Photo: eBay / Tomoya Ohno Everyone knows old Pokémon cards are incredibly hot right now, but nobody knows exactly what they’re worth to collectors. Exhibit A: Someone put a holographic Illustrator Pikachu in near-perfect condition up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $480,000, and it went over like a lead balloon. A
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Image: HoYoverse / Kotaku Genshin Impact is hardly the worst offender when it comes to portraying women in video games. The sexualization of its female cast is limited to extraneous hip windows. Their personalities are inoffensive and charming. But as I watch every major update usher in personal developments and new lore for its male
I hope you’ve got time to spare.Image: Shueisha / Pierrot / Viz Media / Toei Animation / Kotaku / PNGWing / Shareif Ziyadat (Getty Images) Last week, director and actor Michael B. Jordan revealed his top five anime recommendations during a press junket interview for Creed III. Read More: Creed III Director Michael B. Jordan
Image: Lucasfilm / Disney No, this game doesn’t use the Doom engine like some claim online, but it does play a lot like that classic PC shooter; just instead of demons and rocket launchers, you have stormtroopers and blasters. Dark Forces is considered one of the best Star Wars games ever made and while it
Photo: Kotaku / Sweet Anita / AnnaStills (Shutterstock) A month after Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed that he was watching sexually explicit deepfakes of his fellow streamers while on stream, Twitch has issued a lengthy statement regarding its stance on the controversy and what the company is calling “synthetic non-consensual exploitative images” or
Image: EA Loot boxes have been a thorn in gamers’ sides for as long as they’ve been around, with lawsuits and players deriding them as exploitative gambling mechanics. EA has been a prominent example of publishers using loot boxes, and its massively popular soccer game FIFA is no exception. FIFA’s Ultimate Team, or FUT, card
Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku The latest episode of HBO’s The Last of Us is full of standout scenes. While episode 8, “When We Are In Need,” is full of tension, drama, and even a bit more action than the show typically gets into, the moment that has viewers in a chokehold right now is one of
Screenshot: FromSoftware / king bore haha / Kotaku A new Elden Ring mod morphs FromSoftware’s open world epic into a gory Pokémon battler, with infinite spirit summons you can pit against each other like you’re Ash Ketchum at the renaissance fair. You can download the “Elden Ring Spirit Battler” now on Nexus Mods, no strings
Image: Capcom / Kotaku Remakes, adaptations, reimaginings, reboots, they’re all tricky business. And with a game as celebrated as Resident Evil 4 next up on the remake meat grinder of modern video games, you might be curious as to what’s gonna get left on the cutting room floor. Well, a recent interview with the game’s