The year 2022 hath blessed us with an illustrious catalog of anime, the best of which garnered their own dedicated day of the week among the anime faithful with the likes of Bleach Mondays and Chainsaw Man Tuesdays. Many of you probably wouldn’t put up a fuss if this list was solely comprised of that buzz-saw dude,…
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Best Anime Of 2022
I’ve played a lot of games in my lifetimes. I say ‘lifetimes’ because I have lived many different lives, all of which have been incredibly uneventful and have mostly revolved around playing different games.
Source: Kotaku – Four Features That I Must Insist Every Game Includes
Making video games is very hard. It can take years of work to ship even a small game. One aspect that can take up a particularly large amount of time and resources is building a custom engine, which is why many devs utilize Unreal, Unity, or another pre-existing engine to help speed up development. That’s very common,…
Source: Kotaku – EA Made A LotR Game With A Tiger Woods Engine
The year is 1994. You’re playing SimCity 2000 and you’re thinking, man, wouldn’t it be amazing if I could somehow get down into the game and walk these streets.
Source: Kotaku – Incredible Mod Recreates SimCity 2000 Cities In Minecraft, Down To The Trees
One of the big reasons Fortnite became one of the biggest games on the planet is because it could run on anything, from phones to tired laptops to hand-me-down desktops. That’s created an expectation that the game is graphically basic, but as we head into 2023 the shooter—first released in 2017—just got one hell of a…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite (?) Is Now One Of The Best-Looking Games On Earth (?!)
In the spirit of Christmas and the ruthless pursuit of meme stock shareholder value, GameStop carried out its latest round of layoffs on Monday ahead of its new earnings report, which is due out later this week. The cuts reportedly hit staff working on the company’s crypto push, as well as a number of other…
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Gets Into Holiday Spirit With More Layoffs
Free-to-play shooter Overwatch 2 is launching Season 2 tomorrow and with it a brand new tank character, Ramattra. And like last time, you can either buy the premium battle pass to unlock the new hero instantly or you can grind the free path to eventually gain access to him. But this time, following complaints from…
Source: Kotaku – After Backlash, Overwatch 2’s New Tank Will Be Easier To Unlock For Free
Fuser, the DJ game from original Guitar Hero creator and Rock Band studio Harmonix, is shutting down its live service content and ceasing sales. This comes just two years after the music-mixing game launched—and it’s honestly a big bummer.
Source: Kotaku – The Death Of DJ Game Fuser Is A Huge Bummer
Dwarf Fortress’ reputation precedes it. Likely the most intensely detailed simulation game ever devised, its strategic depths, which grow deeper each new update, are rivaled only by the modestness of its text-based visuals. But now, 16 years after its debut, a new Steam (and Itch.io) edition has emerged from the…
Source: Kotaku – Dwarf Fortress’ Steam Upgrade Was Worth The Wait
The gaming industry’s recent wave of labor organizing just exploded. Roughly 300 quality assurance staff at ZeniMax studios, which includes Bethesda and games like The Elder Scrolls Online , announced today that they will unionize with the Communications Workers of America. And unlike union drives at Activision…
Source: Kotaku – 300 QA Devs Unionize At Microsoft-Owned ZeniMax Studios
I am a proud Scaramouche hater. When he was first introduced, I couldn’t stand his obnoxious taunts, his weird coat-shorts combination, or his embarrassing bowl cut. I’ve since warmed to his now more-compelling backstory, but there are fans out there who have been waiting for this villain to be playable since he first…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Fans Who Waited Two Years For Its Most Annoying Character Are Stronger Than Me
Starting next year, Microsoft will raise the price of its first-party games from $60 to $70, joining other publishers and video game companies who are doing the same. Welcome to the era of the $70 game, folks.
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Will Be As Microsoft Confirms New-Gen Price Hike
2022 was a good year for shooter fans. While the launch of a new shooter title (FPS or otherwise) is pretty common every year, the variety we received in 2022 was fantastic. From massive, online battle royales to smaller, quirky indie shooters and everything in between, this year really did have a little something…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Shooters Of 2022
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the sequel to EA’s only great Star Wars game throughout its entire 10-year exclusivity deal with Disney, looks like it will come out on March 16, 2023. That’s according to a recent Steam page leak ahead of the 2022 Game Awards marketing blitz later this week. It’s good news for Star Wars fans…
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Leak Makes Early 2023 Look Like Mayhem
We’ve chronicled the many, serious issues with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet since its release last month, but there’s one aspect—worse than any other—that has not received enough attention: Its abysmal online raids.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Saves Its Worst Technical Disaster For Online Raids
Space survival horror shooter Callisto Protocol has now received two big patches after some versions of it were panned for performance issues at launch, and more fixes are on the way. After releasing the latest update to address frame rate drops and other problems with the Xbox Series X/S edition, Striking Distance…
Source: Kotaku – Callisto Protocol Devs Rush Out Patches For Busted PC And Xbox Versions, Promise More Updates
For the past week or so, some folks playing Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the PC have been encountering a bug that, at the end of the game’s dialogue sequences, would just go ahead and play a honking loud air horn.
Source: Kotaku – Very Good Air Horn Bug Has Sadly Been Patched Out Of Spider-Man: Miles Morales
The Last Of Us TV series has had a couple of trailers, one very short and one a bit longer, but both of those were very much of the teaser variety, keeping things close to their chest and only showing brief flashes of scenery and action. HBO released a third trailer over the weekend, however, and this one has a lot …
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us TV Show Gets Longer, Chattier Trailer
The Winter E3, aka The Game Awards, is airing next week and people are getting excited about what will be revealed during the three-hour montage of trailers and awards. But if you were excited about a new Mortal Kombat or Injustice 3 making a surprise appearance, well, you might want to sit down. I’ve got some bad…
Source: Kotaku – Ed Boon Announces He Won’t Be Announcing Anything At The Game Awards
