Ultimately, the goal of Pokémon TCG Live is to replace the decade-old Pokémon TCG Online as the way to play the enormously popular card game over the internet. However, as of today’s global beta release, given the bugs and issues we’ve experienced we’d strongly suggest you avoid it for now. However, if you’re…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Migrate To Pokémon TCG Live Until You’ve Read This Warning
Earlier this year, it seemed like Microsoft would reveal its Xbox Game Pass streaming device, codenamed Keystone, at any moment. Fans even thought the company was teasing its release when it mysteriously appeared on a shelf last month. Instead, we got an app exclusive to Samsung smart TVs. And now the Xbox…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Shelved Game Pass Streaming Box Because It Was Too Expensive
Last week, New World’s patch notes indicated that taxes on Trade Post transactions would increase from 2.5 percent to a whopping 5 percent. What’s funny about this situation is that the MMO is published by Amazon Games, which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Last year, ProPublica reported that Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate…
Source: Kotaku – Amazon’s MMO Forces Players To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Jeff Bezos IRL
The current British government, now onto its third Prime Minister since 2019 and rocked by a combination of scandals and gross, malicious incompetence, is facing an uphill battle to simply avoid complete destruction at the next general election, let alone win it. What better time, then, for one of its most important…
Source: Kotaku – British Ministry Launches Discord Channel, Are Promptly Called ‘C**ts’
AI-generated artwork, an ethical and copyright nightmare that is pissing artists off the world over, is finding resistance everywhere from Newgrounds to Fur Affinity to, in this latest case, an anime convention that has described AI art as “counterfeit merchandise”.
Source: Kotaku – Anime Con Bans All AI-Generated Art
An urgent update for Overwatch 2 was supposed to have gone live this afternoon, but was delayed at the 11th hour when Blizzard discovered a “critical issue”.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Patch Delayed Hours Before Launch, Leaving Mei Out In The Cold
Somerville is one of the coolest video games I’ve played in years. It’s also one of the most frustrating.
Source: Kotaku – Somerville Is A Gorgeous Disaster Of A Game
True to its roots in the genre from which it takes its name, many of Cyberpunk 2077’s storylines task V with unraveling various schemes orchestrated by powerful people, known or unknown. While the main story has its share of corporate and political thrills, few capture the creepiness of powerful forces hiding just out…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077: Don’t Miss Its Most Chilling And Mysterious Questline
The games industry is incredibly secretive, but that never stops folks from eventually spilling all the tea on the behind-the-scenes shenanigans at some of the biggest studios. Case in point: Did you know Rockstar Games once turned down a Grand Theft Auto film that would’ve starred rapper Marshall “Eminem” Mathers…
Source: Kotaku – There Could’ve Been A GTA Film With Eminem, But Rockstar Was Like ‘Nah’
We may be preoccupied with big-budget new releases like Gotham Knights and God of War Ragnarök, but did you know that the Marvel’s Avengers game is still a thing? The servers are still kicking and developer Crystal Dynamics continues to drop new content for the live-service spectacle fighter, like adding the Winter…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel’s Avengers Reminds You It Still Exists With Addition Of Winter Soldier
Microsoft recently published an Xbox transparency report that offers some details on how it moderated its online services during the first six months of 2022. According to the publisher’s report, most enforcements were “proactive,” which means that Xbox issued a ban (in most cases) before anyone had reported that an…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Automatically Banned 4 Million Accounts For Cheating Or Botting In 2022
I think that whether I’m 4 or 24, looking into the water drop eyes of bubblegum Jigglypuff, winsome Sylveon, or now the fluffy, pastry case Fidough will always make my heart squeeze a little. That’s the timeless appeal of The Pokémon Company’s tiny, battle-ready monsters, and why its latest roleplaying game, Pokémon…
Source: Kotaku – The Internet’s Urgent Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Questions, Answered
Just because the spooky season has passed doesn’t mean Microsoft’s Netflix-like subscription service is fresh out of spice to stimulate your gaming senses for the rest of November. While November’s assortment of games isn’t quite as loaded as last month’s helpings, it does feature a diverse hodgepodge of games,…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Is About To Get One Of 2022’s Best Games
Well, folks, the seemingly impossible has been done. After a little more than a decade of content creation, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is no longer the most-subscribed YouTuber on Google’s video-sharing platform. That title belongs to Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who passed PewDiePie by a few thousand more subscribers.…
Source: Kotaku – YouTube’s Most-Subscribed King Is Now MrBeast, Not PewDiePie
Few gaming magazines are as beloved as Nintendo Power. In the NES era, it offered many young Nintendo fans their first glimpse of the upcoming games that fired their imaginations, and poring over the detailed maps and tantalizing bits of info was a ritual almost as enjoyable as playing the games themselves.…
Source: Kotaku – Someone Uploaded All 285 Issues Of Nintendo Power To Archive.org
Few gaming magazines are as beloved as Nintendo Power. In the NES era, it offered many young Nintendo fans their first glimpse of the upcoming games that fired their imaginations, and poring over the detailed maps and tantalizing bits of info was a ritual almost as enjoyable as playing the games themselves.…
Source: Kotaku – You Can Now Read All 285 Issues Of Nintendo Power Online
Thank God for the idiotic joy of McPixel. A much-overlooked game from 2012, far too many people failed to recognise the semiotic brilliance of its sophisticated puzzles, based on innovative solutions centred around kicking people in their groin and then peeing on stuff. A decade later, finally a sequel—McPixel 3—is…
Source: Kotaku – This Game Where You Pee On Everything Is Hilarious
I look forward to the day when my brain doesn’t have to think about terms like “distributed ledger,” “fungible,” or “jtoken” anymore. But if recent Sony patents are anything to go by, we may not be out of the NFT woods yet (if there are still woods left when crypto burns the planet down). While the broader world of…
Source: Kotaku – Sony’s NFT Patent References Babe Ruth, Esports, And Pro Streamers
