The last time we took a look at Battlefield 2042, the belagured online shooter had just released its second major update and was, finally, starting to feel like something approaching a finished video game. With Season 3 out this week, it’s now even closer.
Source: Kotaku – Battlefield 2042’s Season 3 Makes A Good Game Slightly Better
As the rest of Team Kotaku are off chasing turkeys through their local Macy’s (I’ve done more research about what a Thanksgiving is this year), once more I have the keys to the site, have locked everyone out, and then immediately lost those keys. While I’m stuck here, I figure I should tell you about some…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Incredible Games You Should Be Wishlisting Right This Minute
The endlessly silly debacle between Microsoft and Sony, regarding the former’s attempt to buy Activision Blizzard King, offers as a new lowlight every day. Yesterday we had Microsoft declaring that it has rubbish exclusive titles compared to Sony, and today Sony has just loudly dissed EA’s Battlefield franchise in an…
Source: Kotaku – Sony Dumps On EA From A Great Height In Latest Court Docs
For the majority, a new mainline Pokémon game is a chance to fill a Pokédex, battle through a series of gyms, and enjoy watching your gaggle of monster-buddies evolve their way to glory. For a minority, it’s a new dawn in a fierce competitive scene, as the new Gen 9 Pokémon are tested for their worth in on-stage…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Murder Pup Is Already Banned
We’ve already covered a huge number of the serious issues with The Pokémon Company’s new Pokémon TCG Live, the replacement for the decade-old digital way to play the card battler, Pokémon TCG Online. But there’s one other aspect that’s gone under-reported, and astonishingly, it’s not a bug: they’ve halved the number…
Source: Kotaku – The Pokémon Company Slashes Number Of TCG Cards In Online Packs, Claims It’s ‘Optimal’
For a few years now some car companies have been experimenting with an idea ripped straight out of video games. Someone, somewhere figured that hey, if people are willing to pay for a game then spend more money inside the game they already bought then they might do the same for cars—a far more expensive and lucrative…
Source: Kotaku – Expensive Cars Have DLC Now, And It’s Taking The Piss
Politico are reporting that, “according to three people with knowledge of the matter”, the Federal Trade Commission is “likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard”.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Feds ‘Likely’ To Fight Microsoft’s Purchase Of Activision Blizzard
In Halo, “the sandbox” often refers to the weapons and vehicles on a map at any given time: all the toys you have to play with. But for a whole other set of Halo fans, that sandbox is the game itself. Be it through Forge or ambitious modding projects like SPV3, playing with the very core of the game itself is part of…
Source: Kotaku – 343 Releases Previously Unseen Images From Halo 2 Development
Where there’s cute and lovable Pokémon, there’s always a way. Despite less-than-stellar reviews and tons of performance hitches and bugs, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just broke sales records on the Nintendo Switch and beyond, moving 10 million copies in their opening weekend alone.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are The Fastest-Selling Games In The History Of Nintendo
Callisto Protocol, out next month on consoles and PC, is a horror game that looks and plays a lot like the beloved Dead Space franchise. And like Dead Space, Callisto Protocol will feature some gnarly-looking deaths, both for you when you screw up and bite it, and for your alien foes when you slaughter them. But some…
Source: Kotaku – Upcoming Dead Space-Like Horror Game Locking Some Death Animations Behind A Season Pass
The court proceedings to justify why Microsoft should be allowed to acquire Activision Blizzard are still currently ongoing. In a response to the UK market regulator’s statement about the acquisition, the publisher suggests that it makes good business sense for them to make a “mid-sized” game like the upcoming Elder…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Explains Why Elder Scrolls VI Will Be Exclusive And Call Of Duty Won’t
Marvel Snap is expanding with its next big update and upcoming cosmic-themed season. Not only is the game getting over a dozen new, rare, and powerful cards, but developer Second Dinner will be adding the previously announced Token Shop to the game, letting players focus on grinding for specific cards they want to…
Source: Kotaku – With 16 New Cards, Marvel Snap’s Next Update Is Its Biggest Yet
One of the best games of the last decade is about to get even better, and for free to everyone who already owns it. CD Projekt Red finally revealed everything that will be included in The Witcher 3’s new-gen upgrade, and even showed off a bit of it in action with a new trailer. The long wait for the PS5 and Xbox…
Source: Kotaku – Everything Coming To The Witcher 3 In The Free New-Gen Upgrade
Yesterday, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 got their latest patch. The notes indicate the usual tweaks and bug fixes one expects of long-term live-service games, but one change to weapon ammo has fans scratching their heads. Armor-piercing ammunition, it seems, no longer (checks patch notes) pierces…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty Removes Armor-Piercing Effects From…Armor-Piercing Ammunition
I remember being disturbed by the talking mannequin while watching the 2009 rom-com Confessions of a Shopaholic who convinces Isla Fisher that a $120 Henri Bendel scarf is all she needs to conquer a job interview. It was disturbing because I, aching for anything loose and glamorous in the West 34th Street Macy’s…
Source: Kotaku – Black Friday Isn’t Worth It, Not If You Really Want To Play Games
Overwatch 2 may be a sequel, but it seems that it loves cop skins just as much as the original game. A brand-new bundle recently dropped in the in-game shop called Constable Tracer, which puts Tracer in a goofy British cop outfit, complete with absurd hat and twirly mustache. The $10 bundle also includes a police…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Continues Franchise Tradition Of Putting Characters In Cop Skins
In its latest written response sent to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group, Microsoft uses a lot of data to show that its buying of beleaguered publisher Activision Blizzard isn’t going to hurt Sony or Nintendo. In fact, as its bizarre frenzy of self-negging continues, it suggests that the deal will…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Admits PlayStation Exclusives Are ‘Better Quality’
Like many, my first Witcher game was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015. I sunk countless hours into it as I fell madly in love with the characters, but after I finished it, I knew I had to go back and play the first one. It’s not uncommon for the first Witcher game to be swiftly disregarded when discussing the trilogy.…
Source: Kotaku – In Defense Of 2007’s The Witcher, The Overlooked Game That’s Getting Remade For A Reason
George Hotz is best known for jailbreaking the iPhone’s carrier-lock and hacking the PlayStation 3. Now Elon Musk has set him on his most momentous technical challenge: Fixing Twitter in three months. Okay, not all of it. He was hired to fix Twitter’s currently-broken search function.
Source: Kotaku – Elon Musk Hires PlayStation 3 Hacker To Fix Twitter
