Image: Xbox Halo and Destiny veteran Joseph Staten just announced that he is joining Netflix Games as its newest creative director, and that he’ll be helming “a brand-new AAA multiplatform game and original IP.” Nintendo Showcase Standout Gunbrella Has The Best New Video Game Name Of 2022 “In my work life, there’s nothing I love
Image: Nintendo / Kotaku In a sign that GameStop is either doing great or is really desperate, the meme stock gaming retailer is currently running some incredible deals, including buy one get one free on certain new releases and big discounts on accessories like the The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword amiibo that unlocks fast
Drawing as many as 200,000 local and regional visitors, Omaha’s Cinco de Mayo, one of the city’s largest and most diverse community celebrations, will serve up the fun again this year from May 12-14. The event opens with a carnival, live music and a coronation on Friday night. Then, crowds line
Japanese gaming publisher Sega announced on Monday it will buy the company behind smartphone one-hit wonder Angry Birds for $775 million. It’s the latest major gaming acquisition, and one of the weirdest ones yet. Grand Theft Auto 6 Comments: A Dramatic Reading We got an initial tease of the deal in a report by The
The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been busy the last few weeks making headlines for its bountiful video game easter eggs, making box office records, and making Bowser stans the world over feel validated thanks to actor Jack Black’s show-stopping performance both on and off the silver screen. Now movie-goers think Black may have secretly
The following contains mild spoilers for The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, a murder mystery visual novel starring the core cast of Sega’s long-running platformer-series-turned-multimedia-franchise that debuted as an April Fools surprise, has gone on to become one of the best-reviewed games starring Sonic and his pals. But it
Screenshot: Illumination The Super Mario Bros. Movie may be a designer baby that Nintendo and Illumination grew in a lab, but all the aggressive marketing that accompanied the release is clearly paying off. The film hit a new record-setting sales benchmark during the weekend of April 15 and 16 and is expected to surpass $1
It certainly looks like someone might have stolen a bunch of rare Fusion Strike cards from The Pokémon Company. According to evidence surfacing from a Dallas-based Pokémon trading card community, the alleged thief tried to sell them to a local shop only to be turned over to The Pokémon Company in what the store is
Todd Haynes, who premiered his glorious documentary about the Velvet Underground in Cannes last year, is back with “May/December.” It’s apparently about a well-known American couple in which the husband is 23 years younger than his wife and their twins are about to graduate from high school. This may be the year of “Yep—there’s an age
Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we’re looking at how Spinda, an unassuming critter from Generation III, went from a novelty to an apparent nuisance for The Pokémon Company