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CultureMinecraft Player Makes Futuristic Metropolis Inspired By Cyberpunk 2077
CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is still several months away, but Minecraft players who want to get in the spirit of exploring neon-fueled dystopias will soon be able to visit their own version of Night City. Minecraft YouTuber Elysium Fire released a trailer for their upcoming tribute to Cyberpunk 2077‘s world earlier this month (thanks…
By Ethan Gach Published December 16, 2019 -
CultureAnthem Is Still Pretty
It’s felt like years since I last thought about Anthem, but following the game’s seasonal update last week I decided to pick it back up and was immediately struck by how beautiful its new wintery vistas are. Anthem’s Icetide event added flight time trials, a mission called Coolant Harvesting, and a new way to earn…
By Ethan Gach Published December 16, 2019 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter V is getting Seth as part of the Champion Edition coming February 14, Capcom revealed during last night’s Capcom Cup finals. The Street Fighter IV villain is a genetically engineered M. Bison clone who’s able to copy other characters’ move sets
By Ethan Gach Published December 16, 2019 -
CultureThe Week In Games: The Goose Is Loose On PS4 And Xbox One
HONK! The internet’s favorite game, Untitled Goose Game, is coming to PS4 and Xbox One this week. Meanwhile, the rest of the week is mostly empty. As usual, this close to Christmas means fewer games are coming out. These next few weeks are the perfect time to catch up on games you wanted to play…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 16, 2019 -
Kotaku EastUpcoming Anime Doesn’t Even Bother With Rising Sun T-Shirt
For the past few years, anytime a Rising Sun design has popped up in a movie, anime or video game, it’s caused controversy. The typical result is that the motif is then replaced. Upcoming anime A Certain Scientific Railgun T avoids that bruhaha completely. In the original manga, the character Gunha Sogiita wears a Rising…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 16, 2019 -
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
