Nintendo announced a 20 percent Switch sales drop in its latest financial report, but still plans to institute a 10 percent pay raise, the company told investors Tuesday. While it’s unclear if that hike will trickle down to temporary contractors at the Mario maker’s North American headquarters, some there say they’ve…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits
Nintendo dropped the news suddenly this morning: it will host its next Nintendo Direct livestream at 5 p.m. ET tomorrow, February 8. Oh, OK!
Source: Kotaku – Get Ready For A Surprise 40 Minute Nintendo Direct
While we’ve known for a while that New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson loved anime, things are about to get a little more serious with the release of an upcoming pair of sneakers.
Source: Kotaku – NBA Star Is Releasing A Naruto-Themed Pair Of Jordans
I don’t know if I’ve ever actually discussed this on Fine Art before, it’s just something we have to work with in the background and I haven’t wanted to bore you with the details, but you should know that video game artists are rarely, if ever, allowed to just share their work whenever and however they want.
Source: Kotaku – The Art Of God of War Ragnarök
It’s Super Bowl week, which means the sporting news cycle is full of the same old shit it is every year. Empty interviews, retrospectives on Super Bowls past, endless predictions on who is going to win on Sunday…and one prediction in particular, which comes around every season like clockwork.
Source: Kotaku – Madden Has Gotten Very Bad At ‘Predicting’ The Super Bowl
Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s free-to-play mobile dungeon crawler, has garnered accusations of being a greedy, money-sucking ARPG ever since launch. You’d think the company would want to avoid worsening that perception, but here we are with Blizzard announcing that the long-requested increase to players’ stash sizes…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo Immortal Is Getting More Expensive For Hoarders
Overwatch 2 has released a ton of news and updates today, but all anyone is really talking about is a serious Mercy nerf. While some of the support characters including Lucio, Zenyatta, and Brigitte got buffs, Mercy mains everywhere are most certainly crying while reading the contents of these patch notes, which Kotaku…
Source: Kotaku – Pour One Out For Mercy Because Overwatch Just Nerfed Her Into The Ground
What started back in 2001 as a very big black-and-green box on your shelf that played Halo and was named after Microsoft’s graphics API has grown to be something much bigger. With Series X|S consoles now far more available, day one releases of exclusives on PC, and the wide umbrella of gaming experiences that is Game…
Source: Kotaku – What To Expect From Xbox In 2023
Without the use of a single mod, one skilled Minecraft superfan and YouTuber spent nearly a month recreating the original Legend of Zelda inside the blocky survival game. Using a load of command blocks, custom textures, and in-game tricks, the end result is an impressive creation that you can easily play in Minecraft …
Source: Kotaku – What Game Is This? (Wrong, It’s Minecraft)
Dragon Age fans have been waiting for updates on Dreadwolf, the latest action-RPG in the series, for years, only to receive the barest breadcrumbs. Last October, BioWare announced that the game was fully playable from beginning to end, but it hasn’t shown off any video or screenshots. But finally, thanks to an…
Source: Kotaku – Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Leaks Show God Of War-Style Combat
Overwatch characters are hot. We know it, Blizzard knows it, porn artists know it, and after seven years, Blizzard is finally giving the people what they want: an Overwatch dating sim experience where you can date some of the heroes. Unfortunately, the choices of romance options are very limited. So Mercy and Genji…
Source: Kotaku – They’re Finally Making An Overwatch Dating Sim And It Won’t Let Me Kiss Reaper
Which anime studio will actually work on One Punch Man season 3 might still be up in the air, but what we know for damn sure is that the mega-popular anime is making its way to Overwatch 2.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s New Season Event Transforms Doomfist Into One Punch Man
Did you nearly lose your mind over all of the tedious backtracking in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order? Well there’s good news: its sequel, Jedi: Survivor, will include fast travel and mounts to streamline that aspect of the game.
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Sequel Will Fix One Of Its Biggest Problems
In an unfortunate turn of events, the AI Seinfeld show that’s been all over Twitch has been hit with the ban hammer for some terribly transphobic “jokes.”
Source: Kotaku – Twitch’s Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia
After last week’s knockout episode of HBO’s The Last of Us boldly adapted the game’s source material into something wholly new and remarkable, this week’s episode returns to more conventional adaptation, giving viewers a number of moments lifted directly from the game, though the action has been transferred from…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Episode 4 Recap: A Return To The Familiar
Apex Legends Season 16 will usher in a mode that players have been asking for since launch: Team Deathmatch. The highly anticipated game mode will drop on February 14 alongside Revelry, the newest season in the battle royale, and will focus on “enhancing the core experience,” says design director Evan Nikolich during…
Source: Kotaku – Apex Legends Is Finally Getting A TDM Mode, But Axing Arenas
Content Warning: Discussions of rape, negative experiences with sex work
Source: Kotaku – We Played The Award-Winning Game Boy Game About Sex Work And Shame
The Last of Us TV show will officially cross the halfway point of its first season a little earlier than expected thanks to Super Bowl LVII. HBO clarified that episode 5 will be released on Friday this week instead of the usual Sunday drop so that Philly fans will have the time and space they need to celebrate the…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Episode 5 Releases Early Thanks To The Super Bowl
Crown Zenith has proven to be one of the best sets the Pokémon TCG has ever seen. Its celebration of the last three years of Sword & Shield, alongside the best artwork the franchise has ever seen, is making it enormously popular, and highly collectible. Among the mammoth 230 cards in the set, a surprising number have…
Source: Kotaku – These New Pokémon Cards Are Making People A Fortune
