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I can’t sleep on planes, okay? Doesn’t matter how long the flight is, or how much I want to do it, I just can’t manage to sleep on planes. The problem cropped up again for me this summer, as I was flying back and forth from my home here in the sunny United States to…
Photo credit: Shutterstock In honor of Gawker Media senior week—our final week of independence as we prepare for wonderful new buyers—the staff of Kotaku got together and started talking about all the things we’ve always wanted to do. I just kept coming back to one thing: review scores. Although our review system has evolved quite…
I’ve been working at Kotaku for *checks watch* nearly ten years now. In that time I’ve seen a lot of things change, and most of them have been for the better. http://kotaku.com/the-future-of-… While we occasionally go public with editorial decisions, for most of that ten years we’ve evolved quietly and confidently behind the scenes, growing…
Weird Facebook exists as a celebration of the bizarre world of dank memes. What’s hidden behind the scenes, however, is weirder than any image macro brought to life. A few days after Daily Dot readers came to know the saga of the Where my shrimps Facebook page turning from crustacean meme kingdom to clickbait wasteland, the narrative…
Photo: Paul Sancya/AP One recurring complaint about Deadspin is that we’re too mean. We’re certainly snarky, abstruse, and too easily pleased with ourselves, but the notion that we’re too mean is ridiculous. If anything, we’re not mean enough, because we occasionally have the sense to pull a punch on a target that’s too far down….
The Harry Potter books almost have a complete world built in, thanks to seven books, several tie-ins, and, for better or for worse, whatever author J.K. Rowling decided to introduce in Pottermore. Despite all the detail that has gone into crafting his universe, there are still some things that can’t be accounted for—things that keep…
It’s “senior week” at our parent company Gawker Media, a time to write what we really want to write, though that’s kind of what our sites have been doing for the past 14 years. What’s the occasion? Someone new is about to buy us, likely with a plan to infuse Kotaku’s budget with about a…
The presidential hopeful has insulted reporter Katy Tur on national TV, called her names during interviews, and made his campaign seemingly impossible to cover. Here, her no-holds-barred account of trailing the most unlikely candidate in GOP history. by KATY TUR, PHOTOGRAPH BY REBECCA GREENFIELD AUG 10, 2016 20.5k In a speech carried live from Mount Pleasant,…
Carol Danvers has a long and peculiar history as first Ms. Marvel, and later Captain Marvel—one that’s strange even by comic book standards. So it should be no surprise that for her upcoming movie, the hero will be given a new and updated origin. Speaking to the Any Time with Vin Forte podcast, Captain Marvel…
Donald Trump holds up a sign printed from the internet at a rally in Sunrise, Florida on August 10, 2016 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Donald Trump has said before that all he knows is what he sees on the internet. And that became crystal clear at a rally in Florida yesterday when he held up a…