Before YouTuber IShowSpeed was put under the spotlight for his toxicity, Jake Lucky, an esports commentator and the person responsible for highlighting Speed’s behavior, was also under public scrutiny. Lucky, who tried to exonerate an alleged Call of Duty: Warzone hacker with a lie detector test, was criticized for refusing to share the results, leading …
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Facebook parent company Meta reportedly has plans to launch a new digital currency for the metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta are calling the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars won’t likely be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has …
Image: Innersloth April Fools’ is finally upon us, or as our UK editor John Walker likes to call it: “International Lying Day.” Never fear, readers. We Kotaku bloggers are vigilantly keeping alert for any announcements that seem a little bit too good or too weird to be true. Not me, though. Some April Fools’ jokes …
Image: Reddit In a bid to make Reddit more like the other Reddit-adjacent apps out there, the platform has added a ‘Discover Tab’. RIP the Reddit we all love. Essentially, the Discover Tab is a new navigational tool that serves you up content on Reddit that you might want to engage with. Isn’t that just …
Image: Power Language / Kotaku You might think you are good at Wordle, with your favorite starting word and all that. But a real Wordle expert can complete puzzles using the worst starting word as determined recently by a computer and TikTok user. Yeah, sure, there are many, many guides and tips out there for …
Image: Naughty Dog / Sony Troy Baker, best known as the voice behind The Last Of Us Part II’s Joel Miller, made trouble for himself overnight when he announced his support for a new NFT venture around monetizing artists’ voice work. “You can hate. Or you can create. What’ll it be?” he standoffish-ly tweeted. It …
You ever do something in your home and think it’s cool, then share it with people online only to get roasted for ruining someone else’s happiness? That’s what’s happening to internet personality Logan Paul, who encased a bunch of beautiful Game Boy Colors in resin to make a Pokémon tabletop. Read More: Logan Paul Wore …
Illustration: Rose City Games / Finji / Toukana Interactive / Nintendo / Glass Bottom Games / Spry Fox / Witch Beam / Kotaku This year was the worst of times and…no, wait. I’m hearing it was just the worst of times. But games have helped a lot of us through it, especially ones that lean …
Image: Square Enix / Ubisoft / Kotaku / Drew Angerer (Getty Images) Hell-year 2021 is almost over. It’s been a terrible year for more reasons than I can count. Pondering all the bad, disappointing, or just plain sad news that transpired within the video game industry alone is enough to make you want to jump …
Racist Xbox Commenters Duped By Popular Impersonator Just In Time For Black History Month
Ben Palmer is invited to the cookout. Screenshot: Meta / Kotaku It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done …