At first glance, the news revealed in today’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trailer seemed just lovely: You can now have a picnic with your Pokémon! But then, it turned out, everything is wrong there. Because unless the Pokémon world has been hiding pigs from us, these people are eating the Lechonks…and maybe even their…
Source: Kotaku – Oh God, Are They Eating Lechonk In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet?!
Ubisoft’s chief creative officer, Igor Manceau, will step down next month after only a year in that position at the troubled Assassin’s Creed publisher, the company announced internally on Thursday. According to a message to staff from CEO Yves Guillemot, the move comes as part of a larger change in how some of the…
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft Chief Creative Officer Departing After Only One Year
Another year, another busted version of Skyrim. After being on the market for over a decade, Bethesda’s game that never dies just saw its Anniversary Edition update hit Nintendo Switch. (This edition, which hit other platforms last year, includes a new fishing mini-game along with other exclusive content.) You can…
Source: Kotaku – Apparently The Skyrim Anniversary Edition On Switch Runs Like Crap
Babylon’s Fall is one of the worst games of the year and a massive warning to anyone preparing to make or buy an always-online live service game. Despite bold plans for season content and continued updates, publisher Square Enix announced last month the action-RPGwould be removed from store shelves and shut down…
Source: Kotaku – CEO ‘Extremely Sorry’ About Shutting Down PS5’s Worst Game
It’s a sad time for titty lovers everywhere. Last week, the publisher of Hot Tentacles Shooter announced on Twitter that the game will no longer be available on the Nintendo Switch, because Nintendo no longer allows “uncensored boobs” on its consoles.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Won’t Allow Topless Women On The Switch Anymore
Sometimes you really don’t need more than a headline. But as we were watching the new 14-minute trailer for Pokémon Scarlet And Violet this morning, among the news of Terastalizing creatures and Far Cry-like base battling, one thing stood out to us above all else: You can give your Pokémon a bath.
Source: Kotaku – You Can Give Your Stinky Pokémon A Bath In Scarlet And Violet
Even by the loose standards of video game marketing, calling Far Cry 6 one of 2021’s games of the year was a stretch. But Ubisoft went ahead and did it anyway. It didn’t stop there, either. The French publisher will also be charging $120 for this spruced-up release of its 2021 sequel. That’s the price of two GOTYs,…
Source: Kotaku – Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition Will Somehow Cost 0 Despite Getting Almost No Awards
As November 18 slowly crawls toward us, Nintendo is increasingly raising the hype for the first all-new mainline game in three years. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet received their latest enormous 14-minute trailer today, and you can see the whole thing right below.
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things We Saw In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s Epic 14-Minute New Trailer
The PlayStation Stars program, Sony’s revamped reward system for players, is out in the wild starting today. It’s also just about as confusing as you might expect from the company that brought you nine different editions of Horizon Forbidden West and made PlayStation Plus into a confusing, multi-tiered service. Here’s…
Source: Kotaku – PS5’s Confusing New Discount Program: What You Need To Know To Save Money
Two days after Chess.com released a 72-page report detailing Grandmaster Hans Niemann’s repeated history of online cheating on its website, the beleaguered pro is now, much to everyone’s surprise, competing in 2022’s U.S. Chess Championship. And while the internet has cracked plenty of jokes about how, exactly,…
Source: Kotaku – Chess Pro Accused Of Cheating Defiant After Competing In Tourney With Extra Security
It’s time once again for Steam Next Fest, a one-week period in which Valve’s gaming storefront becomes flooded with tantalizing demos for promising upcoming games. One major takeaway from this year’s event is that, yes, there are indeed a hell of a lot of awesome games on the horizon. And the best part? You can play…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Steam Demos To Check Out During Next Fest
If you weren’t able to log in and play Blizzard’s highly anticipated hero shooter sorta-sequel, Overwatch 2, you weren’t the only one. After months of developer updates the free-to-play game’s launch day was met with not just one, but two DDoS attacks, forcing players to suffer through ungodly-long queues only to be…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Was Barely Playable Last Night, But At Least The Memes Were Dank
Fans of Electronic Arts racing series Need for Speed might not have to wait long for the next game because new leaked images show its upcoming game hit the internet, and y’all it’s looking anime AF.
Source: Kotaku – Leaked Images For The New Need For Speed Game Look Anime AF
It’s been over a month since Madden NFL 23 launched and was promptly dragged by fans and some NFL pros alike. Unfortunately, despite some updates, it doesn’t sound like the “most polished version” of Madden in years has improved a ton, and a few players are starting to give up hope.
Source: Kotaku – Madden 23 Problems Push Fans To The Breaking Point
“It feels like being punished for being poor,” Overwatch player Richard Meunster told Kotaku over email. Along with 19 million other people, Richard and his brother both use Cricket Wireless, one of the prepaid phone services that Overwatch 2 will not accept for its newly instated, mandatory two-factor authentication…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Phone Requirement: ‘It’s Like Being Punished For Being Poor’
The news of Happy Meals for adults seemed like a neat little publicity stunt for McDonald’s, and fun story for everyone to chortle along with. Cactus Plant Flea Market-style four-eyed toys of the old McDonald’s characters, in a box for the grown ups, seems a certainty for viral success. However, it turns out it’s…
Source: Kotaku – McDonalds Workers Are Begging People To Stop Ordering Adult Happy Meals
Elden Ring has an official free-to-read manga. It’s a comedy, something totally unexpected and truly nothing like the game itself despite some characters fitting their roles to a T. And now, after a new set of chapters has dropped for a limited time, I can confidently say that Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree is…
Source: Kotaku – Now Is A Great Time To Jump Into The Hilarious Elden Ring Manga
Matthew Judge, or Twitch streamer and YouTube creator DarkViperAU, has been working on his “pacifist run” of GTA V for three years. You might know “pacifism” as abhorring all violence, but pacifist video game runs have a more Machiavellian approach to world peace: It’s okay to kill, as long as the killing is a…
Source: Kotaku – You Can Only Complete GTA V If You Kill At Least 96 People
When Pokémon Go added Cosmog at the start of its latest quarterly season, the Season of Light, it was (of course) done in the most confusing manner possible. This fan-favorite pocket monster was finally part of the mobile game but in a form that apparently couldn’t evolve. Well, starting today, with the launch of the…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Go’s New Event Finally Lets You Evolve Cosmog
More than five years after its release, the Nintendo Switch is still dutifully chugging along, and still without the long-rumored Switch Pro. Compared to its supercomputer competitors, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Sony’s PlayStation 5, it’s by no means the most powerful place to play games today. But it’s still the…
Source: Kotaku – The 18 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch