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OpinionIn Defense Of Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII is ten years old today, which means that 2019 is officially running out of ways to remind us of our mortality. It was a controversial entry in the Final Fantasy series, shifting the series’ usual approach to combat and ditching old traditions to tell a techno-thriller story starring deeply flawed heroes. To…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureSonicFox Wins Mortal Kombat 11 Championship, Shouts Out Bernie Sanders
Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is one of the greatest fighting game players of all time. The young non-binary competitor added to this legacy with a win at the Mortal Kombat 11 championship this weekend. It wasn’t quite as easy as some of their previous wins, but SonicFox used every opportunity to let the world know that…
By Ian Walker Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureFree Call Of Duty Battle Royale Launches Tomorrow
Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a free-to-play battle royale add-on called Warzone featuring 150-player matches, two modes, and cross-play PS4, Xbox One, and PC. To clarify, you don’t have to own a copy of Modern Warfare in order to play Warzone. Details of the mode have been leaking out…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Longing, Which Can Take Over A Year To Finish, Encourages You To Embrace Waiting
At the beginning of the PC game The Longing, your character, a skinny gollum called a Shade, is ordered to wake their giant stone king in 400 days. The game starts with the king going to sleep, after which point a real-time counter starts. The Shade then has to somehow pass 400 real-time days in…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureThe Week In Games: Ori Gives A Hoot
Ori And The Will Of The Wisps drops this week for PC and Xbox One. If you have Game Pass you will be able to play this game the moment it launches. The sequel to 2015’s much loved Ori And The Blind Forest, this new game features owls. That is why I put “hoot” in…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 9, 2020 -
CulturePlayers Finally Figure Out Two-Year-Old Destiny 2 Puzzle Clue
Destiny 2‘s Rasputin Chamber Puzzle alternate reality game (ARG) was discovered back in 2018, and one part of it stumped players so much they had to brute force the solution, solving the puzzle in just a few days but without fully understanding all the pieces. That is, until last week. The puzzle was introduced in…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureSpawn Has A Lot Of Weapons In Mortal Kombat 11
NetherRealm Studios gave us our first real look at Mortal Kombat 11‘s sixth DLC character during last night’s tournament and one thing’s clear: everything Spawn does will hurt you. The trailer shows Spawn shredding through Mortal Kombat mainstays with an arsenal of guns, swords, and axes. And of course his cape isn’t just there to…
By Ethan Gach Published March 9, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Lemon Candy | Artist: Chara | Album: Madrigal
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedFather Makes Death Stranding-Style Pod For His Baby
Shanghai cosplayer and cosplay prop builder The_Bai_Ying says he created a special pod to take his baby to the hospital because, according to him, the city’s air quality is bad. But don’t assume he is actually carting his child around in it. The_Bai_Ying says he created a way to filter the air to protect his…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanWatch A Life-Sized Gundam’s Skeleton Legs Move
You have probably seen one of Japan’s life-sized Gundams, whether in person or in photos. But have you seen the skeleton legs of a one-to-one scale movable Gundam? I have not! Currently, the 59-foot-tall Gundam is being constructed, with the frame being put together in Ibaraki Prefecture. To ensure the giant mecha can move, it…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedPikachu-themed medicinal soap and a “no-touch” automatic dispenser have recently gone on sale in Japan. The soap is blue soda lemon-scented and is made by antibacterial soap brand Muse. Hopefully, the soap and dispenser will help kids (and adults) in Japan keep their hands clean.
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 9, 2020 -
UncategorizedTrack: Out In The Fields | Artist: Gary Moore ft. Phil Lynott | Album: Run For Cover
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 8, 2020 -
CultureThe Original Doom Is Filled With Toy Guns
Have you ever been playing the original Doom and stopped to look at one of the weird faces that dot the many walls in the game? Or maybe looked at your gun closely and thought about how it was made? Well, it turns out that id Software used an old book by author Stephen King…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 8, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Toilet Paper?
The Coronavirus is serious. Wash your hands, avoid other people if you feel sick, cover your mouth when you cough, don’t touch your face and wash your hands some more. As the virus spreads and people stock up on stuff, the strangest item to disappear from shelves and cause actual fights is toilet paper. Your…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 8, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing The Division 2 [Updated]
The Division 2 is filled with things to do, places to explore, guns to collect and enemies to kill. And after a massive sale and a new expansion, there might be a lot of players either returning to the game or playing it for the first time. So here are some updated tips for new…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 8, 2020 -
CultureSunday Comics: This Way, Toys!
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 March 5. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published March 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 8, 2020 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Pokemon Of The Year, Winners!
Last week I asked you, yes YOU, to create some images featuring the Pokemon of year. That Pokemon, after all the votes were counted by Google, somehow ending up being Greninja. Our winning image this week comes from Done With Kinja who has created a very different kind of Pokemon fighting game. I feel like…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
CultureStepping On A LEGO Brick
This week on Snapshots, Geralt in the shadows, a creepy giant worm, swimming lions, lonely train tracks in Days Gone, some curious robots and one big and angry demon. I didn’t know there were giant space worms in No Man’s Sky. I feel like every few months I see something wild that got added to…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
CultureThe Man Behind Pets.Com Bought The ‘Nintendo Play Station’ Console For $360,000
Yesterday, that weird prototype Nintendo Play Station console was sold at auction for $360,000. Today, thanks to Forbes, we now know who bought it, why they bought and what they plan to do with it. Greg McLemore is the founder of Pets.com, a website from back in the early 90s. Amazon bought up half of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020
