Happy Respect Your Cat Day! If you have a cat, let it do whatever it wants today. If you don’t have a cat, then just salute some pictures of cats online or get one in The Sims and be nice to it. In honor of this great day, I asked you folks to create images featuring cats. Real or fake!
Source: Kotaku – ‘Shop Contest: Respect Your Cat Day, Winners
This week on Snapshots, trippy orbs, a creepy computer, a cool looking arrow, a sign left forgotten in the wasteland, a fast car, and social distancing in Animal Crossing.
Source: Kotaku – Social Distancing With Style
Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had…
Source: Kotaku – The Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players are using, chairs, tree stumps, pipe flutes, in-game emotes, and text chat to set up games of musical chairs where the winner walks away with over 100k bells.
Source: Kotaku – Animal Crossing Players Are Playing High Stakes Musical Chairs
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Claydol!
Source: Kotaku – Claydol Is Over 20,000 Years Old And Was Brought To Life By Aliens
Netflix is planning to create a live-action movie based on the 80s arcade game Dragon’s Lair and Ryan Reynolds is set to produce and star in the film.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Is Making A Live-Action Dragon’s Lair Movie
Hello! This week we use Half-Life to teach math, watch the trailer for next big Animal Crossing update, shock ourselves while we play Smash, learn how Nintendo is helping healthcare workers fight the pandemic and trap poor Roald in a cage made of concrete walls.
Source: Kotaku – Someone, Please Help Roald
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Source: Kotaku – Get a Gaming Headset for Cheap and Start Communicating with the Squad
In Iron Danger you can rewind time whenever you need to in order to save your life and land the killing blow. It’s a cool idea and works well enough in practice, but that fun premise doesn’t stop the rest of Iron Danger from being an otherwise pretty middling isometric role-playing game experience.
Source: Kotaku – Iron Danger Is A Fantasy Role-Playing Game With Superhot-Style Time Dilation
Face it: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an annoying game.
Source: Kotaku – Quick Tricks That Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Too Chill To Tell You About
If you prefer to stay inside, you might turn to video games to pass the time. There is just one problem, though—video games get expensive really, really quick. But, there’s a way to mitigate the cost of gaming with various gaming subscription services, allowing you to have access to a wide array of games for a small…
Source: Kotaku – Level Up Your Gaming Arsenal With These 11 Subscription Services and Upgrades
Guns, Love, and Tentacles, yesterday’s major update to Borderlands 3, revolves around a gay wedding on an alien planet. While that’s fantastic in its own right, the rest of the expansion is pretty great too, combining fresh aesthetics with a bevy of cool new guns and what is arguably the series’ only good boss fight…
Source: Kotaku – Borderlands 3’s Latest Expansion Gives The Series Its First Good Boss Fight
I didn’t know there was anything weird about my keyboard until I went looking for replacements for my Enter key. That’s when I learned I’ve been spending the last five years typing with an abomination.
Source: Kotaku – My BIG-Ass Enter Key Is Messing Up My Mechanical Keyboard Plans
“Anyone else breaking up through the pandemic?” reads one subject line. “My [23F] partner [24M] isn’t taking quarantine seriously and keeps making unnecessary trips to see his family,” reads another.
Source: Kotaku – Coronavirus Is Pushing Reddit’s Relationship_Advice to a Breaking Point
I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.
Source: Kotaku – Super Mario Bros. 3’s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety
Recent advances in virtual reality have done wonders to make video games more immersive than ever. But certain persistent technical limitations still bedevil this developing technology, such as, say, its inability to shock the living hell out of players with agonizing bursts of electric current. It’s a problem. But…
Source: Kotaku – Engineer Combines Smash Controller With A Taser Because Why Not
Christian PetersenIn a press release on its website, Sony announced that it doesn’t expect the game and network services part of its business to be impacted during the current fiscal year, which ends March 31. At the same time, the company didn’t rule out that things could change in the future. Sony and Microsoft both…
Source: Kotaku – Sony And Microsoft Put Out Vague Statements About How Covid-19 Will Affect Their Games
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Source: Kotaku – Hori’s Split Pad Pro Demon X Machina Controller Is Down to
Final Fantasy XIV has one of the most competitive housing markets in an online game. Buying a cozy digital home requires lots of money and the patience to fight with other players—including big guilds and bot owners—to place a bid on a home. If you don’t use it, you also lose it. In light of the current covid-19…
Source: Kotaku – Even Final Fantasy XIV Is Freezing House Evictions
It is important, in these trying times, to take it easy on yourself. That self-critical voice constantly berating you in your head? Turn it down to a whisper. Unfortunately, I am a gigantic dummy incapable of following my own advice. Case in point: I’ve spent the better part of three days (and counting) trying to name…
Source: Kotaku – I’m Driving Myself Crazy Trying To Name My Animal Crossing Island