As Kotaku reported last week, retail giant GameStop has been increasingly stocking its retail stores with weird, random junk instead of, well, video games. Dissatisfied GameStop employees have been grousing online about the massive amounts of toys the warehouses are sending. And as it turns out, customers aren’t even…
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Workers Reveal The Junk They Can’t Sell That’s Piling Up
As Halloween draws near, more and more people are loading up their favorite scary games to enjoy some digital frights. But this isn’t a new tradition. In fact, many of us here at Kotaku have been playing spooky, creepy games since we were old enough to pick up controllers or mash keyboards. And when you are a kid,…
Source: Kotaku – The Games That Scared The Hell Out Of Us As Kids
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 drops on October 28, though if you preordered it, you’ve likely already gotten some through some of the campaign. But ahead of the game’s full release, which will give folks full access to the multiplayer component, some are decrying the game’s skill-based matchmaking (SBMM).
Source: Kotaku – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Fans Can’t Believe They Have To Play In Fair Matches
If you’ve spent any time at all playing the new hit mobile card game Marvel Snap, you’ve probably wondered whether the person on the other side of the virtual board was human or not. And you’re not alone. The game doesn’t make it clear when you’re playing against a real person, and as a result, players are now…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Players Have Bot Paranoia (And They Might Be Right)
Players who received early physical copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II have reported that the discs included contain only about 72MB of data, forcing players to connect to the internet and download the other 100+ GB of data to actually play the game.
Source: Kotaku – Turns Out The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II Disc Is Basically Empty
Marvel Snap, Disney’s NFT psyop that’s quickly destroying my life, has a bluffing mechanic that’s simple but genius. The card battler allows you to “snap,” except instead of deleting half the world, the mechanic immediately doubles the bet on the game you’re playing. Your opponent then has to make a calculation. Do…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel Snap Players Who Snap On The First Turn Are Maniacs (And I’m One Of Them)
Halloween is nearly upon us, my ghouls, gals, and nonbinary pals. To celebrate the goblins of the night, Overwatch 2 will host its annual spooky in-game event, Halloween Terror, through November 8. The event introduces new terrifying skins and a co-op PvE mode, pitting you against hordes of zombie heroes. That’s cool,…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Halloween Event Is Brimming With Secrets, If You Know Where To Look
Hey, punk. You wanna be like the The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl? Okay, maybe let’s not start an argument over who the most powerful Marvel character really is because nobody is coming out of that one alive. We are here to help you hulk out in the best new card battler around, and by the time we’re done, your Marvel Snap…
Source: Kotaku – 20 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Playing Marvel Snap, 2022’s Best New Card Game
Out of the thousands of games I’ve played, a handful have worlds so vivid and memorable, I can immediately call them to mind.The bustling Holy Land of 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, the industrial Midgar of 1997’s Final Fantasy VII (and its solid 2020 remake), the vast Tamriel of 2011’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These…
Source: Kotaku – The Unsettling Power of Dishonored’s Dunwall
Reiko Kodama, one of the most important developers in the history of both Sega and the wider role-playing genre, has died at the age of 59.
Source: Kotaku – Pioneering Sega Developer Reiko Kodama Has Died
Zoo Tycoon has been a management gaming mainstay for over two decades now, and quite frankly I’m shocked and appalled that it has taken this long for someone to be allowed to make a board game about it.
Source: Kotaku – Zoo Tycoon Is Getting A Bright, Cheery Board Game Adaptation
Many of us are living through an inflationary crisis the likes of which haven’t been seen for decades, meaning the price of pretty much everything—from clothes to power to food—has gone through the roof over the last 12 months. Video games are no exception.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Says Xbox Price Increases Are Coming
Right now there’s a Halloween event running for Overwatch 2, but a fair amount of players are facing a different kind of terror: A previously known server error with the code “LC-208” appears to be disproportiantely hitting players after the most recent update.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Players Are Getting Hit With Server Errors Following Latest Update
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II may nail its core gunplay and feature some standout characters across the board, but it also features some of the series’ most questionably awful depictions of violence and military power yet. One level in particular in which tensions rise between civilians and law enforcement stands…
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare II Makes You Aim Your Gun At Civilians To ‘De-Escalate’
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3 for Xbox, and the Halo 2…
Source: Kotaku – The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
Cyberpunk 2077 introduces what at first appears to be a bog standard open world item collection quest in the form of scannable tarot card grafiti littered throughout the city. There isn’t a whole lot of challenge in finding them as the map lays out every single location for you as soon as they appear.
Source: Kotaku – This Cyberpunk 2077 Quest Is A Must-Play If You’ve Watched The Netflix Anime
This Monday, a man with a gun robbed a popular video game store in Seattle, Washington. No one was hurt, though the store owner is worried that the thief might return. He is still currently at large.
Source: Kotaku – Gaming Store Robbed At Gunpoint Months After ,000 Burglary
WB Games president David Haddad announced on Rocksteady’s website today that the video game developer’s co-founders, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, are leaving the studio at the end of 2022. Rocksteady, which created the Batman: Arkham series, is set to release its anticipated pseudo-spin-off, Suicide Squad: Kill the…
Source: Kotaku – Batman Arkham Studio Bosses Out Ahead Of Suicide Squad Release
On October 25 through November 8, Overwatch 2 celebrates its first seasonal event since its debut earlier this month: The 2022 edition of its yearly weeks-long Halloween Terror extravaganza. Like past years, Halloween Terror will honor the holiday with new skins and a Junkenstein’s Revenge themed co-op competition.…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Halloween Event Is A Major Downgrade
