Last week, the cosmetics retailer Lush unveiled their collab lineup of Super Mario Bros. bath items. Finally, gamers will have a reason to take a bath. A bath bomb is a compact ball of essential oils and other ingredients that are used for skincare. Lush’s founder invented them nearly thirty years ago and the company…
Source: Kotaku – Uh-Oh, The Super Mario Bros. x Lush Bath Bombs Look Like Pee
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is just two months away, and there’s still a ton we don’t know about the widely anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild. Like, for instance, how different will it actually be from the hit 2017 open-world game? Thankfully, Nintendo just announced a new gameplay deep dive that…
Source: Kotaku – Zelda Fans Can Finally Chill: Tears Of The Kingdom Deep Dive Is On The Way
Leon S. Kennedy may have brushed up on his Spanish, but that won’t help him when it comes to ducking and weaving through disgruntled villagers, chickens, and cows. Luckily enough, should you have John Wick-esque aim, you can avoid Resident Evil 4’s opening village fight.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil 4 Remake’s First Fight Can Be Skipped In Cool Way
Less than a year into gaming content creator mega-brand FaZe Clan’s disastrous Wall Street experiment, the Nasdaq has said please, no more. The New York-based stock exchange sent a “Notice of Delisting” last week to the esports company threatening to drop it from trading if it doesn’t get its stock price above $1 in…
Source: Kotaku – FaZe Clan Stock Price Too Embarrassing For Wall Street
Terra Nil is a city-builder that’s not really a city-builder. It plays like one, so it’s easy to use that label as shorthand (developers Free Lives call it a “reverse city-builder”), but Terra Nil doesn’t ask you to lay any roads or worry about residential taxes. It’s more of a “resource management puzzle game”…
Source: Kotaku – Terra Nil: The Kotaku Review
Janey, Sabz, Avuhlie, and GuhRL are probably younger than you, but they’re definitely better at Apex Legends than you. The four young women, who range in age from 17 to 27, are esports organization TSM’s first all-women pro Apex squad—quite a feat when you consider the game’s notoriously high skill ceiling. Announced…
Source: Kotaku – All-Women Pro Apex Legends Squad Won’t Listen To Haters, Lets Gameplay Do The Talking
Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we’re looking at the history of Shiny Pokémon and how catching them became a huge pillar of the series’…
Source: Kotaku – It’s Never Been Easier To Find A Shiny Pokémon, For Better Or Worse
Microsoft’s long-running introductory offer for its Xbox Game Pass subscription platform, which let users try the service out for $1 for the first month before moving onto more expensive payments, has finally come to a close.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Ends Xbox Game Pass Offer
The controversy surrounding Dark and Darker, an MMO that stands accused of stealing not just assets but also staff from Korean publishers Nexon, escalated over the weekend when the game was delisted from Steam.
Source: Kotaku – PC Game Accused Of ‘Asset Theft’ Removed From Steam
Destiny 2 has gotten a bunch of hotfixes since the Lightfall expansion launched several weeks ago, but none like yesterday’s update. A fix not mentioned in the patch notes secretly changed the game’s newest Warlock armband armor to make it look less like a vagina.
Source: Kotaku – Bungie Quietly Patches Destiny 2’s Vagina Armband
The Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series) is the most video game ever. This melodramatic crime drama series about a bunch of burly gangsters with the power to rip their suits clean off from their lapels has wacky plotlines where you hire a chicken as a real estate employee, manage a cabaret maid…
Source: Kotaku – Bringing Authenticity And Humor To Like A Dragon’s ‘Western Renaissance’
The Last Ronin comic is being adapted into an action-focused single-player video game that will play similarly to God of War. The popular and gritty 2020 comic, a spin-off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, stars the last remaining turtle in a war-ravaged wasteland.
Source: Kotaku – Gritty New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Takes After God Of War
Some breakups are so stinging—worse than biting into a lemon slice with a cut lip—that they ruin everything the relationship ever touched, including good memories, sunny places, and your favorite video games.
Source: Kotaku – They Can’t Play These Games Anymore, And They Blame Exes
Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author who nets tens of millions of dollars in book sales every year, which puts him in the same book-selling league as George R.R. Martin. However, his financial success has not really translated into a similar mainstream visibility outside of his specific fanbase—until this week. The…
Source: Kotaku – Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson Asks Fans To Calm Down After Getting Slammed
If you’re like me and feel life is entirely too short to spend on important, self-congratulatory games (or people, for that matter), might I recommend 2020’s Sludge Life? Once exclusive to the Epic Games Store, it arrived on Steam about a year later where you could buy it for 15 bucks. Right now, though, you can grab…
Source: Kotaku – Controversial Ex-Epic Games Store Exclusive Now Free On Steam
The PS5 sold out for years. Now it’s in stock and, shockingly, currently on sale for the first time since the latest-gen hardware was released. But the discount only goes until April 6, and who knows how long these cheaper bundles will last.
Source: Kotaku – PS5 Bundle Finally Goes On Sale For The First Time Ever, But It Won’t Last
Just yesterday, developer FromSoftware rolled out a new Elden Ring update that introduced ray tracing (RTX). It’s been a highly requested feature since the game’s February 25, 2022 launch. Unfortunately, just hours after patch 1.09 dropped, RTX is breaking the popular Soulslike in all kinds of ways, from crashing the…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Ray Tracing Is Busted After Year Of Waiting
The Destiny 2 community has been mourning the loss of John Wick and The Wire actor Lance Reddick along with everyone else following his recent death. But Bungie confirms the voice behind lead character Commander Zavala still has a few performances left to come in the game.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Still Has More Lance Reddick Coming
Vesemir’s death in 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt brought me to tears. Despite having very little familiarity with the games or the books before playing the third entry in this classic trilogy of RPGs, the moment my little band of misfit heroes lost an essential part of their found family was too much to hold it all…
Source: Kotaku – The Witcher 3 Devs Explain A Character’s Surprising Death Years Later
After announcing in December that it was coming, the Pokémon anime finally aired its last Ash and Pikachu episode in Japan. The episode won’t be airing in English for some time as the anime is tied to a Netflix deal that releases batches of episodes periodically, so if you’re curious to see how their journey concludes…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s What Happens in Ash’s Final Pokémon Episode