HoYoverse has always struggled to satisfy its hardcore Genshin Impact audience, but the tension came to a boil when the studio confirmed on October 1 that it will not add more endgame content. The endgame dungeon Spiral Abyss will remain the only way players can test their most competitive compositions. And a lot of…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Devs Won’t Be Adding More Endgame Content And Players Are Pissed
Cyberpunk 2077’s been having a bit of a renaissance lately. The hit Netflix spinoff anime Edgerunners, which fellow Kotaku staff writer Isaiah Colbert described as “Studio Trigger at its finest,” has pulled people into the dark and gritty world of this game once more. Add to that a number of patches and improvements…
Source: Kotaku – 13 Things I Wish I Knew Before (Re)Starting Cyberpunk 2077
On Tuesday evening, The Wall Street Journal published a high-level overview of a report produced by Chess.com, all about Hans Niemann, the player suspected of cheating at the Sinquefield Cup against reigning five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. (Possibly, the internet has repeatedly joked, with the help of…
Source: Kotaku – Leading Chess Site Asked Top 100 Player Unmasked As Cheater To Confess (And They Did)
If you’ve been having trouble getting into Overwatch 2 on launch, you’re not alone. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra announced on Twitter that the Overwatch 2 servers are currently undergoing a “mass” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This is likely the main culprit for the connection issues plaguing anyone…
Source: Kotaku – You Can’t Play Overwatch 2 Right Now Because It’s Under Attack
Hans Niemann, who sparked the internet’s favorite anal bead meme last month after beating chess world champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning upset, is now accused of cheating in over 100 online matches, according to a new unprecedented 72-page report by Chess.com. The world’s most popular website for online chess…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Chess Grandmaster From Anal Bead Conspiracy Accused Of Cheating In Over 100 Games
The spooky season is upon us and a lowkey stacked October for Xbox Game Pass is bringing the rat kings, H. R. Giger body horror, and twee trick-or-treating to celebrate. Whether you just want to go medieval against online strangers in Chivalry 2 or bask in the striking beauty of A Plague Tale: Requiem’s beautifully…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Is Surprisingly Loaded This Month
Sorry, the old Overwatch can’t come to the phone right now. She’s dead. Today, October 4 at 3 p.m. EST, Overwatch 2 will come to replace her, and the sun has long set on days of 6v6 and free-range characters not cloistered behind a battle pass.
Source: Kotaku – Be Prepared For These 7 Big Overwatch 2 Gameplay Changes
Context is important. What happens in the lead-up to events provides insight into how and why they unfold as they do. But what if the context doesn’t come ‘til later? And what if there was zero warning for the traumatic event you were about to experience in a game? Questions like these, the line between artistic…
Source: Kotaku – Hyped VR Game’s Harrowing ‘Noose’ Sequence Ignites Debate Over Trigger Warnings
I recently found out about a rejected pitch for a Zelda game inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics, and I find myself mourning for what could have been. Heroes of Hyrule was conceptualized as a DS game that combined tactical combat with puzzle-based exploration. Unfortunately, Nintendo scrapped Retro Studios’ idea before…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s A Canceled Zelda Tactics Game You Probably Don’t Know About
Today, Nintendo revealed a first look at the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie ahead of its official trailer release coming this week at New York Comic Con, and it’s glorious, save for the disenchanting washboard ass of its titular character, Mario.
Source: Kotaku – Tragic: Nobody Can Find Mario’s Ass In Our First Look At The Nintendo Movie
We recently celebrated the extraordinary Pokémon TCG card art of Yuka Morii, and her immaculate clay models photographed in nature. But it would be remiss to stop there, and while pretty much every artist working on the cards deserves recognition, our attention is next drawn to Asako Ito and her 3D crochet Pokémon.…
Source: Kotaku – Time For A New Obsession: Official Pokémon Cards With Only Crochet Art
Cyberpunk 2077‘s controversial history doesn’t seem to have dampened CD Projekt Red’s ambitions at all. The Polish studio announced a sequel is coming at some point, currently codenamed Project Orion. It also has three Witcher projects in the works, including an entire sequel trilogy planned to follow up on the…
Source: Kotaku – CDPR Planning A Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel And A Whole New Witcher Trilogy
YouTuber Summoning Salt’s videos on the history of speedrunning are some of the most popular in the hobby’s space and beyond, and now one of them has fallen prey to the Google platform’s notoriously confusing and opaque moderation process. “This video may be inappropriate for some users,” reads a warning before his …
Source: Kotaku – YouTube Declares Mega Man 2 Documentary Too Sexy For Kids
The Resident Evil series is arguably the most successful and popular video game horror franchise of all time. It’s spawned more movies, spin-offs, and comics than I can count, and has easily cemented itself in mainstream pop culture as “those zombie games with dogs.” But not all Resident Evil games are amazing. So the…
Source: Kotaku – The Resident Evil Games That Keep Us Up At Night, Ranked From Worst To Best
A British media conglomerate, Sky, has just made a complete ass of itself on Twitter, after attempting to hang wiv da cool kidz while promoting its new partnership with David Beckham’s eSports company, Guild. Asking followers of the [checks notes] technical support account to tweet a screenshot of their “favourite…
Source: Kotaku – TV Network Ripped Online After Calling Classic Sega Game ‘Indie’
If you thought last month’s chess grandmaster anal bead conspiracy saga was the worst thing that could happen to a competitive sporting event, I’ve got some bad news for you. The rollicking world of competitive sports fishing now has an oh-fish-ial controversy of its own after competitors at a tournament in Ohio were…
Source: Kotaku – ‘Call The Cops!’ Fishing Competition Turns Into Frenzy After Cheater Caught Stuffing Fish
An admin on the official Discord servers for Kinetic Games’ extremely popular indie horror game Phasmophobia was recently removed after a Twitter user issued a public condemnation of the studio for not keeping its community safe from sexual harassment and racism.
Source: Kotaku – Phasmophobia Dev Kicks Alleged Racist, ‘Sex Pest’ Admin From Its Official Discord Server
I am now convinced that “female Call of Duty streamer” is the hardest job in the world. Nadia Amine is one of the fastest growing Call of Duty: Warzone streamers on Twitch, and there’s been a ton of controversy on social media about her meteoric rise. If you search her name on YouTube or Tiktok, the videos are filled…
Source: Kotaku – The Entire Call Of Duty Community Just Got Punked
I love almost everything about the Shovel Knight games. The retro-inspiration, bespoke pixel art animations, and pitch-perfect platforming—they are perfectly calibrated to make me go, “Yes, YES, more please!” Not so with Shovel Knight Dig, unfortunately. It’s the first release in Yacht Club’s lineup to leave me…
Source: Kotaku – Dig Is My Least Favorite Shovel Knight Game Yet
