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CultureHong Kong Protests Are Growing Outside Of BlizzCon [Update]
When this year’s BlizzCon in Anaheim, California kicked off this morning, a crowd of more than 30 protesters gathered outside the convention center to show support for Hong Kong in the wake of Blizzard’s recent suspension of Hearthstone pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai. Update, 9:30 PM ET: This story has been updated since its original…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 1, 2019 -
Tips & GuidesLuigi’s Mansion 3 Is Much Better If You Use The Shoulder Buttons
Luigi’s Mansion 3 is a fun game with a default control scheme that doesn’t work as well as it should. Thankfully, there’s a better way to play it, one that’ll make it easier to spin around while chasing undead ghosts forever. Players view Luigi’s Mansion 3 from the perspective of a person looking into a…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureOverwatch 2 Announced With Emotional Trailer
Blizzard has finally announced Overwatch 2, the next iteration of the developer’s massively popular first-person hero shooter. It’s a sequel with all-new maps, heroes and modes, including player-versus-environment modes and a new player-versus-player mode called “Push.” In the new announcement trailer, revealed today at Blizzcon, Overwatch heroes Mei, Winston and Tracer touch down in Paris,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) | Artist: Darlene Love | Album: A Christmas Gift For You
By Chris Kohler Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureThe Next World Of Warcraft Expansion, Shadowlands, Takes Players Into The Afterlife
Announced today at the BlizzCon 2019 keynote, the seventh major expansion for World of Warcraft is called Shadowlands. The followup to Battle for Azeroth, coming in 2020, sees former Horde Warchief turned master villain Sylvanas Windrunner unleash death across the world of Azeroth and players venturing into the realm of the afterlife. In a dramatic…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureBlizzard Announces Diablo IV
Diablo IV is coming, Blizzard said today, finally confirming the much-anticipated sequel after years of speculation. A new cinematic trailer for the game showed a group of treasure hunters fighting against what could be demons, or private equity executives. Blizzard says the game takes place “many years after the events of Diablo III, after millions…
By Jason Schreier Published November 1, 2019 -
Culture‘We Moved Too Quickly’: Blizzard President Apologizes For Hong Kong Incident
Before Blizzcon’s opening ceremony, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack somberly addressed the crowd with an apology for Blizzard’s harsh punishment of Hearthstone esports pro Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai. “Blizzard had the opportunity to bring the world together in a tough Hearthstone esports moment about a month ago and we did not,” said Brack. “We moved…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedOne Man’s Quest To Eradicate Every Goku In Dragon Ball FighterZ
Dragon Ball FighterZ has a lot of characters, and several of them are Goku. Some players see that as a problem, and one streamer in particular has taken it upon himself to eradicate those Gokus, one piledriver at a time. This piece was first published on February 23, 2018. Lee “Lythero” Geary is a fighting…
By Eric Van Allen Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for baking a cake. I think I could stand to eat a whole cake. I haven’t gotten very far in The Outer Worlds, so I’d like to spend more time with that. I’ve also been playing a lot of Lonely Mountains, which is so fun, even though I spend most of my…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureHow To Spot Fake Classic Video Games
Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in with your own collection. The bootleggers who make them are churning them out, meaning that the market will only become more saturated with them as the years go by. If you’re going to collect…
By Chris Kohler Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsToysLego Pays Homage To Its Heritage With A Wonderful Wooden Minifig
In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of The Lego Group, started making and selling wooden toys out of his shop in Billund, Denmark. The company continued making wooden toys until 1960, two years after the Lego brick as we know it today was born. Now The Lego Group celebrates old and new with a seven…
By Mike Fahey Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedMy Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread
For nearly 20 years, I’ve been sitting in the same piece of shit: a gray swivel chair that I got at Target as a teenager. It creaks if you look at it; it’s covered in enormous amounts of my hair. It does not do my body any favors. Very possibly it has been exacerbating my…
By Maddy Myers Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn Loud
At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team deathmatch and I was ever so slowly crawling along a wall. The slower, the more quiet, I thought. Something suddenly rustled just ahead. I peeked around the corner and was instantly downed by…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 1, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Hometown | Artist: French 79 | Album: Joshua
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanGold And Platinum Monster Hunter Sculptures For Only $81,000 Each
If you are in the market for Monster Hunter sculpture and have lots of money to spend, have I got two items for you! Created to celebrate Monster Hunter’s 15th anniversary, here is a Gold Rathian, made from 24K gold, and a Silver Rathalos, made from Platinum. Each is 8,800,000 yen ($81,462) or you can…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
UncategorizedMetal Gear Singer’s Other Gig? The Voice Of The Bullet Train
This is Donna Burke. You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice. If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too. The Australian packs a one-two-three punch of being a talented voice actress and singer, as well as writing her own lyrics.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
Kotaku EastRecreating Awkward Gundam Animation
Custom figure artist Dau Lau Boc Khoi has been bringing to life awkward Gundam animation in hand-sculpted polymer clay. Early Gundam animation was not so great and produced some truly awkward, meme-worthy examples of bad animation. Those images now live on as sculptures. “Quick project for a stressful week,” wrote the artist on Facebook. Typically,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsMultiplatformDeath Stranding: The Kotaku Review
There is no elevator pitch for Death Stranding. Every inch of Death Stranding teems with meaning or implication. Even the stupidest and most pretentious developments build to create a multi-layered game, one with numerous potential points of attack to analyze. It is a story about fatherhood. It is a broad dig at the gig economy.…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 1, 2019 -
ReviewsToysLet Us Dream Of LEGO Transformers
There have never been official LEGO Transformers, and there likely never will be. But boy, these fan-made efforts by Alex Jones come real close to filling that void. Via Brothers Brick, he’s somehow managed to get both the vehicle and robot forms looking good, which when you throw in the transformation process must have taken…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 31, 2019
