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CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Baby Yoda
Baby Yoda has quickly become one of the only good things about 2019. I love the little kid, but I was hesitant to do a Baby Yoda contest because frankly, the internet has already created some great images featuring “The Child.” But then EA added him to The Sims 4 and I saw my opportunity.…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
UncategorizedEvery New GTA Online Arcade Game, Reviewed
The latest GTA Online update added a brand new heist, which is cool and all. But it also added player owned and operated arcades. These arcades are mostly for show, a front for a hidden area to set up a big heist. But you can still buy and play 12 arcade games that were added…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: It’s Priceless!
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 Dec. 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 15, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: $120k Banana And Some Duct Tape, Winners!
Modern art is sometimes complicated, strange and incredible. Then sometimes a dude sticks a banana on a wall and makes a $120k selling it. And then someone else eats it as part of their own art performance. Anyways, I asked you folks to create some artwork of your own featuring either this expensive fruit or…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Outer Worlds is getting some story DLC next year.Developers Obsidian Entertainment has announced plans to expand the story of The Outer Worlds via DLC released in 2020. And that’s all we know. The Outer Worlds will be coming out for Switch next year too.
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureBefore GoldenEye On N64, There Was This GoldenEye Game
GoldenEye for the N64 is a bona fide classic. The game was groundbreaking, one of the first truly good first-person shooters on a console and its multiplayer mode is still beloved to this day. But, two years before this classic game was released, another video game version of GoldenEye was released. It wasn’t as good…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureFortnite‘s Star Wars Event Was Weird, But Cool
Today, after a rough start, Fortnite’s in-game movie theater showed a brief clip from the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Director J.J. Abrams and Game Awards host Geoff Keighley also made a live appearance. The event took place at Risky Reels, Fortnite’s drive-in. Prior to the event, Fortnite’s servers struggled under the…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 14, 2019 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: New Stuff, Winners
Last week Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker 2 and added a bunch of new items, enemies and objects to the game. The most exciting new item was a power-up that turns Mario into Link from the Legend of Zelda series. So I asked you fine Kotaku readers to create some Mario levels featuring any of…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CulturePlanetSide Arena Is Shutting Down After Only 4 Months (Update)
Some games last for years and years. Other games disappear in less than one. PlanetSide Arena, which launched back in September 2018 2019, is closing down next month. The announcement was made yesterday on the game’s Steam page via a blog post from the developers at Daybreak Games. (Correction: 4:15 PM – I got my…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CulturePokemonCofagrigus Will Eat You And Turn You Into A Mummy
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 Cofagrigus! Cofagrigus Details Type: Ghost Average Height: 5′ 07″ Average Weight: 168.7 lbs. First Added In Generation V Tomb…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointWhere Did All The Cheez-Its Go?
Hello! This week we buy Baby Yoda, defeat the problems clown, learn more about Shovel Knight’s long dev cycle, watch Ninja fail at slicing bread, meet one ugly bird and waste all our Cheez-Its. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I love Shovel Knight and the story behind these games makes me love all…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureCelebrated Non-Violent Indie Game Is Now A Gun In Rainbow Six Siege [Update]
Sometimes, two great tastes go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter and ice cream. Ice cream and Reese’s peanut butter cups. Maybe most of my examples involve peanut butter. Point being, sometimes these things just work. Other times, you try to mash up two cool things, only to come away with a new…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe PC Demo For Wooden Nickel Is Worth A Try
Tied to last night’s Game Awards, Steam is hosting a bunch of game demos through Saturday morning. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to check out, but I particularly enjoyed Wooden Nickel, a minimalist story game set in the Wild West. Wooden Nickel is by developers Brain & Brain, who previously made the lovely Burly…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedRed Dead Online’s New Mooonshiner Role Is The Best Yet
Red Dead Online’s latest update is focused on moonshine, illegal booze crafted by folks in hidden stills deep in the woods. In this new update, players make and sell moonshine, take out the competition and even get revenge on the government goons trying to stop them. The slightly high price of entry might make it…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 13, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsControl’s New Combat-Focused Update Is Fun Even When It’s Destroying Me
When I first heard about Control’s new Expeditions mode, timed events based around combat that went live last night during the Game Awards, I was skeptical. Control is an atmospheric thriller, and while I think it handles third-person action combat well, it’s not the reason I’d recommend the game (which I definitely would). But here…
By Ethan Gach Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureGame AwardsDeveloper On Pranking Game Awards With Golf Balls: ‘It’s A Boring Show’
Some would tell you that The Game Awards are gaming’s Academy Awards. Those people are hilariously wrong, given that the show largely serves as a vehicle for commercials announcing upcoming games, with the awards themselves coming off as a distant second priority-wise. Still, the event has become increasingly glitzy, glamorous, and long over the years.…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureModern Warfare Will Show You Your Kill-Death Ratio For $20
Modern Warfare finally offers players the ability to see their death count during matches, but what was once a staple Call of Duty feature now comes at a price. In past Call of Duty games, the in-game scoreboard for a standard multiplayer mode like Team Deathmatch would show each player’s kills, deaths, and assists. At…
By S.E. Doster Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureThe Seven-Year Saga Of Shovel Knight Is Finally Over
When I first met the co-founders of Yacht Club Games in October of 2016, at their sleek, ocean-adjacent offices in Marina del Rey, California, they told me they were shocked to still be working on Shovel Knight. After all, it had been three and a half years since they’d quit their day jobs to make…
By Jason Schreier Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedOuter Worlds Developer Finds Bug That Caused Companions To Climb Infinite Ladders Until They Died
Obsidian Entertainment’s games can tend to be glitchy. The Outer Worlds mostly bucks that trend, but at least one bug proved to be incredibly frustrating: a strange glitch stating that your companions were dead when they were, in actual fact, alive. This could lock players out of completing quests. Figuring out what was causing the…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 13, 2019