Yesterday, the developers of Genshin Impact posted the latest edition of the RPG’s online newsletter, which usually details fun statistics about the behaviors and experiences of its massive playerbase. Usually, they’re fun facts such as the number of times players have drowned, or the number of players who have maxed…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Devs Reveal Which Boss Has Beaten The Most Players
Haven’t you always wanted to play a card game featuring Kirby’s Chef Kawasaki wearing a series of microscopic bikinis? Me neither, but for a brief shining window this month, you theoretically could thanks to a Japanese fan creating an M-rated card game that delivered exactly that. But that’s all in the past as Kirby…
Source: Kotaku – Lewd Card Game Gets Shut Down By Kirby Studio
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 completed its beta testing on September 26, and, despite a few hiccups, Kick-Ass actress Chloë Grace Moretz (and, presumably, other people) want to know what to play while waiting for the full game’s release on October 28.
Source: Kotaku – 14 Shooters To Play While Waiting On Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
An image found on the backend of the Xbox online store seems to reveal that Ubisoft is gearing up to launch a “Game Of The Year Upgrade Pass” for Far Cry 6. That’s…fine, I guess, but it raises the question: Which site out there thought it was the best game of 2021 and awarded it such an accolade?
Source: Kotaku – Far Cry 6 May Be Getting A GOTY Edition Despite Getting Almost No Awards
At its highest levels, chess is a male-dominated activity. There are currently only 39 women who hold the International Chess Federation (FIDE)’s highest title of Grandmaster, compared to over a thousand male Grandmasters. Even “Woman Grandmaster,” a sort of consolation prize title from FIDE that requires a 2,300…
Source: Kotaku – Chess Grandmaster Loses Job After Making Sexist Comments At Women’s Tournament
Pokémon TCG fansite PokéBeach has secured quite the find. It’s an internal video from The Pokémon Company that shows, in never-before-seen detail, exactly how a Western Pokémon card is created, from their initial design to proofing and printing. And if you love those factory shots of items getting mass produced,…
Source: Kotaku – This Is The First Time Anyone’s Fully Seen How Pokémon Cards Are Made (And Damn Is It Satisfying)
Ubisoft faces another massive delay. Earlier this year it was Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Now it’s Skull and Bones, the Assassin’s Creed publisher’s only major fall blockbuster. Previously set to come out in November, two sources familiar with the game’s development now tell Kotaku it’s been delayed again. Ubisoft…
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Big 2022 Pirate Blockbuster Delayed Yet Again
There have been a fair number of complaints about Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder, but for the most part I’ve been having a blast. So it’s a major bummer that one of the main reasons to play right now appears bugged for the second week in a row. An upgrade that’s key to overcoming Destiny’s terrible crafting system…
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Biggest Reasons To Play Destiny 2 Right Now Is Bugged
Dragon Age is an immensely popular fantasy roleplaying series that has spawned several main entries, spin-off games, novels, comics books, a tabletop game, an animated film, and a web series. Yet the first entry in the series was relatively modest: Origins is a single-player game with a main story campaign that…
Source: Kotaku – I Played 1,167 Hours Of Dragon Age: Origins And Lived
Honestly, you need to grow up. It’s a worm! The latest Pokémon to be revealed for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a wiggly worm called Wiglett, and clearly related to that base set favorite, Diglett.
Source: Kotaku – Brand New Scarlet & Violet Pokémon Revealed, And It’s A Floppy One
I don’t know much about the Gundam franchise beyond a few memories of the older shows when they aired on Toonami back in the day. Young Zack liked the big mech battles. And in 2022, I still like big mechs. I also like team-based shooters. So lucky me, Gundam Evolution mashes together the famous mechs from the Gundam …
Source: Kotaku – New Gundam Game Is Basically Just Overwatch With Giant Mechs
Not gonna lie: I think weapon durability sucks. For all its supposed realism, I find the mechanic cumbersome and needlessly complicating. So you can imagine I haven’t been too keen to hear that Dambuster Studios just made extensive comments defending the mechanic’s presence in its upcoming Dead Island 2, saying it…
Source: Kotaku – Sorry Y’all, Dead Island 2 Weapon Breaking Isn’t Going Anywhere
Though it’s not expected until next year, this week we got an even closer look at the upcoming HBO TV adaptation of the PlayStation 3 megahit, The Last of Us. Previous glimpses of the show revealed some stunning parity to the source material, and the first teaser trailer shows even more synergy with the game’s set…
Source: Kotaku – HBO’s The Last Of Us Trailer: 11 Things That Caught Our Eye
With Overwatch 2’s launch just a week away, Blizzard spilled more details about what will be different in the free-to-play sequel, and it’s sounding rough. While returning players will have access to all of the game’s returning heroes, brand new players will have to play approximately 100 matches to unlock them all. A…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Is Sounding More And More Like A Free-To-Play Nightmare
If you were hoping for more Madden 23 content as part of the game’s weekly schedule, you might be waiting a little longer. With Florida currently experiencing horrid complications due to the rapidly approaching Hurricane Ian, developer EA Tiburon announced that this week’s Madden drops are “subject to change.”
Source: Kotaku – Madden’s Regular Weekly Content Might Be Delayed By Hurricane Ian
It’s not often that a rapper goes to bat for a video game developer after a disgruntled fan base enacts gross harassment, but not all rappers are built like T-Pain.
Source: Kotaku – T-Pain Tells Awful Apex Legends Players To Touch Grass, Stop Harassing Developers
Warner Bros. just released a new trailer to tell you how beautiful Gotham Knights will be on your PC, as if to reassure everyone that this time, it’s getting the PC version right. Back in 2015, the publisher’s PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight was so famously bad that it pulled the game from Steam until it could…
Source: Kotaku – Warner Bros. Really Wants You To Know That Gotham Knights Will Look Great On PC
Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Fall Guys, has unleashed another “F” into the world by adding an NFT-based video game to its online store: Fuck, are we still doing this crypto-baby thing?
Source: Kotaku – The First NFT-Based Game Out On The Epic Games Store Looks As Awful As You’re Expecting
Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been one of the messiest in recent history. Praised in many initial reviews on PC, so broken on last-gen consoles it was pulled from the PlayStation Store, and then saddled with post-launch delays as players waited for promised fixes and new content. Now, nearly two years later, the…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Dev On The Million-Player Revival: ‘It’s F****** Good To Be Back’
