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KotakuKotakuMinecraft Movie Director Fears The Murderous Wrath Of 10-Year-Olds
We’re finally getting more details about the upcoming Minecraft movie, after years of being trapped in the bog of development hell. A Minecraft movie? Is that a thing we really want? Well, director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) was interviewed recently, and he talkedtalking about his enthusiasm for the project—..…
KotakuEllie And Abby's Best Video Game T-Shirts in TLOU 2's No Return
In this house, we don’t like to pit two strong women against each other. That includes Ellie and Abby from The Last of Us Part II. Well, except for that part in the game where they are literally pitted against one another, but I digress. In The Last of Us Part II Remastered, both our heroines get new skins alongside…
KotakuGTA And Alan Wake Devs Are Beefing Over The Letter ‘R’
Two gaming giants have entered the legal colosseum. GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive has dragged the Alan Wake developer into a trademark dispute over Remedy Entertainment’s new logo design.
KotakuThe Last Of Us Part II’s Roguelike Mode Is Fun If You Don’t Think Too Hard
The Last of Us Part II Remastered’s roguelike mode, No Return, is a prime example of how it’s nearly impossible for games made by hundreds to thousands of people to have a consistent thematic vision. See, director Neil Druckmann wants you to believe The Last of Us Part II is all about how the cycle of violence is bad,…
KotakuThe Last of Us Part II Remastered: The Kotaku Review
The Last of Us Part II came out at the worst possible time. In June 2020, the pandemic was steadily becoming more terrifying, New York was under a curfew, and almost everything was closed or boarded up. The streets were all but empty despite the summer sunshine. I didn’t realize how good a job I’d done of forgetting…
KotakuHands-On: Persona 3 Reload Fixes One Of The Original’s Greatest Sins
There’s been a lot of deserved criticism thrown Persona 3 Reload’s way for not implementing Persona 3 Portable’s female protagonist route into its ground-up remake. However, we’re not talking enough about one of the few parts of the female protagonist route that did make its way into the modern revitalization of Atlus’…
KotakuUbisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games
With the pre-release of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown started, Ubisoft has chosen this week to rebrand its Ubisoft+ subscription services, and introduce a PC version of the “Classics” tier at a lower price. And a big part of this, says the publisher’s director of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, is getting players…
KotakuUK's Biggest Gaming Store Rumored To End Trade-Ins
Staff from the UK’s biggest video game retailer, GAME, have told Eurogamer the retailer is to stop accepting trade-ins. Which, if true, is the end of an era.
KotakuWhy Printers Suck #247: HP's Getting Sued Yet Again
Whether there’s an omnipotent God or not, he or she definitely exists and hates printers. Like Bluetooth, printers are against God’s wishes, violating universal laws on such a level that they must be forced not to work in ever-more impossibly unlikely ways. As such, the people who make them are cursed to be purest evil…
KotakuSteam Pulls Fan's Portal 64 Project, But Not For The Reason You Think
A fun-sounding project, a Nintendo 64 demake of Portal, has been pulled from Steam. It’s developer, however, is imploring people not to get angry with Valve, suggesting his idea was always doomed from the start. And yet, you know, I’m still a bit mad.
Kotaku10 Game Boy Advance Games We Want On Nintendo Switch Online
The announcement that Nintendo Switch Online’s Game Boy Advance range is to receive RPGs Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age is incredibly welcome news. But there are still some absolutely colossal gaps, some all-time great GBA games that we’d love to play on our Switches. Nintendo! Hear our pleas!
KotakuGameStop Bails On Its NFT Marketplace
Cast your mind back to July 2022. It was around the time the marketplace for NFTs was collapsing, and crypto scams were falling apart everywhere you looked. That was when GameStop declared its intention to get into all that cool web 3.0 stuff. Well, you’re never going to believe it, but it hasn’t worked out so well.…
KotakuCall Of Duty, Starfield, And More Of The Week's Essential Gaming Tips
The first half of January can be a slow time for new game releases, but that also makes it a great time to tick some boxes on your backlog or revisit some old favorites. Read on for some of this week’s essential strategies for Starfield, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, and some heckin’ great deals on Resident Evil…
KotakuSwitch 2, Pokémon With Guns, And More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming News
It’s CES week! That doesn’t typically mean a whole lot to video game fans, but this year was a bit of an exception, as ‘90s cheat peripheral standby GameShark appears to have rebranded as “AI Shark,” (sigh) and may have accidentally leaked key information about Nintendo’s next console. And speaking of the ‘90s, we’ve…
KotakuPrince of Persia, Last of Us Season 2, And More Of The Week's Hottest Takes
January can often be a slow month for games news, but 2024 is already proving to be an exception. From the surprisingly good new Prince of Persia game to new cast announcements for HBO’s The Last of Us, here’s our thoughts on the week’s biggest stories in and around video games.
