Meet Margaret Wilcox, The Woman Who Invented The Car Heater
10.4.2021
When Margaret A. Wilcox developed the car heater, she did it in an era where being a mechanical engineer was a rarity—and which was even more difficult for a woman. Every time you warm up your icy extremities behind the wheel on a cold winter day, you have Wilcox to thank.Read more
Treat Yourself to a Netflix Binge With This $680 70-inch Samsung 4K TV
10.4.2021
Samsung 70” LED 4K UHD Smart Tizen TV | $680 | Best BuyRead more
Swivel, Pivot, and Tilt This Asus 27" Monitor as Much as You Want for 19% Off
10.4.2021
ASUS 27” Full HD Monitor | $170 | NeweggRead more
More Donald Ducks In Kingdom Hearts, Please
10.4.2021
With the arrival of the Kingdom Hearts series on PC last week, enterprising players can now tinker with the games in ways that were either too difficult or downright impossible to achieve on consoles. Naturally, this has resulted in a mod that lets folks spawn (among other things) hundreds...
Korean Overwatch League Player Shares His Experience With Anti-Asian Racism In America
10.4.2021
As opening day for the fourth season of the Overwatch League looms, Korean players on North American teams are dealing with the precipitous rise in anti-Asian racism. On April 5, Eui-Seok “Fearless” Lee, main tank for the Dallas Fuel, talked about his experience being Korean and living in America...
No One Warned Me About Hitman 2’s Cutscenes
10.4.2021
Over the past few months, I, late to the party, have fallen head over heels for the new Hitman trilogy. Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to, including several Kotaku colleagues, have said Hitman 2 is the best of the three, or at least the one I should play first. They did not mention how jarring...
In 2007, Video Game Memes Took A Dark Turn
10.4.2021
Memes. These days, they’re everywhere. They are the pillars upon which internet culture—and by extension, pop culture—stands. But once upon a time, memes dwelled in the internet’s dankest sewers, traded in the darkness by geeks, nerds, and outcasts. On this week’s Splitscreen podcast, we examine...
Someone Recovered The Code To Unlock A Full Version Of Timesplitters 2 In Homefront: The Revolution
10.4.2021
Back in 2016 players of Dambusters Studio’s Homefront: The Revolution easily found an Easter egg featuring two levels from 2002's Timesplitters 2. Now a code until recently thought lost has been recovered that unlocks a complete playable port of the time-traveling first-person shooter.Read more
Half-Life 2: Survivor je nejbizarnějším dílem série, ale má své kouzlo
10.4.2021
Málo známý Half-Life 2: Survivor je arkádový automat, který vyšel pouze v Japonsku. Hrát na něm je velmi výstřední zážitek, ale žádný fanda série by si ho neměl nechat ujít
I Finally Played Quake 4 Last Week And Have Already Forgotten Most Of It
9.4.2021
Quake 4 has essentially been forgotten in 2021, and most folks are fine with that. Even id itself seems willing to let it rot away in some forgotten morgue, with the official Quake collection on Steam omitting Quake 4 entirely. But I was curious. Was Quake 4 really that bad? And if so, what went...
The 10 Best Deals of April 9, 2021
9.4.2021
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This Cell Phone Cooking Game Has Me Irate Over Its Slander of New York Cuisine
9.4.2021
I spent so much money on a phone not because I need to have the latest technology in order to live my life and communicate with other people. It’s because I need something that can hold all the memory taken up by the obscene amount of games I have download, even though they are all essentially...