If you’ve been wondering why the critically acclaimed Sony studio Naughty Dog has been so mum about its current projects of late, the reason appears to be that it wants to focus more on maintaining a manageable work-life balance for its employees. Co-president Neil Druckmann, in an interview with ComicBook.com, said…
Source: Kotaku – Naughty Dog Exec Kind Of Regrets Announcing Uncharted 4, TLOU2 So Early
Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where they could exist in an…
Source: Kotaku – The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away
Someone has created a mod for the original Final Fantasy VII that adds full voice acting to Square Enix’s megapopular ‘97 RPG.
Source: Kotaku – The Planet’s Dyin’ And So Am I After Listening To This Incredible FFVII Voice Mod
Marvel Snap is just shy of three months old, and it’s fair to say it’s been a success. While the exact number of users hasn’t been shared, Google Play reports over five million downloads, even before you include iOS numbers. And with such popularity comes great scrutiny. Why are the store prices so astonishingly high?…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap’s First Three Explosive Months: The Ben Brode Creator Interview
HoYoverse just put out a new story trailer for Genshin Impact, and one burning question is consuming the entirety of the fandom: How did a small child carry one of Genshin’s strongest DPS characters on her back? As of the time of writing, “SHE WHAT???” is currently the most upvoted topic on the Genshin Reddit.…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Fans Suspect Weakest Character Is Actually A Gigachad
Atlus is back with some peculiarly limiting stipulations for folks looking to livestream Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, the upcoming HD remasters of two pretty old RPGs slated to launch on January 19. You should be careful lest the developer-publisher comes after your content.
Source: Kotaku – Atlus Demands Spoiler Warnings In Streams Of Its Decades-Old Persona Games
Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing. And just yesterday, …
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Never-ending Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete, Decade-Long Saga
Destiny 2 is fixing a bunch of stuff for the month and change ahead of February’s massive Lightfall expansion. Players won’t have to grind so much to get into Grandmaster Nightfall missions. Iron Banner will be much more generous with armor drops in the weeks ahead. And armor mods, one of the most fun but esoteric…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Finally Unlocks One Of The Most Confusing Parts Of The Game
Justin Roiland, creator of TV series Rick and Morty and the recently released High on Life game, has been charged with domestic violence against a former girlfriend.
Source: Kotaku – High On Life And Rick And Morty Creator Facing Domestic Violence Charges
Recently, there’s been some concern about whether or not PS5’s are safe to stand vertically. Videos and observations from independent console technician TheCod3r and a followup article from Wololo that quoted one such video out of context led to palpable worry among some that standing the PS5 in a vertical position…
Source: Kotaku – PS5 Owners Are Worried About Standing The Console Vertically (They Shouldn’t Be)
You’ve met an AI YouTuber who plays Minecraft and denies the Holocaust. Now meet a fully responsive AI girlfriend who can converse with its user. Except it’s too late to meet her, because its creator recently “euthanized” her for being a detriment to his health. ChatGPT-Chan didn’t even last a month before her creator…
Source: Kotaku – RIP: Programmer ‘Euthanizes’ His ,000 AI VTuber ‘Waifu’
The last few Assassin’s Creed titles have been gigantic games that can easily take over a hundred hours to fully complete, with huge maps crowded with POIs and tons of side quests to distract you from the main story. According to Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the upcoming spin-off, is smaller and more “intimate”…
Source: Kotaku – The Next Assassin’s Creed Is Smaller Because Past Games Got Way Too Big
Rocket League’s stalwart players have had enough. For over a week, fans have been complaining that the game—it’s soccer with screaming, customizable cars—is being terrorized by a bot trained with machine learning, and that developer Psyonix is doing nothing to save them from it.
Source: Kotaku – Rocket League Players Found The Optimal Way To Cheat
When 29-year-old Kaitlyn Siragusa—Twitch streamer Amouranth—said that if it weren’t for her allegedly abusive husband’s threats, she wouldn’t post as much NSFW content, some self-decided experts online expressed skepticism instead of compassion. They sustained their bad attitudes through Siragusa’s October…
Source: Kotaku – The Surprising Reason Twitch Star Amouranth Hasn’t Ditched NSFW Content (Yet)
You know the moment. You start a game of Marvel Snap, you get ready to play your first card in the first round, and then “OOOOH SNAP!” the game blurts out: your lunatic opponent just snapped first round before the game even started. Awful behavior, right? Well, when Kotaku spoke to the game’s creator, Hearthstone’s…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap’s Creator Says Players Who Snap At The Start Are Smart, Actually
It’s another night, which means it’s another frustrating session of Overwatch 2’s competitive mode. My group of friends and I are all at wildly different ranks, despite playing together almost daily for the past few months. Tonight, for some reason, players keep quitting or getting booted in the opening moments of…
Source: Kotaku – Competitive Overwatch 2 Is A Nightmare That I Can’t Stop Playing
When it comes to building any style of Marvel Snap deck, there’s always that nagging feeling that you might be including one or two cards out of habit, rather than necessity. But when Kotaku spoke to the game’s creator, Second Dinner’s Ben Brode, we learned that the cards we ought to be leaving out, and the ones we…
Source: Kotaku – The Marvel Snap Cards That Win And Lose The Most Are Hard To Believe
Yesterday, after 1,410 days (or 3 years and 10 months) the Grim Medicine cosmetic set—complete with the popular Plague Doctor skin—returned to Fortnite’s in-game store, letting players buy it for the first time since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. And many believe it was the pandemic itself that kept the…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite’s Plague Doc Skin Is Back After Three Years, Fans Blame COVID
