20 Years Later, Secretary Is Still The Best Kinky Romance Of The 2000s

Hollywood has never had a healthy relationship with sex. Torn between leering salaciousness and code-mandated puritanism, the end results on-screen have often been messy, thematically conflicted, and deeply unsexy. Much has been made about the state of on-screen sensuality in 2022 and the blockbuster age, where ultra-muscular and fit bodies are fetishized yet entirely divorced […]

THQ Nordic acquires TimeSplitters, a blast from the early 2000s

THQ Nordic announced today that it has acquired the rights to the TimeSplitters series, a trilogy of first-person shooters that released in the early 2000s. TimeSplitters is a successor to the popular Nintendo 64 shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. Ex-Rare employees created TimeSplitters developer Free Radical Design. That studio eventually be…Read More

The ‘Manhattan Madam’ who ran a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s was reportedly questioned in the Mueller probe — here’s everything we know about her

AP Photo/Seth Wenig The “Manhattan Madam” was reportedly questioned as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Kristin M. Davis, 41, is notoriously known for running a high-end prostitution ring in the 2000s. She is also a close friend of Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign […]

Video Game Graphics Took A Huge Leap In The Early 2000s

In the late 90s, video games sat on the precipice of a 3D graphics revolution. Everything was about to change, and it was gonna change fast. Advertisement Last week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason Schreier and I were joined by veteran video game programmer Brett Douville. Douville started out at LucasArts in 1998, where he worked […]

Relive Your 2000s Music Dreams With This Mashup Maker

Think back to your iPod circa the mid-2000s, what music was on it? If you’re like the Gizmodo staff, you probably had a healthy mix of hip-hop, rock, and pop. 50 Cent? Yes. Franz Ferdinand? Absolutely! Evanescence? Don’t try to deny it. J-Kwon? Fuck. Yes. Advertisement What would happen if the best hip-hop tracks of […]