Toaplan’s Zero Wing is the game that spawned the classic (ancient, even) meme of “All your base are belong to us.” And it’s now out on Steam, easily accessible on modern hardware. As you might expect, the game’s store page references the beloved memes Zero Wing spawned decades ago. However, this release doesn’t…
Source: Kotaku – ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ Game Out On Steam, But Without Famous Meme
Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam.
Source: Kotaku – Apex Legends Hits New Peak Player Count Thanks To Team Deathmatch
An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.”
Source: Kotaku – VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’
Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night shouting “no more kings, no more queens, no more mageseekers!”? If so, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story aims to satisfy that sudden midnight urge to violently alter the political landscape of a fantasy realm. Hey, it’s a lot easier than…
Source: Kotaku – League of Legends Is Getting A Pixel Art Action-RPG
A Reddit user recently posted a brief, bombshell documentation of how they accomplished something they claim has never been done before: arrive at World of Warcraft’s newbie starting area, Exile’s Reach, at the highest possible character level 70. Initially noticed by Games Radar, user Cheatcho’s post is happy…
Source: Kotaku – World Of Warcraft Player Hits Max Level Before Starting The Game In 200-Day Grind
The composer for Doom and Wolfenstein II recently announced that he would be donating the fee from his work on Atomic Heart to the Ukraine Crisis Appeal of the Australian Red Cross. This decision comes weeks after the studio Mundfish was embroiled in controversy over its connections to Russia.
Source: Kotaku – Doom Composer Donates His Atomic Heart Fee To Ukraine After Russia Controversy
The last decade of anime has brought about a bunch of new names and faces to recognize than the early aughts did, thanks in part to the exponential growth of the industry. And while not all of those shows made are hits, many have left an unquestionable impact on both pop culture and the anime industry at large. I’ll…
Source: Kotaku – The Top 30 Best Anime Of The Decade, Ranked
Do you ever wish you could reacquire the games you once had? And not just copies of the same ones, but the very discs or cartridges you used? Well, the Named Cassette Museum in Tokyo is making that very thing a reality for many gamers: reuniting those who once wrote their names, addresses, or other personal…
Source: Kotaku – Japanese Museum Reunites Gamers With Their Lost Retro Games
Returnal is an incredibly good game, and I am incredibly bad at Returnal. What makes it such a joy, whether in its original form on PlayStation or in this new PC version, is that being bad at it barely dents at its incredible appeal and overwhelming replayability.
Source: Kotaku – This PS5 Hit Is A Master Class In Porting A Console Game To PC
PlayStation Plus subscribers are about to get some heat this month, including games such as Horizon Forbidden West and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, if a leaked line-up of the service’s upcoming offerings is to be believed.
Source: Kotaku – Leaked PS Plus February Line-Up Is Looking Stacked AF
Back in 1999, around the time of the release of the original Super Smash Bros. on the N64, Nintendo had a big idea. To help promote the game they would go to Vegas, set up a wrestling ring, get a bunch of actors to wear Nintendo character costumes and have them go at it.
Source: Kotaku – In 1999 Nintendo Had A Real-Life Wrestling Match Starring Mario And Pikachu
While the worst of the pandemic is clearly over, a few years of getting people to work from home has shown that a lot of folks are happier, and even work better, if they get to do it where they live. So decisions to force employees back into the office are understandably going to be met with resistance across the…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blizzard Is Forcing Workers Back To The Office
All patched up some two years post-release, Cyberpunk 2077 is actually a pretty good video game now. As a result, many players finally decided to dive in and give it a shot, and the excellent Netflix anime Edgerunners certainly helped, too.
Source: Kotaku – 14+ Awesome Games To Play After Cyberpunk 2077
You think Dragon Ball is just an action shonen series? You fools. You heathens. Allow me to enlighten you, to expand your mind to galactic proportions through a long series of hyper fixations that reveal what many overlook about Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball—that it’s secretly great at romance.
Source: Kotaku – Dragon Ball Is Secretly Great at Romance
Seasonal endings have tended to be anti-climactic in Destiny 2. That was not the case with Season of the Seraph, which just added a new season finale mission that’s the best the loot shooter’s had since it pivoted from DLC expansions to quarterly updates. The mission itself is cinematic and challenging, while the…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Just Had Its Best Season Finale Ever
God of War Ragnarök is a good game that tells a story of how people can change their fates and take control of their own lives. However, in the very early days of its development, a possible story was pitched for the PlayStation-exclusive sequel that went a different direction and involved death, loss, redemption, and…
Source: Kotaku – Early Plans For God of War Ragnarök Involved A Big Death And A Wild Twist
Sex in ancient caves, gods that turn the women they desire into frost-white cows—civilization has been making the most uncanny situations horny since the beginning, and in our digital age, we’ve extended that talent to sliding into DMs, Tinder, and video game romance. But while messaging and endless swiping come with…
Source: Kotaku – Experts Taught Me How To Score A Boyfriend In World of Warcraft
At long last, the labiagate saga can come to a close. CD Projekt Red has confirmed to Kotaku that the realistically modeled vaginas that were recently found in the celebrated open-world RPG came from a mod…but not the one you might expect.
Source: Kotaku – Witcher 3 Devs Explain How ‘Unintended’ Next-Gen Vaginas Ended Up In Game
There’s a new Tomb Raider game out today, and I’m not talking about the one from Amazon. Instead, Tomb Raider Reloaded is the latest attempt to bring the franchise to mobile phones. And this time around, Lara Croft finds herself in a roguelike dungeon-crawling adventure with smart controls, fun combat, and some…
Source: Kotaku – New Tomb Raider Is Sorta Like Vampire Survivors With Bad Microtransactions