KotakuConsole Owners Played More Fortnite Than GTA V And Call Of Duty Combined
Fortnite has exploded in popularity—growing larger than ever—thanks in large part to the well-received OG Season and recent updates that added games like Lego Fortnite into Epic’s free-to-play shooter. Now data shows players on Xbox and PlayStation have spent more hours in Fortnite than Grand Theft Auto V, Roblox, EA…
KotakuWhat To Expect From Starfield's First Beta Update Of 2024
Starfield, Bethesda’s enormous, 1,000-planet wide space RPG, arrived on September 6, 2023. After years of considerable hype, the game has had somewhat of a rocky first year. That said, Bethesda has promised new features, critical bug fixes, and more in 2024 and it’s opening the door for Steam users to beta test those n…
KotakuFamily Guy Creator Reveals Why Peter Griffin Is Buff In Fortnite
Peter Griffin, from the animated Fox show Family Guy, was added to Fortnite recently. But he wasn’t the same rotund father fans known from the series. Instead, he was turned into a strange buff version of Peter Griffin. And now, series creator and Griffin voice actor Seth MacFarlane has seemingly revealed why the…
KotakuOur Best Tips To Track Down A PlayStation Portal
When Sony launched its the PS portal, it’s portable PS5 streaming device, on November 15, 2023,it swiftly sold out. With the ability to stream your favorite PS5 games to a handheld device anywhere you can get a decent internet connection, it’s no surprise that the Portal has been so popular with PS5 owners.
KotakuOverwatch 2 Introducing Massive, Controversial Change
Take a breather, support players, Overwatch 2 is about to roll out an update that will make your job much easier. It looks like every character will get the self-healing passive ability once reserved for support players in the hero shooter’s ninth season. It’s certainly an interesting choice.
KotakuSonic 3 And Knuckles Storyboards Leak, Beware Of Spoilers
Sonic the Hedgehog fans should be wary of spoilers making their way online, as storyboards allegedly from the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 live-action movie and the upcoming Paramount+ series Knuckles have leaked on social media.
KotakuSuicide Squad Devs Spent Last Year Ripping Out Hated Gear Scores
Suicide Squad devs have confirmed that gear score, one of the more controversial elements of Rocksteady’s upcoming co-op shooter, has been entirely removed from the game. However, the game is still very much a looter-shooter.
KotakuEverything We Know About Sand Land, Akira Toriyama's New RPG
An adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s desert-themed, post-war manga, Sand Land arrives as an open-world action RPG on April 25, 2024. If you’re a fan of Toriyama’s other work, such as Dragon Ball, you’ll want to keep an eye on Sand Landas we get closer to the release date. And as it seems to offer a story laden with…
KotakuGeoff Keighley’s Modest TikTok Is The Best Thing On The Internet
Late last night, in one of my typical TikTok fugue states in which my eyes and ears are bombarded by Doja Cat songs and Twitch clips and Real Housewives fancams until my crippling anxiety evaporates, I stumbled upon something curious. It looked innocent enough—just some concert footage from DJ Fred Again’s November…
KotakuA Runescape Player Is My New Fave 90 Day Fiancé Villain
Confession time: When I need a break from video games, my go-to comfort food is the trashiest reality TV possible. My knowledge of Real Housewives and Vanderpump Rules lore may go even deeper than that of Final Fantasy or Yakuza. So you can only imagine my delight when I found out that one of the newest cast members…
KotakuMatrix Star Laurence Fishburne Will Suck Blood In Witcher Season 4
We don’t have a release date for the next season of Netflix’s live-action adaption of The Witcher yet, we do have an official piece of casting news. Legendary actor Laurence Fishburne, best known as The Matrix’s Redpill Resistance operative Morpheus, will join the fantasy drama series as the vampiric barber-surgeon…
KotakuPS5 Just Did Something A PlayStation Console Hasn’t Done Since 2004
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is selling pretty dang well in Japan, according to new data that shows it was the second best-selling console in the country last year, behind only Nintendo’s Switch. Even more impressive, the PS5 sold better than any PlayStation console has ever sold since the PS2 in 2004. That’s also an…
KotakuThere’s A Fendi X Pokémon Crossover For The Real Housewives Of Kanto
After announcing it in late December 2023, Italian luxury fashion house Fendi has dropped its three-way collaboration with Japanese streetwear icon Hiroshi Fujiwara and The Pokémon Company (TPC). The crossover is expensive as hell, but that’s not all that surprising since this is Fendi, a high-end designer with nearly…
KotakuPokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Epilogue Is Silly And Anticlimactic
After playing through Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s epilogue I can definitively say I was mostly let down by the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC. Don’t get me wrong, the “Mochi Mayhem” episode is an hour of silly fun alongside some of the best characters to grace the games’ Paldea region, but it is just that—silly,…