Image: Netflix It’s kinda flown under the radar a little, maybe because it launched straight to Netfflix, but Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½ came out earlier this month and is, if nothing else, a very cool visual record of a very certain point in time. This is of course very much Linklater’s thing, from Dazed and …
Screenshot: Kingdom Hearts IV As part of the series’ 20th anniversary celebrations, Square Enix just used a Sunday evening presentation in Japan to unveil two new Kingdom Hearts games, one of them being Kingdom Hearts IV. The show, held in Tokyo, had live music, artwork presentations and “on-stage appearances from Series Director, Tetsuya Nomura, series’ …
Image: Lucasfilm / Disney Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a really, really big game filled with hundreds of characters, ships, planets, and weapons all pulled from every Star Wars film ever made. But, as a lifelong Star Wars nerd, I’m very skilled at nitpicking things I love and after thinking about it for …
Image: Lucasfilm / Kotaku Gather ‘round, folks. Take a seat by my campfire. Turn off the lights. (I don’t know why my campfire exists in a room with lights…) Now, prepare to learn the scary lore behind a creepy little droid that briefly appears in the newly released Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. You …
Image: Bandai Namco While long-time fans of the series will know that Ms. Pac-Man is the wife of Mr. Pac-Man, and appeared as such in the 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land, a new re-release of the game has gone to the trouble of changing the character. Here’s Ms. Pac-Man as she appears in most titles, with her …
Image: Deus Ex Did you know it has been ten years since a Deus Ex movie was announced? What once seemed a natural step, a big-screen adaptation of a triumphantly resurgent video game franchise, ended up being nothing of the sort as the series floundered through publisher mismanagement and the film itself ended up barely …
Odds and Ends The newest game in the series covers all nine movies and is out now on Xbox, Playstation, Switch, and PC By Eric Schulkin 19 minutes ago Alerts CultureOdds and Ends Latest on Kotaku The First 17 Minutes Of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Will Arnett’s Villainous Dragon Lord Is The Best …
Screenshot: FromSoftware / Kotaku With folks constantly on the prowl for hands-off strategies in Elden Ring, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to reach the end of the game without fighting anything at all. In his latest video, Iron Pineapple—who runs a great YouTube channel dedicated to Souls and Souls-like …
Image: Twitch / Kotaku Twitch just can’t seem to scrub porn off its platform. Thanks to the “Boost This Stream” feature the Amazon-owned company introduced last October, viewers are paying to promote, or “boost,” sexually explicit content onto the platform’s front page. Unsurprisingly, Twitch has paused the boosting feature indefinitely. According to reports from Dot …