Only 24 hours after it was forced to flee to Russian servers, it now looks like hate forum Kiwi Farms—which has been in the news once again for its role in harassment campaigns and threats against life—has seen its last days as a functional website.
Source: Kotaku – Hate Forum Kiwi Farms Practically Dead As Owner Posts Conspiracy-Laden Rant
In my mid-40s, my life is so latterly being taken over by Pokémon. After falling down the Pokémon GO hole in 2020, and then chronicling its slow takeover of my spare time, I have since found myself the primary Pokémon GO correspondent for Kotaku. And now, as if that weren’t enough, I’ve finally discovered the TCG. RIP…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Has Finally Taken Over My Entire Life, And I Love It
Rick and Morty did a commercial for God of War: Ragnarok, aired on the television last night. Why? I don’t bloody know. Because everything, for the rest of time, is now to be composed entirely out of overlapping memes?
Source: Kotaku – Hey, You, There’s A Rick And Morty Commercial For God Of War: Ragnarok
You know how amateur magician and some-time Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford wears awful shirts? Well, the Borderlands boss has chanced upon this idea to auction off his old, used clothing to aid a charity. Which charity? No clue. Because this is the timeline we deserve.
Source: Kotaku – Oh God, Ew, Randy Pitchford Wants You To Buy His Horrible Used Shirts
Crunch is bad. Boasting about crunch is bad. You’d imagine everyone knows that now, wouldn’t you? Yet, and I’m not a qualified reputation manager, I still think I have a beneficial suggestion that could greatly aid many within the games development industry: Stop saying you think crunch is great. If only Striking…
Source: Kotaku – Former Sledgehammer Boss Clumsily Walks Back Pro-Crunch Comments
Head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, has once more, so very appropriately, stuck his foot in his ass. This weekend at PAX, he proudly declared to a live audience how much he’d like to see QA testers replaced by AI.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox’s Matt Booty Dreams About Using AI To Do QA Testing
As appears to be ever-more frequently the case, Nintendo has seen another of its first-party games leaked all over the internet almost a week before release. This time it’s Splatoon 3, the much-hyped threequal to the company’s pet project, which is already in some players’ hands ahead of its September 9 release date.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Suffers Another Colossal Game Leak
Kiwi Farms, an internet cesspit that has birthed countless hate campaigns over the last decade, has finally had concrete action taken against it after internet security provider Cloudflare essentially took the site offline.
Source: Kotaku – Hate Forum Kiwi Farms Flees To Russian Servers After Cloudflare Takes Site Offline
Some might say the best way to predict the weather is to look out your window, but thanks to modern-day technology like The Weather Channel, we can check the weather with ease while listening to bomb-ass music that sounds ripped right out of a Japanese RPG soundtrack.
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Most JRPG-Ass Songs To Grace The Weather Channel
Rumbleverse is the latest entry in a seemingly endless list of free-to-play battle royale games. However, this latest spin on the aging format is more creative and interesting than I expected, as Rumbleverse ditches the usual SMGs, shotguns, and grenades for wrestling grapples, melee combos, and high-flying elbow…
Source: Kotaku – Rumbleverse Is A Rare, Fresh Twist On Battle Royale
Good news PlayStation Call of Duty players: Microsoft says you get to have “several more years” of playing the shoot-bang game on your Sony console.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Lets Sony Have ‘Several More Years’ Of Call Of Duty, As A Treat
After three years, Nintendo is finally removing the contentious “gacha pipe” from its popular mobile racer, Mario Kart Tour. The pipes, which players had to purchase with in-game “rubies” to get a chance at unlockable prizes, will be replaced with a new in-game store.
Source: Kotaku – Mario Kart Tour Says So Long To Its Controversial Gacha Gambling
Earlier this week, a developer’s Twitter thread about shady Steam curators who potentially lie to get free game codes went viral. In the thread, using a bit of a sting-like operation to support his suspicions, the dev theorized that these shady curators take game keys and sell them instead of using them to actually…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Bans Scammers After Dev Reveals Potential Shady Game Reselling
It’s a joke among weebs that you can always tell who’s the main character of an anime. You look for the teenager with the most vibrantly colored hair, or the impractical clothes. The young heiress Dunyarzad, a newly introduced NPC in Genshin Impact, hardly fits the bill, so I didn’t think much of her when I met her.…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Shakes Up The JRPG Formula With Its NPCs
At this rate, we’ll never see the last of The Last of Us. Ahead of a high-profile HBO adaptation, Naughty Dog released a top-to-bottom remake, called The Last of Us Part I, for PlayStation 5.
Source: Kotaku – Before You Start: Five Settings To Change In The Last Of Us Part I
Elden Ring is full of gear. From curved blades to great shields, along with entire armor sets that dress your Tarnished like a werewolf knight, there’s no shortage of equipment to get in the Lands Between. But while some stuff littered around FromSoftware’s beautifully desolate world is easy to find, maybe picked off…
Source: Kotaku – You Probably Missed All Of Elden Ring’s Rarest Weapons
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has quietly removed language from its newly released Spelljammer setting that came under fire for racist overtones. While its D&D Beyond online tools no longer contain references to a primate-like race becoming “sapient” through enslavement, the already-published…
Source: Kotaku – Amid Criticism, Wizards Of The Coast Quietly Removes Racist Lore From Dungeons & Dragons
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of an asshole’s own actions. On August 31, the developer behind the gladiator game Domina posted patch notes that included a transphobic screed attacking trans streamer Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti. Yesterday evening, some Twitter users discovered that Domina had been removed…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Pulls Game After Dev Goes On Transphobic Rant Against Keffals
Following a wave of rumors and leaks, Xbox has finally unveiled some details about its account-sharing plan for Game Pass. Called Game Pass Friends and Family, it’s not available stateside yet. But when (or if) it eventually becomes available outside the two countries Microsoft is testing it in, it sure sounds like…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox’s Multiple-Account Game Pass Plan Sounds Like A Great Deal
