How One Valorant Clip Kickstarted A Conversation About Sexism In Competitive Games
Last summer, I reported on major studios’ valiant (but still lacking) efforts to combat toxic voice chat (of which women are often the target) in popular competitive games like Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, and Apex Legends. And...
The End Of Battlefield 2042, 'Woke' Scrabble, And More Of The Week's Biggest News
Image: EA / Dice, Crunchyroll, Bethesda Softworks, Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony, Blizzard, Atlus, Screenshot: Fox News / Kotaku, Toei...
9 Years After Release, Witcher 3 Fans Are Still Finding Easter Eggs
There is a lot to do in The Witcher 3, CD Projekt’s Red’s open-world RPG that released in 2015. Many players, including me, spent hundreds of hours with protagonist Geralt exploring every corner of the map, completing every...
Pokémon Hacker Arrested For Selling Modified Violet Monsters
Image: NiRain / Game Freak / KotakuA Japanese man in his mid-30s has been arrested for allegedly tampering with Pokémon Violet save data to sell rare monsters online to interested buyers.What’s Coming Out Beyond Pokémon: The...
Fallout’s Michael Esper On Being 'Obsessed’ With The Series, Luigi, And More
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Even F1 Legend Lewis Hamilton Can’t Beat Driver’s Opening Level
Screenshot: Mercedes-Benz / Ubisoft / KotakuFamous and incredibly successful F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has one of the best careers in racing history, with records for the most career wins, most pole positions, most podium finishes, most...
The 17 Best Video Game Movies And Shows
IC FilmsAs a kid, I loved social deduction games like Mafia and Heads Up Seven Up. I think I learned pretty early in life that I not only liked being able to read people, but really thrived at...
First AI-Generated Romance Film Looks Like Crap
TV maker TCL announced its first original short film—Next Stop Paris—and excitedly confirmed that it was made using AI-generation tools. They didn’t need to tell us that, however, because the shitty, awful trailer makes it very clear that...
More Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth & Dragon's Dogma 2 Tips, You're Welcome
Screenshot: Sony / Shift Up / KotakuThe Stellar Blade demo has been out since March 29, and if you manage to beat it, your save data will carry over to the full game when it launches...
The Case For ‘Simple’ Games Like Content Warning
In middle school—stop me if you’ve heard this before—I knew a group of guys that loved to do stupid, reckless shit. They likened themselves to the cast of Jackass, but it wasn’t good enough to do said stupid...
