New York was able to hold its biggest Comic-Con since 2019 last month, and fans certainly turned up for it; around 200,000 people went through the turnstiles between October 6-9 at the Javits Center, many of them cosplayers.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From New York Comic-Con 2022
Streamer, YouTuber and all-round internet celebrity IShowSpeed has recently been helping one of the biggest TV stations in Europe, Sky Sports, with its broadcasts of English Premier League matches. That was, reportedly, until the executives at the channel found out about a video that went viral back in April.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Streamer Deleted From TV Station’s Feed After Abusive, Misogynist Video Resurfaces
The Metacritic page for the PlayStation 5 version of Sonic Frontiers is currently being review-bombed, seemingly in response to the latest video from popular gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d expect, Sonic stans are coming back just as hard, defending the virtues of the blue hedgehog’s latest 3D adventure. …
Source: Kotaku – Latest Videogamedunkey YouTube Sparks Sonic Frontiers Review Bombing
Geoff Keighley just unveiled the categories and nominees for The Game Awards 2022. Like any other year, one of those categories is “Games for Impact.” I don’t have anything against the “impactful” games that were selected this year, like I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (which I reviewed favorably). It’s that the award…
Source: Kotaku – ‘Games For Impact’ Is A Meaningless Awards Category
Last week, crypto exchange FTX went from being valued at nearly $32 billion to filing for bankruptcy, and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, went from being the crypto space’s only ethical genius to being just a dude like the rest of us, albeit one who lost customers and investors alike a fortune. He was even a normie at…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Crypto Crash Kingpin Who Played League During Meetings Apparently Sucked At It
The Transformers franchise, which has always been more than meets the eye, just introduced its first officially nonbinary character, Nightshade. They make their debut toward the end of the first season of the franchise’s latest TV series, Transformers: EarthSpark, which premiered on the Paramount Network on Friday.
Source: Kotaku – New Transformers Series Introduces Its First Nonbinary Robot
The Aztecs had spiritual ballgames, games with physical displays of devotion and a struggle for collective triumph that remains central to our notions of sport. In the 3,000 years since, we’ve streamlined these fundamental concepts into FIFA 23 and beer pong. But I’m not complaining. I think it’s time for our…
Source: Kotaku – How To Become A Beer Pong Champion, According To The Pros
With Pokémon TCG’s final Sword & Shield main set, Silver Tempest, now out in the wild, people have torn open enough packs and boxes to get an idea for which cards are the most desirable. Whether it’s for their beautiful alternate artwork, their resale value, or their playability in the tabletop game, we’ve rounded up…
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Best Pokémon TCG Cards To Pull From Silver Tempest
I’m convinced that there’s no force in the universe that moves faster than Pokémon leakers. As we move into release week for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, those who managed to get an early copy of the game are posting screenshots and game information on social media.
Source: Kotaku – 7 Things We Learned From Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Leaks
After guessing that Nintendo Switch hit Xenoblade Chronicles 3 would be the biggest snub at the 2022 Game Awards, stunned Xeno-heads and Tetsuya Takahashi-stans can’t believe it. Geoff Keighley revealed on Monday that it is actually one of the six finalists for his show’s Game of the Year category, alongside…
Source: Kotaku – Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Stuns With 2022 GOTY Game Awards Nomination
It feels like every other week Magic: The Gathering is revealing a wild new crossover set or promotional release. And that’s because it kinda is. Fans began stewing over the onslaught earlier this year, and now even Wall Street is starting to balk. Bank of America downgraded toy company owner Hasbro’s stock earlier…
Source: Kotaku – Toy Company Slammed For Getting Greedy With Magic: The Gathering
Welcome to 16th-century Europe. You are Andreas Maler, an artist living among the people of the fictional town of Tassing, where things are about to change in the wake of a murder. How will they change? That’s what you’ll decide in Pentiment, a narrative adventure game that brings together evocative art, roleplaying…
Source: Kotaku – This Killer Narrative Game From Obsidian Is A Must-Play
DeviantArt is a website that has survived multiple generations of the internet because it does one thing and does it well: it lets artists upload and share their work. That’s it! So it’s both funny and more than a little tragic to see the site try something new last week, only for it to be the worst thing imaginable,…
Source: Kotaku – DeviantArt Embraces AI Art, Screws Up Massively
A former officer of the Johnson County Sherriff’s office in Kansas has had his police license revoked after he was caught trying to short-change a store out of nearly $400 worth of Pokémon cards.
Source: Kotaku – Cop ‘Discharged’ For Trying To Scam Store Out Of 0 Worth Of Pokémon Cards
Studio Ghibli, The famous Japanese animation studio behind classics like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away has spent the past few days teasing a possible collaboration with Lucasfilm and Star Wars on its official Twitter. And there’s some evidence that it might be a Baby Yoda aka Grogu show based on a previous leak…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s Why People Are Convinced Studio Ghibli Is Making A Baby Yoda Show
As you may know, I’m a big ol’ Star Wars nerd. And one of my favorite things in Star Wars media is all the tiny references and Easter eggs embedded everywhere. But sometimes this fan service goes overboard and derails a story in a way that alienates or bores non-fans. Andor, the newest TV show set in the Star Wars…
Source: Kotaku – You Probably Aren’t Catching Andor’s Awesome Nods To Deep Star Wars Lore (And That’s A Good Thing)
The original Tactics Ogre proved that RPG chess was not only fun, it could also be morally ambiguous, beautifully written, and deeply compelling. Nearly 30 years later, Tactics Ogre: Reborn has managed to safely transport a masterpiece into the modern era while sprucing it up enough so that it’s still a joy to play. I…
Source: Kotaku – Tactics Ogre: Reborn Is The Best Version Of An All-Time Classic Strategy RPG
I know Elden Ring is out, and God of War Ragnarök is out, and Elon Musk’s dead-on-arrival Twitter shenanigans are making it feel like we’ve lived a couple thousand years. But no, you’re still here in 2022, and we have two more months of it. What could happen in that time?
Source: Kotaku – The Year Is Nearly Over, But You Still Have 10 Game Releases To Look Forward To
It’s only been 24 hours since I started playing Marvel Snap, and like everyone else who tries their hand at the free-to-play card battler, I am completely enamored by it. It’s simple, it’s colorful, it’s free—and it offers ample opportunity for you to act like a total asshole in matches without ever having to speak a…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap, Please Let My Opponents See Me Talk Smack After Matches
