Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto the Hogwarts Legacy…
Source: Kotaku – Popular Vtuber Pikamee Retires Following Hogwarts Legacy Controversy
There are so many games focused on sneaking, but so few opportunities for most of us to ever get to perform such acts in real life, at least without breaking the law. While that’s likely for the best, one worker at an escape room has discovered the perfect reason to use such skills in real life, and she doesn’t even…
Source: Kotaku – Escape Room Worker Uses Metal Gear Solid Sneaking Skills To Help Unwitting Players
The Pokémon anime is wrapping up Ash and Pikachu’s 25-year-long story with a series of farewell episodes, and in each of them, the duo has been revisiting old friends from across the Pokémon world. However, it sounds like the final episode before the show hands off the torch to new protagonists Liko and Roy won’t…
Source: Kotaku – Ash And Pikachu’s Final Pokémon Episode Will Bring Back Gary (And Your Tears)
The company that makes Funko Pop! collectibles is in so much trouble it’s preparing to throw hundreds of thousands of its pop culture-inspired figurines into the garbage. Funko revealed the plans in a recent earnings call filled with so much bad news its stock price fell off a cliff the next day.
Source: Kotaku – Over Million Worth Of Funkos Are Headed To The Landfill
The term “Soulslike” generates a specific kind of game in the mind. It conjures something that’s hard as hell, with fearsome bosses to beat, intricate levels to explore, tight combat to experience, and a world rife with enough lore to fill several tomes. You may call games in the genre alluring, unforgettable, and…
Source: Kotaku – Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty: The Kotaku Review
Were it almost any other game from almost any other studio, Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch would have condemned it to the sales bins of history. Big AAA releases dropping with some bugs is one thing; big AAA releases being taken off the PlayStation Store because they were so broken is something else entirely.
Source: Kotaku – There Is No Saving Cyberpunk 2077
They were never headline news, but Sony did a pretty good job throughout the PlayStation 4’s lifespan of releasing custom consoles. You know the drill: it’s a regular PlayStation 4 inside, but the case would be a new colour, or there’d be a fancy faceplate with a game’s logo or piece of art on it.
Source: Kotaku – The ‘Lebron James’ PlayStation 5 Looks Bad!
Yesterday, Luminous Productions, the developers behind the rocky fantasy parkour game Forspoken, announced that it will no longer exist as a separate game studio. On May 1, Luminous will be merged back into its parent company, Square Enix.
Source: Kotaku – Forspoken Studio Being Absorbed Back Into Square Enix
It seems that Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki and I share an affinity for the same kind of game: Extraction shooters. (I always knew he had good taste). In a recent interview, the award-winning director said that he was a fan of none other than Escape From Tarkov and, more importantly, that it and other…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Director Turns To Escape From Tarkov For Inspiration
The Xbox Series S may not be the most powerful console out there, but its a perfect little machine for playing most Game Pass bangers and Xbox exclusives. And now, the Series S is available for only $150. The catch: You have to be a Verizon subscriber to take advantage of this limited-time deal.
Source: Kotaku – Verizon Customers Can Grab An Xbox Series S For Only 0
You’ll get coaxed into turning bounty hunter Samus Aran into a compact, slippy metal Morph Ball shortly after you start the new Metroid Prime Remastered, quickly forcing you to dodge churning, red lava pits and obnoxiously buzzing bombers by rolling around them. This basic bowling ball movement becomes complex as you…
Source: Kotaku – Here Are All The Metroid Prime Remastered Morph Ball Tips You Need
During a press junket interview for Creed III, actor Michael B. Jordan revealed that he wanted his directorial debut to be jam-packed with references to some of the best fights in anime.
Source: Kotaku – Creed III Director Michael B. Jordan Wanted It To Be Anime AF
This week, Florida governor Ronald Dion DeSantis signed a bill that targets the Disney Company’s control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a nearly 40-square mile area in Florida’s Orange and Osceola counties. The area covers the Walt Disney World Resort and was, until now, under independent governance…
Source: Kotaku – The Ron DeSantis And Disney Feud Is Heating Up
Just outside the main castle grounds in Hogwarts Legacy, the vibrant and towering Quidditch stands sit on the horizon, beckoning. If you hop on your broomstick, you can soar up the pitch’s shorter walls and down onto the field itself, the impossibly green grass begging to be sullied by your footsteps. If you want, you…
Source: Kotaku – Hogwarts Legacy Certainly Seems Like It Was Supposed to Have Quidditch
The opening level of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 is one of the most iconic video game areas out there. The overcast skies, the low-res rock walls, the sniper towers, and the tunnel leading to an underground maze. Remember how it slowly causes your game to become more and more glitchy due to some unknown entity?…
Source: Kotaku – Free Horror Game Is A Corrupted, Nightmare Version Of N64’s Goldeneye
In a lot of ways, Octopath Traveler II can feel like a pretty straightforward turn-based RPG, but when you take into account its eight characters’ original mechanics, its non-linear storytelling, and how unapologetic it can be about throwing you into the deep end, there’s a lot of complexity under the hood. Whether…
Source: Kotaku – 8 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Octopath Traveler II
I like the Iron Bull a lot. I’d get a drink with a guy like him in real life. We’d get each others’ backs if anyone was giving shit to either of us. Which is why I can’t stop thinking about how badly his story arc concluded in the action RPG Dragon Age: Inquisition, and why I’ve been revisiting the ways it lines up…
Source: Kotaku – Inquisition’s Most Disappointing Character Shows The Limitations Of Dragon Age
Kai Cenat, the 21-year-old rising Twitch star who took the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform by storm in 2021 and 2022, has smashed another record on the last day of Black History Month. This time, it was the record for the streamer with the most active subscribers, an accolade previously attained by Tyler “Ninja”…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamer Kai Cenat Bodies Subscriber World Record During Black History Month
Ahead of this week’s Lightfall release, Destiny 2 was on a roll. Season of the Seraph delivered on every front, including a terrific final mission and concluding cutscene showing the series’ infamous white orb called the Traveler finally getting off its ass. The pre-release marketing campaign for Lightfall was firing…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2: Lightfall Leaves A Bad First Impression
Last week, the official One Piece staff Twitter account posted a video of creator Eiichiro Oda diving completely off of the deep end by asking ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chat software, to write a new One Piece chapter for him. The tweet described the bold request as Oda asking “the taboo question,” according…
Source: Kotaku – One Piece Creator Asked AI To Write A New Manga Chapter