Steam is often a free-for-all when it comes to game curation and content moderation, but the Valve-owned storefront appears to be on the march against spam commenters, especially those pestering other users about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin trades. A number of players have recently said they’ve recently been…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Crackdown Hits CS:GO Player With 0K In Skins
A Genshin Impact voice actor recently came under public fire after several fans came forward to accuse him of sexually inappropriate behaviors towards them. Even fellow members of the cast came forward to support the alleged victims. A week later, Genshin developer HoYoverse announced that Elliot Gindi would no longer…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Character Gets New Voice Actor After Sexual Harassment Allegations
The Studio Ghibli-style Lofi Girl has been sitting by her window since 2018, listening to soft hip hop beats forever playing in the YouTube livestream she lives in. She’s become a studying staple, a teammate to sit beside while you pore over homework or your half-finished sitcom script, and spawned countless…
Source: Kotaku – YouTube Freaks Out As Lofi Hip Hop Girl Disappears From Popular Stream
On Tuesday, Fortnite announced that it’s bringing Attack on Titan characters Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, and Levi Ackerman to the mega-popular battle royale game. However, Attack on Titan skins aren’t the only items Fortnite’s dropped into the game. It’s also tucked away the anime’s most important McGuffin: Grisha’s…
Source: Kotaku – Attack On Titan’s Secret Jaeger Basement Is Now In Fortnite
Media Molecule has announced it’s ending support for Dreams, its PlayStation 4-based game-making suite, after four years.
Source: Kotaku – Dreams, PlayStation’s Most Ambitious, Creative Game, Stops Updates After Four Years
Discord rolled out Soundboard, a new voice call feature to a small number of users at the end of last month, allowing you to play a short audio clip to use as a reaction or add custom sounds to your server. Unfortunately, Discord hasn’t set a hard limit on how frequently you’re allowed to react, leading to some truly…
Source: Kotaku – Discord Users Are Using The Soundboard Update To Troll Each Other, Like God Intended
A few days back a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player by the name of sp1cay was playing with some friends when, after a quick sprint and toss of a grenade, they whipped out their AWP sniper rifle and fired off a single shot.
Source: Kotaku – Counter-Strike Player Kills Five Guys With One Bullet
Dead Space originally came out in 2008. It was re-released to great fanfare earlier this year, its visuals updated for modern hardware. You might think that’s more than enough Dead Space for now, thank you very much, but we don’t always have to go so HD with these remakes. Sometimes we can go back.
Source: Kotaku – You Can Play A Dead Space Demake For Free
The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ is an iconic Hollywood soundbyte that, thanks to its use in countless films, TV shows and video games over the years, is surely one of the most familiar yells in human history.
Source: Kotaku – The Original Take Of The ‘Wilhelm Scream’ Has Been Found
In July 2020, artist Relan Daevath drew a piece of Elder Scrolls Online fanart and posted it on their Tumblr account. Now, three years later, they’ve discovered that seemingly the exact piece has appeared in the game itself, only they had nothing to do with it.
Source: Kotaku – Elder Scrolls Game Caught Using Fan Art Without Permission
Over the weekend Star Wars Celebration 2023 (an event dedicated to Star Wars news, panels, and more) happened, and while a lot of news came out of the event, the internet can’t stop talking about a relatively minor thing: Orange lightsabers. Are they really orange? What does that mean? Who are these new characters…
Source: Kotaku – Ashoka’s First Trailer Has Star Wars Fans Arguing Over Lightsaber Colors
Some retro gaming enthusiasts are so preoccupied with what they could build, they won’t stop to question if they should. One such diabolical maker has combined his love of retro consoles with his expertise in 3D printing and robotics to build the NESdestroyer: a repurposed NES console shell with a fully mobile,…
Source: Kotaku – Someone Built A NES That Could Probably Murder You
Despite being called the Star Wars Celebration, this past’s weekend’s event didn’t just showcase a bunch of trailers and panels from a galaxy far, far away. The event also hosted a panel for LucasFilm’s upcoming Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny starring Harrison Ford. The big bad in the new …
Source: Kotaku – Indiana Jones 5’s Mads Mikkelsen On Why He’s Always The Evil Dude
A massive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artbook leaked in February, and Nintendo hasn’t forgotten. The Switch maker is currently trying to subpoena Discord, where images from the artbook first started making the rounds, to force the social media platform to disclose the identity of one of the users alleged…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Demands Discord Reveal The Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Leaker
When it comes to ranking Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, you’re really just ranking a group of top-tier games. A list ranking the Zelda series is a list of bangers, and even the “worst” entry is better than most other games. So don’t get mad if your favorite is on the lower half of this list, it’s standing…
Source: Kotaku – The Mainline Legend Of Zelda Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
The wait for Bethesda’s Starfield, first announced in 2018, has felt like interstellar travel itself. But the journey is nearly over: On September 6, 2023, Starfield will finally arrive on Xbox Series X/S and Windows PCs. Promising an ambitious scale and signature Bethesda role-playing, there’s a lot to look forward…
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Know About Starfield, Bethesda’s Ambitious New RPG
Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake is bursting with secrets and unlockables, things like extreme weapon upgrades and hidden gems hanging over your head, waiting to be found and taken. But in the case of unlimited ammo (which has been a discoverable feature in RE4 since the original game released, it’s not an exploit like…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s How To Get Infinite Ammo In The Resident Evil 4 Remake
This weekend, the U.S. military was faced with a massive document leak that could have a significant impact on the war in Ukraine, and officials say that it’s one of the “most damaging in decades.” The leaks originated from a small Discord server, and then spread to a popular Minecraft one.
Source: Kotaku – Report: U.S. Military Documents Leaked To Minecraft Discord Server
Whether you’ve seen The Super Mario Bros. Movie or not, you’ve undoubtedly heard Chris Pratt’s fairly normal-sounding voice as the titular plumber. Initially derided for sounding nothing like the Mario we’ve come to know from the games, Pratt has put his own spin on the character. But in his quest to find the perfect…
Source: Kotaku – Chris Pratt’s OG Voice In The Super Mario Bros. Movie Was Too ‘New Jersey’
