Five months after I posted about a Chinese action game featuring aerial combat, I’ve got another cool one to show you. Despite the silly name, Project: The Perceiver is a melancholy political drama that gives me some Ghost of Tsushima vibes. But Project: The Perceiver moves beyond the standard Soulslike combat. And…
Source: Kotaku – An Open-World Game With Ghost of Tsushima Vibes, Tight Combat
Kevin Conroy, the legendary Batman voice actor who rose to prominence in the beloved ‘90s show Batman: The Animated Series and later played the dark knight in the acclaimed Arkham games, has passed away at the age of 66 after a short battle with cancer. The news of Conroy’s passing was announced by castmates this…
Source: Kotaku – Kevin Conroy, Beloved Batman Voice Actor, Dies At 66
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Game Freak’s new monster collecting and battling RPG launching on November 18 for Nintendo Switch, has already started leaking online. I mean, someone has been streaming the entire game, so be careful of spoilers if you care about that sort of thing. But one aspect of these games folks are…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Fans Are Obsessed With A Yassified Water Starter Evolution
With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now about as comprehensively spoiled as a game can be prior to release, especially after yesterday’s 22-and-a-half hour livestreaming of the game, people are starting to dive into some of the nitty gritty spoilers you may not think to ask about prior to release. Most of these, we’re…
Source: Kotaku – This Pokémon’s Got An Evolution After 23 Years, And It’s Such A Troll
In 2016, the first issue of a magazine called A Profound Waste of Time was released. Marrying heartfelt essays on video games with beautiful art, it was great, and did well enough that five years later a second edition was put together that was just as good. Now it’s time for issue #3.
Source: Kotaku – It’s 2022, Why Not Read A Video Game Magazine
Hi, this is Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett, one of the 17 people on the planet regularly enjoying the game, reporting live from Battlefield 2042.
Source: Kotaku – Battlefield 2042 Joining Game Pass, Getting Free Weekends
Marvel Snap’s boss, Ben Brode, recently sat down and talked shop about the popular free-to-play card game. He revealed a few decks he’s currently playing—one of them being a nasty piece of work that likely annoys many players—and said who his favorite character in the game is. It’s Mysterio aka Jake Gyllenhaal in the …
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Creator’s Favorite Cards Prove We All Play The Game Like Buttheads
So, you’ve got this solid idea for a Lego set based on Nintendo’s popular action-adventure franchise The Legend of Zelda. You fine-tune the project and submit it to Lego Ideas, a section of the company’s website where fans share their own proposals for new sets, but…wait, hold on. Your idea just got rejected, with The…
Source: Kotaku – Lego Doesn’t Want Your Legend Of Zelda-Themed Set Ideas Anymore
Netflix just released a new trailer for Dragon Age: Absolution, which is a six-episode animated show about a magical heist made in collaboration with BioWare. I criticized the last trailer for being generically bland. The new trailer is a significant improvement over what Netflix had originally shown. If you’re a…
Source: Kotaku – Netflix’s Dragon Age Show Taps BioWare’s Lore, Which Makes Me Hopeful
In between attempting to post through being tarred and feathered for transforming Twitter into the world’s silliest pay-to-win, Elon Musk is being asked to pay royalties to a manga artist after posting a popular anime meme.
Source: Kotaku – Manga Creator Demands Elon Musk Pay Him One Billion Dollars For Posting Cringe Meme
If I was playing a video game this year, odds were high that I was also dealing with some sort of crafting system. Sometimes I was fighting off zombies in a large open world. Or killing monsters and bandits in God of War Ragnarök. Or fighting bad guys on the mean streets of Gotham City as Batgirl. Once I was just …
Source: Kotaku – Video Games, Please Stop Making Me Craft Crap
God Of War Ragnarök’s $200 Collector’s Edition comes in a gold embossed box, with a 16-inch replica of Norse god Thor’s Mjölnir hammer, a set of engraved dwarven dice, downloadable cosmetics, and more. That “and more” ideally will suck out some of the sting if you, like other buyers have reported, open up your $200…
Source: Kotaku – Some God Of War Ragnarök Collector Editions Are Missing The Game
In less than a week, Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 will massively overhaul the Warzone experience. There are a ton of changes and updates coming to CoD’s spin on the battle royale formula. The update contains the same core BR experience, but adds a ton of interesting twists that’ll surely shake some things up.
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0: Everything You Need To Know About The Gulag, Proximity Chat, and More
The more I play Marvel Snap, the more dickish I become with my deck builds. Hate me, because I keep leaning toward those cards that mess with the opponent over and above winning a location. And hate me most, because after all the fun of playing cards like Scorpion, Killmonger and Hobgoblin, my favorite moment comes…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Got Way Better When I Started Terrorizing Everyone
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried spent the last year on a victory tour. The “crypto kingpin” held court at Bloomberg’s Crypto Summit over the summer and was crowned as a mega donor savior to Democrats in the midterm elections. His company even gloated about him playing League of Legends during high-level meetings with…
Source: Kotaku – Crypto’s Biggest Crash Saw Guy Playing League Of Legends While Luring Investors
In a November 9 blog, as part of a stuffed first season, Call of Duty announced that it was introducing a pliable battle pass system to both Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0, a huge deviation from Call of Duty’s norm.
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare II Reveals A Game-Changing, Non-Linear Battle Pass
The blue Twitter checkmark was once the lightning-shaped scar of the internet. It meant that you were marked by fate to achieve great things, and all unverified peons had to bow at your feet. That was before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Now verification is more like a Louis Vuitton bag—you paid for the privilege of…
Source: Kotaku – YouTube Streamer Ludwig’s Fans Are Buying Twitter Blue Just To DM Him
Usually, you play a few hours of a game and you can confidently give your thoughts on it. Not a full review or anything, but you can usually say, “Oh yeah, that’s a good one” or “Nah, pass, it’s awful” or something like that. But not Sonic Frontiers. A few hours in and I’m not sure at all what to think. Who is this…
Source: Kotaku – That New Sonic Game Is A Weird, Lonely Mess (That I Can’t Stop Playing)
Elves, robots, zombies and pirates. Many of today’s internet stars aren’t even human, but outlandish characters that wouldn’t look out of place in a popular anime or manga. Such is the world of virtual YouTubers or “VTubers,” who have gone from a niche technology experiment to a full-blown cultural phenomenon in the…
Source: Kotaku – In the Volatile World Of VTubers, Companies Crash And Burn
