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Damn You, Fortnite Butter Barn Song
3.3.2021
This season of Fortnite has been a whirlwind of crossover skins and deranged players hoping that Epic puts Family Guy’s Peter Griffin in the game. But the latest in-demand item is a possible music track—the song “Butter Barn Hoedown.” The supposedly leaked track somehow, impossibly, rules?Read more
Legend Of Mana’s Grand Score Helps Me Take Its BS Seriously
3.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, it’s time to revisit an obscure PS1 classic from Square Soft’s JRPG heyday, which had some of the chillest city-builder tunes around. I’m talking about Legend of Mana,...
PlayStation Store Will Stop Selling Movies Nobody Bought
2.3.2021
Have you ever bought a movie or TV show through the PlayStation Store? Me neither. As a result, Sony announced today it will remove them, starting August 31, 2021.Read more
How to Filter Spotify Playlists by Genre or Mood
1.3.2021
Odds are good that your “Liked Songs” playlist on Spotify is a mishmash of genres and artists that don’t exactly flow together. Personally, I don’t necessarily want to listen to songs from Gorguts, Megan Thee Stallion, and the Spirited Away soundtrack back-to-back-to-back. No DJ in their right...
Zero Divide Is A Primordial PlayStation Synth-Fusion Treasure
1.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s pick comes from the dawn of the 32-bit era, when makin’ “Virtua Fighter, but with robots” just seemed like a natural thing to do.Read more
Chiliz $CHZ Growth Continues With Trio of New Listings
1.3.2021
Chiliz $CHZ – the digital currency for sports and entertainment – has announced listings on the Bitcoin.com Exchange, HitBTC and Changelly platforms. Chiliz is the on-platform currency of fan engagement platform Socios.com, which is built on the Chiliz blockchain infrastructure....
RIP Legendary Artist Gary Meyer
1.3.2021
Gary Meyer, an artist who has worked on everything from Star Wars to theme park rides to video games to album covers, has died at the age of 86.Read more
I Love The Roku Screensaver
28.2.2021
The past six months (or more) have been a whirlwind of shit news, terrible events, and moments of pure absurdity and horror. It’s been bad, is what I’m saying. Because of this, I often get lost doomscrolling on Twitter or reading another horrible news story about something dreadful. Meanwhile,...
Someone Recreated The Entire First Act Of Hamilton In Animal Crossing
28.2.2021
Hamilton is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Animal Crossing is one of the most popular games around right now. I guess it only makes sense that someone would combine them, but I didn’t expect it to be so damn good. Read more
Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms
28.2.2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.Read more
'Shop Contest: The Legend Of Zelda 35th Anniversary, Winners!
28.2.2021
Last week marked the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise. To celebrate the iconic series, I asked you all to create Zelda-themed images. You didn’t disappoint.Read more
E3 2021's Live Show Has Been Cancelled According To LA Tourism Documents
27.2.2021
Shocking nobody, it seems there won’t be a big, physical live E3 event this year in Los Angeles. Read more
The Boys Season 3 Will Be a Supernatural Reunion
27.2.2021
SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you.Read more
How One Of The Worst Video Game Movies Of All Time Got Made
26.2.2021
Somehow, miraculously, video game movies and TV shows are suddenly good. The Witcher is fun, Sonic inhaled box office money like so many chili dogs last year, and star-studded renditions of Borderlands and The Last of Us are on the way. Also, the new Mortal Kombat movie looks dumb as hell in...
Tron: Evolution’s Hard Electronica Holds Its Own With Daft Punk
26.2.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we are entering the grid. It’s time to fight for the users. More Tron references! Enough of that, let’s listen to Tron: Evolution’s soundtrack.Read more
Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away Getting A Live-Action Theatrical Adaptation
26.2.2021
In 2022, Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away will get its first live-action theatrical adaptation.Read more
Report: PlayStation 5 Storage Upgrades Coming This Summer
26.2.2021
Sony is getting ready to allow for internal PS5 storage upgrades, sources tell Bloomberg. This would obviously enable PlayStation 5 owners to store even more games at a time.Read more
Sony's Illustrious Japan Studio Is Basically Done For
26.2.2021
Japan Studio, a branch of PlayStation’s development efforts once responsible for everything from Shadow of the Colossus to Gravity Rush to Ape Escape, has been downsized to oblivion by Sony, with only the team responsible for Astro’s Playroom remaining alongside a few other staff.Read more
Twitch Removes Amazon's Anti-Union Ads After Furious Streamer Response
25.2.2021
Earlier this week, it came to light that Twitch was running ads in blatant opposition to the Amazon warehouse worker unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. Streamers, who had no say in whether or not these ads appeared during their broadcasts, were outraged. Today, Twitch has removed the...
Report: Chat Logs Reveal Pervasive Racism In Top World of Warcraft Raiding Guilds
25.2.2021
Two raiding guilds in the upper tiers of World of Warcraft’s North American ladder, Clout Gang and Instant Dollars, have come under fire for using racial and homophobic slurs. First reported by PC Gamer, an Imgur album containing screenshots of Clout Gang’s Discord and in-game chats was posted...