The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, aka C2E2, was one of the very last shows we got to feature before the pandemic hit in early 2020, so it’s great being able to welcome the event back into the rotation in 2022 after a couple of years on the sideline.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From C2E2 2022
The first Yakuza game was released all the way back in 2006, and the branding was most recently used in 2020’s Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Across eight main releases and a number of spin-offs, the name became synonymous with sharp suits, hour-long cutscenes and bikes being smashed into dude’s faces, but as Sega gets ready…
Source: Kotaku – The Yakuza Name Is Officially Dead
Apple’s latest operating system update for its mobile devices, iOS 16, introduces a range of new features like fancier lock screens and message editing. In bringing in new things, though, it has inadvertently broken some others, and one of the victims this week has been a whole bunch of rhythm games.
Source: Kotaku – iOS 16 Update Has Broken A Bunch Of Rhythm Games
Today, Activision and Infinity Ward revealed new information about the upcoming shooters Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty Warzone 2. From a new map for Warzone to new modes in MWII, here are some of the biggest and most interesting things we learned from the Call of Duty Next showcase.
Source: Kotaku – The Biggest News From The Call Of Duty Next Showcase
The modern-day world of championship chess isn’t just long games and arcane openings. There’s Twitch drama, robots that break kids’ fingers, and now: anal beads. Last week, World Champion Magnus Carlsen lost to Grandmaster Hans Niemann in a stunning upset. Accusations of cheating began to fill the air. But how would…
Source: Kotaku – The Chess Grandmaster Anal Bead Conspiracy That’s Happening Right Now, Explained
Blizzard just announced that the new (and widely leaked) ninja character Kiriko will be free for all Overwatch 2 players who already own a copy of the original Overwatch. While that seems like cause to celebrate, the controversial, free-to-play sequel’s move to lock access to most future characters behind a battle…
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Gives Overwatch 2 Players Kiriko For Free But Defends Its Battle Pass System
Well, here’s a bit of surprise: The new Resident Evil 4 remake—out next year—is in development for PS4. We knew it was coming to next-gen machines, but now it’s also headed to Sony’s older home console. However, it seems this remake will be skipping the Xbox One, possibly due to a lack of power or sales.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil 4 Remake Launching On PS4, But Not Xbox One
I don’t like thinking about the past. But none of the new video games I play make me feel how the browser games I used to boot up on my parents’ computer and on my friends’ parents’ computers. Those web games, free-to-play, with dangerously, enticingly rotten graphics and stories, had my brain working overtime about…
Source: Kotaku – 8 Forgotten Web Games That’ll Bring You Back To The Weirdest Parts Of The Internet
Today layoffs hit the respected video game and entertainment website Fanbyte, with the site’s editor-in-chief and head of media among the list of staff who are now out of work. According to Fanbyte employees, the layoffs were a total shock, with some reporting that they had just worked with some of the laid-off staff…
Source: Kotaku – Tencent Guts Its Gaming News Site, Firing Staff Without Warning
Forgetting it’s not April Fool’s Day, Riot Games just announced that two-time Grammy award-winning artist Lil Nas X is the president of League of Legends.
Source: Kotaku – Um, Lil Nas X Is Now President Of League Of Legends
If you’ve spent any amount of time sauntering around Splatoon 3’s new hub world of Splatsville, then you’ve undoubtedly seen some of the drippiest fashion known in this city of inky chaos. No joke, the fits are so clean—and so bizarre—that I couldn’t help but chronicle the best of the best. From the ubiquity of school…
Source: Kotaku – The Drippiest Splatoon 3 Players We’ve Seen So Far
Tales fans rejoiced earlier this week when Bandai Namco announced that one of the best entries in the long-running JRPG series would come to Nintendo Switch, and other modern platforms, by way of a remaster. Now they’re having second thoughts. The publisher has since made it clear that the new and improved version…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Blast Tales Of Symphonia Remaster For Being A Downgrade
The creator of Undertale just posted new updates to his new series’ next highly anticipated chapters. Toby Fox said that Deltarune Chapters 3-5 production is well underway, although the new parts of the game won’t be released this year. But he did show the community new music and screenshots. Take a look:
Source: Kotaku – Deltarune Has Cool New Music And Art For Undertale’s Anniversary
Be gentle with me, I’ve been in purgatory. By which I mean, I’ve been playing a lot of Splatoon 3 multiplayer lately, and having unlocked level 10, the ink shooter finally let me glide my way into its quirky ranked modes. Anarchy Battles, as these competitive modes are called, are a good time—if you’re not…
Source: Kotaku – Splatoon 3’s Terrible Online Is Inexcusable At This Point
The ways people judge their video games are many and various, with few agreeing on hard and fast rules for what truly imbues gaming time with value. But surely one of the most controversial is the length of a game. And now, “how long to beat” is a metric Microsoft has just added to its PC version of the Xbox app.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox PC Now Tells You How Long A Game Should Take To Finish, Which Is Tricky
A year after its debut as a PS5-exclusive, the critically-acclaimed blockbuster roguelite Deathloop is finally headed to Xbox Game Pass. The game will be available there starting September 20, and players across all platforms will have reason to celebrate. A major free new content update called Goldenloop goes live…
Source: Kotaku – PS5-Exclusive Deathloop Comes To Game Pass With New Content
In Wayward Strand, out today on PC, Switch, PlayStation and Xbox, you play the role of a teenage girl, stuck visiting the place her mother works. Which happens to be a giant, floating airship moored off the coast of Australia, and which having been decommissioned as a luxury vessel is now serving as a retirement home.
Source: Kotaku – Wayward Strand Is A Beautiful Story About Being Young, And Growing Old
I can’t believe I’ve had to reach this far back into the archives for this, but anyone who was reading the site back in 2008 (!) might remember a game called Rose & Camellia, which was kinda like Punch-Out!, only if everyone was straight out of a Jane Austen novel.
Source: Kotaku – Rose & Camellia, A Game About Ladies Slapping Each Other, Is Getting A Switch Port
Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns and runs Dungeons & Dragons, is taking the publisher behind a new sci-fi RPG to court in an attempt to halt the game’s release. They’re arguing not only does it infringe on D&D’s intellectual property rights, but that it contains “blatantly racist and transphobic content”.
Source: Kotaku – Wizards Of The Coast Go After Space RPG Accused Of ‘Racist And Transphobic Content’
It was only last year that the future of the Judgment series was looking extremely dicey, courtesy of a legal battle over star Takuya Kimura’s likeness. Looks like that’s all been cleared up, though, because both games aren’t just coming to the PC, they’re already here.
Source: Kotaku – Both Judgment Games Are Now Available On PC, You Should Play Them