The intense court battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft over the latter’s attempted $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard is still underway. During the latest hearing, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan weighed in yet again, this time pontificating on why Xbox games seem to perform better in the…
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Boss Says Xbox Games Do Better In U.S. Due To ‘Shooting,’ ‘Multiplayer’
One of the rarest and most powerful items in Blizzard’s newly released action-RPG, Diablo IV, has dropped for one very lucky player.
Source: Kotaku – Lucky Diablo IV Player Finds One Of The Game’s Rarest And Most Powerful Items
Doctor Who won’t kick off its newest episodes with its newest star (Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa) until November of this year, but it looks like the long-running British sci-fi series is finally getting the proper reboot it deserves. Considering the show’s importance in British pop culture and beyond, a strong season…
Source: Kotaku – OMG, Doctor Who Is Finally Going To Be Sexy
At Tuesday’s Behind the Sims stream, fans got another look at the hotly-anticipated sequel to popular life simulator The Sims 4, Project Rene, known colloquially as The Sims 5.
Source: Kotaku – The Sims 5 Prototypes Give Us A Taste Of What’s Next For The Life Sim
Among Us, indie studio Innersloth’s online multiplayer social deduction game and unwitting meme bait, is getting its own animated TV show. According to a Variety report, Innersloth is currently working alongside CBS Eye Animation Productions to make it happen.
Source: Kotaku – Among Us Is Getting An Animated TV Show
Nintendo seems to be conceptualizing its long-awaited successor to the 2017-released Nintendo Switch, but it isn’t giving much details to what it might be, or when it might actually exist. The Legend of Zelda developer is, however, willing to say that whatever and whenever the new console releases, Nintendo…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo’s Thinking About How Fans Will Move To Its New Console
Microsoft is fighting an injunction by the Federal Trade Commission against closing its $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard, and the ensuing trial has yielded all sorts of fascinating insights about the Xbox maker. From leaked emails of executives talking about “spending Sony out of business” to double…
Source: Kotaku – The Xbox Trial That Could Change Everything: 7 Bombshell Reveals
Much to my chagrin, I’m a Cyberpunk 2077 defender these days. Sure, the patches and technical updates unmask that underneath all the dick-clipping bugs, there was a…mostly unremarkable open-world RPG trying to claw its way out. But it has a lot of heart, as well. The story of V and Johnny Silverhand delves into…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Hate At Launch Was The ‘Cool Thing’ To Do, Devs Say
If you’ve spent a decent amount of time in Tears of the Kingdom, then you know the world is vast and filled with tons of fast-travel points by way of Shrines and Skyview Towers. Still, even with all those options, sometimes you need to get back to a specific location, and it doesn’t always conveniently line up with…
Source: Kotaku – Tears Of The Kingdom: Fast Travel Anywhere With These Items
I spend more time than I should on TikTok, and that means I’ve seen my fair share of the Grimace Milkshake trend. And friends, it might just be because Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, the latest game from the people behind Danganronpa, is just a few days away, but I can’t watch these videos and not immediately…
Source: Kotaku – TikTok Is Turning Grimace’s Milkshake Into A Horror Movie
Pokémon GO recently released update 0.275.0, which apparently doubles the radius at which obtainable Pokémon spawn. Meanwhile, player frustration is building with Niantic’s historic lack of communication. These disgruntled players are so impressed with the update, they’re assuming it was deployed on accident. But…
Source: Kotaku – Pokemon GO Update Is So Good Players Think It’s An Accident
Every game in The Legend of Zelda series is defined, in part, by its aesthetics, the visual design choices coalescing every element into one cohesive vision. Even during the Hylian hero’s original 8-bit journey, strong art direction transformed simple sprites into sprawling labyrinths, mysterious woods, and terrible…
Source: Kotaku – Every Legend of Zelda Visual Aesthetic, Ranked From Worst To Best
When Tears of the Kingdom finally released this past May, reactions were mostly rapturous. People marveled at all the things players could build with Link’s new Ultrahand ability, and delighted in discovering the mysteries lurking in Hyrule’s new regions. However, one aspect did have a number of fans expressing their…
Source: Kotaku – The Problem With Tears Of The Kingdom Clumsily Giving Sidon A Fiancée
While the Nintendo Switch receives big, proper updates on a fairly regular basis, it also sometimes gets more quieter downloads, ones that take place without the user knowing or needing to do anything. Those updates tend to focus on the console’s ‘banned word list’.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Switch Update Appears To Block Words Like ‘TERF’ and ‘Titler’
The Yakuza Complete Series dropped on retailer Good Old Games last week, bundling the first seven games in the franchise in the one offering. It is a great deal, but fans testing out the release to see if there was anything different about it have turned up something weird.
Source: Kotaku – Yakuza Games Scrub A Bunch Of People From The Credits, Including Series Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi
Mars First Logistics, released last week into Early Access on Steam, is a game with a very simple setup. You are driving little robot vehicles around the surface of Mars, doing jobs for people, and those jobs involve you having to build your own cars (or whatever else!) in a way that gets the job done.
Source: Kotaku – Mars First Logistics Is A Deeply Funny Video Game
Microsoft is currently in court trying to move forward with its massive deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. But new emails, which surfaced during the ongoing court hearing, reveal that Xbox was discussing plans to buy up other video game studios and publishers, including Sega, Bungie, Niantic, IO Interactive, and…
Source: Kotaku – New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie
The clever minds over at r/HyruleEngineering have done it again. This time, instead of building something entertaining like a veritable hamster wheel for Yunobo, or devastating drones that would land Link in trouble with the ICC, one fan has taken to building an in-game scale to weigh objects and get a sense of how …
Source: Kotaku – Tears Of The Kingdom Players Determine Link’s Weight Is 10 Apples
If, like me, you’re making your way toward Anime Expo, the self-proclaimed “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America” this coming weekend (yes, the Otaku of Kotaku will be there!), you may be feeling overwhelmed. But fear not! If you have no earthly idea what must-see events the great congregation…
Source: Kotaku – What To Expect At Anime Expo 2023
