Yet-to-collapse cryptocurrency, EMAX, has just gotten another celebrity in hot water. Short for EthereumMax, the bullshit scheme was promoted on Twitter by former NBA player Paul Pierce, except he rather forgot to say he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing so. As reported by The Verge, he U.S.…
Source: Kotaku – Crypto Shilling Costs Yet Another Celebrity A Million Dollars
Last week’s episode of The Last of Us was perhaps the show at its most bleak and devastating. Thankfully, episode six, entitled “Kin,” offers us a bit of a tonal reprieve, with enough scenes of hope and possibility for life in the post-cordyceps world to remind us that it is still possible to carve out lives worth…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Episode 6 Recap: Ellie The Goodbye Girl
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn’t due out until May 12, which means fans heavily invested in the lore and secrets of the game have three months of avoiding (what they will probably think are) spoilers ahead of them.
Source: Kotaku – Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Art Book Leaks Months Ahead Of Release
Much of the science fiction genre would have you believe that artificial intelligence would bring about humanity’s downfall by rising up and slaughtering its creators, but the recent boom in AI tech has instead amounted to labor crimes like journalistic malpractice and robbing artists of their commissions. So while AI…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Reportedly Made An AI That Plays Minecraft For You
New gameplay from the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor seems to reveal that, unlike in the first game, the sequel will finally let Jedi Cal Kestis slice up stormtroopers and other human enemies. And that’s a good thing, as this much-wanted change makes lightsabers feel powerful and deadly again.
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Already Has Better Lightsabers Than Fallen Order
After Honkai: Star Rail for a few minutes during a live media preview, I mostly liked what I saw. HoYoverse’s “space fantasy” RPG doesn’t reinvent turn-based combat, but the performance was smooth. The fighting animations were among some of the best I’ve seen out of anime games in recent years. The combat’s turn…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Devs Are Making A Space Fantasy RPG With Persona 5-Like Combat
Anime and manga publisher Viz Media just made a handful of really big anime series freely available to watch on YouTube. If you’re looking for a good entry point into some really prolific shows, this is an excellent opportunity to dive into some stone-cold classics.
Source: Kotaku – Death Note, Sailor Moon, And Other Classic Animes Are Now Free On YouTube
The newest Dead by Daylight killer isn’t just making a killing in the tech industry, she’s also murdering the series’ track record for having its original female characters expose their toes.
Source: Kotaku – Dead By Daylight’s New Character Ends Game’s Apparent Foot Fetish Trend
Taylor Neubert did what so many GameStop employees have only dreamed about: quit on the spot. Fed up with working 10-hour days all by herself between piles of video games and stacks of Pokémon merchandize for less than $15 an hour, she closed her store in the middle of her shift, put a sign on the door saying GameStop…
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Employee Explains What Made Her Close A Store And Never Come Back
Bruce Wayne, aka Batman (don’t tell anybody that secret, okay), is a person just like the rest of us. This means, just like you, he has a birthday, and in honor of his upcoming b-day, WB Games is advertising a big sale on…Gotham Knights. You know, the game where Batman dies in the first 20 minutes and you don’t…
Source: Kotaku – Celebrate Batman’s Birthday And Buy The Game He Dies In For Half Off
A Reddit user recently pit the chess engine Stockfish, which has won the Top Chess Engine Championship eight times, against the notorious AI-powered conversation bot ChatGPT in a dismal chess match. While Stockfish, as it has been created to do, was able to hold its own, ChatGPT sadly succumbed to chess’ high-stakes…
Source: Kotaku – AI Enters Chess Battle, Cheats, Still Loses Badly
Hogwarts Legacy is here, its arrival surrounded by more brutal blasts of discourse than there are bursts of Bat-Bogey Hexes flying around the Slytherin Common Room. The conversation around the open-world action adventure game which seeks to provide players with the immersive fantasy of actually attending the storied…
Source: Kotaku – 15 Hours With Hogwarts Legacy: Magical Surface, Rotten Core
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released last November with a truly hilarious and mind-boggling amount of graphical glitches and bugs. But have no fear: Nintendo just announced a huge February update that should bring us closer to the quality we usually expect from the Pokémon series. The developers also added quality of…
Source: Kotaku – Giant Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Patch Tries Fixing Jank By…Spawning Fewer Monsters
Game Freak is rolling out another big update to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet at the end of the month, and while there’s some attention being given to the games’ notorious performance issues, the solution the studio has gone with will fundamentally change certain aspects of the open-world RPG. Specifically, the team is…
Source: Kotaku – Shiny Hunting Is About To Get Harder In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
The Dark Pictures Anthology developer Supermassive Games will release a scary, shooter spinoff for the PS VR2, Switchback VR, later this month. A new gameplay walkthrough trailer reveals a grim roller coaster ride into a series of nightmares, made even more gruesome by eye-tracking technology that pulls enemies to you…
Source: Kotaku – RIP: New PS5 VR Horror Game Makes Things Scarier If You Blink
The year of our lord 2023 has only just begun, but it’s never too early to start keeping track of what games might land on a hypothetical Game of the Year list come December. If you’ve been out of the loop for a few months and are curious about what some of the best games to come out this year are, we’ve rounded up a…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Games Of 2023 (So Far)
The world of Cyberpunk 2077 is one where technological innovation has run wild. Its citizens are full of robot parts, can send data with their minds and can literally see other people’s dreams and memories. Yet despite all this, one aspect of everyone’s daily lives is still incredibly quaint (at least by those…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Gets One Thig Right: Cars Need Buttons
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-builder that has a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It’s not for everyone, then, but it certainly has its fans.
Source: Kotaku – Report: City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue
