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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Respect Your Cat Day, Winners
Happy Respect Your Cat Day! If you have a cat, let it do whatever it wants today. If you don’t have a cat, then just salute some pictures of cats online or get one in The Sims and be nice to it. In honor of this great day, I asked you folks to create images…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CultureSocial Distancing With Style
This week on Snapshots, trippy orbs, a creepy computer, a cool looking arrow, a sign left forgotten in the wasteland, a fast car, and social distancing in Animal Crossing. You might be alone right now, but you can still look cool. Also, if you can, step outside folks. Get some fresh air. Even sitting outside…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CultureThe Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records
Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
UncategorizedAnimal Crossing Players Are Playing High Stakes Musical Chairs
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are using, chairs, tree stumps, pipe flutes, in-game emotes, and text chat to set up games of musical chairs where the winner walks away with over 100k bells. As seen over on the Animal Crossing subreddit, user Tetratera has figured out a way to play musical chairs online. Using…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CulturePokemonClaydol Is Over 20,000 Years Old And Was Brought To Life By Aliens
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 Claydol! Claydol Details Type: Ground/Psychic Average Height: 4′ 11″ Average Weight: 238.0 lbs First Added In Generation III There…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CultureNetflix Is Making A Live-Action Dragon’s Lair Movie
Netflix is planning to create a live-action movie based on the 80s arcade game Dragon’s Lair and Ryan Reynolds is set to produce and star in the film. When it first was released back in the 1980s, Dragon’s Lairwas one of the best looking games ever made. Thanks to its amazing animation, colorful art, and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Movie Theater Edition
It’s another weekend at home for many. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I miss going to the theater and seeing a movie. I know some folks hate going to the theater to see a movie, but I love it. With phones in our pockets, a million movies and shows on our TVs and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
CultureMorning CheckpointSomeone, Please Help Roald
Hello! This week we use Half-Life to teach math, watch the trailer for next big Animal Crossing update, shock ourselves while we play Smash, learn how Nintendo is helping healthcare workers fight the pandemic and trap poor Roald in a cage made of concrete walls. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week We have reached…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 28, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIron Danger Is A Fantasy Role-Playing Game With Superhot-Style Time Dilation
In Iron Danger you can rewind time whenever you need to in order to save your life and land the killing blow. It’s a cool idea and works well enough in practice, but that fun premise doesn’t stop the rest of Iron Danger from being an otherwise pretty middling isometric role-playing game experience. Out on…
By Ethan Gach Published March 27, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesQuick Tricks That Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Too Chill To Tell You About
Face it: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an annoying game. There. I said it. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Yes, you’re the de facto overlord of a private island brimming with adorable talkative animals. On paper, it’s a dream come true. But, in reality, Nintendo’s life simulator is a maddening nightmare. Every minute spent with…
By Ari Notis Published March 27, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsBorderlands 3’s Latest Expansion Gives The Series Its First Good Boss Fight
Guns, Love, and Tentacles, yesterday’s major update to Borderlands 3, revolves around a gay wedding on an alien planet. While that’s fantastic in its own right, the rest of the expansion is pretty great too, combining fresh aesthetics with a bevy of cool new guns and what is arguably the series’ only good boss fight…
By Ian Walker Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for…staying inside, I guess. At least there’s lots of video games! I’ve been really lax on keeping up with my Fortnite challenges, and I still really want that Meowscles skin. (Remember that? That feels like 100 years ago.) Some friends have been trying to get me to play Monster Hunter: World with…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 27, 2020 -
UncategorizedSuper Mario Bros. 3‘s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.…
By Kevin Wong Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureEngineer Combines Smash Controller With A Taser Because Why Not
Recent advances in virtual reality have done wonders to make video games more immersive than ever. But certain persistent technical limitations still bedevil this developing technology, such as, say, its inability to shock the living hell out of players with agonizing bursts of electric current. It’s a problem. But one enterprising hacker sought to change…
By Ian Walker Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureSony And Microsoft Put Out Vague Statements About How Covid-19 Will Affect Their Games
In a press release on its website, Sony announced that it doesn’t expect the game and network services part of its business to be impacted during the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. At the same time, the company didn’t rule out that things could change in the future. Sony and Microsoft both put…
By Ethan Gach Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureEven Final Fantasy XIV Is Freezing House Evictions
Final Fantasy XIV has one of the most competitive housing markets in an online game. Buying a cozy digital home requires lots of money and the patience to fight with other players—including big guilds and bot owners—to place a bid on a home. If you don’t use it, you also lose it. In light of…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI’m Driving Myself Crazy Trying To Name My Animal Crossing Island
It is important, in these trying times, to take it easy on yourself. That self-critical voice constantly berating you in your head? Turn it down to a whisper. Unfortunately, I am a gigantic dummy incapable of following my own advice. Case in point: I’ve spent the better part of three days (and counting) trying to…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 27, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Friends Edition
It’s Friday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. It’s been a while since I’ve seen another person; maybe it’s been that way for you too. I had been doing some Google hangouts and other virtual stuff, but that’s been hard to schedule this week. (Weird how busy you can get even though you’re just…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 27, 2020
