Rare’s 2000 shooter Perfect Dark is a classic game, building upon Goldeneye 007’s frame to create a more robust shooting experience. Speedrunners are good at finding the cracks in even the best games, and one runner has collected some of the game’s biggest skips and breakthroughs into a video, showing how some of the…
Round out 2018 with deals on Philips Hue lights, Anker charging gear, Amazon-branded trail mix, and a lot more.
Apple wants you to use your iPad or your iPad Pro like a proper computer: But how do you go about doing that? And does it actually work? Here are the apps, software tweaks, and accessories you need to turn your Apple tablet into a makeshift laptop—and some of the annoyances you’re still going to come across.
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: My Top Indie and AAA Games of 2018, What Are Yours? • All The Games I Completed In 2018 • Pestulon’s Top 10 Non-AAA Games Of 2018 • Half A Decade Of Watch The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya
Amazon’s bringing the year to a close with a Gold Box sale on several popular Anker products, spanning a variety of categories. The PowerPort Cube power strip was probably the biggest new hit with our readers this year, but who couldn’t use a new Qi pad, a 5-port charging hub, or a USB-C hub for their laptop? For the…
Another light week at the end of the year, but some neat games are showing up on the Switch.
Haven’t read the super popular Ghost in the Shell mangas yet? This collector’s box set includes three large-sized hardcover volumes, plus a collectible lithograph by creator Shirow Masamune for $47, which is within about $3 of an all-time low. Don’t let the live action movie ruin the series for you, this is better!
A speedrunner named Can’t Even has achieved the new world record for the “Out of Bounds” category in Portal by zipping through the game in a blistering 7:07, toppling their own previous record of 7:12. The run is pretty astonishing.
The YouTube channel 88Rising has put together a compilation video of rappers trying to save a puppy on a rooftop in VR. There’s a lot of rude language.
There’s a Gravelord Smash in Dark Souls Remastered for Switch today. It’s all about doing PVP as a part of, or against, the Gravelord Covenant. The event is going on until tonight at 7:00PM EST, so grab your Switch and get over the the Moonlight Butterfly Garden. Learn more here.
I don’t know your life, but I bet there’s something you need in today’s Gold Box of AmazonBasics electronics and accessories. Maybe you’ve been meaning to buy a UPS and just haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe, like me, you’re a peripheral junkie, and you need a USB hub to support your habit. Perhaps your New Year’s…
The MCU’s special effects get more and more impressive, from de-aging that looks actually realistic to Josh Brolin’s impressive performance as a half-human half-CGI Thanos.
Today is my last day as the Weekend Editor at Kotaku. That’s right: your Cities: Skylines-loving, Rollercoaster Tycoon-playing, isometric RPG-enjoying buddy is moving on. What can I say? It’s the adventurer’s way.
The good news: “Persona 5 R” is a real thing, presumably an enhanced version of the popular PS4 game (like Persona 4 Golden). The bad news: There’s no indication here that it’s coming to Switch. Yet. Developer Atlus says more news is coming in March.
Bowflex’s super popular adjustable dumbbells, electronics and accessories at Amazon, and GREATS on clearance are some of the best deals online today.
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.
YouTuber TazerHere has created a sleepy Texas town called Berrysville in immaculate detail, but what really makes it unique is that it is chock full of stories created by community members.
There’s nothing fancy about these TVs. The 55" is 4K, and the 50" is 1080p, but neither have HDR or any kind of smart functionality. But price is the most important spec for, say, a bedroom TV, and these hit the mark at $260 and $220, respectively.
The Epic Games Store is giving away Super Meat Boy from now until January 10. You simply create a store account (if you don’t have one), click the Meat Boy image at the top of the page, and get the game. After that, you’re free to jump and slide and plop to your heart’s content.
YouTuber Shesez’s show Boundary Break is always a treat, but the most recent episode on Fallout 3 is chock full of weird experiments with skyboxes, colors, and minutiae that’s beyond the regular play experience. My favorite part is the wasteland.
Mario gets all kinds of cool stuff out of question blocks — coins, extra lives, various superpowers — and you can get something almost as neat from this PowerA Nintendo Switch Super Mario Question Block Car Charger. Yep, it’s basically infinite power for your Switch, even when you’re on the go. How did you ever guess?
Bandersnatch, the new, Choose Your Own Adventure-style installment of Black Mirror out today, is (as you might expect) a twisty bit of interactive fiction. And Netflix has further tied the metatextual knot by building out a real website for the episode’s fictional games studio Tuckersoft, where several of the…
You can get Soma for free today on GOG. You can go to the game’s store page and simply claim it. We reviewed the game positively when it came out back in 2015.
Last week I asked the ‘Shop Crew to put together some holiday cheer, and y’all brought it all together.
A couple of perfect bedroom TVs, leather journals, and an extra discount on Eddie Bauer clearance items are some of the best deals on the web today.
If you’re a Magic: The Gathering player, you know that lands are the way that you generate mana, the resource that allows you to play cards. In a new video, YouTuber SaffronOlive explains how to get that balance of lands correct.
