Many of us started playing video games during the crucially formative years of our lives—the time when we learn a lot about ourselves, our interests, our personalities, and our gender and sexual identities. Just like how the movies and television shows we watched may have helped influence our preferences (Megan Fox in…
Source: Kotaku – The Video Game Characters That Made Us Gay
I’m sure that I love Jill Warrick—Final Fantasy XVI’s female lead—because her hair is healthy and long, gathered at the end with a ribbon, with one delicate braid as ornament. I also love her, I think, because she wears a cream-color chemise under layers of blue leather, contrasting like the small icicles that form at…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI’s Jill Should Be More Than Pretty
An Electronic Arts job listing for a role related to The Sims 5, the upcoming entry in its popular life-sim series, appears to confirm that it will launch as a free-to-play game.
Source: Kotaku – Oh Snap, The Sims 5 Looks Like It’s Going To Be Free-To-Play
Much like David Bowie, who was likely born of a Mothercrystal himself, Final Fantasy is constantly reimagining itself. Different battle systems, different aesthetics, different worlds, and a whole new story with every entry. Yet, the arrival of Final Fantasy XVI has been divisive among the fan base, with venomous…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI Shouldn’t Be This Divisive
McDonald’s new Grimace milkshake has sparked an entire movement around treating the beverage like the murder weapon from a Japanese horror game. Zoomers and other TikTok users were pretending to die after slurping up the purple goop and now they’re pretending the Grimace Shake is what also killed their favorite anime…
Source: Kotaku – The Grimace Milkshake Is Killing Your Favorite Anime And Gaming Characters Too
A new game content rating out of South Korea for Red Dead Redemption has fans speculating that a remaster, remake or port of the popular open-world western is coming sooner than later. However, Rockstar has yet to confirm what this rating means or if, after all these years, Red Dead Redemption will finally be coming…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Think Red Dead Redemption Might Finally Be Coming To PC
Because Final Fantasy XVI is more of an action game than an RPG, a lot of Clive’s adventure can feel more straightforward than its predecessors. However, there’s still a lot the game doesn’t tell you upfront, and knowing these things can give you an overall better experience. That in mind, here are a few tips to help…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things Final Fantasy XVI Doesn’t Tell You
As the self-proclaimed largest anime convention in the world, Anime Expo 2023 has a bunch of world premieres and panels taking place across the four-day event at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 1 to July 4. Sprinkled in between its big main stage events, featuring big-name anime studios like Mappa, Wit,…
Source: Kotaku – Every Panel Worth Checking Out At Anime Expo 2023
2012 2D anime fighter Skullgirls is under siege by some fans after a recent update made micro-adjustments to scantily clad women and got rid of Nazi symbols among a host of other tweaks to the decade old game. The tweaks led to review bombing on Steam and claims by fans that the small changes have somehow…
Source: Kotaku – Skullgirls Players In Shambles After Devs Hide Butt, Nuke Nazi References
A new month is nearing the corner, which means PlayStation Plus subscribers should get ready for the next crop of games once July hits. Thankfully, you don’t have to wait too long to find out what those are due to a recent leak later confirmed by Sony, and the list is looking decent for the upcoming month.
Source: Kotaku – PS Plus Titles For July Gives You Spooky Horror Game Alan Wake
We recently ranked the mainline single-player Final Fantasy games, and noted just how much the series changed and experimented with its formula along the way. The series’ propensity for reinvention is why people are so divided on what even defines a Final Fantasy game.
Source: Kotaku – The 11 Best Final Fantasy Spin-Offs, Ranked
Video games engine provider Unity announced earlier today the introduction of two new machine-learning platforms, one of which in particular has developers and artists asking questions of the company that, at time of publishing, have yet to be answered.
Source: Kotaku – Unity Announces Big ‘AI’ Plans, Developers Have Concerns
Roblox, for so very long a platform of games (I’m sorry, experiences) aimed at and played by kids, is trying to expand its offerings now that many of those kids are growing up into young adults. In doing so, though, they’re running into some problems.
Source: Kotaku – Roblox Trying To Describe Adult Poop Is Very Funny
A Fortnite streamer recently shaved his entire head, eyebrows included, for a big $2,500 donation from a viewer that wound up taking the money back.
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Twitch Streamer Shaves Head For ,500 Only To Have It Taken Back
Diablo IV is a big game. With multiple classes and tons of skill-tree options, a big-ass map with tons of shit to kill, and so, so much loot to equip, sell, upgrade (rinse and repeat, for eternity), there’s a lot to keep in mind, and so much more that the game kinda-sorta doesn’t tell you.
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: 16 Things The Game Doesn’t Tell You
Starfield could be the biggest PC game of the year. It also might be heading for a lot of unnecessary annoyances on that platform. Bethesda revealed an exclusive PC partnership with card maker AMD, causing a mini-revolt among PC gamers in the process over concerns the massive open world RPG will face stuttering issues…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield’s New Exclusive Partnership Just Made PC Gamers Angry
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will likely never actually fight each other in a cage match during a UFC event. (I know that’s a weird way to start a paragraph, stick with me…) However, we can all experience the alternate and better timeline where that fight did happen thanks to a newly released free game pitting the…
Source: Kotaku – Elon Musk’s Mom Can’t Stop The Mark Zuckerberg Cage Fight In New Game
Blizzard just dropped a new update for its loot-grinding RPG Diablo IV. The latest patch notes mark some crucial changes to the game, particularly around buffing all five character classes.
Source: Kotaku – All Of Diablo IV’s Classes Just Got A Little Bit Stronger With Latest Update
Watching an anime that doesn’t have queer characters often leaves viewers imagining what could have been. Sadly, it’s rare for anime to feature gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, or queer characters without relying on harmful stereotypes that turn them into a joke instead of a character with authentic queer…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Best Well-Written Queer Anime Characters
Calling all Animal Crossing and Disney Dreamlight Valley fans, there’s a new cozy build-up-and-decorate-an-island game for you to get excited about and you don’t have to wait long to play it. And if you love Hello Kitty, well, even better.
Source: Kotaku – New Hello Kitty Game Is Basically Animal Crossing, A Deadly Combo