When the day starts to cool and the leaves turn crunchy orange, I’m in the best mood possible. I want to light a cranberry-scented candle, settle into soft blankets, and boot up one of many great autumnal video games—games that take place in autumn months, or have radiant and full fall settings.
Source: Kotaku – 8 Great Video Games That Capture The Best Of The Fall Season
Today, after many months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Nvidia finally officially revealed its next generation of graphics cards, the RTX 4000 series. While new graphics upgrades are welcome—the RTX 3000 series is now over two years old—Nvidia’s decision to charge massive premiums for the new-generation GPUs, as…
Source: Kotaku – Nvidia’s New 4000-Series PC Graphics Cards Are Too Damn Expensive
The latest haul of new releases and ports is on its way to Xbox Game Pass and there’s a bunch of really good stuff. While sci-fi shooter Deathloop finally joins the console service after a year of PS5 exclusivity, 2021’s massive Viking sim hit, Valheim, is also on the way to the PC side. Here’s everything coming for …
Source: Kotaku – Game Pass Nabs One Of Steam’s Biggest Hits
October is slated to be a stacked month in the realm of anime with the return of the popular shonen series Bleach, and the debut of the hotly anticipated devil-killing anime Chainsaw Man. However, it’s not looking like the English voice actor for everyone’s favorite milk-drinking psychic will be reprising his role in…
Source: Kotaku – Mob Psycho 100’s English Voice Actor Probably Isn’t Coming Back Because Of Crunchyroll
Kid-friendly PC MMO Wizard101 was released back in 2008 and for the past 14 years, it has quietly chugged on, successfully staying afloat while many other games have shut down. But recently, this old MMO found itself thrust into the spotlight after a series of bizarre and expletive-filled in-game messages began…
Source: Kotaku – MMO For Kids Shuts Down Temporarily After Hacker Fills It With Nasty Swears
Arkane Studio’s latest game is its biggest yet, with esoteric puzzles, cutthroat combat, and an entire loot system all wrapped around a repeating time loop. And with it now arriving on Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, a lot more people are likely to be leaping in. If you’re one of them and Deathloop seems…
Source: Kotaku – Deathloop Tips: 17 Things To Know Before Playing
A week after big layoffs rocked the network, Kotaku has learned that Xplay host, Indiana “Froskurinn” Black, is no longer with G4. Comcast, G4’s parent company, bought out the remainder of her contract, according to two sources familiar with the business. The news was announced internally by head of the network, Joe…
Source: Kotaku – Xplay Host Frosk Out At G4 A Week After Layoffs
Anime adaptations of video games are entering a renaissance of sorts with the critical success of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane, and Castlevania. Unfortunately, if we flip the process around, the same can’t be said for the latest video game adaptation of the dark fantasy anime Made in Abyss, which leaves a…
Source: Kotaku – A Phenomenal Anime Like Made In Abyss Deserves A Better Video Game Than This
Video games are inescapably intertwined with iteration and do-overs. It’s written into the technology that builds them, the development practices that craft them, and often the very rules governing how they work: win-lose, trial and error. Some games have tried to mask this artifice in the service of more naturalistic…
Source: Kotaku – Deathloop: The Kotaku Review
Kim MacAskill, a writer whose career includes work on upcoming Rocksteady game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was recently nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the nonprofit organization Women in Games. However, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she cannot in good conscience accept the…
Source: Kotaku – Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
Today, EA and Marvel announced that Motive Studio is developing a new, single-player, third-person, action-adventure game starring Iron Man. This confirms earlier rumors that such a game was in early development at Motive, the same studio behind the upcoming Dead Space remake.
Source: Kotaku – Dead Space Studio Is Making An Iron Man Game With Marvel
It turns out a Twitter account called TheRealInsider, the latest in a crop of leakers posing as gaming industry insiders, was actually run by YouTuber Dan Allen Gaming. The account had convinced many in the scene that it was the real deal after accurately teasing which new Assassin’s Creed games would be revealed at…
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber Confesses To Secretly Being Gaming Industry Leaker After Getting Caught
Presumptive GOTY Elden Ring is, in perhaps the least surprising piece of news that I’ll write for this site today, getting a board game adaptation.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Is Being Turned Into A Board Game
Menyr, which pitches itslef as a “story-telling engine”, is a toolbox that lets players create an entire digital world for their role-playing games, from landscapes to settlements, then play through them. Launched on Kickstarter earlier this month, it has already blown past its funding goal.
Source: Kotaku – Menyr Lets You Build A Whole Damn World For Your RPG Campaigns
Back in January of 2021 GameStop’s stock price exploded as Reddit trolls went to war with old-school investors after the latter bet on the company failing. Reddit et al called their bluff, and well, it’s now the stuff of documentary films. Speaking of, Netflix just released a new trailer for its upcoming documentary…
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Stonk Bros Are So Mad About The Netflix Doc Trailer, They’re Rallying To Unsub
After I went down the river last year, I honestly didn’t think I’d be back here reviewing NBA 2K23. What could possibly be left to say, for a series whose relentless pursuit of player’s time and money “sucks the life out of the basketball itself”, and in 2022 just keeps on doing it?
Source: Kotaku – NBA 2K23: The Kotaku Review
Well, one of the biggest video game leaks in history happened over the weekend. I probably don’t need to tell you, but yes, in case you missed it: Early footage of the next Grand Theft Auto, assumed by many to be GTA VI, leaked all over the internet yesterday. Today, Rockstar has commented about the situation, calling…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Details Hiding In The GTA VI Leak
Hey, no judgment if you burn your toast, I still occasionally eat dinosaur chicken nuggies. We don’t all have what it takes in the kitchen, but the life simulation game Disney Dreamlight Valley lets everyone take control of their destiny.
Source: Kotaku – Disney Dreamlight Valley Cooking Guide: 3 Tips To Master Even The Trickiest Recipes
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was supposed to play Hans Niemann, a 19-year old he previously implied was a cheater, in the Champions Chess Tour 2022 today. Instead, he resigned after making just one move, reigniting the embers of a scandal that’s consumed the chess world this month. Now people are calling on him…
Source: Kotaku – Chess Champion Ratchets Up Cheating Drama By Resigning In Just One Move
