Look, I can’t break new ground on “the gamer chair.” They are familiar: hulking, pricey, and often garish declarations of Fortnite prowess, padded with locks of Ninja’s blue hair (may we remember it fondly) for good luck. To accept the gamer chair is to accept the implication of Dorito dust. To know the gamer chair is…
Source: Kotaku – Secretlab’s Fortnite Battle Bus Chair Is Comfy, If A Little Big
Ubisoft didn’t give us a ton to chew on when it unveiled Assassin’s Creed Red, which will follow next year’s Mirage in the long-running historical fiction series, beyond the fact that it’s set in Japan. However, that hasn’t stopped AC fans from making comparisons to Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch’s 2020 open-world…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s Hoping Assassin’s Creed Red Learns From What Ghost Of Tsushima Did Wrong
One Piece fans are always dying to tell you, a person who’s yet to read creator Eiichiro Oda’s 25-year-old seafaring epic, that the manga is a work of art. Now that sentiment has become reality in the most ridiculous way possible: An artist has compiled all the 21,450 pages of One Piece that currently exist into a…
Source: Kotaku – One Piece Gets Every Volume Merged Into One Long, 21,450 Page…Piece
In the real world, everything runs on Dunkin. In Diablo Immortal, it’s powered by orbs. Eternal Orbs, to be precise. And players are once again reckoning with the mobile action-RPG’s microtransaction economy after Blizzard announced that players who’d purchased hundreds of thousands of illicit orbs from third-party…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo Immortal Community Faces New Unrest Over Ill-Gotten Orbs, Lack Of Bans
For as long as 343 Industries has existed, Bonnie Ross has been in charge of it. No longer. The Microsoft veteran announced on Monday that she would leave the studio in charge of Halo Infinite to deal with a family medical issue. It’s the latest high-profile departure on a pivotal Xbox game that continues to face big…
Source: Kotaku – Head Of Halo Infinite Studio Is The Latest To Leave
Disney’s big fan expo last weekend had an entire gaming block in which the entertainment company revealed the first trailer for a new Marvel game. But that was just the first glimpse. Later on, D23 also held a chat between Skydance developers Amy Hennig and Marc Bernardin, who, while vague about the particulars of…
Source: Kotaku – Marvel’s Captain America X Black Panther Game: 4 New Things We Just Learned
It’s always worth rooting around down the side of the bed, or in the drawers, when you stay in a hotel room. Who knows what exciting items may have been forgotten by the previous guest? Like, for instance, a top-secret Oculus VR headset. That’s what happened to hotel worker Ramiro Cardenas, who claims to have …
Source: Kotaku – Meta’s Hyped VR Headset May Have Been Leaked By Guy In A Hotel
There’s going to be a Nintendo Direct on Tuesday morning, September 13th, at10 a.m. ET, Nintendo has just announced. It’s going to be a big one, too, with an estimated clock time of 40 minutes. We’re hoping we’ll get to hear about some of the bigger games Nintendo has been silent on for a while, especially with the…
Source: Kotaku – Next Big Nintendo Direct Won’t Be Broadcast Everywhere To Mourn The Queen
Splatoon 3 hasn’t just climbed to the top of the charts, it’s absolutely demolishing them, at least in Japan. Nintendo announced the latest sequel in its party shooter series has already sold over 3 million copies in just three days there, making Splatoon 3‘s launch bigger than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, …
Source: Kotaku – Everyone Cares About Splatoon 3 More Than You Think
On September 10, 2002, publishers Electronic Arts and a relatively unknown developed called DICE released a multiplayer shooter called Battlefield 1942. In the 20 years since everyone involved has been on one hell of a ride.
Source: Kotaku – The Battlefield Series Is Now 20 Years Old
Disney had a big event last week that, I’ll be honest, I let wash over me because announcements like Avatar games and Alien games that aren’t an Isolation sequel aren’t really for me. One thing they didn’t really cover, though, and which I wish they had done in a lot more detail, was the excellent news that classic …
Source: Kotaku – 1995 Gargoyles Game Is Getting A Remaster
Today Ubisoft showed off a wide variety of upcoming and currently available titles from the French publisher. With Ubisoft Forward, there were some fun titles like Mario + Rabbids and Just Dance, a bunch of stuff for The Division franchise, some hints at a partnership with Netflix, and a lot of Assassin’s Creed. Did I…
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Saw At Ubisoft’s Big Event Today
I am sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an advertisement for Ubisoft right now, but do you want to know the wildest thing about it all? That’s not even everything that the French company announced recently in the world of Assassin’s Creed during its big Ubisoft Forward event. There was so much Assassin’s…
Source: Kotaku – There’s So Much Assassin’s Creed Happening Now That It’s Almost Hard To Keep Up
It felt like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla might never end. Long after the seas had swallowed the continents and the stars had gone out, Eivor would still be finding new settlements to pillage and new cosmetics to play around with. But today Ubisoft announced the almost unthinkable: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has an end…
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Is Actually Ending, And The DLC Will Be Free
Assassin’s Creed is getting a whole lot bigger with Infinity, a new live-service project Ubisoft announced today during its Forward presentation. Infinity aims to connect several different games together while introducing ongoing content updates that will roll out even more settings and timelines over its lifetime.
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Infinity Announced, A Hub That Will Somehow Connect Games Together
It’s finally happening: Assassin’s Creed is going to Japan. After a series of earlier reports and leaks, Ubisoft finally made the news official during Saturday’s 2022 gaming showcase.
Source: Kotaku – After Years Of Anticipation, Assassin’s Creed Is Finally Going To Japan
Netflix seems determined to make its name in the gaming space. During Saturday’s Ubisoft Forward showcase, where the French company is highlighting its latest and greatest, the streaming giant came onstage to announce a new partnership that will see the release of three exclusive mobile games. Beyond a new Assassin’s…
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Is Teaming Up With Ubisoft For Three Exclusive Games, Including A New Assassin’s Creed
During today’s Ubisoft Forward livestream, the company finally peeled back some of the layers to Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the “back-to-basics” stealth-action game that leaked late last month before getting confirmed as real.
Source: Kotaku – Assassin’s Creed Is Back After Two Years Away, See It In Action In First Trailer
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope finally gets the deep dive fans have been waiting for ahead of its October 20 launch. The turn-based strategy formula is back, but with a bevy of new sci-fi tricks up its sleeves, and it’s giving me major Super Mario Galaxy 3-vibes. Also Rayman will be coming in one of the future DLCs.
Source: Kotaku – Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Is Looking Like The Switch’s Next Big Sleeper Hit
Although it might’ve felt like it Kinda Funny’s Blessing Adeoye Jr. was talking at 1.75x speed about upcoming games and world premieres, Disney and Marvel’s D23 stream event did manage to show a few games that weren’t just cinematic trailers. Here’s everything we saw at Disney and Marvel’s D23 Expo Showcase,…
Source: Kotaku – Everything Shown At Disney And Marvel’s D23 Event