What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for getting together with the family for a nice meal, preferably without being stuffed and posed around the table by a deranged maniac. It’s also for having some little nightmares, as a treat. Little Nightmares II came out this week, and I am slowly working my way through its dark and gloomy…

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Not Selling Great On Console

Cyberpunk 2077‘s console launch was a disaster, and sure enough sales on console now seem to reflect that, with the game tumbling off of last month’s best seller list according to the latest report by the NPD market research group. Even the nearly four-year-old Switch exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold…

Destiny 2‘s Cosmodrome Isn’t Getting Any Bigger

Bungie announced yesterday that Destiny 2’s partial Cosmodrome, which was brought over from the first game last November, won’t be expanding to reach its original size and scope. The studio says its part of a trade-off to focus on making new content. Excluding the Plaguelands area added in Destiny 1‘s Rise of Iron expansion, Destiny…

The Surviving Mars OST Will Keep Me In High Spirits When I Blast Off Into Space

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, let’s listen to a soundtrack that’s out of this world: that of Surviving Mars, the Paradox-published 2018 city builder from Haemimont Games. The dream of Mars is no longer a fantasy, but it might be…

Japanese Vending Machines Tell People To Wear A Mask, Wash Their Hands And Gargle

This week, new vending machines that tell customers to fight the coronavirus were unveiled in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As NHK reports, the samurai-themed machines have a pre-recorded message that states, “Fight the coronavirus! Wear a mask, wash your hands, and gargle.” When people get their drink, the message adds, “Well done! Always be prepared.” The…

Teenager Arrested In Japan After Kicking Arcade Machine

At many arcades in Japan there is often an amusement cabinet called a punching machine that measures how hard one can punch. A sixteen-year-old has been arrested after kicking one. Here is a YouTube clip from 2012 showing a punching machine in action: According to Kobe Shimbun Next, a sixteen-year-old resident of Kakogawa city, was…

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Here’s Dan’s Legendary Taunt In Street Fighter V

Dan Hibiki is back in Street Fighter V, which means we now have a new incarnation of his legendary taunt to appreciate. Let’s take a look. And for comparison, here’s how Dan’s legendary taunt has evolved from game to game. Dan has been Street Fighter’s go-to joke character since his debut in 1995’s Street Fighter…

PS5 Scalpers Unwilling To Admit They’re Grade-A Douchebags

In a recent interview with Forbes, a man who claims to have purchased 25 PlayStation 5 consoles in January and resold them for upwards of $350 profit apiece says “reselling” is an incredibly valuable industry that does not deserve the bad press it gets. Fuck him right in the face. The scalper interviewed by Forbes,…

I Killed A Dancing Bear In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Feel Terrible, And Would Do It Again

Lurking out in the fields and forests of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are immensely powerful beasts. The kind of animals that people tell stories about. Dangerous, killer monsters that only a hardy, brave, and perhaps foolish warrior could…Oh wait, never mind. It got stuck in the ground like an idiot. Since wrapping up the main story…

Mario Kart 64 Speedrunner Sets New World Record By Repeatedly Slamming Into Wall

The Nintendo game buckles under this advanced strategy

Stardew Valley’s massive 1.5 update is also out on PS4, Xbox One, and Switch now The update adds a ton of stuff including new people, items, quests, and a beach farm. It also lets you finally sit-down

Twitch’s not-so-grand Pogchamp experiment is coming to an end. After replacing the conspiracy-addled face of the popular emote with 35 different Pogchamps in 35 days, Twitch seems to be on the brink of a more permanent arrangement. Tomorrow, viewers will be able to “decide what the future of hype looks like” as part of a…

Agents of Mayhem (Which Is Good BTW) Plays Way Better On My Xbox Series X

The power of next-gen consoles can, in some cases, help improve games that suffered from performance problems. A great example of this is Agents of Mayhem, a good last-gen open-world shooter made even better thanks to the Xbox Series X and its backward compatibility features. Agents of Mayhem was released back in 2017 and developed…

Borderlands Movie Casts Actor Who’s Actually Funny To Play Claptrap, Which Feels Off

Jumanji and Orange County star Jack Black has joined the cast of the Borderlands movie, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Black, who will be playing Borderlands’ perennial robotic sidekick and ostensible comic relief Claptrap, is the latest actor to sign onto the project after Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin…

Axiom Verge 2 is coming to PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive, as revealed during a buggy Epic Games Store digital showcase Before today, the highly anticipated Metroidvania was only confirmed for a Switch release.

Kingdom Hearts Series Coming To PC On March 30, Exclusive To Epic Games Store

A handful of Kingdom Hearts games are coming to PC on March 30, and will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store. During today’s spring showcase, Epic Games announced that Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts III, and Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory will be…

Today, developer Thunder Lotus outlined a 2021 roadmap for Spiritfarer Over the course of three free seasonal updates, the hygge simulator will get four new spirits, a new island, co-op fishing, and a raft of quality-of-life updates.