Members of YouTube’s gaming community are calling out the video hosting site for adding new regulations regarding profanity usage and violent content, disproportionately affecting gaming creators who produce unscripted videos such as let’s plays of M-rated games. Worse, the policy is retroactively deeming their videos…
Source: Kotaku – Gaming YouTube Is In Turmoil Thanks To New Violence And Profanity Rules
Like many others, the GameCube Wavebird was the first game controller I ever seriously loved. Everything that came before it was fine; at best a novelty, at worst an oversized pain, but mostly just a means to an end. Now there’s a new controller for the Nintendo Switch that looks exactly like a spiritual successor to…
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Most Beloved Nintendo Controllers Is Back To Fix Switch Joy-Con Drift
Last week, during the first quarter of an NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals, Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed after making a tackle. Hamlin required CPR while on the field and was taken away via ambulance. Now reportedly in the aftermath of that scary incident, EA Sports is removing a…
Source: Kotaku – Madden Removing CPR Touchdown Celebration After Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest
As one of the most powerful handheld devices out there, the Steam Deck is a great, one-of-a-kind gaming platform. While some games might require you to fiddle around with the graphical settings to get the best performance out of them, the experience of playing a game on the Deck is often frictionless. That said, there…
Source: Kotaku – 12 Things Every New Steam Deck Owner Should Try Or Consider
Spend any time on the internet—whether Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube—and you’ve likely seen some streamer doing some absurd-ass playthrough of a Soulsborne game (probably Elden Ring). Whether it’s beating Margit with a harp or two Malenias simultaneously (one with a dance pad), there are some wild ways of tackling…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamer Plays FromSoftware Games In A Truly Absurd Way
NFL pro Jamaal Williams started 2023 right: By beating the hell out of the Chicago Bears and coming out in a post-game interview as a huge weeb gamer. He wasn’t just willing to admit that he played Pokémon like the rest of us, he was ready to defend its honor in front of a clueless reporter.
Source: Kotaku – Detroit Lions’ Jamaal Williams Defends Pokémon From Disrespect
Disgraced YouTube influencer turned amateur boxer turned NFT publisher, Logan Paul, is once again universally loathed after the animal sanctuary Gentle Barn released a TikTok on Monday suggesting it had rescued his former pig from the wild. Named Pearl, the teacup pig was reportedly found alone in a field beside…
Source: Kotaku – The Rescue Of Logan Paul’s Old Pig Has The Internet Aghast
Another month, another set of games coming and going from Xbox Game Pass. If you’re an RPG fan, you have a lot to look forward to, but if you’re a murder mystery fan, you’re quickly running out of time to play a real gem of a visual novel before it leaves the service.
Source: Kotaku – It’s A Big Month For RPGs On Game Pass, But Make The Most Out Of What’s Leaving
Ten years ago, when I interviewed creative director Neil Druckmann and game director Bruce Straley about their new, generation-defining PlayStation hit The Last of Us, they cited the Coen brothers’ 2007 film No Country for Old Men as a key tonal inspiration. But the fact that a playthrough of The Last of Us takes…
Source: Kotaku – HBO’s The Last Of Us Is A Safe Show That’s Caught Between Big Changes, Expectations
Do you ever turn off your PC, or your PS5, or whatever, after hours of rainbow lights and eyebrow sweat and think, “Ugh, I really wish I could do that some more, except slightly differently and on the streaming service of my choice”? You do? How serendipitous. I put together a list of every big video game…
Source: Kotaku – The Best (And Worst) Video Game Adaptations You Can Stream Right Now
The controversial ending to Mojang Studios’ Minecraft has sparked plenty of conversation over the years. A poem scrolls on-screen following after players defeat the Ender Dragon for a whopping nine minutes. Quotes from the “End Poem,” as the swan song is titled, have been inked on fans skins and turned into merch. But…
Source: Kotaku – The Writer Of Minecraft’s Ending Poem Got High And Made It Free
Some developers on the space horror blockbuster Callisto Protocol say they were omitted from the end credits sequence despite extensive work on the game and key contributions to the finished product. The claims come amid a renewed push throughout the video game industry to fix a broken crediting system that often…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Callisto Protocol Devs Left Out Of Credits Despite ‘Intense’ Work
Announced last week at CES 2023, Sony and Honda’s new smart car prototype seems to be taking a page from Elon Musk’s Tesla, letting folks boot up PlayStation 4 and 5 games via its interior screens. But Sony may also be planning to use the car as a way to advertise shit on the outside of it while you drive around.…
Source: Kotaku – New Sony Car Plays PS5 Games, But Also Turns Your Ride Into A Billboard
A trove of Counter-Strike maps recently leaked on the internet, including a mod that was the predecessor to the survival co-op game Left 4 Dead. The mod is even fully playable, as long as you know how to set up your own server.
Source: Kotaku – A Fully Playable Left 4 Dead Prototype Has Been Discovered 15 Years Later
Guilty Gear Strive, Arc System Works’ mega-popular 2D anime fighter, is under attack by hackers who’ve resurfaced a fatal exploit that seemingly causes the game to become unplayable for some players online.
Source: Kotaku – Anime Fighting Game Under Attack By Hackers Who Have Made It Unplayable
If you’re planning on playing the upcoming remake of 2009’s Dead Space, Electronic Arts is throwing in a little something extra to sweeten the deal on PC: a free copy of Dead Space 2. January’s cold, dark, and continuing the revival of PS3 and Xbox 360 era space alien horror.
Source: Kotaku – Dead Space 2 Free On Steam For Those Who Order PC Remake
I’m wandering around my character’s bedroom in High on Life and I’m so high that I’ve forgotten what I’m doing. Something about a bounty? Aliens? I dunno. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, the most incredible music drifts into my character’s room. I’m transfixed by the soulful singing about a dinosaur man. It…
Source: Kotaku – Yes, That Absurd T-Rex Movie In High On Life Is Real
If you are looking for a calm and relaxing game to play, you might want to try out Regular Home Renovation Simulator, a new completely free-to-download indie game about a man quietly flipping a small house. And don’t worry if you see any random skulls laying about or if you suddenly feel like there are more rooms than…
Source: Kotaku – New Home Flipping Game Is Totally Not Creepy Or Scary At All
It’s almost two months since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released, meaning there’s a fairly good chance that by now, you’ve finished everything it has to offer. So what next? How do you fill that hole? Don’t worry, it’s OK, we’ve got you. Here are six games that should scratch that same itch.
Source: Kotaku – 6 Games To Play Now You’ve Finished Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