With the advent of affordable monitor risers, it’s never been easier to become a part-time or full-time standing desk user, but it’s important not to skimp on the anti-fatigue mat when you decide to make the transition.
Bayonetta enthusiast Stefani Germanotta, also known as Lady Gaga, just dropped a new trailer for her upcoming Las Vegas residency, Enigma. It’s something.
It’s almost the last weekend of the year. There won’t be another one until 2019. Many of us are currently preparing to sleep 48 hours straight before ringing in the new year which, if modern trends are anything to go by, will be “quite something,” at least if my grandmother were the one saying it. Regardless, there…
Sex is weird, and sometimes funny. A late entry to 2018's internet joke canon proves that.
Monster Hunter: World loves crossover events. Whether than means dressing up as Devil May Cry’s Dante, masquerading as Horizon: Zero Dawn’s Aloy, or battling Final Fantasy monsters, World’s various event quests lift liberally from other games. Last night, while no one was really paying attention, World snuck in an…
In 2018, I enjoyed playing some excellent games from, uh, 2017. It’s too bad that 2017 Maddy didn’t play Assassin’s Creed: Origins and Hollow Knight when they came out; if she had, they would have been on her 2017 best-of list. Luckily for current-day me, 2018 also had several great hits. Here are ten of my favorites…
If you own external monitors and they can be VESA mounted, there’s really no reason not to. It raises them to an ergonomic height, gives you lots of positioning options, and most importantly, clears up some valuable real estate on your desk. This mount can hold two screens up to 32" each, and it’s just $24 today with…
In the early hours of March 9th, 2018, Amir Badvipour, a university student and admin of the fan-run group Nintendo Iran, watched a new Nintendo Direct on his laptop. His closest gaming friends, all locals of Tehran, Iran, had stayed up to watch as well. With each new reveal and game update they shot messages back and…
Skies are an integral part of many video games, the backdrop against which all the action takes place. Even the most underwhelming game can make you want to hang around and play a little longer if there’s some striking eye candy hanging up above.
No matter how much one dives into the lore of The Legend Of Zelda Majora’s Mask, establishing absolutes about what really happened in the world of the 18-year-old Nintendo 64 adventure can be tricky. I’ve decided to try.
If you want a tablet to basically use as a portable TV (that’s basically what my iPad is at this point), a big screen is important, and you’d be hard pressed to find a better deal right now than Amazon’s Fire HD 10 for $100 today, a $50 discount.
The weekend is for scrambling to prepare for a trip next week to Norway, for which I have done more or less nothing but buy some warm socks. But are they enough warm socks? It’s all very exciting but stressful, so I will probably blow off some steam by playing video games.
Maybe you’ve grown tired of your current laptop or desktop operating system and you just want to try something different. Or maybe you need to use multiple OSes for work. Either way, the need for a new operating system doesn’t mean you need a whole new computer. There are numerous ways to run other operating systems…
Last night, Netflix released a special interactive episode of Black Mirror. From a technical perspective, it’s impressive. The story, on the other hand, blows.
A Google Home Hub, Cuisinart cookware, and one-day movie, comics and software deals thanks to Amazon Digital Day lead off Friday’s best deals.
The end of the year puts everybody in the mood to look back. Personally, when I look back, I like to look way back. For example, ten years back. So while everybody else is talking about the best games of 2018, I made a video counting down my ten favorite games of 2008.
Having recently acquired a Playstation 4 Pro, I sat down to decide what game I would play with its graphical boosts. After some consideration, I opted for Final Fantasy XV. I played it when it first came out and enjoyed it a lot. But the game’s grown since then, with DLC campaigns, expanded story sequences, and side…
At the close of every year, Kotaku highlights not just video games but gamers—people who did noteworthy or influential things in the world of video games. This year, we’ve decided to honor an entire community, one that did its best to group together and recover after a senseless, unthinkable tragedy.
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Sure, it’s a little early to be thinking about filing your taxes, but if you plan ahead and purchase your TurboTax software today from Amazon, you’ll score a nice discount, plus a $10 Amazon gift card to boot.
It’s late December. Let’s take a moment and look back at some of the Kotaku East stories from over the past year.
The remake’s official Japanese Twitter account tweeted out the character’s backstory for the new Resident Evil 2 remake. It is rather dull.
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Gaming’s Greatest Love Letter To Itself • Koda’s Fall 2018 Anime Progress • Parenting And Anime • Whoever Decided To Use Denki Groove For The Devilman Crybaby OP Deserves A Raise
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If failure is the quintessence of humility, then as I sat slumped over a fold-out chair in a bar beside a CRT television, GameCube controller in hand, I was the ultimate product of video game shame.
Gallium nitride, or GaN for short, has been a cutting edge replacement for silicon in experimental semiconductors for years now, but 2019 looks like it’ll be the year when we finally start seeing it used in everyday devices, and RAVPower is first out of the gate with its new 45W USB-C wall charger.