An intense debate ignited November 13, when The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley announced the nominees for this year’s trophy ceremony. While some folks were surprised Pikachu face by Starfield’s absence, most people were shook by one particular title offered up for the “Best Independent Game” category. Now, after a…
Source: Kotaku – TGA’s Geoff Keighley Weighs In On Dave The Diver Nomination Controversy
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has revealed new data showing kids want video game-related gifts more than anything else this holiday season. But if you dig into the data a little bit more, you’ll discover that most kids don’t want a new physical game. Instead, what they’re really looking for in their…
Source: Kotaku – Kids Want Digital Currency And Subscriptions More Than New Games This Xmas
Bungie has finally confirmed that The Final Shape, Destiny 2’s major expansion 10 years in the making, has been delayed, and will now arrive June 4 instead of on its previously planned release date of February 27. More importantly, the studio explained what players will be doing in the meantime.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Promises More Content To Fill Void Left By Big Expansion Delay
One of my favorite Black Friday traditions is scrolling through GameStop on my phone and getting a bunch of cool games for cheap. Usually it works out just fine. Last weekend it was a nightmare. It’s hard to convey just how terrible navigating the experience of trying to buy something from GameStop has become in 2023,…
Source: Kotaku – It Happened To Me: The GameStop Black Friday Deal From Hell
Award ceremonies aren’t important, and if we all stopped looking at them, they’d stop existing. Anyway, The Game Awards are coming up next week, December 7, and we’re hearing news about some planned changes for this year’s outing. Will they let women on stage? Ha ha, no one’s mentioned that. But we have heard they’ll…
Source: Kotaku – The Game Awards Is Beefing Up Security Following Stage Invasions
About one month on from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2‘s launch, we’re learning some new details about Insomniac Games’ open-world robber-stopper RPG. According to a report by YouTuber Evan Filarca, the game had a ton of content cut before releasing on October 20, particularly relating to the big-bad Venom.
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Man 2 Reportedly Cut A Ton Of Venom Content
Larian Studios’ hit RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 is expansive and consuming, but its map isn’t quite the size of something you’d expect in open-world games like The Witcher 3 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. So it shouldn’t be surprising that a fan was able to pretty much mark exactly where in the Dungeons & Dragons universe…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Takes Place In A Very Small Part Of The Dungeons & Dragons Map
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the Ubisoft stealth adventure series’ 2015 entry featuring dual protagonists that’s set in 19th century London, is currently free on PC until December 6. There’s just one twist: You’ll need to get it from Ubisoft Connect launcher (insert horror emoji). Don’t hate the messenger.
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Best Assassin’s Creed Games Is Free On PC
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.
Source: Kotaku – The Week’s Best Gaming Stories, From Pokimane to Adults-Only N64
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.
Source: Kotaku – The Week’s Hottest Takes, From Scott Pilgrim To TLOU 2
Next year is to bring us a whole new set of shiny Pokémon, when the Paldean Fates set hits streets January 26. We already knew it would, of course, contain a shiny Charizard. But now we’ve seen it, and oh god it’s going to cost so much money.
Source: Kotaku – There’s A New Shiny Charizard And It’s Going To Cost Everything
Continuing from yesterday’s collation of unknown and under-known indie games, Thanksgaming 2023 rides again with another ten fantastic-looking games you’ve almost definitely never heard of.
Source: Kotaku – 10 Hidden Games That’ll Make Your Steam Wishlist Shine
If I told you there was a Pokémon card going for $50, you’d wonder why I was bothering you. In a world where such things regularly change hands in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, such a figure is a shrug. But sorry, I should have been clearer: it’s a birthday card. A brand new one. Mass-produced. It’s a $50…
Source: Kotaku – The World’s Most Expensive Pikachu (Birthday) Card
There’s a brilliant trick map makers use to prevent plagiarism, called “trap streets.” They deliberately put an entirely fictional road, or even entire imaginary towns (“paper towns”), so that if someone lifts their work without permission it’s immediately identifiable to them. Something very similar is at the center…
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber Accuses Casetify Of Copyright Theft, Has Receipts
Hey, remember me? I’m the girl who, right before the 2022 Game Awards, said Xbox head Phil Spencer dresses like my dad when he goes on a Sunday morning bagel run. (We squashed the beef at Summer Game Fest, don’t worry.) Though I was being playful and pointed with my fashion critiques, I wasn’t just speaking to the…
Source: Kotaku – Let Me Dress You For The Game Awards 2023
Don’t you hate it when your toaster gets an error, and pop-up ads start appearing? Same thing seems to have been happening with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week, which Ubisoft is blaming on a “technical error,” and they don’t even have the terrible pun as an excuse.
Source: Kotaku – Pop-Ads In Assassin’s Creed Were A ‘Technical Error’ Says Ubisoft
Slow news day? You betcha. But look, it’s Thanksgiving, and there’s a good chance people are cooking and eating just about anything they can find right now. Please, if we can save just one person from trying to cook their Steam Deck, then it will have been worth it.
Source: Kotaku – PSA: You Shouldn’t Cook Your Steam Deck
We bet you’d forgotten about sort-of-Intellivision’s disastrous attempted console, the Amico. Revealed in 2020 as this super-cheap, super-exclusive, family-friendly gaming machine, replete with exclusive $8 games, the following years saw the business go through clusterfuck after clusterfuck. And yet it seems it’s…
Source: Kotaku – The Intellivision Amico Console Is Somehow Still Not Dead
When over 50 indie games come out a day on Steam alone, it can feel impossible to keep up with what’s worth playing. One of the best techniques is to curate a wishlist, meaning games that deserve attention float to the surface on release. And that’s where we can help: here are ten games you’ve likely never heard of,…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Indie Games That Deserve A Spot On Your Steam Wishlist
