Earlier this week, former employees of gaming content empire Rooster Teeth accused the company of underpaying them, overworking them, and using racist and homophobic language against them, among many other things. Now, Rooster Teeth addresses the allegations with a declaration that it would be cutting down on content……
Source: Kotaku – Rooster Teeth Will Limit Its Content After Wave Of ‘Hateful, Harmful’ Allegations
Riley & Rochelle marks the zenith of a concept Sheinman Games has been working on for three years. A period of recent music history is chosen, imagined bands and singers are created, songs written and performed, and then your task as the player is to piece together scattered information into some sort of order.…
Source: Kotaku – The Ultimate Game To Hit Your ’90s Music Nostalgia
Destiny 2’s annual spooky loot event is back and it’s a mess. Festival of the Lost went live yesterday riddled with issues from a bug that blocked quest progress to players being saddled with old, obsolete loot. It was not good, especially for an event that is mostly unchanged from the year prior, despite now sporting…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2’s Halloween Event Is On Fire
In the wake of Google Stadia’s recently announced, entirely inevitable collapse, launching a new streamed gaming service might seem a little brave. But then, if you’re Netflix, you’ve certainly at least got some of the infrastructure in place. The streaming giant has made clear its intentions to leap into this space.…
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Announces Game Streaming Plans Three Weeks After Google’s Attempt Blows Up
After what feels like years of hype and trailers, the next entry in the God of War franchise finally arrives on November 9. And ahead of God of War Ragnarok’s launch on PS4 and PS5 next month, I’ve been playing the game for review. And while I can’t talk about everything, I can share some early impressions of the…
Source: Kotaku – God Of War Ragnarok’s First Four Hours Are Rock Solid
Back in July, a group of 21 quality assurance workers at Activision’s Albany studio—formerly known as Vicarious Visions—announced their intentions to unionise. Today, the National Labor Relations Board have confirmed that their vote can go ahead.
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Testers Win Case, Can Now Vote On Forming A Union
Golden State Warriors guard—and I’ll get this out of the way now, my favourite player currently in the NBA—Klay Thompson was watching ESPN the other day, and did not like what he saw.
Source: Kotaku – NBA Star Klay Thompson Calls NBA 2K’s Marketing Guy A ‘Clown’
During today’s Sims Summit EA showed a glimpse of an upcoming update that seems to give infants far more autonomy. During the event’s “one more thing” moment, a few brief seconds were dedicated to showing off a crawling infant who’s quickly picked up by their mother. Family life just got a little more hectic.
Source: Kotaku – Sims 4 Update Will Make Babies Actual People, Not Objects
If you’ve held off on building up a digital library of games, the original Red Dead Redemption is here to remind you that you might not be missing out after all. Rockstar’s 2010 open world Western was just removed from PS Now/Plus after six years. And as the industry moves to include more subscription and streaming…
Source: Kotaku – Red Dead Redemption’s PS Plus Delisting Is Another Bad Omen For Digital Libraries
Do you live surrounded by Pokémon cards, perhaps in piles on every surface in your house, abandoned either by you or your kids? Have you ever thought, “Hang on, aren’t these meant to be used for something other than being disappointed they’re not Charizards?” Yes, me too. So I became determined to figure out how to…
Source: Kotaku – Getting Into The Pokémon Trading Card Game Is Way Easier Than You Think
Amid fervor for news on The Sims 5 at today’s Sims Summit event, The Sims 4 team announced it would create a new hub for custom content in its current-generation game.
Source: Kotaku – The Sims 4 Modding Is About To Become Easier
In the two weeks Overwatch 2 has been live—yes, it’s only been two weeks— players have become so disappointed with the hero shooter’s free-to-play grind and battle pass system that they’re longing for the days when the original game had loot boxes.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Free-To-Play Grind And Battle Pass System Has Players Wanting Loot Boxes Back
Often, when I’m walking through Brooklyn, the sweating black garbage bags on the sidewalk start moving. There’s a pattering sound coming through the plastic. Then a fat pink tail or a snout pops out, or there’s a flash of matted, greasy gray fur and I yelp with recognition: it’s a fucking rat.
Source: Kotaku – A Plague Tale: Requiem’s Rats Rule, But The Bugs Are Less Welcome
Crysis: Remastered arrived on Steam last year, but the rest of the trilogy has remained on the Epic Games Store for PC players. Those of us wanting to smash up some aliens in a nanosuit while keeping to the Valve storefront won’t have to wait much longer. The remaining remastered sequels will hit Steam on November 17.
Source: Kotaku – The Rest Of The Crysis Remastered Trilogy Is Hitting Steam Soon
The first season of Overwatch 2 is underway, and if you can pull yourself away from all the drama, the clock is ticking on hitting all of your season challenges. While dailies and weeklies reset at their appropriate times, season-based challenges only come around once, so you don’t want to sleep on them.
Source: Kotaku – Divide And Conquer: How To Efficiently Tackle Overwatch 2’s Season 1 Challenges
Today’s Sims Summit event announced what everyone was hoping for: the next generation of The Sims.
Source: Kotaku – The Next Generation Of The Sims Is Coming—Eventually
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we updated our guide to the best Halloween games on Game Pass, so naturally Xbox has gone and made it all out of date by announcing a slew of spoopy titles its add to the subscription service. With names like Amnesia and Soma, get ready for the top-level jibblies. Oh, and A…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Is A Huge Treat For Horror Fans This Month
Activision hosted a Call of Duty tournament this weekend, and the top competitive player was noticeably absent from the lineup. In a now-deleted tweet, Doug “Censor” Martin revealed that the publisher had banned him for competing in Fortune’s Keep, citing that he had “harassed [Nadia Amine].” The ruling likely refers…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Bans Top Call of Duty Twitch Streamer From 0,000 Tourney Over Marriage Prank
What would you do for a tasteful Markiplier nude? Would you listen to the YouTuber’s two podcasts so hard that they skyrocketed to the top charts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify? What if doing so prompted the hunk of a YouTuber to make an OnlyFans to post such tasteful nudes? These questions are at the heart of the…
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber Markiplier’s Fans Are Thirsting To Make An OnlyFans Happen
In 2015, Microsoft revealed the Elite Series Xbox controller, a premium gamepad for players who can recount their Call of Duty kill/death ratio faster than their Social Security number. An entire console generation later and Sony’s now getting in the game too with the DualSense Edge, a souped up PlayStation 5…
Source: Kotaku – The New PS5, Xbox Custom Controllers Will Have You Breaking The Bank