For three decades the Final Fantasy franchise has been known for reinventing itself, whether it’s the cyberpunk-esque stylings of Final Fantasy VII or the push into online multiplayer with Final Fantasy XI. The next watershed moment for the franchise is here, with Final Fantasy XVI trying to push into a more mature…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI’s RPG Elements Are Barely There
Congratulations, you survived watching (and/or backlogging) last season’s whopping 50 new anime shows. Your reward: a helpful guide to yet another wave of new and returning anime shows and movies coming to your favorite 2D streaming service.
Source: Kotaku – Your Summer 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It’s Streaming
Though The Legend of Zelda franchise often dips into the eerie and the occult, its dominant mode is one of high adventure. Rather than associating the Japanese series with horror, we imagine a blonde boy swinging his sword in service of rescuing the princess against a backdrop of soaring music. Its world is populated…
Source: Kotaku – Tears of the Kingdom Is Another Zelda That’s Low Key A Horror Game
From Comic-Con to C2E2, the vast majority of cosplay coverage you see on this website comes from American conventions. Which is fine! This is an American website, many of the world’s biggest shows are in the US and our intrepid cosplay photographer Mineralblu is also American.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From Dreamhack Melbourne 2023
We’re three weeks into Fortnite’s latest season and hopefully you’ve been able to cross off the weekly quests without much trouble thus far. This week, however, you might’ve come across a few challenges that aren’t as familiar, including one involving one of the new mechanics: Mud. Insert joke about getting dirty and…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite: Chapter 4 Season 3 Week 3 Quests And NPC Locations
As Microsoft dukes it out with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the Xbox maker has admitted something everyone probably already knew by now: It’s lost the console wars.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Says Xbox Has Been Losing The Console Wars Since 2001
The Final Fantasy series’ charm is that, because every game is so different from the others, they each have their own strengths and faults. Some games excel in aspects others crash and burn trying to emulate, and it makes the series fascinating to compare and contrast. We even tried to rank these disparate games and …
Source: Kotaku – The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Final Fantasy
During Thursday’s big Xbox vs Federal Trade Commission court hearing, Pete Hines of Bethesda (Fallout, Starfield) confirmed that the upcoming Indiana Jones game from MachineGames was originally planned to be a multiplatform release, meaning available to more people. But after Xbox bought up Bethesda, things changed…
Source: Kotaku – The Upcoming Indiana Jones Game Will Be Xbox Only, Intensifying The Console Wars
It’s official: Warzone Caldera, formerly known as the original Call of Duty: Warzone, is shutting down later this year so developers can focus on the battle royale’s sequel and players are angry. The announcement came in a Call of Duty blog post titled “An update on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera” published on June 22.
Source: Kotaku – Players Angry That OG Call of Duty: Warzone Will Shut Down This Fall
As you likely are aware, five people are currently missing onboard a tourist sub that was heading down to the remains of the HMS Titanic. We don’t yet know what went wrong and if those onboard are still alive—it seems unlikely at this point—but a large-scale search for the Titan and its crew is still underway.…
Source: Kotaku – Nightmare Submarine Game Gets Popular As Search For Titanic Sub Continues
Imane “Pokimane” Anys, would never stream on rising platform Kick, which already lured big names xQc and Amouranth away from Twitch with high profile contracts.
Source: Kotaku – Pokimane Says Moving From Twitch To Kick Isn’t Worth Compromising Morals, Is ‘Cringe’
PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has been fighting Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard tooth-and-nail, claiming it jeopardizes Call of Duty on PlayStation 5. But in a private email when the deal was first announced, Ryan apparently wrote that he didn’t think it was an “exclusivity play” to take away Call of Duty,…
Source: Kotaku – Is PlayStation Really Worried About Losing Call of Duty To Microsoft? Private Emails Say No
In Tears of the Kingdom, Link gets a whole new suite of abilities granting him mastery over the physical world around him as well as control over time itself. With Recall, Link can stop time, select an object previously in motion, and send it backwards. It’s an essential tool for getting around some of the game’s…
Source: Kotaku – Tears Of The Kingdom: 10 Surprising Ways Fans Are Using Recall
When Bethesda revealed that Starfield would have over 1,000 planets, it sounded both impressive and like a potential nightmare. What if instead of a dozen bespoke locations, the open world sci-fi RPG was scattered across hundreds of lifeless rocks filled with the same old stuff. Director Todd Howard suggests it’s…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Director Todd Howard Explains What You’ll Find On Its 1,000 Planets
Roblox, the online game creation system once populated mostly by kids under 13, is adding a new 17+ category to account for its recent growth in adult players.
Source: Kotaku – Children’s Game Roblox Now Lets You Make Games For Players Aged 17 And Up
I have yet to dive into Diablo IV, even as my coworkers are raving about it, but I’m starting to think I never will now that I know you apparently have to create a new character each season to take part in its battle passes.
Source: Kotaku – Oh No, Diablo IV Will Make You Create A New Character For Every Season
You might have seen a story going around this week with the headline “The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam’s Gabe Newell,” in reference to the leader of the world’s biggest PC gaming platform. This is true, in a purely hypothetical sense, but also kinda pointless since said…
Source: Kotaku – Everyone’s Learning About Gabe Newell’s Deep-Sea Submarine Now
If the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $69 billion goes through, it could have big consequences for the future of Call of Duty on PlayStation. At least that’s what Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan keeps saying. In a new deposition for the current lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission, the…
Source: Kotaku – Sony Won’t Share PS6 Info With Call Of Duty Devs If Owned By Microsoft
Nintendo just dropped trailers for its next big Super Mario games, and while they look cool, you’ve probably noticed the plumber himself looks a little different. The hallmarks of iconic Mario’s design are still there, like his blue overalls and red cap, but his actual silhouette is now way more compact. The effect is…
Source: Kotaku – Mario’s New Short King Design May Be An Old-School Throwback
When protagonist Clive Rosfield takes to the battlefield in Final Fantasy XVI, he channels the otherworldly magical power of the Eikons, enormous and incredibly powerful magical entities. This new interpretation of classic Final Fantasy Summons like Shiva and Ifrit is at the center of the game’s story: A single person…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Early Final Fantasy XVI Abilities To Unlock And Upgrade ASAP