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When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go

This week on Snapshots we got a nuclear explosion, some rope tricks, a big monster, a cute fox, another great Spider-Man screenshot, and a lonely skeleton on a toilet. Give the man some privacy. Kotaku Snapshots is a weekly look at some of the best, funniest and coolest screenshots players have taken in their favorite…

There’s A Toad In Super Mario Sunshine That Is Trapped Alone Beneath The Map, Forever

There are a lot of fun characters and enemies in Super Mario Sunshine, which was recently re-released on Switch alongside Mario 64 and Galaxy via the Mario 3D All-Stars collection. But one character, a single yellow Toad, is trapped forever under the map, alone and forgotten. Boundary Break, the popular YouTube channel that uses camera…

Dreepy Is The Ghost of A Dinosaur That’s So Weak Kids Can Kick Its Ass

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Dreepy! Dreepy Details Type: Ghost/Dragon Average Height: 1′ 08” Average Weight: 4.4 lbs First Added In Generation VIII Not…

A Lot of Work Went Into Making Dinos Fight In Primal Rage

Primal Rage was a strange, but cool looking arcade from the 90s that used stop-motion animation to create its dino fighters. And this short behind the scenes video produced by Time Warner back in the day shows how much work went into making Primal Rage. There are some silly 90s bits to this video, like…

Grove Street For Life

This week we watch Godzilla eat people, talk hash bros, remember that fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head, check out a new trailer for Yakuza Like A Dragon, and honor the greatest warrior in history, Grand Theft Auto’s CJ. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Let’s all just stop using Facebook. Is this…

We’re Rebooting Kotaku Splitscreen With An Episode About Reboots

Rising like Godzilla from Tokyo Bay after a long 1,000 year slumber, it’s Kotaku Splitscreen! Yes, Splitscreen is back with both a brand-new cast and the blessing of the old one. (And by the way, if you’re missing the old crew, check out Maddy, Kirk, and Jason’s new podcast Triple Click.) For this new iteration…

Troubled Amazon Shooter Crucible Is Shutting Down

The rocky saga of Crucible, the free-to-play team-based shooter Amazon released in May 2020 and then unreleased in July 2020, is coming to an end. The developers announced today that they intend to shut down servers on November 9. The team will then transition to development on Amazon’s MMO, New World “We very much appreciate…

America Got The Better Super Mario Bros. 2

Every discussion about the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 invariably turns to its origins as a completely different game. “It’s not the ‘real’ Super Mario Bros. 2,” is a fact some folks are more than happy to point out, and in some ways, they’re absolutely right. I just don’t think it matters all…

Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Called Out For Their Basic-Ass Character Creations

Mere minutes after I posted my take on Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creator, Larian Studios (coincidentally) announced the release of a third hotfix for its long-awaited CRPG, which contained this intriguing morsel: “Before the fixes, let’s share something you’ve created yourselves (this is your own fault) through your choices in character creation. We took the…

Indivisible Development Stops After Lab Zero Fallout

505 Games has announced that Indivisible, the Valkyrie Profile-esque RPG developed by Lab Zero Games, has ceased development and will no longer receive new content after an upcoming Switch patch. “At this stage, apart from content that is already in submission, there will unfortunately be no more production on [Indivisible],” 505 Games’ statement reads. Once…

Sony Lists 10 PS4 Games That Won’t Run On PS5

A new page filled with details about PlayStation 5 backward compatibility appeared today on the official PlayStation support website. While we already knew about some of what’s listed here, Sony did include a new and relatively short list of PS4 games that won’t be playable on PS5. The new support page is titled “Backward compatibility:…

Final Fantasy 14 Gets Next Big Update In December, Will Have Faster Load Times On PS5

Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy XIV will get patch 5.4, called Futures Rewritten, in early December. And the publisher said the massively multiplayer online game will be backwards compatible on PS5, with faster load times as a result of the next-gen hardware’s faster SSD. FFXIV will also apparently be able to make use…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Well, I give up. As much as I want to play something else this weekend because I feel like I should, I’m going to play more Fallout 76. It’s time to stop fighting it and just embrace it. I imagine some of you have had similar problems, where you find yourself playing something old instead…

Xbox Series X console exclusive The Medium won’t arrive until a month after the next-gen console launches. Bloober Team revealed the game will release on December 10 in a new trailer today.

Destiny 2‘s Intro Is Getting Overhauled To Make It More Welcoming To New Players

Starting out Destiny 2 as a new player is a bit of a mess at the moment. You’re almost immediately thrown into a huge solar system full of weird economies and esoteric systems, left to muddle through years of old content. Bungie plans to change that next month with a completely new tutorial experience. Starting…

Fallout 76’s Music Was Always Great

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going to talk about Fallout 76’s pastoral ode to nuclear death and irradiated rebirth. No other soundtrack in recent memory has breathed so much life into an otherwise empty and broken game. I’m speaking,…

Report: Microsoft Bringing Xbox Game Pass To iOS In 2021

A few months back it seemed pretty unlikely that Microsoft would be able to bring its Xbox Game Pass (via xCloud streaming) to iOS devices, but a report today says that games boss Phil Spencer is telling employees it’ll be ready next year, and it’ll likely be using a browser to get around Apple’s restrictions.…

Bloody Hell Here’s Some Bloodborne Cosplay

Photographer Nikolay Zharov put this incredible shoot together featuring the work of three cosplayers: Tina Morbid (Good Hunter), Shion (Father Gascoigne) and Zep Hindle (Old Hunter Henryk). The costumes are amazing! Ditto the props! But I also deeply love the action figure-style pedestal shots, it’s a great way to give us a look at a…

Lowlands Away

Alisher Mirzoev is an environment artist and matte painter based in Russia who has worked on projects like Pathfinder and Styx You can see more of Mirzoev’s stuffat his ArtStation page

Nicolas Cage Does His Best Travis Touchdown Impression

Croatian newspaper DuList recently snapped some photos of actor Nicolas Cage filming his upcoming movie, the aptly named The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in the village of Cavtat. As many folks have pointed out on Twitter, the pink leather jacket makes him the spitting image of Travis Touchdown, the otaku protagonist of the No…