For a game that’s still technically in beta, Call of Duty’s DMZ sure has been one hell of a fun experience. DMZ’s latest twist concerns a new playable area selectable when loading into DMZ—but you’ll need a keycard to get in. You can find keycards for this new area throughout Al Mazrah. So, want one? Worry not: This…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty DMZ: Let’s Get You Some Keycards For The Mysterious New Building 21
Video games are very hard to make, take years to finish, and require many people to work together to create them. As a result, video games are incredibly complex and more prone to delays than movies, books, or TV shows. So just because a game is set to come out in 2023 doesn’t mean it actually will…
Source: Kotaku – 2023’s Big Games That Could Get Pushed Into 2024
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Charizard tera raid event has concluded, and Game Freak has already announced what’s next: Cinderace. The Galar fire-type starter is not typically available in these games, and as such, will only be available through this raid. If the Charizard raid is any indication, it’ll be a tough…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Way To Get Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s Only Cinderace
The Witcher 3’s next-gen upgrade has been delightful…when the game works. While there haven’t been any huge issues on Xbox Series X/S and PS5, PC is another story. CD Projekt Red now says a new hotfix released on Monday should help reduce at least some of the issues players have encountered with frame rate stuttering…
Source: Kotaku – Witcher 3 Hotfix Should Help Stop It From Crashing So Much On PC
Marvel Snap may only be two months old, but it has started with a bang. The card-based battler from the mind behind Hearthstone has very quickly become part of the zeitgeist, gathered and enormous army of players, and with it, all the feedback in the universe. In response to all this, developer Second Dinner has laid…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Has A Whole Ton Of Plans For 2023
Epic Games will pay a whopping $520 million combined settlement after a Federal Trade Commission investigation found it invaded children’s privacy and tricked some players into buying stuff in Fortnite that they didn’t want. The FTC announced on Monday that it’s the largest penalty ever assessed in the history of the…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Fined 0 Million For Invading Kids’ Privacy And Tricking Players
Back in August 2021, Riot Games—the developers of League of Legends—signed a sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You know, the exchange that is now bankrupt, with its founder arrested and facing serious fraud and money laundering charges.
Source: Kotaku – Riot Games Trying To Get Out Of Terrible Crypto Sponsorship Deal
Like a lot of other people around the world, streamer xQc put a bet on the World Cup final earlier tonight. Unlike a lot of other people, however, he claims he threw down half a million dollars, then publicly bragged about it before kick-off.
Source: Kotaku – Streamer xQc Says He Put 0,000 On France To Win The World Cup, Womp
For most players, Pokémon games are a pretty straightforward affair of attacking enemies’ weaknesses and scoring that sweet one-shot. But Pokémon can become incredibly overwhelming once you start playing competitively. What’s an IV? What’s an EV, if not the cute brown fox who can evolve into a bunch of other, more…
Source: Kotaku – The Secret To Training Powerful Pokémon In Scarlet And Violet
Blizzard is now taking pre-orders on a large, nearly $100 special Diablo IV collector’s box which includes many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there’s not even an option to get the game…
Source: Kotaku – New 0 Diablo IV ‘Collector’s Box’ Doesn’t Include Game
2022 wasn’t just the year that I started here at Kotaku, or the year that I accidentally went viral for daring to ask rich guys to dress nice at awards shows—it was also the year that I forced myself to stretch outside of my comfort zone.
Source: Kotaku – Alyssa Mercante’s Top 10 Games Of 2022
2022 was the year that Genshin Impact’s developer rebranded to HoYoverse to convey its ambitions for expanding its offerings to global audiences. It was also the year when players left the Japan-inspired region behind in order to explore Sumeru—a nation based on Southwest Asia, South Asia, and North Africa (SWANA).
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact In 2022: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Every year there’s at least one game that’ll get me emotional enough to the point that I start tearing up. For me, this year, it’s Aka, a game about recovering from past violence and trauma. It plays out in a lite farming sim featuring cute characters, each of whom have a problem to solve as you try to build a life of…
Source: Kotaku – This Tender Farming Sim Is Really About Letting Go Of Trauma
‘Tis that time of the year when every store, shop, and retailer begins slashing prices on everything in an effort to make as much money as possible during the holiday season. A magical time, really. And Ubisoft is joining in on the fun with a new, large winter sale, happening now, that sees games like Mario + Rabbids, …
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft Winter Sale Has Big Savings On Games Like Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope
While a Horizon multiplayer game felt all but inevitable, Guerrilla Games finally made the news official on Friday by way of a new job advertisement. The Sony studio behind the open world RPG series wants to take the post-apocalyptic robot combat online with an upcoming project featuring new characters and a different…
Source: Kotaku – Guerrilla Confirms A Horizon Multiplayer Game Starring New Characters
Oh, you thought you were free of Kotaku-themed anime slideshows? Nah, fam, you’re still trapped in the weeb mines with me. But hark, there be light at the end of this dakimakura-infested tunnel. Winter is coming, and with it are even more anime for your viewing pleasure.
Source: Kotaku – Your Winter 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It’s Streaming
Cue the Charlie Day memes. The next-gen upgrade for CD Projekt Red’s smash-hit RPG The Witcher 3 not only contains a slew of gorgeous new graphical options, but also appears to introduce new connections to a mystery that has puzzled fans of CDPR’s other massive game, Cyberpunk 2077, for years. This mystery, which…
Source: Kotaku – Witcher 3 Next-Gen Update Has A Mysterious Cyberpunk 2077 Connection
Leading Hollywood big bod man Henry Cavill is working with Amazon to produce and star in a Warhammer 40,000 series. The mega corporation has secured the rights to the tabletop miniatures game about aliens, demons, and religious fascists, and it sounds like the former face of The Witcher’s Geralt and DC’s Superman will…
Source: Kotaku – Jilted Witcher And Superman Actor Henry Cavill Is Doing A Warhammer 40K Series
Last month, long-time Pokémon anime protagonist Ash Ketchum finally became the top trainer in the world after defeating Galar Champion Leon in the Masters Eight Tournament. It was the culmination of a 25-year arc for the anime, with Ash and his partner Pokémon Pikachu finally being crowned the champion after years of…
Source: Kotaku – The Pokémon Anime Is Leaving Ash And Pikachu Behind After 25 Years
