As you may have heard, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been culture-war feuding with one of Florida’s more famous corporate tenants, The Walt Disney Company. Earlier this year, DeSantis directed the state to take over control of the special district where Disney World is located. As such, Republicans appointed a new…
Source: Kotaku – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Learns Hard Lesson: Don’t Mess With Disney Lawyers
I look out the train. A bright red cap stares back at me. I step out of the train. A bus departs the curb, plumbers splashed across its metal body. I open my laptop. Seth Rogen isn’t singing the Donkey Kong rap, because that would be unbecoming, but he’s still feeding the beast.
Source: Kotaku – The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Flooding Everything ATM
E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled according to IGN. This follows multiple video game publishers and companies pulling out of the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo over the last few weeks.
Source: Kotaku – Report: E3 2023 Canceled
The blockbuster industries of pop music and gaming have been collaborating for almost as long as games have existed—at least since 1983, when Journey got their very own Midway arcade cabinet. Those kinds of branded crossovers have only grown with time, especially in online games like Fortnite, which has transformed…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Is The Future Of Music Streaming
Suddenly, my boat crashes. When I wake up, wet on a wooden dock in a town I don’t know, the lighthouse above doesn’t look like it’s pointing toward salvation. But I’m playing the disquieting new fishing sim Dredge, and I eventually learn that feeling out of my depth—subject to the changing waters’ depths—is the point.
Source: Kotaku – This Horror Game Turns Fishing Into Psychological Warfare
Warzone 2.0 hasn’t been a universal hit with fans of Call of Duty. Various gameplay and UI changes and frustrations over a slow and sometimes confusing battle pass structure have pushed many players, including pros and popular streamers, off the game, with many migrating to other games or to Warzone: Caldera, where…
Source: Kotaku – Warzone 2 Frustration Is Fueling Some Wild Cheating Conspiracies
Mighty Doom, out now on iOS and Android, is a free-to-play Archero-like top-down shooter starring the one and only Doom Slayer, aka the Doomguy. In many ways, it reminds me of those weird ‘80s cartoons that adapted gory, adult action films into kid-friendly animated shows, like Rambo or RoboCop. Sadly, while Mighty…
Source: Kotaku – New Doom Game Is Cute And Fun Until You Run Out Of Energy
Horizon Forbidden West was cross-gen on release, so it might have been surprising when Sony announced that the story DLC Burning Shores would be a PlayStation 5 exclusive. The publisher finally provided fans with some answers on the PlayStation blog as to why: the last-gen console wouldn’t be able to handle all those…
Source: Kotaku – Horizon Forbidden West’s DLC Is A PS5 Exclusive Because…Clouds, Apparently
“Disney” and “controversial” don’t typically go together. Even so, 58 million people visited Walt Disney World last year; it’s impossible to please them all. And occasionally, there will be an outcry, uproar, outrage, or brouhaha that’s large enough to make the news.
Source: Kotaku – The 8 Most Controversial Rides In Disney Theme Park History
As efforts to preserve video game history continue, we still stumble upon things that once seemed lost to time. This includes games dating back to the Atari 2600 days, such as this 44-year-old title made by Atari back in the 70s.
Source: Kotaku – Retro Atari Game Found After Being Lost For 40 Years
Battle royales are everywhere. From first-person shooters like Warzone to (now-defunct) third-person spellcasters such as Spellbreak, the genre has overtaken the industry. While battle royales may be ubiquitous, there’s one you probably aren’t playing right now that you totally should. It’s called Naraka: Bladepoint,…
Source: Kotaku – The Sickest Battle Royale You Probably Aren’t Playing Is All About Martial Arts
A month after launch, some analysts are already raising a panic about PlayStation VR2 headset sales. Bloomberg reports that the PS5 accessories are projected to have sold less than 300,000 units in the first month, renewing calls to slash the high-end $550 price tag.
Source: Kotaku – PS VR2 Headset Sales Sound Like They’re Off To A Really Rough Start
On Thursday, the official Netflix Anime account announced that the cast of the live-action 2010 Scott Pilgrim movie will reprise their roles in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim anime.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Scott Pilgrim Anime Will Reunite Entire Movie Cast
The rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! card in the world will finally be sold this April. Only one copy was ever printed, and it’s been in the hands of one owner since 2005. Now, the owner is finally ready to part ways with it after 18 years.
Source: Kotaku – Rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! Card In The World Will Be Sold After 18 Years
In a world where Google shapes everything, determining whether or not information is readily available to the average person based on key search terms, changing the name of a product or service can be a huge move. In some cases it can help, because moving away from working titles and establishing definitive ones, such…
Source: Kotaku – This Action-RPG May Have The Funniest Renaming In Game History
Someone walks into a GameStop and asks where the gift cards are. They proceed to buy a bunch of them. Not just $40, or $80, but hundreds of dollars worth of Steam cards, Razer Gold, or some other gaming currency. They don’t look like someone who’s knee deep in the seedy underworld of Counter-Strike skins. The person…
Source: Kotaku – The Steam Card Scams That Keep Some GameStop Employees Up At Night
While some of Capcom’s newly released Resident Evil 4 remake is different than it was in 2005, including core and not-so-core (sorry, perverts!) gameplay mechanics, the horror game is still prepared to kick your ass.
Source: Kotaku – 15 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing The Resident Evil 4 Remake
Most video game studios, or at least the bigger ones, will have experience with Foley, a long-standing craft that revolves around creating cinematic sound effects using everyday objects.
Source: Kotaku – God Of War’s Sounds Were Made By Squishing Melons, Slapping Wood & Toilet Plungers
So the Resident Evil 4 remake is, surprisingly absolutely nobody given the quality of the source material, good. It looks great, it has some modern ideas about inventory and, on the PS5, it also knows how to make the most out of the DualSense controller’s fancy adaptive triggers.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil 4 Makes EXCELLENT Use Of The PS5’s Adaptive Triggers
The Australian Federal Government have announced this week that they’ll be pushing to “apply an R18+ rating to all video games that contain simulated gambling”, a move that appears to be the strictest of its type we’ve seen.
Source: Kotaku – Australian Government Wants To Give 18+ Ratings To Any Game With Gambling