Elden Ring studio FromSoftware is pivoting from demigods to giant mechs in Armored Core VI, and warning fans not to expect the cult-classic sci-fi franchise to go all “Soulsborne” on them. Instead, a new IGN interview with FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki and game director Masaru Yamamura indicates the latest…
Source: Kotaku – What To Expect From Armored Core VI, The Next Game From Elden Ring Devs
Public squabbling between two of the biggest console gaming companies has intensified. On a recent podcast appearance, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer blasted Sony for wanting to grow by “making Xbox smaller.” The accusation comes after the Federal Trade Commission decided to sue to block Microsoft’s takeover of…
Source: Kotaku – Phil Spencer Says Sony Wants To Grow At Xbox’s Expense
Idle games are one of the most surprising break-out niches of the last few years, although the genre’s name is something of a misnomer. For the first while, these games are typically anything but idle, as you frantically click until you reach a point where the game starts to play itself. Now, Placid Plastic Duck…
Source: Kotaku – One Of Steam’s Most Popular Games Is About Watching Rubber Duckies Float
Adobe used to be known as the company that made Acrobat and PhotoShop. Addobe is increasingly becoming known, however, as one of the great digital grifters of the modern age.
Source: Kotaku – Adobe Embraces AI Art, Can Get In The Bin
Academy Award winner Al Pacino may have opened the 2022 Game Awards, a night of industry recognition and expensive marketing for the biggest games around, but it was a new type of internet celebrity who closed it out. “I want to nominate this award to my reformed Orthodox Rabbi Bill Clinton,” said a young kid with…
Source: Kotaku – The Kid Who Crashed The Game Awards Has A History Of Trolling
Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 players are about to get what they wanted…sort of. The red-hot online shooter is getting Combat Records with its Season 01 Reloaded midseason update, which will go live December 14. Sounds good. But the catch is, it’s starting fresh: no information from the games you completed before that date…
Source: Kotaku – Warzone 2.0’s Getting Stats Soon, But Your Current Kills Don’t Count
Two days ago, in the days leading up to The Game Awards 2022, I wrote about how the wildly inconsistent fashion at the event was indicative of the industry’s identity crisis. Things quickly got out of hand.
Source: Kotaku – The Best Fits At The Game Awards 2022
It wouldn’t be the first time, but Xbox fans are upset in the wake of last night’s broadcast of The Game Awards. The problem? While competitors like Sony scooped up award after award, the Xbox brand and Xbox-related games were almost nowhere to be seen.
Source: Kotaku – Console Warriors Mad, Sad At Xbox’s Latest Awards No-Show
The Game Awards happened yesterday but we’re not here to talk about that. What we’re here to discuss, true believers, is Supergiant Games surprising everyone by breaking its “no-sequel” tradition in announcing Hades II and swiftly stepping on the gaming world’s collective necks with how attractive its characters are,…
Source: Kotaku – Everyone’s Hot As Hell In Hades II, As They Should Be
When I played Bastion in high school, it was the first time I felt that American video games could be art. Most games I knew were overtly concerned with how efficiently I could kill a living being, or their color palettes were a dreadful combination of brown and gray. Bastion stood out as a beautiful dungeon crawler…
Source: Kotaku – Hades II Is A Sequel From A Studio That Doesn’t Make Sequels
A month after Bank of America downgraded Hasbro’s stock over fears it was “killing its golden goose” by oversaturating the market with Magic: The Gathering cards, the toy manufacturer says that’s not the case. “There is no evidence that Magic is overprinted,” Wizards of the Coast president Cynthia Williams told…
Source: Kotaku – Magic: The Gathering Execs Accused Of Destroying Game Say They’re Not
Last night’s Game Awards was one of the annual event’s biggest shows yet. With a flurry of surprise appearances, awards, excellent speeches, game reveals, and other oddities, it was easy to lose track of everything. But if you’re a fan of anime MMOs and you find the idea of a sci-fi fantasy adventure focused on…
Source: Kotaku – It’s An Anime Post-Apocalyptic MMO, And It Looks Gorgeous
The date for the all-new Pokémon Scarlet & Violet TCG cards has been revealed, along with some really excellent news: International cards are losing their godawful yellow borders! Woo-hoo! We’re at last getting the gray/silver Japan enjoys, along with a bunch of other quality-of-life improvements to how cards are laid…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Cards Get Rid Of Those Hideous Yellow Borders After 23 Years
Kim Basinger, Danny Glover…Vanilla Ice? I thought I might have been having a stroke when 505 Games revealed its colorful multiplayer heist game Crime Boss: Rockay City at The Game Awards last night. It was getting late. Everything about the trailer screamed Grand Theft Auto, but it was not, in fact, an update to…
Source: Kotaku – Bizarre New GTA Online-Looking Game Is Full Of ’90s Stars
As of today, Marvel Snap is giving away a fantastic new Storm variant, has put together a very pretty animated music video featuring music by Martin Garrix and JVKE, and combined it with a new in-game event called Hype the Hero. It’s a shame it hasn’t all been more clearly implemented, but we’ve got your back.
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Gives Out Fantastic Free Storm Card In Confusing Event
Last year, the new horror game Choo-Choo Charles went viral online thanks to a very good trailer that teased a cat-and-mouse game with an evil train with spider legs. The train itself was pure nightmare fuel to behold, and the gameplay looked intense and fun and unlike any other game out there. Now, after playing it,…
Source: Kotaku – That Viral Killer Train Game Is An Admirable, Original Mess
One of the main advertising gimmicks of tonight’s Game Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that would see one viewer win one of the company’s prized Steam Deck handhelds every minute.
Source: Kotaku – Milf Hunter Won A Steam Deck And You Didn’t
Yes, you heard that right. At the tail end of the 2022 Game Awards, right after the developers of FromSoftware collected their Game of the Year award for Elden Ring, a youth popped out from the shadows to nominate former president Bill Clinton (?). Shortly after, host Geoff Keighley announced the person had been…
Source: Kotaku – Kid Sneaks Onto Game Awards To Nominate Bill Clinton, Is Arrested
