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Decades Later, Mariya Takeuchi’s 'Plastic Love' Is A Top Ten Hit Song In Japan
18.11.2021
Recorded in 1984, “Plastic Love” is the song that continues to make comeback after comeback. This month, well over three decades after its original release, the song’s full-length official video was finally uploaded to YouTube and, according to Warner Music Japan, its re-issued 12-inch single also...
Everything Leading Into One Piece's Historic 1,000th Episode, According To The Voice Actors
17.11.2021
With its manga counterpart surpassing a thousand chapters and a live-action Netflix series coming, One Piece, one of anime’s longest-running shonen series, will make franchise history this week with the premiere of its 1,000th episode. The landmark episode will stream on Funimation and Crunchyroll...
Japan's Manga Piracy Crackdown Continues
16.11.2021
In 2019, there was a global manhunt for the manager of manga piracy site Manga-Mura. The manager, a Japanese citizen named Romi Hoshino, was arrested in Manila on copyright violation charges. In June 2021, he was found guilty, sentenced, and fined. If you thought that was the end of Japan’s piracy...
League Of Legends' Arcane Is The Best Show On Netflix Right Now
16.11.2021
It’s not always easy to predict which shows will instantly become appointment television. A dark fantasy series based on a half-completed run of novels? Yup! A profane but sardonically humorous soap inspired partially by Rupert Murdoch? Okay, sure! How about an animated prequel for a multiplayer...
The Gulf Between Amouranth and Other Top Women Streamers On Twitch Is Enormous, Stats Say
15.11.2021
When Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa isn’t getting banned from Twitch for things like wearing a horse mask and suggestively slurping a microphone, she’s pulling huge viewership numbers month after month. Not only was she Twitch’s leading female streamer for October, she accrued almost as many view...
Modders, Not Rockstar, Have Fixed The GTA Trilogy's Infamously Ugly Rain
15.11.2021
The recently “remastered” GTA trilogy has some of the ugliest rain I’ve ever seen, and a handful of days later, modders have fixed it. No longer will you walk the streets of Vice City at night, only to be covered in the drippings of Spiderman’s leaky web-shooter. Finally, you can be free of that...
Amazon's New World Pauses Economy Again To Stop Cheaters
15.11.2021
The latest game-breaking bug in New World has been allowing players to duplicate items. Amazon locked down the MMO’s entire economy (again) after concerned players started posting about the situation on its official forums. As of the time of publication, New World players can’t send money, trade...
Three Days Later, Remastered GTA Trilogy Still Unplayable On PC Even If You Bought It
14.11.2021
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition was released on November 11 on all major platforms including the Switch. However, for folks who bought the game on PC, they’ve been unable to play the game since just shortly after it was released. Now three days later, fans are still unable...
Sunday Comics: Dingle Dingle
14.11.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Id Software Is Trying To Stop A Man Who Wants To Name His Band 'Doomscroll'
13.11.2021
Doomscrolling is that thing where you spend way too much time flipping through Twitter or Instagram reading bad news. And apparently, a metal guitarist in Dallas, Texas thought it would be the perfect name for a new band. But after attempting to trademark the band name, Doom devs Id Software began...
Remastered GTA Trilogy Contains Controversial 'Hot Coffee' Sex Code And Supposedly Cut Songs
13.11.2021
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition has suffered a pretty bad launch since releasing on November 11. On PC, players have been unable to play the game for over 24 hours due to Rockstar Launcher issues. All versions of the game are filled with bugs, visual glitches, horrible weather...
Classic Mods And Old GTA Games Didn’t Need To Die For These Unfinished Remakes
12.11.2021
After months of rumors, speculation, leaks, and teasers, Rockstar finally released the remastered Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition collection yesterday. It landed with a thud as players encountered and documented countless visual bugs, gameplay glitches, and odd changes to models...
GTA Trilogy Pulled For PC, Rockstar Launcher Broken
12.11.2021
Something has gone very, very wrong since yesterday’s launch of GTA Trilogy on PC. As of last night, all mention of a PC version has been removed from Rockstar’s own site, and the Rockstar Games Launcher app has gone completely offline. Anyone who bought it before it vanished is currently unable...
Something Awful Founder Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka Dies At 45
11.11.2021
Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted that site founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has reportedly died. “I guess I should preface this by saying this isn’t a joke especially since I’m posting for like the first time in 10 years or something, but I got the bad news today...
Eiichiro Oda Gives An Update On Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series
10.11.2021
Massively popular manga One Piece is getting a live-action adaptation from Netflix. The adaptation was first announced back in 2017, with Netflix’s involved revealed last year. Now in 2021, the show’s main cast has finally been announced, and One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda seems excited about...
Digital Foundry's YouTube Channel Hacked By Cryptobros, Gets Taken Down
9.11.2021
The YouTube channel of technical experts Digital Foundry has been taken down for violating community guidelines after it was first hacked and then began broadcasting some crypto scam bullshit earlier today.Read more
Netflix Continues Big Anime Push With A Dozen Exciting New Shows and Films
9.11.2021
Today, Netflix continues its heavy investment into the anime industry by announcing a ton of shows, including some very high profile sequels. In addition to animated productions, they’ve also announced live-action adaptations of several anime, original live-action series, and several films. It...
Nice Ruins You Got Here
9.11.2021
Ellie Cooper is an artist based in the UK who has done stuff for companies like Disney and Google.Read more
Hackers Appear One Step Closer To Jailbreaking The PS5
8.11.2021
The PlayStation 5 only launched a year ago this week, but already hackers appear to have made massive breakthroughs in potentially jailbreaking the latest Sony console. Both theFlow0 and Fail0verflow posted screenshots on Twitter over the weekend indicating they managed to unlock the PS5’s debug...
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Leak Early
7.11.2021
Game Freak’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remasters aren’t officially out for another two weeks, but some copies of the upcoming Nintendo Switch games have already started appearing out into the wild. Now fans are combing through apparent leaked screenshots and videos for signs...