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CultureHow To Spot Fake Classic Video Games
Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in with your own collection. The bootleggers who make them are churning them out, meaning that the market will only become more saturated with them as the years go by. If you’re going to collect…
By Chris Kohler Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsToysLego Pays Homage To Its Heritage With A Wonderful Wooden Minifig
In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of The Lego Group, started making and selling wooden toys out of his shop in Billund, Denmark. The company continued making wooden toys until 1960, two years after the Lego brick as we know it today was born. Now The Lego Group celebrates old and new with a seven…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedMy Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread
For nearly 20 years, I’ve been sitting in the same piece of shit: a gray swivel chair that I got at Target as a teenager. It creaks if you look at it; it’s covered in enormous amounts of my hair. It does not do my body any favors. Very possibly it has been exacerbating my…
By Maddy Myers Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn Loud
At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team deathmatch and I was ever so slowly crawling along a wall. The slower, the more quiet, I thought. Something suddenly rustled just ahead. I peeked around the corner and was instantly downed by…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Hometown | Artist: French 79 | Album: Joshua
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanGold And Platinum Monster Hunter Sculptures For Only $81,000 Each
If you are in the market for Monster Hunter sculpture and have lots of money to spend, have I got two items for you! Created to celebrate Monster Hunter’s 15th anniversary, here is a Gold Rathian, made from 24K gold, and a Silver Rathalos, made from Platinum. Each is 8,800,000 yen ($81,462) or you can…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedMetal Gear Singer’s Other Gig? The Voice Of The Bullet Train
This is Donna Burke. You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice. If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too. The Australian packs a one-two-three punch of being a talented voice actress and singer, as well as writing her own lyrics.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastRecreating Awkward Gundam Animation
Custom figure artist Dau Lau Boc Khoi has been bringing to life awkward Gundam animation in hand-sculpted polymer clay. Early Gundam animation was not so great and produced some truly awkward, meme-worthy examples of bad animation. Those images now live on as sculptures. “Quick project for a stressful week,” wrote the artist on Facebook. Typically,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformDeath Stranding: The Kotaku Review
There is no elevator pitch for Death Stranding. Every inch of Death Stranding teems with meaning or implication. Even the stupidest and most pretentious developments build to create a multi-layered game, one with numerous potential points of attack to analyze. It is a story about fatherhood. It is a broad dig at the gig economy.…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsToysLet Us Dream Of LEGO Transformers
There have never been official LEGO Transformers, and there likely never will be. But boy, these fan-made efforts by Alex Jones come real close to filling that void. Via Brothers Brick, he’s somehow managed to get both the vehicle and robot forms looking good, which when you throw in the transformation process must have taken…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2019 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Pick, And Then Explain To People, Your Gamer Halloween Costume
It is Halloween. The seance of shadows, the raucous cavort of a thousand ghouls, the spooky day. This means you need a costume. Generally, a Halloween costume should accomplish a couple goals: First, it should impress or at least vaguely amuse the people around you. Second, it should prove you’re a gamer. It can be…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 31, 2019 -
UncategorizedAustralia Allows Some Fallout 76 Refunds After Consumers Were “Misled”
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission—a government body that basically looks after customer’s rights in the country—announced today that some refunds will be handed out for purchases of Fallout 76 after ruling that Bethesda was “likely to have contravened the Australian Consumer Law”. The ruling—technically against Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax—came after folks buying Fallout 76…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2019 -
CultureThe Outer Worlds Does Colorblind Gaming Right
It’s cool that many modern games include colorblind options, so that those who struggle to differentiate between various hues can still enjoy the experience to the fullest. It’s even cooler, though, when a game is designed from the ground up with that support in mind. Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer shared this info in a Tweet earlier…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2019 -
UncategorizedTwitch Plays EVE Online
On February 12, 2014 an 18 year old Game Boy game took the internet by storm and ignited a miniature cultural phenomenon. Over the course of the next 16 days, an estimated 1.16 million people tuned in to the newly rebranded Twitch.tv and watch people from all across the world attempt to collaborate and successfully…
By Lee Yancy Published October 31, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsDisney Classic Games: Lion King And Aladdin Is A Lovely Little Retro Bundle
Announced in August and released this week for PlayStation 4, PC, Switch, and Xbox One, Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King bundles together several different versions of two of the best movie tie-in video games ever made with concept art, music, and videos to create an excellent package that’s sure to please fans.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 31, 2019 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Play Games Sober
Drink Games lend themselves surprisingly well to drinking, even though your hands are full most of the time. Drink while tweaking your settings. Drink during the opening cutscene (it’s always too long anyway.). Drink during load screens. Drink when characters on the screen drink. Drink before you even start playing. Come home from the bar…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 31, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryDisco Elysium’s Voice Acting Is Good Enough Not To Skip
I recently picked up Disco Elysium, an introspective detective game that launched on PC a couple of weeks ago. Like many people who have sat down with the game, I’ve found it very engrossing. It’s so engrossing that I’m not barreling through the dialogue as fast as I can read it, which I usually do.…
By Ian Walker Published October 31, 2019 -
CultureYou Can Thank The Developer Of Everything For This Creepy Instagram Filter
David OReilly, developer of Mountain and Everything, is now making terrifying Instagram filters. OReilly creates work that one might call “weird,” as either a compliment or an insult. Mountain is a simulation game in an extremely literal sense. It simulates a mountain, which changes over time, as more and more stuff appears on it and…
By Gita Jackson Published October 31, 2019 -
CultureLet’s Talk About Sports Video Games
Yesterday, the World Series ended with a stunning Game 7 victory by the Washington Nationals over the Houston Astros. It’s the sort of thing you watch sports for, a dramatic finish to a long, beautiful season. Now comes the difficult task of deleting MLB The Show 19 from my hard drive, and considering putting some…
Kotaku Staff Published October 31, 2019
