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How Studio Ghibli Helped With The Latest Evangelion Film
13.5.2021
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno has a history that goes way back with Studio Ghibli—before it was even founded. One of the first big jobs he got in the industry was working on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 classic Nausicaä. Read more
True Horror Is A Baby Chris Redfield Mod
11.5.2021
The scariest thing about Resident Evil Village isn’t the monsters, or the vampires, of the locals. It’s tucking wee baby Chris Redfield into bed.Read more
World Of Warships Adds Very Bored King Kong And Godzilla
11.5.2021
In World of Warships and its console counterpart, World of Warship: Legends, players compete in fairly realistic naval battles featuring historically accurate battleships and weapons. So it’s a bit odd that Godzilla and King Kong have been added to the game as part of a new event. Even weirder...
The Room: Old Sins Dollhouse Is An Excellent Lego Idea
10.5.2021
In The Room: Old Sins, players navigate a mysterious, puzzle-filled dollhouse, hoping to solve the mystery of a prominent engineer gone mad. Players find pieces of the dollhouse as they play, adding them to the build to unlock new areas. Sounds like the perfect project for the Lego Ideas program....
Alien Isolation: The I-Can't-Believe-I-Waited-Seven-Years-For-This Review
7.5.2021
For Backlog Month, I wanted to go back and play one game more than any other. One that had been casting the longest shadow over my back catalogue, a game that was both seemingly made specifically for me, but also made to keep me at arm’s length. That game is Alien: Isolation.Read more
Illumination Founder And Despicable Me Producer Joining Nintendo Board
6.5.2021
Today, Nintendo announced that Chris Meledandri will join the Nintendo board as an Outside Director as of June 29.Read more
Demon Slayer Tops US Box Office For First Time Since Original Pokémon Movie
4.5.2021
The Demon Slayer feature film was a box office juggernaut in Japan, surpassing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away as the biggest earning feature film in Japan. It’s also doing very, very well in the US.Read more
'Shop Contest: Lego Luigi, Winners!
2.5.2021
Mario’s tall and cowardly brother is back, in Lego form. To celebrate the news, we took this new, blocky Luigi and took him on some new adventures.Read more
There's A Creepy Clown Video Hidden In Roblox
1.5.2021
I’ve still never played Roblox and now I’m not sure I’ll ever play it after learning about a random, creepy clown video that is, for some reason, lurking in the game’s files. Read more
'Shop Contest: Lego Luigi
25.4.2021
After a few early leaks, Nintendo and Lego officially confirmed that Lego Luigi is coming to joining his Lego brother in block jumping adventures. Sounds like a fun Photoshop contest to me! Read more
Enemy: Tempest Of Violence Is Pure Distilled Batshittery (And I Love It)
24.4.2021
I’ve never owned an Amiga, but I am obsessed with Enemy: Tempest Of Violence, a Swiss-developed Amiga game released in 1997. Buckle up, this is about to be a ride.Read more
Mortal Kombat 2021: The Kotaku Movie Review
23.4.2021
As I said last month following a preview of the film’s first 12 minutes, the new Mortal Kombat movie starts off strong. The opening battle between the men who would become Sub-Zero and Scorpion is one of my favorite cinema moments of the year. The remaining 98 minutes? Not so much. The fights...
Sonic 2 Movie Set Photos Feature A Second Sonic Sidekick
21.4.2021
We know Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Sonic, and the teaser at the end of the first movie revealed Tails. Photos shot during the sequel’s filming in Vancouver show off a third anthropomorphic animal character that could be joining the cast. Potential movie spoilers but come on, we all know who...
Lord Of The Rings Online Hobbit Hits Level Cap By Baking Pies
21.4.2021
Lord of the Rings Online has a level cap of 130, and most players get there by killing things and doing magic shit. Except that is for Cookingwithsim, who playing as a humble Hobbit managed to get there almost exclusively by...baking pies.Read more
I’m Extremely Here For A Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Movie
19.4.2021
Toy manufacturer Mattel is turning Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots into a movie, an idea that’s so brilliantly idiotic that I’ll be first in line when tickets go on sale.Read more
Pfft, The Medium Isn’t Even That Scary
19.4.2021
Full disclosure: I am a wimp. Horror games? Can’t do ‘em. So it is with a modicum of surprise that—and I say this hesitantly—a couple hours in, I’m not scared of The Medium. At least not yet.Read more
The Mysterious Girl On The My Neighbor Totoro Poster
19.4.2021
On the original poster as well as on the DVD and Blu-ray cover, there is a mysterious girl standing next to Totoro. She isn’t Satsuki or Mei, and this girl does not appear in the movie. Yet, here she is.Read more
A Horror Game Where Reloading Is The Scariest Part
17.4.2021
Reloading in video games is rarely something you think a lot about. Often it’s a moment in time when you’re forced to stop shooting. But a new indie horror game makes reloading fun, nerve-wracking, and interesting. And it’s just one part of a great collection of horror games released earlier this...
Rare Gokus No Longer Lost At Sea
16.4.2021
Late last year, a storm at sea caused a shipping boat to lose a bunch of its cargo, possibly including rare figures of Dragon Ball Z’s Goku, alongside other collectibles. I am delighted to inform you that the Gokus are safe.Read more
Drink Up This Ghost In The Shell Japanese Booze
16.4.2021
Joining the likes of other geeky sake comes a line of Ghost in the Shell-themed stuff. Kanpai!Read more