It’s been nearly five months since the release of Dead or Alive 6. Five months full of solid fighting with few distractions outside of some crossover characters and pirate and wedding costumes. Enough of that. Bring on the swimsuits.
Source: Kotaku – The Inevitable Dead Or Alive 6 Swimsuit DLC Is Here
Tetris Effect blends the world of visionary studio Enhance with the time-tested, near-perfect rules of Tetris for a euphoric sensory experience. I reviewed it last year for the PlayStation 4, and today, it’s finally out on PC. With enhanced visuals, it looks better than ever. Check out the video to see it for yourself…
Source: Kotaku – Tetris Effect Looks Stunning On PC
Last year, the Lego Group started making flowers, trees, and shrubs out of plant-based polyethylene using sustainably sourced sugarcane. I can’t imagine a better use for all of those plant plastic parts than this beautiful, 14-inch-tall Lego Ideas Treehouse set.
Source: Kotaku – The New Lego Ideas Treehouse Has Leaves Made Of Real Plants
Is it weird that I hadn’t noticed before now that no existing controller for the Nintendo Switch included an audio jack so I could plug in a pair of headphones? Now counting the Switch itself, of course. Weird. Well, either way, now there is a Switch controller with a headphone jack in PDP’s Faceoff Deluxe+ Audio w…
Source: Kotaku – Check Out The First Switch Controller With A Headphone Jack
Top Gun: Maverick takes place decades after the original film, but in the trailer (and promotional poster), Maverick dons his old leather jacket. It might look like it did in the original film, but it’s not.
Source: Kotaku – Japanese And Taiwanese Flag Removed From Maverick’s Jacket In New Top Gun
Quick! Who has made the mainline Pokémon games? That’s right, Game Freak. But some people think the answer is Nintendo. According to Junichi Masuda, lots of people do.
Source: Kotaku – Game Freak Makes Pokémon, Points Out Junichi Masuda
Things have mostly improved in recent years, but there was a while there 3-5 years back where the developers of NBA2K were more interested in getting NBA players into the recording studio than in checking whether they were actually any good at voice acting first.
Source: Kotaku – Let Us All Celebrate NBA 2K’s Terrible Voice Acting
Although it’s been an issue for some players since shortly after launch, recently more and more Switch owners have been talking about their issues with “Joy-Con drift,” a condition where the joystick on a controller detects movement even though you’re not touching it. In response to players’ Joy-Con woes, Nintendo…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Responds To Sufferers Of Joy-Con Drift
For months, hardcore Destiny 2 players have been trying to scale their way up to a seemingly impossible mountaintop. The Mountaintop, in fact… because that’s the name of a Legendary grenade launcher in Destiny 2 that many players have coveted for a long time. It is, as its name implies, incredibly labor-intensive to…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny Players Are Getting Fed Up With A Ridiculous Grenade Launcher Quest
It’s another week in the world of Dota Underlords, which means there’s been yet another drastic balance shift that’s turned the still-early Auto-Chess-alike on its head and scattered pieces all over the floor. This time, it’s the freaky, amorphous Primordials who’ve risen to the top of the pile. My dilemma: I love…
Source: Kotaku – My Overpowered Dota Underlords Build Makes Me Feel Like A Glorious Scumbag
Forget Ian Malcom from Jurassic Park or Independence Day’s David Levison with his sweet-ass grappling hook and energy shield. Now there’s a superior Jeff Goldblum action figure in the form of Marvel’s gleefully grinning Grandmaster from Thor: Ragnarok.
Source: Kotaku – Marvel’s Grandmaster Figure Perfectly Captures Jeff Goldblum’s Goofy Charm
A weekend that was supposed to be full of fun and excitement took a decidedly tragic turn when it was announced that fighting game competitor Bryand “Krucial B” McIntosh, 34, passed away shortly after competing at Defend the North in New York City. McIntosh was a prominent member of the Louisiana fighting game…
Source: Kotaku – Fighting Game Community Mourns Death Of Prominent Louisiana Player
Today on Highlight Reel we have VR rudness, Mordhau parries, expert sniping in For Honor and much more!
Source: Kotaku – Parry This
A new hero is coming to Overwatch: the robot-suit wearing, evil scientist Sigma. His chunky robo-bod and nefarious allusions to power and control raise an important question: Is this the same Sigma from the Mega Man X series? Kotaku dives deeper in this very serious report.
In order to determine if Sigma is that Sigma, …
Source: Kotaku – Sigma vs. Sigma: The Comparison We Had To Make
The most dedicated players of 2009’s Assassin’s Creed II could stray from the Italian Renaissance adventures of Ezio Auditore to solve puzzles that unlocked a 37-second video of a naked Adam and Eve running through a high-tech city in some unknown year BC. That’s the kind of stuff they used to put in Assassin’s Creed…
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Final Paid Expansion Is Terrific If You Like The Weird Stuff
Natalia Mogollon, who streams under the name “Alinity Divine” on Twitch, was playing Apex Legends on camera on July 18 when she took her cat from off her desk and threw it behind her, a clip that soon went viral. Mogollon has since apologized for it, while others, including from inside Twitch, are calling for her to…
Source: Kotaku – Streamer Apologizes For Throwing Her Cat
At about this time next year, we’ll have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of video games will look like. New consoles will likely be shown off, bold new streaming initiatives will begin to launch, and we’ll see all the wonderful kinds of games they will bring us. All these new things will come, and we’ll…
Source: Kotaku – The Video Game Industry Can’t Go On Like This
