If you own a PlayStation 4 or 5, you can view your yearly Wrap-Up starting from today. The PlayStation equivalent of Spotify Wrapped and other year-end summaries of user activity on a platform, the Wrap-Up lets Sony once again shame you for your gaming choices as it’s done in prior years. Simply go to this link and…
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation’s End Of Year Wrap-Up Commemorates Your Gamer Shame
Video game box art is like a visual handshake between the game and the player. If the art is tantamount to a limp handshake, gamers will forget about it and move on to a video game that seizes their attention with a firm grasp. While many have an uninspired Marvel Cinematic Universe-esque composite shot of its titular…
Source: Kotaku – The Most Mesmerizing Video Game Box Art Of 2022
I always liked the idea of snow more than shoveling it or letting it fall into my boots. When I lived in Western New York state—one of the snowiest places in the U.S.—every snowdrift pressed against my front door or patch of slush I’d sink into on my walk to school would make me huff white clouds into the freezing…
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Most Stunning Uses Of Snow In Video Games
True believers, I’ve got some good news for you: A brand new trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is out now. And in this new look at the upcoming animated sequel to 2018’s fantastic Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, we get a bunch of quick and easy-to-miss cameos from other Spider-People, including…
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Spidey Appears In New Spider-Verse Trailer
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is bringing back its limited-time Charizard the Unrivaled tera raid this week on December 16. The event will last until December 18, and it’s the only way for players to catch the iconic dragon in these games as of this writing. So if you want to add Charizard to your team, you’ll have only…
Source: Kotaku – You Only Have A Few Days To Catch Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s Only Charizard: Here’s How
I’m about four hours into High On Life and I have a migraine. It’s unfair to say that the game has given me one—I am, after all, notoriously prone to them—but it certainly isn’t helping. The brightly colored, gloopy, blobby alien worlds and incessant chatter from NPCs, enemies, and my weapons aren’t exactly a soothing…
Source: Kotaku – High On Life: The Kotaku Review
Pokémon has a new meta contender in town, and it’s…a cute mouse family? That’s right. In addition to having unsettling in-game implications like how parents hatch out of a single egg, the Tandemaus line is also incredibly powerful: its signature move can exceed the base power of attacks such as Hyper Beam and…
Source: Kotaku – This New Scarlet And Violet Pokémon Is Unexpectedly OP
Valve’s classic Portal was recently re-released on Steam with some very fancy new visuals, including ray-tracing and DLSS support. That was great news for Portal fans, but it’s also great news for fans of all kinds of old PC games.
Source: Kotaku – PC Modders Get Classics Like Half-Life, Max Payne Looking Brand New
Sam Bankman-Fried, the central figure in the collapse of crpyto exchange FTX, has just been arrested in The Bahamas and is likely to be quickly extradited to the United States to face criminal charges.
Source: Kotaku – Crypto Kingpin Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested In The Bahamas
As Microsoft’s attempts to buy beleaguered publisher Activision Blizzard start to hit some serious roadblocks, the software giant is being forced to make some concessions in an attempt to seal the deal.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Microsoft Offered Sony Call Of Duty On PlayStation Plus
New ESRB ratings for Final Fantasy I through VI heavily suggest that Square Enix is bringing its Pixel Remaster line of classic Final Fantasy remakes to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
Source: Kotaku – Classic Final Fantasy ‘Pixel Remasters’ Likely To Hit Switch, PS4
Dungeons & Dragons is so synonymous with its hobby that I, like many people who play TTRPGs other than D&D, often just refer to such games as “D&D” for short. But apparently that kind of name recognition and dominance in the field isn’t enough for publisher Wizards of the Coast. Based on comments made during an…
Source: Kotaku – D&D CEO Thinks Hobby Is ‘Under Monetized’ Compared To Video Games
Pop quiz for you PC nerds: A friend wants to build a gaming PC and wants to know how much ram they should get. What would you say? 16GB for gaming is a safe bet, right? Maybe you could even get by with 8, if you only want to play mostly indie games and perform daily computing tasks? Well, you better hope this…
Source: Kotaku – PC Requirements Reach New High As Popular PS5 Game Hits Steam
Almost seven years later, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt doesn’t just hold up: it’s still head-and-shoulders above most of the competition. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla might be bigger, and Horizon Forbidden West might be prettier, but practically no other game marries magic, monsters, and grim politics together into a…
Source: Kotaku – ‘Next-Gen’ Witcher 3 Is A Nice Upgrade, Whether You’re New Or Coming Back
Wherever you’ve fallen in your Pokémon journey in the month since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet were released—either sticking to the grind or protesting some of the year’s most flagrant bugs—you’re still under the shadow of a 24-year-old refrain: gotta catch ‘em all. Though Scarlet and Violet marketing has featured…
Source: Kotaku – How To Get Every Legendary In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
Reset the clock: In a sign that Netflix will continue to not leave well enough alone, word has emerged that the massive streaming service is working on a live-action adaptation of the popular anime series My Hero Academia.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Is Working On A Live-Action My Hero Academia Movie
Oh, hi. I didn’t see you there. I’m Kenneth Shepard, Kotaku’s new staff writer.
Source: Kotaku – Welcome To Kentaku
The attention-grabbing headline for this story, of games coming with Amazon Prime membership this holiday, would be “Ten Free Games!” But when the other nine are so old they’re starting to peel at the edges, that’d be pretty anticlimactic. The true news here is the utterly fantastic Dishonored 2 is yours, gratis, if…
Source: Kotaku – Amazon Is Giving Out Dishonored 2 Free, One Of The Best Sneaking Games Ever
