Players are more nervous than ever these days about games launching in poor states. And with a not-so-great history of busted Diablo launches, Blizzard knows a lot of people are worried that its upcoming, always-online action RPG Diablo IV might be the next AAA game to crash and burn on release day. But Blizzard—bless…
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard ‘Confident’ Diablo IV Won’t Be Broken At Launch (For Real This Time)
The shift to $70 games for the “next-gen” consoles has been slow but steady, and another major publisher could soon be making the jump. Sega said in its latest earnings report that it’s currently reviewing its games to see where price increases make sense, moving in the direction of 2K Games, Square Enix, and other…
Source: Kotaku – Sega Sounds Like It’s Jumping On The Game Bandwagon
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a big game, and it can be easy to miss some of its best quests if you don’t know where to look. In the same breath (of the wild), it’s also easy to get really overwhelmed trying to cut through the noise to find the good shit. That’s what we’re here to talk about today. To…
Source: Kotaku – 7 Sidequests Worth Seeking Out In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
Illumination’s animated adaptation of Nintendo’s long-running Super Mario franchise has racked up an impressive box office high score of $1+ billion worldwide. And now, while it continues to squeeze all the money it can out of moviegoers at the multiplex, it’s time for Mario and Luigi to come home. Well, to your home. …
Source: Kotaku – After Breaking Box Office Records, Super Mario Bros. Movie Now Available Digitally
Thanks to Link’s new skills in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, folks can build all kinds of contraptions to decimate monster camps and torture Koroks. But let’s be real: You kinda need an engineering degree to construct any number of the wild creations you’ve likely been seeing online—until now, that is, as…
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Site Will Help You Make Those Wild Builds You’re Seeing
On May 16, Blizzard outlined its future plans for Overwatch 2, offering new information on the long-awaited story content revealed back when the sequel was announced in 2019—though some parts of it won’t be released as they were initially unveiled.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Ambitious Story Mode Is Getting Gutted Into Something Smaller
CD Projekt Red just released a new patch for its open world RPG Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. However, players aren’t happy with all of the changes. One of the most controversial ones is the ability to auto-apply your oils instead of doing so manually before engaging with a monster. Players are concerned that automating…
Source: Kotaku – Witcher 3 Fans Think New Patch Gameplay Change Breaks Immersion
At a recent video game competition in Texas, a pro Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player trash-talked a 15-year-old after winning an important match against the young player. The Smash community’s reaction was mostly negative, and things only got worse for the trash-talking pro when the kid’s mom got involved and slammed…
Source: Kotaku – Smash Bros. Pro Trash Talks 15-Year-Old, Gets Roasted By Kid’s Mom
Ubisoft is more committed than ever to Assassin’s Creed. After reporting a $500 million operating income loss for the last year, the French publisher announced it would increase the number of developers working on the hit historical fantasy franchise to almost 3,000. If you thought there were too many…
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Publisher Is Putting 800 More Devs To Work On The Hit Franchise
On May 9, a Borderlands 3 player lit the popular subreddit r/Gaming ablaze. They posted a photo of an error message on their Xbox Series S, which indicated that the console had run out of video memory. Not long after, the post was inundated with tons of comments saying the same thing: This happens all the time when…
Source: Kotaku – Borderlands 3 Fans Vent Over Old Xbox Issue That Won’t Go Away
Before The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players were astonished at the wonderful ways one can torture koroks, use the game’s fusing abilities to erect statuesque mechas, planes, trains, and automobiles, or craft TikTok fan cams of Purah, fans were thirsting after Ganon.
Source: Kotaku – Everybody Thank This Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Designer For Making Ganon Hot
Diablo IV’s Server Slam weekend, which ran from May 12 through May 14, gave players one final chance to scour Hell for loot and kill Ashava the Pestilent before the action-RPG drops on June 6. This open beta came with a handful of changes, particularly some nerfs to the Necromancer that developer Blizzard eventually…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV’s Necro To Get More Tweaks After Bad Nerf, Blizz Says
I find minimaps to be incredibly distracting; they constantly pull my eyes off the world I’m navigating, leading me to stare at a little icon following a path instead of taking in the sights around me. Fortunately, many games let you shut them off. As was true with Breath of the Wild, open-world adventures like The…
Source: Kotaku – Try Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Without The Mini-Map, It Makes The Game Better
There’s currently an Electronic Arts publisher sale on Steam right now, and one deal in particular offers a great chance to catch up on some of the best role-playing games of the last 20 years. The BioWare mega collection includes every Dragon Age and Mass Effect game, and it’s only $20.
Source: Kotaku – Grab Every Dragon Age And Mass Effect Game For Under Right Now
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaked over a week before launch and sent Nintendo into a frenzy, with the company firing off copyright takedowns to Discord, Twitch, Twitter, and more. Now the game is officially out, but some pirates are still illegally downloading the game, and Nintendo is watching.
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Pirate Tracked Down By Nintendo
Link gets most of the Purah Pad’s fancy abilities before he descends onto Hyrule’s surface in Tears of the Kingdom’s intro. However, there are a few you have to go out of your way to find, and one of them is the camera function. This allows you to take photos of all your adventures through Hyrule, and it would be a…
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Camera Is Worth Getting Early, Here’s How
Ubisoft quietly stopped talking about NFTs a while ago, but the controversial idea is now back in the form of new licensed collectibles for Assassin’s Creed. Come along for the ride and we can suffer through this together.
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed NFTs Are Coming And Oh God Why
Back in 2011, a mech combat game was announced that blew the internet’s socks clean off. With a Maschinen Krieger-inspired aesthetic and fast-paced, stomping robot action, Hawken looked like one of the coolest video games the world had ever seen.
Source: Kotaku – Cult Mech Game Hawken Is Coming Back From The Dead
For the past year a company known as Irreverent Labs have been working on a game called MechaFightClub, which was to be driven by NFT sales and be based on the proud and ancient sport of cockfighting.
Source: Kotaku – NFT Cockfighting Game Binned, Is Everything Wrong With Silicon Valley
