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From Demon’s Souls To Elden Ring: The 9 Scariest FromSoftware Bosses
FromSoftware has a penchant for creating horrifying enemies in its games. Usually either bloodied, deformed, or both, the developer’s grotesque monsters from Demon’s Souls to Elden Ring perfectly lend themselves to nightmare fuel, designs that almost always scare the shit outta me. They’re also perfect Halloween…
Source: Kotaku – From Demon’s Souls To Elden Ring: The 9 Scariest FromSoftware Bosses
Everything We Know About Starfield’s Dialogue And Traits System So Far
Doom publisher Bethesda’s star-spotted, belly-bloated role-playing game Starfield is delayed to 2023, but game director and executive producer Todd Howard shared details of its dialogue and traits system in a Q&A video released this week. Howard says in the video that he considers Starfield to be “hard science…
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Know About Starfield’s Dialogue And Traits System So Far
$1.2 Billion Metaverse Company Boasts It Has A Whopping 8,000 Daily Users
Last week, an NFT founder tweeted that the metaverse company Decentraland only had 30 daily active users, despite its $1.2 billion market valuation. After a cryptocurrency news outlet reported the numbers, this week Decentraland hastily corrected on its blog that its metaverse actually has 8,000 daily active users.…
Source: Kotaku – .2 Billion Metaverse Company Boasts It Has A Whopping 8,000 Daily Users
Elden Ring Gets Massive Combat Overhaul As It Makes Way For DLC
Another major update is shaking up the world of Elden Ring, and this time FromSoftware is calibrating the changes differently depending on whether you’re playing the main game or dunking on strangers in PVP. That addresses a longtime request by fans to balance the two sides of the game separately, and just in time for…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Gets Massive Combat Overhaul As It Makes Way For DLC
Ex-Witcher 3 Devs Are Making A ‘Summer Souls,’ Hard But Cheery Game
Nintendo Switch Price Cheaters Accidentally Rocketed A Game To Mass Audiences
Price tourism, the scummy practice where people spoof their location so as to take advantage of emerging economies in the poorest parts of the world, isn’t exactly looked fondly upon by the games industry. Picking up a full-price game for a buck-fifty by pretending you’re in Brazil both rips off the developers, and…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Switch Price Cheaters Accidentally Rocketed A Game To Mass Audiences
Competitive Overwatch 2 Players Have A Lot Of Complaints
It’s time to reset the clock on Overwatch 2 players finding something to be unhappy about with the rocky launch of Blizzard’s sequel hero shooter. Last time—which is to say, two days ago—players discovered that crossplay automatically deactivated aim assist for console players in matches with PC players, thus ruining…
Source: Kotaku – Competitive Overwatch 2 Players Have A Lot Of Complaints
Fired Smash Bros. Ultimate Tester Will Get $25,000 In Nintendo Union-Busting Settlement
Nintendo, and a former game tester fired earlier this year, have seemingly reached a settlement in a labor dispute that kicked off widespread allegations about bad working conditions at the Mario maker’s U.S. office. Mackenzie Clifton, who worked on games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, will be paid $25,910 as part…
Source: Kotaku – Fired Smash Bros. Ultimate Tester Will Get ,000 In Nintendo Union-Busting Settlement
Steam Finally Has A Modern Phone App
While the main Steam application itself has got better over the years, it’s still pretty easy to look at Valve’s approach to store and platform design, look at competitors like Google and Apple and see how everything feels a little quaint. Steam’s mobile app was one of the main offenders in this regard, so it’s great…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Finally Has A Modern Phone App
New Activision Lawsuit Makes Revenge Porn, Sexual Harassment Allegations
Over a year after the first reports and government investigations into the company began, publisher Activision Blizzard is facing fresh lawsuits over what is described in this latest case as a “pervasive ‘frat-boy’ workplace culture that is a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women”.
