The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second Game of the Year win.
Source: Kotaku – Game Awards Photoshops Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech
A game not included on our list of major 2022 games that died this year was Square Enix’s kart racer, Chocobo GP. There’s a reason for that, as it will remain playable for the foreseeable future. However, as Square Enix announced on December 21, the game is effectively dead now since “no further large scale updates”…
Source: Kotaku – Square Enix Abandons Its Chocobo Racing Game Just 9 Months After Launch
The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) works pretty hard to keep its monsters in their proper pens, fervently stamping out any attempts to use pocket beasties without a licensing agreement in place. Just a few months ago, we saw the company going after six Chinese firms that had crossed the line with their own …
Source: Kotaku – Absurd NFT Project Just Got Taken To Court By Pokémon
Until today, there had been an active Kickstarter campaign running for Unstable Diffusion, a project describing themselves as “a group born out of a grassroots community effort to reject the limiting rules of corporate AI companies”.
Source: Kotaku – Kickstarter Suspends AI-Generated Image (Well, Porn) Project
The last few years have been fairly bursting with TV shows and movies adapted from popular games. And even more are coming down the pipeline. If you ask some fans, many of these shows have strayed too far away from their original source material, so it might be nice to hear that the producers of Amazon’s God of War TV…
Source: Kotaku – Amazon Promises God Of War Show Will Be ‘Incredibly True’ To Original Games
Valve just updated its list of the top new releases on Steam for November. There are the usual suspects like Crysis 2 and 3, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Sonic Frontiers. There’s also my favorite single player game of the year, Pentiment, and a neat little pixely extraction shooter that caught our eye a few months…
Source: Kotaku – One Of Steam’s Biggest Games Last Month Was A Police Sim, Not Worrying At All
Have you ever caused yourself any genuine, physical harm while playing a video game? My thumb tore open after playing Gran Turismo endurance races for a week back in 1998, and I once kicked a table doing some kung fu shit for an EyeToy game. That’s about it. I have never, unlike this poor guy, done anything requiring…
Source: Kotaku – Streamer Dislocates Knee Playing Call Of Duty
It seems over half a dozen Xbox games, including the beloved open-world mystery game Outer Wilds, will be leaving Game Pass later this month. So if you are a Game Pass subscriber and you’ve not played Outer Wilds, Iron Harvest, or Secret Neighbor yet, well, you don’t have much time left to do so.
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Best Game Pass Games Is Leaving Later This Month
I’m reporting myself as a hard-hearted (if more modern and beautiful than average) Scrooge: a rejecter of the holiday spirit. Due to a combination of unresolved angst and a distaste for other people’s joy—I no longer see this as a personality flaw, but as God’s design—the holidays are my most hated time of the year.…
Source: Kotaku – 5 Unconventional Holiday Movies Gamers Will Love
2022 was not only jam-packed with quality anime to watch, but also bursting at the seams with a cavalcade of stellar manga to sit down in an easy chair and lose track of time with. Granted, the majority of my manga reading was done while waiting for Chicago’s better-late-than-never buses and trains, but it made the…
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s 2022 Manga Recommendations
Henry Cavill may be out as Geralt in the Netflix Witcher series, but we will always have Doug Cockle as Geralt in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. And now, thanks to the latest next-gen update to the Witcher 3, we can have the best of both worlds. The new update brings “In The Eternal Fire’s Shadow,” a Witcher-worthy side…
Source: Kotaku – Let’s Get Geralt The Netflix Series Armor In The New Witcher 3 Quest
Blizzard is offering Overwatch 2 players a holiday treat in the form of a Gingerbread Bastion skin. It’s exactly what it sounds like: the hero shooter’s robot, made entirely of gingerbread and candy canes. His bird companion is even made out of gingerbread, and the whole getup is super cute. The skin and a candy cane…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Bastion Skin Costs One Coin, Causes Problems
Is it that time already? Atari, whatever that name actually means, is once again announcing it’s having a financial wobble. You could set your watch by how regularly this occurs. Who could have thought that launching a console no one wanted, while investing in crypto grifts, wasn’t the path to riches for a flailing…
Source: Kotaku – Atari’s Shambling, Zombie Corpse Is Once Again In Trouble
Pokémon is in the midst of a generational shift, and no, I don’t mean how Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just kickstarted the franchise’s ninth generation. Looking back on the monster capturing series’ last 12 months, it’s impossible to overlook the shift in how Pokémon is presenting its world, characters, and future.…
Source: Kotaku – In 2022 The Pokémon Franchise Finally Began To Evolve Beyond Nostalgia
2022 was a bit of an odd year for games. I’ve seen a lot of folks, including some fine people here at Kotaku, suggest 2022 was pretty bad on that front. I’ve spotted the opposite take, too! Personally, I’m squarely in the “2022 was a great year for games” camp. I mean, when I first started trying to decide on my 10…
Source: Kotaku – Zack Zwiezen’s Top 10 Games Of 2022
The Gecko Gods is an upcoming exploration and puzzle game by Louis Waloschek (and other collaborators) that puts the player in control of a gecko crawling its way around an open island. The game saw a bit of an uptick in interest yesterday as the developer announced it will come to Switch, and it sure looks cute.
Source: Kotaku – An Open-World Game With BOTW Vibes, Except You’re Not Human
If you have a smartphone, a laptop, or a tablet, you’ve seen the Wednesday dance.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Wednesday TikToks Turned The Wrong Old Song Into A New Radio Hit
Just when I was about to settle down for my long winter’s nap and play a shit ton of Marvel Snap, the hit mobile card game just threw its worst location yet into heavy rotation. Vormir is where stuff goes to die, including my sanity thanks to some brutal slowdown and quirky bugs.
Source: Kotaku – If You Get This New Marvel Snap Location, You’re Gonna Have A Bad Time
Goat Simulator 3 developer Coffee Stain North has ended up under the thumb of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two after posting an ad for its open-world havoc simulator that used footage from this year’s Grand Theft Auto VI leak.
Source: Kotaku – Game Ad Using Leaked GTA 6 Footage Gets Purged From Internet By Take-Two
