Diablo IV, Blizzard’s upcoming loot-grinding RPG, featured a plethora of difficult bosses and trash mobs to kill during its early access beta last weekend. While players were stoked to jump back into the depraved world of Sanctuary to quell some demons, myself included, one jerk that the community is shooketh to face…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV’s Butcher Is Leaving Players Shooketh
Roadhog is one of Overwatch 2’s quieter heroes. Where some characters like Tracer and Junkrat are real chatterboxes, the chain-slinging, shotgun-toting Tank is a man of few words. That changes with the game’s latest limited-time mode, which makes him the announcer. Not only is he the one to declare your team the…
Source: Kotaku – Roadhog Roasts the Overwatch 2 Cast In Latest Limited-Time Mode
Gamers have finally had a chance to test drive the highly anticipated next entry in Blizzard’s action RPG series, Diablo IV. While the game offers up some contentious changes and sees balance concerns that will be debated furiously in the days to come, first impressions reveal a game that’s perfect to zone out to,…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: Blizz Explains Lack Of Couch Co-Op On PC
GameStop shocked investors, and anyone else who’s been paying attention to the meme stock video game retailer, when earlier this week it reported its first profitable quarter in over two years. It’s all the more surprising considering that everything else about the business, from botched pre-orders to employees just …
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Profitable For First Time In Years Even As Everything Seems On Fire
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, successor to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, is out soon. And while there’s a big fancy collector’s edition of the sequel available, which includes a book, Nintendo is this week taking the time to revisit the original, releasing for free a book called The Explorer’s Guide.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Giving Away Zelda Book That Used To Be In Special Edition
After a few months off for Winter, the North American cosplay season is starting to heat up once again, with the year’s first major show—Katsucon—taking place last month just outside of DC.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From Katsucon 2023
Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, tonight announced that an “AI tool” is currently helping its developers write dialogue for some of its games.
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft Proudly Announces ‘AI’ Is Helping Write Dialogue
Shazam! Fury of the Gods was released in theaters last week to a resounding “meh, okay” from audiences and critics alike. And now its main star and Jordan Peterson admirer, Zachary Levi, is out here on Twitter asking Neil Druckmann to cast him in the next season of the popular HBO Max series, The Last of Us.
Source: Kotaku – Shazam Star Begs To Be In The Last Of Us After Shazam 2 Bombs
The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually be held accountable for his…
Source: Kotaku – Trump Hasn’t Been Arrested But But AI Images Keep Fooling People
We’re a few months away from Final Fantasy XVI’s June 22 release date, and more details about the upcoming not-so-final fantasy-RPG keep tricking out. In addition to learning that the game is approximately 80 hours long, we’ve finally gotten a short-but-sweet glimpse of the cute wolf buddy kicking ass.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy 16’s Party Is Looking Top Tier With This New Wolf Buddy
As regulators approach their deadline to approve or reject Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, those for and against the mega merger are filing every last argument they can think of to try and sway the outcome. My favorite one yet involves Microsoft telling Sony to quit whining already and just…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Says 10 Years Is Plenty Of Time For Sony To Make Its Own Call Of Duty
Although Diablo IV’s early access beta wrapped up on March 20, another one will run from March 24 through 26. This window gives you access to all five classes, two of which—the Druid and Necromancer—were initially unavailable. While none have anything in common, other than their propensity to kill evil shit, one thing…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Classes Won’t Always Feel Balanced, Blizzard Says
This weekend, Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was trying to adopt a new dog. While he visited three Los Angeles based shelters, he decided to donate a total of $25,000 to help cover the adoption fees for other prospective dog owners.
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Star Hasan Gives k So Shelter Dogs Find Forever Families
The just-released Bayonetta prequel side-story, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, is actually really good, a return to form after the disappointment of Bayonetta 3, as I noted in my impressions yesterday. But apparently I was off base in positing that it was intended to placate lore-starved Bayonetta…
Source: Kotaku – Bayonetta Creator Says Prequel Will Solve Japan’s Low Birthrate
Today, Electronic Arts and developer Dice announced plans to sunset a selection of older Battlefield games and Mirror’s Edge later this month. Sadly, the list includes one of the best entries in the Battlefield franchise: Bad Company 2. And while you’ll still be able to play it online until the end of this year, you…
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Best Battlefields Ever Is Getting Shut Down
Modding, and by extension, modders, know no bounds. Whether it’s fixing unattended-to-glitches in hit games, adding absurd new character models, or just offering a new take on beloved gameplay, mods are a great way to add new life to a game you already know very well. And if that game is Elden Ring, well today’s…
Source: Kotaku – Ambitious Elden Ring Mod Is The Perfect Warmup For Shadow Of The Erdtree
When Overwatch 2 launched in October of last year, it was only natural that players stumbled into its new Push mode like ignorant babies in the dark. But y’all, we’ve had five months of pushing barricades across Toronto and Rome, and I need the rest of the Overwatch community to get off the goddamn robot when we’re…
Source: Kotaku – FYI: Get Away From The Overwatch 2 Push Bot If You’re Winning
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
One of the stars of Destiny 2’s new Lightfall expansion is Neomuna—a free roam patrol zone inside a dazzling futuristic city on Neptune. It starts out tough as nails due to a recent difficulty hike across Bungie’s loot shooter, but there are plenty of fun collectibles to hunt and little secrets to uncover. In fact,…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2: Lightfall’s Best Secret: An Exotic World Boss Almost No One Has Seen
