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Sonic The Hedgehog Voice Actor Roger Craig Smith Departs Role
28.1.2021
Announced via Roger Craig Smith’s Twitter earlier today, the prolific voice actor’s 10-year-run as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog has come to an end. A Sega rep tells Kotaku the company will “always be thankful to Roger for his contribution to the franchise.”Read more
Discord's r/WallStreetBets Ban Wasn't A Conspiracy, Just A Demonstration Of Platforms' Power
28.1.2021
After a wild ride that took it off the tracks and onto the goddamn Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, the GameStop stock train appears to finally be pulling back into the station. People are blaming market manipulation from stock trading apps like Robinhood for this, but they’re also lumping in a name...
Magic: The Gathering Arena Now Available On Google Play
28.1.2021
Magic: The Gathering Arena, the online multiplayer version of the popular trading-card game, launched today in early access for select Android devices via Google Play, with an iOS version due out later this year. Playing involves some squinting, but now it’s even harder to put down. Read more
25 Years Later, Player Confirms Street Fighter Alpha 2 Really Does Favor The Underdog
28.1.2021
Modern fighting games are often decried for what’s called “comeback mechanics,” which are thought to be absent from the more “honest” classic fighters. But those complaints ignore that the genre has always been (and I say this with all the love and respect in my heart) full of bullshit. Case...
I Threw $1,000 Into That Stonks Game Because Why Not
28.1.2021
My partner and I spent $1000 on a game yesterday. We didn’t spend it on Pokémon cards, or Fortnite V-bucks, or decide to become whales in Genshin Impact. But, at my insistence, we combined some funds, downloaded the Robinhood trading app, and bought some stock.Read more
Bleeding Edge Ceases Updates After 10 Months, Ninja Theory Focusing On Other Projects
28.1.2021
Ninja Theory announced today that it will no longer be updating Bleeding Edge with new content, though the game will remain playable on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.Read more
PS5 Exclusive Returnal Delayed To April 30
28.1.2021
Returnal’s release is now pushed by just over a month, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today.Read more
Mobile Monster Strategy Dragon Quest Tact Launches Worldwide
28.1.2021
Dragon Quest Tact is a big hit in Japan, with more than 10 million downloads since its 2020 release. It’s now available worldwide for iOS and Android devices, giving fans everywhere a chance to collect cartoony monsters and make them kill each other. Yay! Read more
Robinhood Blocks Users From Buying GameStop Stock
28.1.2021
The stock trading app Robinhood is currently blocking users from buying any more GameStop stock citing “recent volatility” as its price soared from just under $20 at the beginning of the month to over $300 at the end of yesterday.Read more
New Cyberpunk Patch Fixes The Old Cyberpunk Patch
28.1.2021
CD Projekt Red released a patch last week that inadvertently introduced a new game breaking bug, preventing some players from finishing Cyberpunk 2077. Today it released a new patch to fix that issue, as well as address some recent problems with loot randomization. Read more
Jeanette Maus, Actor For Resident Evil Village, Dies At 39
28.1.2021
Jeanette Maus, who lent her talents to Resident Evil Village, died this weekend. She was 39.Read more
Rare Magic The Gathering Card Goes For Over $500,000
28.1.2021
This week, an ultra-rare Magic The Gathering Alpha Black Lotus card signed by artist Christopher Rush sold for $511,100.00.Read more
Fake Movie Hollywood Trailers Of Anime Adaptations
28.1.2021
YouTuber Fake Eiga FMT has been creating phony trailers of Hollywood live-action versions of popular anime. These trailers are faux harbingers of just how Hollywood could leave its distinctive mark on beloved source material.Read more
Track: Suki, Suki, Suki (London) | Artist: Sadistic Mika Band | Album: Live in London
28.1.2021
Track: Suki, Suki, Suki (London) | Artist: Sadistic Mika Band | Album: Live in London Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Removes Mod That Let You Bang Keanu Reeves
28.1.2021
There was a mod available for Cyberpunk 2077 that let you have sex—or a very unsettling approximation of it—with Keanu Reeves’ character. That mod is gone now.Read more
Fallout Mod Pulled After Artist Allegedly Posts "Animated Pedophillic Content"
28.1.2021
We only wrote about the big new Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier last week when it was released! And now we’re writing about it again, because the mod has been “hidden” (basically temporarily removed) from Nexus Mods and pulled from its own website after allegations that one of its artists...
Give Me All The GameStop Jokes
28.1.2021
I’m not even going to pretend to understand what’s going on with GameStop—I’ll leave that to the excellent reporting of fellow Kotaku writer Ethan Gach. No, as with most things in life, I’m just here for the jokes. And social media has produced no shortage of silliness in response to this absurd...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Too Damn Long
28.1.2021
I finally got around to finishing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla this week. And while I had a great time with the game I also parted ways on a pretty sour note, because like its predecessor, it is just too damn long.Read more
Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets Server For 'Hateful' Content
28.1.2021
WallStreetBets, the subreddit behind engineering GameStop’s record-shattering stock price surge over the past week, has been banned from Discord for hate speech, The Verge reports.Read more
Tencent Buys Stake In Life Is Strange's Creators
27.1.2021
Tencent continued its massive expansion in the gaming world today after acquiring a minority stake in French developer Dontnod, maker of Life is Strange, Vampyr, and Tell Me Why.Read more