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UncategorizedEverything We Know About The Viruses In Dr. Mario World, Including Their Lethality
Dr. Mario World was released recently and I’ve been playing a lot of it. The latest game in the series, Dr. Mario World is the first built for mobile phones and features new and old viruses. But how deadly are these differently colored viruses and where did they come from? And how many different types…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 14, 2019 -
CultureSunday Comics: My Finger Slipped!
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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published July 8. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published July 11. Read more of Corpse Run Clueless Hero by…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 14, 2019 -
CultureShop Contest‘Shop Contest: Freelancing After Making, Winners!
Construction work is hard work. So last week I asked you wonderful Kotaku readers to show me how the Mario Bros. make more money on the side. I got a whole bunch of…strange jobs. I’m not sure how well these pay, but I write about video games for a living. What do I know? Our…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe GTA San Andreas Myth That Turned Out To Be True
Back in 2005, I was almost 15 years old and I was still playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game at this point was over a year old. But I was still spending hours every week playing it. It was during one of these sessions that I experienced a strange and spooky encounter with…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
CultureAfter Playing GoldenEye On The N64, Valve Changed Half-Life
Today, developers have a huge variety of ways to create and manage enemy AI. However, back in the 90s it was much more difficult to create sophisticated enemy AI. It was even harder to do so on the N64 due to its limited power and resources. But Rare, the developers behind GoldenEye, pulled it off…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedMario Maker Contest: Summertime Fun, Winners!
Last week I asked you fine Mario Makers to create some levels that were all about the summer heat. I got a ton of courses and each offering various takes on “Summertime Fun.” Some went for vacations and beaches, others went for hellish nightmares. But we all need to have a talk about something. Way…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
CulturePokemonLuvdisc Have Giant Orgies That Turn The Ocean Pink
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 Luvdisc! Luvdisc Details Type: Water Average Height: 2′ 00″ Average Weight: 19.2 lbs. First Added In Generation III If…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointZelda Can’t Make This Jump In Wind Waker
Hello! This week we find a never released NES game, explore the history of the Air Bud franchise, figure out how screwed up that last Steam Summer Sale event was, build with friends, do some farming and watch Zelda fail. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was…
By Zack Zwiezen Published July 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedMy latest Super Mario Maker 2 level took me quite a while to complete. I might actually use this as an example to write a piece about what happens when you way overscope a project. I did a lot of trimming. As always, let me know what you think! [Update: Deleted and reposted the level…
By Chris Kohler Published July 12, 2019 -
CultureWarframe‘s New Spaceships Are Powered By Portals
Adding fully-manned spaceships and space combat to a gargantuan online game like Warframe isn’t rocket science. It’s portal science. It’s also game development wizardry that makes my brain hurt. Warframe’s upcoming “Empyrean” update will include space combat that allows players to do things like run around inside their ship while somebody else is piloting and…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 12, 2019 -
EsportsSamurai Shodown Competition Heats Up At This Weekend’s Fighting Game Tournaments
Evo 2019, the premier fighting game tournament, is less than a month away, and players are spending the weekend getting ready. With their game having only released in June, it’s an especially important time for Samurai Shodown players. Nine-time Evo champion Justin “JWong” Wong hasn’t wasted any time getting up to speed after announcing in…
By Ethan Gach Published July 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedWraith And Bloodhound’s Backstories Are Apex Legends’ Best Mystery
Every once in a while, Apex Legends players notice that two of the game’s characters, Wraith and Bloodhound, both have a very familiar emblem hidden on their costumes. The emblem appears in Respawn’s previous Titanfall games, which might suggest the characters formerly piloted those games’ giant Titan mechs. It’s not a new theory, but the…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 12, 2019 -
CultureTwitchDespite boasting the most followers, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is not the undisputed king of Twitch. Data from streaming utility company StreamElements shows that Turner “Tfue” Tenney had six million more hours watched from April through June. In general, Twitch’s top five is in flux, with others like Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar posting strong numbers, as well.…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Highs And Lows Of Spilling Drinks On Your Laptop
A laptop computer is an amazing confluence of technology, condensing an entire desktop full of hardware into a compact space. That space is an easy target for a cup of coffee or can of soda, and there’s nothing quite like watching liquid pour into several hundred or thousand dollars’ worth of electronics. It’s a fact…
By Mike Fahey Published July 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedStop Freaking Livestreaming While Driving
A worst-case scenario: being the subject of a video on thesubreddit Livestream Failtitled “Guy wrecks car while reading Twitch chat and driving.” In the 2018 video, a Twitch streamer named Jaystreazy is at the wheel of his car, rapidly shifting his eyes between the road and what is presumably a mounted phone screen displaying a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 12, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for going to a sensory deprivation tank, which will either awaken my latent superpowers or drive me mad. What better way to celebrate either outcome than with video games? I’m excited to check out Griftlands, the new game from Klei, developers of some of my favorite games like Mark of the Ninja…
By Riley MacLeod Published July 12, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryA Noble Stranger Stayed By My Side While I Died In Fallout 76
You do not want me in your Nuclear Winter squad. I have a penchant for switching my drop location at the last second, landing on the map hundreds of meters away from my teammates. I’m never on mic. And I’m terrible at staying hidden. But none of this stopped another player, let’s call him Bill,…
By Ethan Gach Published July 12, 2019 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy IX Retrospective: The Final Fantasy‘s Final Fantasy
You know when you’re playing around with a new recipe and you fall in love with one particular spice? Call it cumin. You find every recipe that makes sense with cumin, and eventually, you grow so obsessed with it that you just keep adding it to all of your dinners for a month straight, until…
By Jason Schreier Published July 12, 2019
