Welcome back, folks, to the ongoing battle between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company. This week, the two are at it again, with DeSantis calling for a criminal investigation into Disney’s lawyers for out-maneuvering his goons and retaining control of the special district that contains Disney…
Source: Kotaku – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Now Big Mad About Disney Outsmarting Him
Kotaku reported on March 23, 2023 that Epic Games had outlined specific do’s and don’ts when it comes to what kinds of maps creators can build and publish using Fortnite’s new Unreal Editor. Essentially, any map from another game (including certain Fortnite maps from previous seasons), isn’t allowed. With Call of Duty…
Source: Kotaku – Popular Call of Duty Fortnite Map Gets Hyped By Millions After It’s Pulled
The PlayStation Store is about to get a solid sorting upgrade this week with accessibility tags, a new list of descriptors developers can pin to games to highlight their specific accessibility support, Sony announced in a blog post this week.
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Store Will Make It Easier To Know A Game’s Options Before You Buy It
Niran “Lifeweaver” PruksaManee is Overwatch 2’s 37th hero, a support character who specializes in plant-based technology to heal and protect his teammates. He’s a fugitive on the run from the Vishkar Corporation who was close to DPS character Symettra while at the company’s Architech Academy. He’s the first character…
Source: Kotaku – Meet Lifeweaver, Overwatch 2’s First Hero Confirmed Queer Upon Reveal
Another day, another wild showcase of talent in the new Unreal Editor for Fortnite. This latest one, titled “Cyber Rush,” is by a creator called CooliSushi and combines moody cyberpunk visuals and energetic electronic music with a speedy aerial highway action montage that easily brings to mind the opening of Star…
Source: Kotaku – Sick New Fortnite Map Is Like Spider-Man Meets Star Wars
Most Funko Pops are worthless and getting shoveled into landfills right now. But some are extremely rare, going for exorbitant prices in face-to-face meetups. One recent trade gets at just how bizarre the market for certain Funko Pops has gotten, with one collector apparently swapping half a dozen ‘Freddy Venom’…
Source: Kotaku – Funko Collector Trades Rare Pops For Over 0k In Cadillacs
Xbox announced its first round of April Game Pass offerings in a blog post earlier today. I’ll cut to the chase and tell you the best part—you can play one of the more intriguing titles, Loop Hero, right now.
Source: Kotaku – Your Next Roguelite Obsession Is Now On Xbox Game Pass
Capcom’s social media team has been hard at work churning out a cavalcade of fancams and thirst trap posts to generate buzz for the Resident Evil 4 remake. However, as is the case with most things, it’s work created by fans themselves that has more staying power than any corporate-generated meme ever could.…
Source: Kotaku – The Resident Evil 4 Community Is Obsessed With Ashley As A Cartoon Mouse
Monster Energy, the energy drink company that puts artificially-flavored gloop in cans next to gaming setups worldwide, is pushing an indie studio to change the name of its game. Glowstick Entertainment’s 2020 horror title, Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is apparently “confusingly similar to their energy drink,”…
Source: Kotaku – Monster Energy Keeps Pushing Devs To Change Their Game Titles
You can quite literally egg one of the Resident Evil 4 bosses to death. Near the end of the castle chapter, players must fight an evil nobleman who fused himself with a parasite queen. You can easily kill him in two hits, as long as you come armed with golden eggs.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil 4 Remake Boss Can Be Killed With Eggs
The Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets and fading yellow flock wallpaper. It was at once entirely innocuous, and somewhat unsettling. And it just sat there, for…
Source: Kotaku – The 4Chan Creepypasta That’s Taking Over The World (And You May Not Even Realize It)
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s next tera raid event might not sound as exciting as Charizard or Greninja making their debut in Game Freak’s latest pair of RPGs, but if you care at all about battling competitively, you’ll want to boot up the game to fight these terastalized Dittos.
Source: Kotaku – You’ll Want To Do Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Perfect Ditto Raid, Here’s How
Late last month the developers of venerable MMO Everquest II introduced a new kind of loot box to the game that was, basically, a pay-to-win situation. It did not go down well with the long-running community!
Source: Kotaku – MMO Introduces New Loot Boxes, Pulls Them Immediately After Fans Revolt
The Department of Justice has taken Activision Blizzard to court, alleging the publisher’s esports leagues had been potentially underpaying their workers/players via an exploitative “Competitive Balance Tax”.
Source: Kotaku – US Government Went After Activision Over Stingy Esports Salaries
Let’s be clear, hardware manufacturers have been trying to make handheld gaming PCs forever. The Steam Deck isn’t the first, and won’t be the last, it was just the first to be truly successful. A result of that success is that rivals now have a benchmark to aim for, though, and one of the first companies to take a…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Deck Competitor Promises Better Visuals, Windows 11
Last year’s massively expensive Lord of the Rings show on Amazon, Rings of Power, had a lot of hype going into it. Yet after Amazon spent over $450 million on the lavish production, a report claims that fewer than half of the viewers who watched the first episode finished the entire series.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Only 37% Of Viewers Finished Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings TV Show, The Most Expensive In History
The Last Of Us was re-released for the 117th time last week, this time on the PC (which was admittedly a first!), and like the huge launches for games like Horizon and God of War should have been cause for celebration. Instead the week, and fans’ expectations, were sunk by a ton of performance issues and bugs.
Source: Kotaku – Naughty Dog Say The Last Of Us’ PC Port Not ‘The Quality Level You Expect And Deserve’
The Evolution Championship Series, typically referred to as just EVO, wrapped up its Japanese circuit this weekend. There was a lot to get hyped for during the tournament, including the epic Guilty Gear Strive sets and the nail-biting Tekken 7 matches. However, one thing that most competitors weren’t stoked about was…
Source: Kotaku – Pro Street Fighter V Player Calls Out Major Tourney’s Crappy Setup
Ever since its 2004 debut on GameCube, Resident Evil 4 has been one of the highest points in Capcom’s long-running survival-horror series. Its fresh third-person camera perspective and more action-oriented gameplay meshed perfectly with the careful resource management and horrifying creatures the series was already…
Source: Kotaku – 8+ Action-Packed Games To Play After Resident Evil 4 Remake
