A lot of fantastic games came out in 2022. Maybe not as many as we would have liked, especially with blockbuster after blockbuster getting delayed to 2023. But push beyond the Elden Rings and God of War Ragnaröks and you’ll discover a cornucopia of overlooked, underrated gems that run the gamut from text-adventure…
Source: Kotaku – 17 Fantastic Games That Went Under The Radar In 2022
When it comes time to write these year-end lists, I usually slim them down to my top five favorite games I played because, despite what this job entails, I usually only have passionate feelings about a handful of games by the time we reach December.
Source: Kotaku – Kenneth Shepard’s Top Five Games Of 2022
Hasan Piker is many things. He’s a hardcore himbo, an amateur gamer, and frequent heated moment haver. He speaks to legions of young men, women, and enbys on the internet almost every day via his wildly popular Twitch channel, and feeds their parasocial bond via his other social media channels. Even though he spends…
Source: Kotaku – The Year In Twitch Pol Himbo King Hasan Piker
The decision-makers behind Sony’s console juggernaut spent a lot of 2022 putting down railway for 2023 and beyond, dumping money and time into growing the PlayStation brand beyond the funky-looking device in your entertainment center. The company wants the PlayStation name to be ubiquitous, and that has meant…
Source: Kotaku – The State Of PlayStation In 2022
YouTuber and internet personality Logan Paul has found himself with a massive target on his forehead recently. Paul, who’s been on something of a redemption arc these last few years following the “suicide forest” fiasco in December 2017, is back in hot water after crypto investigator Stephen “Coffeezilla” Findeisen…
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber: Logan Paul’s NFT ‘Game’ Is A Big Crypto Scam
Those well-versed in their Metal Gear Solid trivia will know that the original ending for Metal Gear Solid 2 was changed before release. Scenes involving a massive ship crashing into Manhattan island were a bit too much in a very young post-9/11 world, with images and videos of planes striking the World Trade Center a…
Source: Kotaku – Kojima: MGS2 ‘Seemed Impossible To Release’ After 9/11, Nearly Quit
Last month, the legendary co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog was arrested for allegedly purchasing shares in a Dragon Quest development studio before their announcement. A month later, he was arrested a second time for reportedly buying stock in a Final Fantasy company in a similar fashion. Yesterday, Tokyo prosecutors…
Source: Kotaku – Sonic Co-Creator Charged With Illegally Trading Over Million In Final Fantasy Stock
Have you ever found yourself paying for over-salted food and overpriced drinks at an Applebee’s and thought: “What if I just stayed here…forever?” Well, a bug making the rounds in the Rick and Morty-adjacent shooter High On Life is allowing such a macabre fantasy to come true.
Source: Kotaku – High On Life Players Are Getting Perma-Trapped In Applebee’s
Respawn’s excellent action-adventure adaptation Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order leads another loaded month of free games for the cheapest tier of Sony’s PlayStation Plus subscription service. This is great news for everyone who still needs to finish it ahead of Jedi: Survivor’s launch in March. It’s less great news for…
Source: Kotaku – I Hope You Didn’t Just Buy Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Because It’s January’s PS Plus Game
Wow, it’s the end of 2022 already? Maybe this is always the case, but the first half of the year felt so slow, it felt like this year would never end.. However, once August rolled around, I swear I blinked and it was December. Where’d the time go? Anyway, in these last 12 months, despite worrying that I haven’t played…
Source: Kotaku – Levi Winslow’s Top 9 Games Of 2022
One of the biggest female streamers on Twitch wants to take a harder stance on revenge porn—nude photos that are posted online without their owners’ consent. Imane “Pokimane” Anys said in a recent Twitch stream that it should be “illegal” to possess nudes without their owners’ consent, and that she wanted to work…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamer Pokimane Wants Tougher Laws On Revenge Porn
The Harry Potter books, and the universe they spawned, are beloved by millions. It’s so unfortunate, then, that the franchise’s creator, author J.K. Rowling, has repeatedly proven herself to be the worst kind of anti-transgender bigot. That bigotry is in the spotlight once again as the big-ticket Harry Potter game …
Source: Kotaku – Hogwarts Legacy Transphobia Controversy Fuels Reddit Drama
2022 was truly the year of Elden Ring, with FromSoftware’s latest game exploding into the mainstream unlike anything it had previously created. As such, a lot of people played and finished Elden Ring. In fact, according to one set of data, Elden Ring was the most completed game of 2022. But funnily enough, the same…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Was The Most Completed, And Most Quit, Game Of 2022
2022 brought us a number of rich narratives in games. While heavy hitters like God of War: Ragnarok, Elden Ring, or Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen expansion are likely to have their praises sung the loudest, there were also games like Obsidians’ Pentiment that are equally deserving of our attention.
Source: Kotaku – Fallout: New Vegas Director On Creating Some Of 2022’s Best Video Game Characters
The newest installment in Netflix’s growing Witcher franchise, The Witcher: Blood Origin, was recently released to a resounding “meh” from critics. But the fan response is even worse, with the four-episode limited series sporting a dismal eight percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The low scores are the result of a few…
Source: Kotaku – Nobody, Critics Or Fans, Seems To Like The New Netflix Witcher Spin-Off
The developers behind fan remakes of Resident Evil and Resident Evil Code: Veronica have announced that development on both projects has ceased after Capcom allegedly contacted them and asked the developers to cancel the project.
Source: Kotaku – Capcom Shuts Down Fan Remakes Of Original Resident Evil And Code: Veronica
Developers at the Boston-based gaming studio Proletariat announced plans to unionize on Tuesday. If successful, roughly 60 employees there who worked on World of Warcraft’s new Dragonflight expansion would join the growing ranks of organized labor across parent company Activision Blizzard and beyond.
Source: Kotaku – Hot Damn: Another Activision Blizzard Studio Is Unionizing
