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CultureI Love The New Monster Energy Ultra Flavors
Back in late February, two new Monster Energy Ultra flavors were released into the wild. They started popping up in gas stations, Walmarts, and other stores across the United States. Finally, they have appeared in my home state of Kansas. And I’m so happy they have arrived. While I review a lot of sodas and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: I Love Power-Ups, Winners!
Last week I asked you Mario makers to create courses that featured power-ups. You could add a lot of ‘em to a level or create a level that centered around using one power-up in an interesting way. A nice bit of variety this week. I got big courses, smaller courses, a music course, and even…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
Culture2K Games Is The Latest Publisher To Remove Its Games From Nvidia’s Streaming Service
Last month, Nvidia’s game streaming service, GeForce Now, came out of beta officially. And since then numerous publishers have pulled their games from the service. Activision Blizzard, Bethesdaand Hinterland Gameshave already pulled titles from the service. Now Nivida confirms 2K Games is also out. The news came yesterday via a short post on Nvidia’s official forums.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
CulturePokemonCharjabug Can Power A House If It Eats Enough Food
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 Charjabug! Charjabug Details Type: Bug/Electric Average Height: 1′ 08″ Average Weight: 23.1 lbs. First Added In Generation VII Okay,…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
CultureMorning CheckpointBuilding A Wall The Old-Fashioned Way
Hello! This week we watch someone accidentally shoot a gun while streaming, sell a console for $360k, step on some ants, check out a new trailer for that cool PS4 samurai game and build a rock wall using gravity. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I can offer a counterbid of $100 and some…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 7, 2020 -
CulturePlayer Climbs To The Top Of The Citadel In The Half-Life: Alyx Promo Area
The release of Half-Life: Alyx stands to be a landmark event for two reasons. First and most obviously, it’s a new Half-Life game after 13 years of eerie radio silence. Second, it’s a prime example of gaming culture eating its own tail, since now players are breaking games before they’re even out. Granted, Valve was…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Original Creators Of Burnout Are Making A New Open-World Racer
Dangerous Driving 2 is the fourth arcade racing game that veteran developer Alex Ward has worked on in as many years. He and just over half of Three Fields Entertainment’s seven-person staff flew out from the UK to show it off at PAX East ahead of its holiday 2020 release on Xbox One, PS4, PC,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureTwitchDown The Strange, Sometimes Upsetting Rabbit Hole Of Twitch Streamers’ TikToks
Over the past 72 hours, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time watching TikToks created by Twitch streamers. It all began with a simple question: Can people whose whole line of work is built around creating the lengthiest, least-filtered form of pop culture possible excel in a medium where minimalism thrives? TikTok is a video…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureAnimators Reimagine LucasArts Classic Full Throttle In Modern 3D
Full Throttle was one of many amazing adventure games developed by LucasArts throughout the 1990s. It got a remastered release in 2017, but an independent studio recently took things a step further with an incredible reimagining of what the game might look like if it was developed today. The short video, an unofficial project from…
By Ian Walker Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for making waffles for dinner, watching the new season of Ugly Delicious, and pretending the world isn’t quite so intense for a while. Maybe some video games will find their way in there too. I’ve been playing The Longing, a partially idle game where your character has to waste 400 days inside…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 6, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Unlock Saitama In The One Punch Man Game
One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows, a fighting game ostensibly about One Punch Man and pals, came out last week for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You can play as all manner of fan favorites from the One Punch Man extended universe, including Silverfang, Metal Bat, Tank Top Tiger, and, of course, Mumen…
By Ari Notis Published March 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Emerald City Comic Con taking place next week in Seattle, Washington has been postponed until the summer, the event’s organizers announced today. This news comes just five days after the company behind the convention, Reedpop, had previously said the event would take place as scheduled
By Ethan Gach Published March 6, 2020 -
ReviewsMultiplatformThe Division 2: Warlords Of New York: The Kotaku Review
When The Division 2 launched last March, the cover-based shooter set in a wrecked Washington, DC was received positively by fans and critics. Then things soured. Players who expected a game that would expand over time were disappointed by a lack of new content as well as balance changes that nerfed popular character builds. Months…
By Zack Zwiezen Published March 6, 2020 -
Culture‘Nintendo Play Station’ Sells At Auction For $360,000
A prototype of a never-produced video game machine colloquially known as the “Nintendo Play Station” has sold at auction for $360,000, setting a new record for the most expensive item of video game memorabilia ever publicly sold. Pop-culture auction house Heritage Auctions offered the device, the product of a short-lived collaboration between Nintendo and Sony,…
By Chris Kohler Published March 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIn Afterparty, You Die As You Lived: Confused But Happy To Take A Beer
Afterparty, the latest from Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, is out October 29 (and rated M for Mature, like all the best night clubs). It’s a story-based adventure game written in the snarky spirit of its point-and-click predecessors, full to bursting both with witty one-liners and signs that the writers maybe got a smidge too…
By Natalie Degraffinried Published March 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsThere’s Not A Lot Of One-Punch Man In The One-Punch Man Game’s Story Mode, Thank Goodness
One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows is not a video game about uber-powerful anime sensation One-Punch Man. It’s the story of a player-created character operating in One-Punch Man’s orbit. The single-player story mode battles last much longer that way. In One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows’ three-on-three competitive fighting mode, Saitama (AKA One-Punch Man) takes…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsBeing The One Human In A World Of Pokémon Is Pretty Cool
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, the enchanting remake of a pair of Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS games coming out this week for the Switch, the human player wakes up in a world populated by talking pocket monsters, reborn as one of their own. Living and working alongside Pokémon as an equal…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2020 -
AnimeThe Digimon Adventure Reboot Is Looking Good
Announced back in January with a teaser trailer, Toei Animation has released a short but action-packed trailer for the new Digimon Adventure anime, showing Tai and his partner Agumon in action. It’s good stuff. The new series is a reboot of the Digimon franchise, wiping two decades of animated history to give fans a fresh,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureOh Great, There’s A New Amnesia Game Coming Out This Fall
It’s been a decade since Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent arrived on the survival horror scene, filling YouTube and Twitch with the screams of terrified streamers. Due out this fall for PlayStation 4 and PC, Amnesia: Rebirth challenges players to stay calm in the face of unimaginable terror. The second sequel to Amnesia: The…
By Mike Fahey Published March 6, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Super Star (Live) | Artist: Tokyo Jihen | Album: Adult
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 6, 2020