Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear of entire GameStop stores quitting en masse as working conditions at the video game retailer continue to deteriorate. It’s rarer to hear of employees resigning the day the biggest game of the year launches. But that’s apparently what happened at a store in Michigan the day The Legend…
Source: Kotaku – Entire GameStop Store Quits On Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Release Day
Following Link’s descent from Great Sky Island, your time is really your own. There’s a main quest which you should definitely make some progress in (especially if you want the all-important paraglider early on), but stretching your legs a bit and exploring what secrets this gorgeous world has in store for you is well…
Source: Kotaku – Tears of the Kingdom: What’s Worth Doing On The Way To Kakariko Village
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lets you build all kinds of wild contraptions thanks to Link’s new abilities like Ultrahand, Fuse, and Autobuild. While some folks are out here making weapons of mass destruction, Japanese players are flexing their creative muscles in other ways, and I’m so here for it.
Source: Kotaku – Japanese Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Players Are Popping Off
The Game Boy Advance isn’t the best gaming handheld ever, but it’s certainly the one I’m most nostalgic about. It let me take gorgeous spin-offs of my favorite 16-bit SNES games on the go, and most importantly included some incredible pixel art gems the likes of which we’ve never seen since. So why is Nintendo wasting…
Source: Kotaku – The Latest Batch Of Switch Online GBA Games Is Just Cruel
The first of what is sure to be many updates to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom dropped last night on May 18 and the first question on everyone’s mind was: Is the infinite item glitch safe? And yes, it is. Update version 1.1.1 fixes other bugs, but fortunately not that one.
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Game Breaking Item Glitch Survives First Patch
Canadian YouTuber Linus Sebastian, best known to most as the guy behind the insanely popular Linus Tech Tips channel, has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO of the companies he helped create and has been running for the past ten years.
Source: Kotaku – Linus Is Stepping Down As CEO Of Linus Media Group
Age of Wonders is a long-running PC strategy series that has been around since 1999. It takes the 4X genre—think Civilization—and transports it into a fantasy world where battles are resolved in tactical showdowns, there’s magic everywhere and your leaders are also RPG characters.
Source: Kotaku – Age Of Wonders 4, A New Fantasy 4X Game, Is Great
While the Golden Age of video games making bank on Kickstarter is long gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t still success stories on the platform. And a big one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s trying to deliver on dreams that fans have been harbouring for 15 years and counting.
Source: Kotaku – Prequel To Cult Japanese RPG Is Doing Very Nicely On Kickstarter
Last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger asked rhetorically if Florida and its governor, Ron DeSantis, wanted all of the company’s business and taxes. Now, events are moving beyond the mere rhetorical as Disney—citing “new leadership and changing business conditions” in Florida—has canceled big plans to move thousands of its…
Source: Kotaku – Florida Gov. DeSantis Just Fumbled Billion In Fight Against Disney
This January, Hogwarts Legacy caused a stir when one of its developers said that the game wouldn’t judge you for committing major crimes such as murder. While this was lorebreaking for the Harry Potter novels, it was also very typical of a video game to have NPCs that ignore crimes being committed in front of them.…
Source: Kotaku – Hidden Data Of Hogwarts Legacy’s Cut Morality System Is Bewildering
Bombs were an infinite resource back in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild because Link could spawn them from his Sheikah Slate at will. In Tears of the Kingdom, however, you have no explosives waiting in your fantasy iPad. Instead, explosive items are precious, finite things you find in the world and thus, they…
Source: Kotaku – Stop Wasting Your Tears of The Kingdom Bombs, Do This Instead
It’s time we talked about the truth of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Korok seeds: They’re poop.
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Korok Seeds Are Poop, By The Way
The newest DLC coming to PowerWash Simulator will let you hop into the ocean to clean up iconic locations and cars from the long-running animated show, SpongeBob SquarePants.
Source: Kotaku – Clean SpongeBob’s Dirty House In PowerWash Simulator’s Next DLC
The Pokémon Company just announced that players who link their copies of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet to the Pokémon Home app can obtain special versions of the Paldea starters: Fuecoco, Quaxly, and Sprigatto. While you might already have all three from trading bred Pokémon with your friends, these special starters are…
Source: Kotaku – You Can Get Special Pokémon By Connecting Scarlet and Violet To The Home App
Weapons and shields are constantly breaking in Tears of the Kingdom, so you need some perks attached to the one constant you have: clothes. The Great Fairies, giant ladies with magical abilities found around Hyrule, can help you with that. In exchange for some materials, they can make your armor more powerful. The…
Source: Kotaku – Tears Of The Kingdom’s Great Fairy Quest Is Worth It To Upgrade Your Armor
The Epic Games Store is rolling out a new “Epic Rewards” program to give players five percent cash back on PC gaming purchases. Whether it’s in-game purchases like Fortnite V-Bucks or big blockbusters like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the new policy is essentially a discount on everything you buy through Epic’s…
Source: Kotaku – Epic Games Store Will Now Pay You Back For Buying Games
If you thought you were being slick by downloading illegal uploads of The Super Mario Bros Movie online (and perhaps uploading them in parts to Twitter), there’s a chance your computer has a mystery item box of its own in the form of a malicious virus—womp womp.
Source: Kotaku – Super Mario Bros. Movie Pirates Getting Hit With Malware
So you’ve overestimated how much stamina you have left as you paraglide Link over Hyrule. Fret not: if you have a Zonai Wing from a Zonai Dispenser in your inventory, you’re in luck. While it requires a little bit of practice to get the physics right, safely dropping from your paraglider onto a Zonai Wing will restore…
Source: Kotaku – This Tears Of The Kingdom Paraglider Trick Basically Lets You Fly Forever
Mortal Kombat 1, a reboot of the long-running fighting game franchise, is somehow coming to the Nintendo Switch and will also cost $70. That makes it only the second game on the platform to adopt the new price point often reserved for “next-gen” games, and the first made by an outside publisher.
Source: Kotaku – New Mortal Kombat Will Be The Nintendo Switch’s Second Game
A class of seniors at a Texas university almost had their diplomas rejected and graduation rescinded, all because a professor reportedly used ChatGPT to falsely determine that the students’ final essays were written by artificial intelligence.
Source: Kotaku – Entire Class Of College Students Almost Failed Over False AI Accusations