Harley Quinn: The Animated Series is hands down my favourite piece of DC Comics media. The show’s sharp, raunchy writing,…
Today, the Communication Workers of America union filed an objection to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) proposed settlement…
Thanks to a recent fan translation of a nine-year-old PlayStation Portable game, every instalment of the Suikoden role-playing franchise is…
If it walks like Among Us, talks like Among Us, and quacks like Among Us, it was probably at the…
Last week, publisher City Connection released new versions of the arcade / Sega Saturn shmups Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang, and…
Kraid is a good boy. I don’t know why he’s locked up in a room full of boiling lava in…
Popular Twitch streamer Kaitlyn Siragusa, also known as “Amouranth,” was simultaneously banned from Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram on October 8th….
“Epic Games is considering launching an entertainment division focused on scripted video programming”. Funny how a sentence can feel both…
Recently, a colossal data leak from live streaming platform Twitch was posted on controversial internet forum 4chan by an anonymous user. Twitch hosts millions of users who stream their daily activities to a combined audience of tens of millions of people.
Chrome has been the supreme ruler of the browsers for years, and there are a few challengers springing up to…
We’ve posted before about how great Age of Darkness is, the new Aussie-made game which is probably the most addictive thing I’ve played all year. It’s a cross between a city builder, RTS, tower defence, and maybe even an ARPG. It’s also brutally difficult, so here’s some Age of Darkness tips to help survive.
If you have an iPhone or an iPad, better update those suckers right now. Apple has just announced a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability affecting droves of the company’s phones and tablets — the likes of which may be seeing “active exploitation” by hackers.
The Genshin Impact community is abuzz over the upcoming arrival of Arataki Itto, a new character who hails from the…
Dungeons & Dragons has come a hell of a long way, except in one very precise area: units of measurement.
An hour or so into my time with a preview build of Forza Horizon 5, I found myself kangaroo-hopping through…
Since Squid Game’s Netflix release on the 17th of September, nearly 250 games have been registered using its name. Over 200 of those were registered last week. I’m betting most of them don’t have Netflix’s blessing, though many of them do use the same themes and art — such as the iconic doll, and prisoners with numbers in games like Red Light, Green Light.
Hitman – Game of the Year Edition was released on GOG.com late last month and following weeks of player complaints…
The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, which we all know better as ScummVM, turns 20 this week,…
The Lay D Denton mod is a huge project that takes the original Deus Ex and lets you play through…
I’ve been playing Far Cry 6 this week, which means I’ve been killing a lot of virtual dogs.
A few weeks ago, Jason Momoa released a personal behind-the-scenes video for his fight scenes as the preposterously named Duncan…
For anyone with an AMD CPU thinking about upgrading to Windows 11, you may want to hold off just a bit longer until AMD can patch a couple of bugs that can cause performance drops of as much as 15%.
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click…
Back 4 Blood is out in early access for folks who pre-ordered the fancy, more expensive versions of the zombie…
In what appears to be another major outage for Facebook, thousands of its users are reporting problems. This would be…
A lot of hay’s been made about Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’s supposed failings. There’s no voice acting, the graphics are rough,…
Yesterday, Genshin Impact developer miHoYo announced that closed beta sign-ups for their new game Honkai: Star Rail will begin today….
It’s new hardware day, and for most of us that means reconciling with our terrible planning skills. If you, like…
Fiends, we officially have a new Pinhead. And who’ll be taking on the iconic horror character is a big surprise.
Having first been rumoured back in August, it’s now been confirmed: Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is leaving both Sega…
Which is the worse sin: Creating a cockfighting simulator? Or creating a cockfighting simulator so boring that no one would even want to play it?
What we know of history is preserved in the art we create, and what we leave behind.
There are some games that require lavish presentations, elaborate scripts totalling hundreds of thousands of words or enormous multiplayer worlds, filled with references, throwbacks to franchises. These extravagances are often considered necessary, the price studios must pay to stand out in an ever-crowded gaming calendar.
Metroid Dread requires none of this noise.
