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Grand Theft Auto V Kinect Mod Makes Plane-Flying Physical

Flying in video games with a controller is fine. It works well enough and it’s how many folks play. But what if you were the controller? What if you had to hold your arms out to fly and steer? Well wonder no more, for a YouTuber has made a mod for Grand Theft Auto V…

How’s It Going? Avengers Edition

Avengers assemble, I suppose. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Now that the weekend beta testing for Marvel’s Avengers is in full swing, I can finally share my bad screenshots of Ms. Marvel and big sweaty green man. While most of my weekend was eaten up by chores, I did attempt to get back…

The Week In Games: Another Battle Royale Comes To Consoles

Summer continues on and so too does the drought of big games. A good time to finish up some games on your backlog! I forgot Hyper Scape released in beta last month. I forgot it even existed. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, I haven’t played it yet, but that name and it being…

Axelay Honed SNES Music To Technical Perfection

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Every weekday at 8 a.m. ET you can look forward to hearing (and discussing!) a bit of game music that’s beautiful, rousing, technically interesting, or that we just think is worth a listen. Sometimes a…

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Report: Leaked Controller Mentions Second Next-Gen Xbox Console

While the machine has yet to be officially announced, there has long been speculation that Microsoft is planning on releasing a second next-gen console besides the Xbox Series X called the Xbox Series S. Speculation that’s about to get a lot stronger. The Verge reports that while we’re still waiting on such an announcement, a…

Horizon Zero Dawn Is Not Running Well On Many PCs

Horizon Zero Dawn’s release on PC is welcome, but for a lot of people right now the game’s performance isn’t exactly ideal. I installed and fired the game up on the weekend, excited to see what it looked like on my brand new PC (i7-9700, RTX 2070 Super, which was waaaaaaaay above the recommended specs).…

Track: Black Sweat | Artist: Prince | Album: 3121

‘Shop Contest: Fall Guys

The internet has a new favorite game: Fall Guys. I’ve played a bunch and I’ve enjoyed it. And I’ve fallen in love with the little bean men you control. They should get a break from dying all the time in their game. Let’s help them out! Your challenge this week: Bring the bean boys from…

How’s It Going?: Dual Monitors Edition

Sundays are for relaxing and chatting. And this thread can help you do one or maybe even both of these things. Come on in! After years of wanting to do it and people telling me I should do it, I have finally set up my PC with two monitors. And now I feel like Batman…

Sunday Comics: Sweaty Armpits

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. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Aug. 3. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Aug 3. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

Longtime Street Fighter Producer Yoshinori Ono Is Leaving Capcom

Today, Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono announced via a message on Twitter that he is leaving the franchise and Capcom after nearly 30 years. The message also contained his thoughts on the criticism to the changes made to the Capcom Pro Tour, which in the wake of COVID-19 has moved entirely online. In his statement,…

‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Brute, Winners!

Whoops! Due to a communication and planning error, I accidentally left you all without winners for a week. I hope you survived this week of suspense and chaos! Our winning image this week comes from Neuroplastique who lets this sad brute have some ice cream. How nice. A lot of great entries this week. This…

Unlimited Power!

This week on Snapshots: More Ghost of Tsushima screenshots! It’s a gorgeous game with the best photomode…ever? So it makes sense it once again dominates this week. But some other games, like Last of Us and Gran Turismo, get in the mix too. I think that fox might be a Sith Lord… Kotaku Snapshots is…

Playing Video Games While Pooping Is Terrible

My new apartment is nice for a lot of reasons. But one stranger reason is that it includes a bathroom connected directly to my office via one of two doors. And in front of that door to my office and the TV is a toilet. It’s an odd layout, but I had an idea. Do…

Toucannon Has A Powerful Gun Beak And It Ain’t Afraid To Use It

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 Toucannon! Toucannon Details Type: Normal/Flying Average Height: 3′ 07″ Average Weight: 53.7 lbs First Added In Generation VII Sometimes…

How’s It Going?: New Apartment Edition

Hello from my new apartment. I’m back after a week and a half long vacation. But our daily open thread never takes a day off. Come on in. I say I was on vacation, but 9 out of those 10 days were spent moving, unpacking, setting stuff up, dealing with buying items during a pandemic,…

Why Do We Fall, Giant Monster?

This week we celebrate learning how long it took to make Mario 64, fall in love with the dragon from Ring Fit Adventure, watch C-3PO finally get some revenge, check out the new trailer for Battletoads, and laugh at a monster falling down. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week So what if I wanna…

PlayStation 4’s Firewatch Theme Is My Window To A Better World

The world is cold and unfeeling, so it’s a small comfort to know I’ll always have the Firewatch theme on my PlayStation 4. I’m a pretty basic dude. I like my user interfaces clean and as free of clutter as possible. But when Campo Santo’s first-person adventure Firewatch arrived on PlayStation 4 a few years…

Dr Disrespect Resumes Streaming To Over 500,000 Viewers And Plenty Of Questions

In June, Twitch permanently banned one of its biggest stars, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, with no public indication as to why. Today, Beahm streamed for the first time since getting the big, purple boot from Twitch—now on YouTube. He was met by hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. And questions. Beahm announced his return yesterday,…