Final Fantasy XVI won’t be available for PlayStation 5 owners residing in Saudi Arabia come June 22 because Square Enix’s highly anticipated action-RPG has been banned there for some currently vague reasons.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI Banned In Saudi Arabia
I’m still pretty early into Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and while I’ve not run into the game-breaking bugs PC players are dealing with on my PS5, I have run into one progress-halting issue: I can’t get back to playing the main story because I’m too busy dressing Cal Kestis in the cool (and not so cool) outfits I’m…
Source: Kotaku – My Only Goal In Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is To Serve Lewks
Destiny 2’s next season is right around the corner, and as always there are a ton of changes coming to the MMO shooter. Bungie outlined a bunch of them in a new blog post, including that it’s raising the price of season passes from $10 to $12. It’s a small amount in the scheme of things that nevertheless points to the…
Source: Kotaku – The Destiny 2 Season Pass Price Is Going Up
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of Twitch’s top-performing and most popular female streamers, has been yeeted off the platform. She was hit with what appears to be a temporary ban on May 4, though the reason is unknown.
Source: Kotaku – Big-Name Twitch Streamer Amouranth Got Banned Again For Some Reason
Discord is a pretty good product. It’s an easy way to communicate with friends, find realtime communities around topics of mutual interest, and crucial for making use of voice chat across most online multiplayer games. And now Discord’s decided to muck it all up by forcing everyone to switch to a new username in a…
Source: Kotaku – Discord Announces Forced Name Changes, Pisses Everyone Off
In 2023, digital sales account for the majority of video games sold. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact, this really didn’t start until the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 era of gaming. And according to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, losing to Sony in that generation has put Xbox at a disadvantage, as owners of…
Source: Kotaku – Not Even Starfield Will Get People To Trade Their PS5s For Series X/S, Says Xbox Boss
If you were a teenage girl in the early aughts, prone to lurking amongst the towering shelves of Hot Topic tchotchkes and flat-ironing your fringe until it was crispier than Darth Vader’s body, then you always understood the Star Wars prequels, and more specifically, Anakin Skywalker.
Source: Kotaku – The Star Wars Anakin Skywalker Renaissance Is Here And My Body Is Ready
Escape rooms have gotten massively popular, and they’re a unique experience, standing out from outings at the movies or museums. They can be an amazing time, but the expectation that you’ll have to solve some puzzles can make them intimidating if you’ve never tried one before. And because the puzzles are meant to be…
Source: Kotaku – 11 Escape Room Tips (For When You Absolutely Must Find The Damn Exit)
The tumultuous digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern horror story for professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine-learning technologies go from being harmless-seeming fun to capitalist tools of extraction that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation.…
Source: Kotaku – Legendary Horror Manga Creator Is A Little Worried About AI Artwork
This June’s animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will clock in at a substantial two hours and 16 minutes, its listing on AMC Theatres indicates. That is 136 minutes. That’s approximately how long it takes to escape a bad conversation. It’s 10 minutes longer than Disney’s 1940 epic Fantasia, and a little…
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Verse Sequel Is One Of The Longest Animated Films Ever
Hollywood writers have been on strike ever since media executives and the Writer’s Guild of America failed to come to an agreement at the bargaining table. Now, multiple video game writers are currently having public discussions about how their craft is undervalued by those looking in from the outside. One of them is…
Source: Kotaku – Former Dragon Age Writer Says BioWare Eventually ‘Resented’ Writers
I’m really captivated by Don’t Nod’s new mystery visual novel Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, but I can’t help feeling like it keeps getting in its own way. I’ve put about three hours into the game, and while it brings the Life Is Strange studio’s signature emotional, human dialogue, diversity, and a compelling story…
Source: Kotaku – Life Is Strange Dev’s Next Game Is Like Inside Out, But Sexy
The three main Call of Duty games available right now—Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2.0, and Mobile—are gearing up for a new season of content, which will include all the usual additions: blueprints, skins, weapons, and the like. Tucked in this May 10 content drop, however, is a rather unique operator skin for the Phoenix…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty Adding Very Tall NBA Player Kevin Durant Is Hilarious
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer was contrite following the overwhelmingly negative response to Redfall this week. In a new interview with the Xbox podcast Xcast, the executive confessed to being disappointed with some quality issues and the critical reception of Arkane’s vampire shooter this week.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Boss ‘Upset With Myself’ Over Redfall’s Terrible Launch
The PlayStation 5 has another special edition bundle thanks to the impending release of Kaiju battle simulator Final Fantasy XVI. The good news is it’ll save you $10. The bad news is the limited-edition design cover and DualSense controller are only coming to Japan.
Source: Kotaku – Look At This Hot Final Fantasy XVI PS5 Bundle You Probably Can’t Get
The Star Wars universe is massive, filled with hundreds of books, games, TV shows, and more. And let’s not forget the movies, which started all of this wild nonsense back in 1978 with A New Hope. Throughout all of Star Wars, from all the fan fighting over Last Jedi to people going wild over Grogu, one thing has…
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Freaky Little Guys From Star Wars
In 2021 Mythic Games, with the backing of Ubisoft, announced a Kickstarter campaign for an officially-licensed board game adaptation of Rainbow Six: Siege. Two years later, Mythic are asking people who already paid for the game to pay a bit—and in some cases a lot—more.
Source: Kotaku – Rainbow Six Kickstarter Asks For More Money From People Who Already Backed
PSA to all my fellow true believers and web-heads around the world: the hotly-anticipated Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is getting a prequel comic on May 6, also known as Free Comic Book Day.
Source: Kotaku – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Prequel Comic Pulls New Villain Into The ‘Gamerverse’
