photo: Koen van Weel/ANP/AFP (Getty Images) Chess can be sexy. Anya Taylor-Joy on the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit taught me that. Chess can also be evil and stupid. A viral (and unfounded) claim that a 19-year-old chess champion defeated the world’s best chess player, Norwegian pro Magnus Carlsen with smart tech anal beads ...
Outside of the 2019 Game Developers Conference, before anyone had ever heard the phrase: “Google Stadia‘ read a small display outlining the history of the game. Dates and bullet points marked some of the most important events, and on three pedestals sat some of the industry’s most notorious flops: Ataris ETmattel NO Power Glove and ...
This is him, Chris Pratt. screenshot: Games Reinvented / Kotaku It feels like just yesterday when Shigeru Miyamoto pulled out the Goomba rug among our collective gamer asses with the surprise announcement of the upcoming Hollywood cast Super Mario Bros. Movie. Starred by Chris Pratt during casting many horrifiedit inspired a visual artist to reinvent ...
gif: Valve / Source VR Mod Team / Kotaku As of last week, playing Valve’s groundbreaking 2004 shooter has been a longtime dream half-life 2 in virtual reality has finally come to fruition. The journey began nearly 10 years ago when a man named Nathan Andrews managed to hack together a working version of the ...
MultiVersus got tons of new characters, with drunken scientist Rick Sanchez from the adult time warp cartoon Rick & Morty is the latest addition to the Warner Bros. crossover fighter. The roster expansion won’t stop there, however, as datamining has been suggesting for some time that characters like Gandalf, Mad Max and the Joker are ...
screenshot: CBS Viacom/Kotaku In a past life, Frances Townsend defended the legal basis for the torture method known as waterboarding George W. Bush’s War on Terror. In a more recent one, she has helped direct Activision Blizzard’s initially unmusical response a major sexual harassment lawsuit from the state of California. Now she resigns as that ...
screenshot: blizzard Today Activision Blizzard announced three upcoming programs surveillance 2‘s competitive and recreational scene. These aim to promote a healthy environment, with a focus on the new and returning LGBTQ+ player base. In a blog post titled “Calling all heroes,” the over watch Team and its competitive esports program Overwatch League (OWL) announced that ...
‘Member McDonald’s AND mascot?picture: McDonald’s / cactus flea market / Kotaku In the latest example of how memes aren’t just dreams, McDonald’s announced that adults can reconnect with their inner child by opening a Happy Meal and discovering a toy of their own. Yes, Happy Meal Toys for adults will be around, at least for ...
picture: Q Games / Google earlier today, Google confirmed it’s shutting down Stadia, his short-lived cloud gaming service. While the company plans to refund all Stadia-related software and hardware purchases, the future of the service’s few remaining exclusives is less clear. And if they’re not ported to other platforms before Stadia rides into the sunset ...
