What’s better than a drawn-out intergalactic space war causing entire space colonies to crash land into, and utterly destroy Australia on multiple occasions? A cool giant robot that can play rock paper scissors with you, of course.
Source: Kotaku – Life-Size Gundam Challenges Visitors To A Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament
Hands-on previews for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have just dropped, and one small gameplay detail stood out to me among all the hype and skepticism about its crafting systems. TotK will contain gacha elements. That’s right. You can obtain crafting materials from a huge gachapon machine, and I’m living…
Source: Kotaku – Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Has Gacha Now, Which Is Deeply Funny
The ongoing war between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Disney is heading to court. Today, Disney and its army of lawyers filed a lawsuit against DeSantis and others over what it calls a “targeted campaign of government retaliation.” It’s the latest chapter in an ongoing war between the two.
Source: Kotaku – Disney Lawyers Are Done Playing, Sue Florida Gov. DeSantis
The last several decades of Star Wars video games have been spotty, to say the least. 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a rare standout, a big adventure from one of the world’s biggest publishers that still felt bold and experimental. A lot has happened since then, and now a sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is…
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: The Kotaku Review
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced its decision to block Micorosft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Wednesday citing concerns it would hurt competition in the growing cloud gaming market where Microsoft dominates thanks to Game Pass. It’s a shocking turn of events for what…
Source: Kotaku – UK Blocks Microsoft Activision Deal Over Game Pass
Wartales is currently in Early Access on Steam. It’s being developed by Shiro Games, the French studio behind the Viking RTS Northgard. And it has been taking up a lot of my time this month.
Source: Kotaku – Wartales Is A Game For Anyone Who Wants To Go On A Big Adventure
Square Enix, a publisher never afraid to embarrass itself with the latest technological fad, has quietly released an “AI-driven” game onto Steam. And it sucks.
Source: Kotaku – Square Enix Releases ‘AI’ Game, Reviews Throw It In The Trash
Funko Fusion, announced Tuesday, is an upcoming video game starring Funko Pop characters that will mix together takes on various Universal-owned IP into a pop-culture mishmash that I assume somebody, somewhere is probably excited about.
Source: Kotaku – Welcome To Hell! Here’s A Trailer For A Funko Pop Game
Two years in, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S is already losing steam. The tech giant reported on Tuesday that revenue from console hardware sales was down 30 percent from the same time in 2022 after big games like Starfield got delayed. Game Pass didn’t seem to be making up the difference.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Is Struggling To Sell Xboxes, Again
We’ve all been there: Ya sink a bunch of hours into a dense RPG only to find out your character build isn’t working out as well as you’d like. When that happens, it’s time to respec. No two games handle this the same way, and it sounds like Diablo IV will be choosing a middle path between the rigidity of Diablo II and…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: Respeccing Is ‘Essentially Free’ Up To A Point
Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful reviews.
Source: Kotaku – Metacritic Will Improve Moderation After Horizon Review Bombing
In a new interview published Monday, PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida talked about how difficult and expensive it is to make video games, explaining that the company behind hits like God of War and The Last of Us cancels “so many games” in order to “save” developers from getting stuck on something.
Source: Kotaku – Former PlayStation Boss Says They ‘Cancel So Many Games’
There’s a lot you can do with $300,000: buy a couple Teslas, invest in some stocks, get a PS5 or Xbox Series S/X (or a few of them). It’s an amount of money some people will never see in their lifetimes. Yet, someone with the cash to burn took their $300,000 and bought a super-rare Pikachu Pokémon card at an online…
Source: Kotaku – Rare ’90s Pikachu Pokémon Card Sells For A Wild 0K
The Halo series has had so many legendary vehicles that it’s a wonder we haven’t seen an official racing spin-off by now (no, that Forza Warthog doesn’t count). While players have created no shortage of Forge-crafted mini-games focused on vehicle hijinks, one brave modder has finally given us what we all needed: a…
Source: Kotaku – Bonkers Halo Mario Kart Mod Deserves To Be Its Own Game
Today’s Wordle answer is evading nearly 30 percent of players, The New York Times—which has been publishing Josh Wardle’s beloved word puzzle since buying it in 2022—said on Twitter.
Source: Kotaku – This Perfectly Reasonable Wordle Answer Is Stumping 30% Of Players
As the final fan-service-strewn season of Star Trek: Picard comes to an end, confusing everyone by not being absolutely awful, you may well be in the mood for some more Trek before the return of Strange New Worlds in June. But rather than heading to Netflix and struggling through the first three seasons of Deep Space…
Source: Kotaku – The 8 Best Star Trek Games To Play Now That Picard’s Over
Last week, Disney Speedstorm launched via paid early access. The (eventually) free-to-play kart racer is a multiplatform spin on Mario Kart and stars a wide array of Disney characters including Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Belle, Jack Sparrow, and more. And while it’s a lot of fun to play, its free-to-play grind and lack of…
Source: Kotaku – New Racing Game Is Basically Mario Kart For Disney Adults
The most important hurdle every character-action game has to clear is to make me feel like I’m improving as a gamer in the skill-based hack-and-slash department. Sometimes clearing that hurdle means giving me a time-stopping dodge ability to pummel frozen enemies, or a plethora of otherworldly weapons with which to…
Source: Kotaku – Gorgeous New Game Is Like Dark Souls But Way More Chill
The next big Star Wars game is nearly here and it sounds way too big for the Blu-ray disc it’s copied on. Jedi: Survivor requires 155 GB of available space to install on PC, and a warning on the front of the box indicates at least some of the data will have to be downloaded, whether you own a physical version of the…
Source: Kotaku – Physical Copies Of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Still Require Digital Downloads Even Though It’s Single-Player
