two shoes in a new Pokémon collaboration, but these new…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2019 -
ReviewsBoard GamesPipeline: The Kotaku Review
Pipeline is a board game about buying cheap crude, pushing it through loads of pipes then selling it for cash. It’s clean, it’s stressful, and I’m still not 100% sure whether I like it or not. It’s a Euro-style game, which means that it’s abstracted to an extent from its subject matter and interested more…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Christmas In Hollis | Artist: RUN DMC | Album: A Very Special Christmas #XmasSongsILove
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedThere’s A Creepy Ghost Secretly Following You In Super Mario 3D Land
Ghosts are part of the Mario universe, no doubt about that. But there’s one ghost in Super Mario 3D Land that is unlike any other ghost. And because it is easy to miss, most players have no idea it’s even there. As explained in a recent video from YouTuber, SwankyBox, this spooky spirit looks like…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Baby Yoda
Baby Yoda has quickly become one of the only good things about 2019. I love the little kid, but I was hesitant to do a Baby Yoda contest because frankly, the internet has already created some great images featuring “The Child.” But then EA added him to The Sims 4 and I saw my opportunity.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedEvery New GTA Online Arcade Game, Reviewed
The latest GTA Online update added a brand new heist, which is cool and all. But it also added player owned and operated arcades. These arcades are mostly for show, a front for a hidden area to set up a big heist. But you can still buy and play 12 arcade games that were added…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: It’s Priceless!
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 Dec. 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: $120k Banana And Some Duct Tape, Winners!
Modern art is sometimes complicated, strange and incredible. Then sometimes a dude sticks a banana on a wall and makes a $120k selling it. And then someone else eats it as part of their own art performance. Anyways, I asked you folks to create some artwork of your own featuring either this expensive fruit or…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Outer Worlds is getting some story DLC next year.Developers Obsidian Entertainment has announced plans to expand the story of The Outer Worlds via DLC released in 2020. And that’s all we know. The Outer Worlds will be coming out for Switch next year too.
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureBefore GoldenEye On N64, There Was This GoldenEye Game
GoldenEye for the N64 is a bona fide classic. The game was groundbreaking, one of the first truly good first-person shooters on a console and its multiplayer mode is still beloved to this day. But, two years before this classic game was released, another video game version of GoldenEye was released. It wasn’t as good…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureFortnite‘s Star Wars Event Was Weird, But Cool
Today, after a rough start, Fortnite’s in-game movie theater showed a brief clip from the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Director J.J. Abrams and Game Awards host Geoff Keighley also made a live appearance. The event took place at Risky Reels, Fortnite’s drive-in. Prior to the event, Fortnite’s servers struggled under the…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 14, 2019 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: New Stuff, Winners
Last week Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker 2 and added a bunch of new items, enemies and objects to the game. The most exciting new item was a power-up that turns Mario into Link from the Legend of Zelda series. So I asked you fine Kotaku readers to create some Mario levels featuring any of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CulturePlanetSide Arena Is Shutting Down After Only 4 Months (Update)
Some games last for years and years. Other games disappear in less than one. PlanetSide Arena, which launched back in September 2018 2019, is closing down next month. The announcement was made yesterday on the game’s Steam page via a blog post from the developers at Daybreak Games. (Correction: 4:15 PM – I got my…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CulturePokemonCofagrigus Will Eat You And Turn You Into A Mummy
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 Cofagrigus! Cofagrigus Details Type: Ghost Average Height: 5′ 07″ Average Weight: 168.7 lbs. First Added In Generation V Tomb…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointWhere Did All The Cheez-Its Go?
Hello! This week we buy Baby Yoda, defeat the problems clown, learn more about Shovel Knight’s long dev cycle, watch Ninja fail at slicing bread, meet one ugly bird and waste all our Cheez-Its. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I love Shovel Knight and the story behind these games makes me love all…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureCelebrated Non-Violent Indie Game Is Now A Gun In Rainbow Six Siege [Update]
Sometimes, two great tastes go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter and ice cream. Ice cream and Reese’s peanut butter cups. Maybe most of my examples involve peanut butter. Point being, sometimes these things just work. Other times, you try to mash up two cool things, only to come away with a new…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe PC Demo For Wooden Nickel Is Worth A Try
Tied to last night’s Game Awards, Steam is hosting a bunch of game demos through Saturday morning. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to check out, but I particularly enjoyed Wooden Nickel, a minimalist story game set in the Wild West. Wooden Nickel is by developers Brain & Brain, who previously made the lovely Burly…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 13, 2019