Source: Kotaku – New Activision Lawsuit Makes Revenge Porn, Sexual Harassment Allegations
A 20-Second Simpsons Joke Is Now A Fully-Fledged Game
Back in the ‘90s, when The Simpsons was one of the best shows on TV, the world was gifted a theatrical bomb known as Waterworld. This post-apocalyptic action film starring Kevin Costner cost a lot of money to make and was an infamous dud. So naturally, The Simpsons made a joke about it. And now that joke has become a…
Source: Kotaku – A 20-Second Simpsons Joke Is Now A Fully-Fledged Game
Cyberpunk 2077 Tips To Break Hearts, Romance Everyone After All The Updates
Are you sick of wandering the streets of Night City alone, with only the sights and sounds of gratuitously over-sexualized advertisements to keep you company? Has someone caught your eye? Someone you’d like to be more than just chooms with? Even if you’ve ventured into Night City before, it’s worth jumping back in for…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Tips To Break Hearts, Romance Everyone After All The Updates
Science Has Wrought A Lab-Grown Gamer Brain That Plays Pong
No, you didn’t accidentally click on the webpage of our sister site, The Onion. A scientist really grew a brain in a lab and, unfortunately, it’s a gamer.
Source: Kotaku – Science Has Wrought A Lab-Grown Gamer Brain That Plays Pong
A Bunch Of Great Assassin's Creed Games Flood PS Plus This Month
Sony’s revamped PS Plus service is getting bigger and better every month, and October opens the sluice gates on a torrent of great games. There’s Assassin’s Creed III and Syndicate, yes, but also a ton of Dragon Quest games, the recent remaster of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and even former Xbox Series X/S exclusive, …
Source: Kotaku – A Bunch Of Great Assassin’s Creed Games Flood PS Plus This Month
New Interview With The Vampire Show Encourages Fanfic, Anne Rice's Spirit Likely Furious
In a stunning twist of irony, the official Interview with the Vampire account, associated with the new AMC TV series, just revealed a collaboration with a mobile app that empowers fans to “write your own vampire stories” featuring the show’s memorable characters. Which is absolutely incredible. Anne Rice, who wrote…
Source: Kotaku – New Interview With The Vampire Show Encourages Fanfic, Anne Rice’s Spirit Likely Furious
Valve Might Soon Start Selling Steam Deck Boot Videos
Data miner and SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik has found solid evidence that Valve is planning to introduce Steam Deck startup movies, brief videos triggered by turning on your Steam Deck, to the Steam Points Shop.
Source: Kotaku – Valve Might Soon Start Selling Steam Deck Boot Videos
No Man’s Sky’s Billionaires Just Got Rocked By A Galaxy-Wide Market Crash
At the start of last week, Activated Indium farming was one of the simplest ways to make big money in No Man’s Sky. Players would find a deposit, plop down a ton of drills, and surround it with storage containers. The sci-fi ore poured in. All they had to do was exchange it at a terminal for nearly 1,000 units a…
Source: Kotaku – No Man’s Sky’s Billionaires Just Got Rocked By A Galaxy-Wide Market Crash
The Rock Gets Fortnite Skin For Movie In The Works For 15 Years
DC’s latest comic book blockbuster, Black Adam starring Dwanye “The Rock” Johnson, is coming out next week. So it’s not surprising that the character is also headed to Fortnite soon as part of the game’s next pop culture crossover. But it took a long time to get here, as The Rock has been attached to the Black Adam …
Source: Kotaku – The Rock Gets Fortnite Skin For Movie In The Works For 15 Years
Cyberpunk 2077 Mod Lets You Experience Your Brain On Cyberpsychosis, Just Like The Netflix Anime
Wake the f@#^ up, Samurai. There’s a new mod in Cyberpunk 2077 that lets you experience the meteoric rise and fall of going full cyberpsycho, just as depicted in one of your favorite Japanese anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Mod Lets You Experience Your Brain On Cyberpsychosis, Just Like The Netflix Anime