Last night’s The Last of Us finale on HBO Max ushered in the inevitable, the thing so many of us have feared for a decade: Major publications, the same ones who refer to video games as if they’re all still like Pac-Man, are weighing in on its controversial ending.
Source: Kotaku – New York Times Joins Last Of Us Ending Discourse 10 Years Later
The second I saw The Last Spell’s first trailer back in 2021, I knew I had to play it. A city builder with Dungeons and Dragons-style units on an isometric battlefield where giant hordes of zombies are dispatched in turn-based tactics combat? And staged to a pulsing metal soundtrack? It seemed like an ingenious…
Source: Kotaku – New Zombie RPG Combines A Ton Of Great Games Into One I Can’t Stop Playing
We are less than two weeks away from playing Capcom’s glorious repaint of its iconic third-person shooter, Resident Evil 4, originally released in 2005. Though breathless questions on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Twitter suggest the remake is still operating from the mysterious shadows, there’s a lot we know for…
Source: Kotaku – 9 Of The Internet’s Burning Resident Evil 4 Remake Questions, Answered
Last week Genna Bain, whose late husband was the game critic and YouTube personality John “Totalbiscuit” Bain, broke the news to fans that she’s contemplating removing all of his videos from the internet to prevent “AI” machine-learning technologies from storing and manipulating his voice to promote particular…
Source: Kotaku – TotalBiscuit’s Widow Weighs Deleting His YouTube Videos To Save Them From AI
Dead Island 2, the zombie RPG that passed through so many hands someone forgot it in the development oven for over a decade, is finally coming out on April 21. This is a week earlier than anticipated, which we love to see. What’s funny, though, is that developer Dambuster Studios is out here saying the game’s…
Source: Kotaku – Dead Island 2 Devs Think ‘Development Hell’ Wasn’t So Bad Actually
The latest Pokémon Journeys: The Series episode just aired in Japan this Friday, and it has fans panicking. The anime is in its final season, and fans hoped that the most recent episode would satisfyingly wrap up Team Rocket’s story—but it was quite the opposite. Even Team Rocket’s haters feel that the villainous team…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Fans Crushed That Team Rocket Disbands At End Of Anime
GameStop’s Hollywood moment is finally coming this October. Sony announced its dramatization of the video game retailer’s meme stock explosion will hit theaters in October, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and more. It’s called Dumb Money. I hope it lives up to it.
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Meme Stock Movie Dumb Money Out Later This Year
Maybe you were wondering why Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix’s highly anticipated action RPG, will only be available on PlayStation 5 when it launches on June 22. Well, according to Square Enix, it’s because of “the power of PlayStation 5″ that lets the team achieve next-gen (when do we call it current-gen?) combat.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy 16 Devs Say Only PS5 Can Handle The Game’s Combat
As an adaptation, HBO’s The Last of Us has been a fairly faithful recreation of Naughty Dog’s original game. However, during yesterday’s season one finale, “Look For The Light,” HBO’s series explored a character the game had only talked about in passing mentions. In doing so, the show reveals a long unanswered…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Show Finally Explains Ellie’s Immunity
A classic bank run caused Silicon Valley Bank to become the second-largest bank collapse in history. Now the Federal Reserve is promising a bailout for all of its customers, which includes everyone from small startups to major tech industry players. Roblox, the social media platform where millions of kids play potato…
Source: Kotaku – Roblox Is Being Handed 0 Million By Government After Bank Collapse, Money Isn’t Real
Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s 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 taking a look at the upcoming 3DS and Wii U eShop shutdowns and the effect they will have on the series.
Source: Kotaku – We’re Losing More Than We Realize When These Classic Pokémon Games Get Pulled
Well, friends. We’ve come to the end of the road, at least for now. Episode nine of HBO’s The Last of Us is the season finale, bringing us to the end of the story told in the first game. Even the episode’s title, “Look for the Light,” neatly closes the loop opened by that of the first episode, “When You’re Lost In the…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful, Haunting Finale
[The following will contain spoilers for The Last of Us show and both video games]
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Show Tries To Change What The Game Told Us About Joel
10 years ago, The Last of Us’ unexpected and morally divisive ending made history. Choosing to land in a place of uncertainty, the conclusion bucked what many other games chose to do, and often still do: present a straightforward, neat, conventionally satisfying end where the good guys are the good guys and the bad…
Source: Kotaku – Revisiting The Last Of Us Game’s Haunting Ending Before The Show’s Finale
Nine years ago, Super Mario 64 player toyuru2 wall-jumped his way up the slide in Cool, Cool Mountain, sending the plumber into the void–but not before grabbing a 1-up mushroom. At the time, it was a feat, as nobody had ever gotten the mushroom. But then, a new challenge emerged: was it possible to grab the mushroom…
Source: Kotaku – Super Mario 64 Fans Have Tried To Get This 1-Up Without Dying For Over 20 Years
Have you ever waited for a few hours to ride a popular roller coaster? Perhaps. But I can guarantee you that nobody has ever waited the entire life of the known universe. Well, unless you are the unlucky digital folks stuck on a new wild and complicated Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 creation from YouTuber Marcel Vos.
Source: Kotaku – Someone Created A Ride In Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 That Will Outlast Our Actual Universe
Like most people who require water to live, you probably like H20 a normal amount—but you definitely don’t like water as much as this famous Nintendo fan. They’re so well-known and beloved that they’ve even been featured in the official plumber website for the Super Mario Bros. movie.
Source: Kotaku – Super Mario Bros. Movie Shouts Out Nintendo’s Biggest Water Fan
