In a movie, attitude is sometimes just as important to me as things like cinematography and production design. I stopped watching the 2001 Japanese film All About Lily Chou-Chou halfway through because its attitude toward teenage anxiety was so pessimistic and perverse that it made my soul feel like it was sinking.…
Source: Kotaku – Immortality: The Kotaku Review
Steam is both an easy-to-use digital game storefront and a rabbit hole of shady shit, filled with weird, archaic leftovers from past ideas Valve never got around to finishing or improving. One such example is the curator system. Most users barely interact with it, but recently an indie developer believes the system is…
Source: Kotaku – Developer Explains Why Some Bad Steam Reviews Might Be Coming From Scammers
Since it was released in 2014, Halo: The Master Chief Collection received a variety of updates and tweaks, including maps and modes that in some cases were never in the original games. But one thing that wasn’t added were in-game microtransactions. That could change soon, however, as Halo developers 343 Industries…
Source: Kotaku – 343 Still Not Sure If It Will Add Microtransactions To Halo Master Chief Collection
After being thoroughly underwhelmed with Digimon Survive’s insufferable dialogue and bland characters, I braved the time-consuming Japanese RPG waters once again by diving headfirst into its release date competitor, Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Although I initially got into the series to ironically enjoy the painfully…
Source: Kotaku – Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Britishisms Are Corrupting My American Dialect
When Genshin Impact’s annual update finally arrived last week, I was expecting minor tweaks to its open world formula. Instead, the Sumeru region feels like an entirely different game. As I zipped around the forest canopy in every direction, I started to forget about the main quest and my daily farming routine.…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact’s New Region Is A Marvel Of Open-World Design
Forget pivots to Jersey and re-pivots back to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. MTV’s Video Music Awards is hedging its bets on a new savior: NFTs. Last night, megawatt rappers Snoop Dogg and Eminem jointly performed at the show…as their Bored Ape Yacht Club digital avatars.
Source: Kotaku – Snoop Dogg, Eminem’s NFT Performance At VMAs Looks Like Bad Instagram Filter
Before I played the latest Saints Row game, confusingly titled just Saints Row, I expected a shitshow. On YouTube, I saw countless, popular channels calling it soulless, dead, and the worst game of 2022. Reviews from various outlets weren’t much better. Yet after putting about 14 hours into the game on Xbox Series X,…
Source: Kotaku – Saints Row Is Less A Trainwreck And More A Messy, Fun Car Crash
As has been chronicled on Kotaku, my journey into Pokémon GO has been one that began two years ago in lockdown-induced happiness, and then slowly descended into disappointment after disappointment. However, this weekend, despite what appear to be Niantic’s best efforts, I finally experienced Pokémon GO at its absolute…
Source: Kotaku – After Years Of Disappointment, Pokémon Go Fest Finally Gave Me The Magic I’ve Been Missing
Over the weekend, a trailer for a blatantly right-wing biopic about president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made the rounds. It looks all kinds of bonkers. Also, it’s directed by a voice actor from Bungie’s Halo trilogy. Hey, let’s all give it up for the gaming angle!
Source: Kotaku – Halo Voice Actor Directing Batshit Anti-Biden Propaganda Film
Kevin Le Moigne is an artist from France who has worked on stuff like Arcane (the League of Legends animated series), and Netflix’s Klaus.
Source: Kotaku – Arise
The main reason Sony put Spider-Man on PC was to make money, but one of the main reasons PC gamers were so excited about it—apart from the fact it remains very good!—was because it would let them mod a PlayStation game to hell and back.
Source: Kotaku – Kermit The Frog Is Kicking Ass In The PC Version Of Spider-Man
If you’re an OG PC gamer you probably recall the neverending holy wars over console gamepads vs. PC-style mouse and keyboard setups. While the mouse and keyboard, with their fast turning and accurate aim, did have lots of benefits, one advantage only gamepads could offer was true analog character movement via analog…
Source: Kotaku – This Great Analog Keyboard Made Me Better At Shooters
Barring drying leaves and the uptick in yellow school buses come late August, the signal that a new semester was starting, to me, was the way the air started to smell. Post-graduation, I let the seasons change without fanfare.But usually, I’d notice that in summer, a puff of warm wind smells sweet and sunny, like…
Source: Kotaku – 8 Fantastic Back-To-School Video Games To Close Out Your Summer
Transphobic gamers seem to be getting stunned by facts again as one seems to have impersonated an Arc System Works representative and sent out a fake email to players, insisting that popular, returning Guilty Gear Strive character Bridget isn’t transgender.
Source: Kotaku – Scrublord Guilty Gear Strive Player Spreads Misinformation About Bridget’s Gender
If you were online at all last week and following the Fortnite/Dragon Ball crossover event, the odds are pretty good you may have come across someone losing it at an apparent zoomer mispronouncing Goku’s iconic attack. “So we all know the Kameyamama is overpowered,” creator Dagwummy said in his August 18 video. It…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite TikTok Creator Explains How He Used DBZ To Troll The Internet
A few of us at Kotaku have been obsessed recently with Cult of the Lamb, the buzzy new Devolver-published roguelike about a cult led by a lamb. Last week, Kotaku’s Sisi Jiang asked me a simple question about the game in Slack: “Are we the baddies?”
Source: Kotaku – Cult Of The Lamb’s Take On Resurrection Is Total Nightmare Fuel
YouTube’s Trending page is typically full of easy-going content like music videos, comedy sketches, and game trailers, along with popular creators like Mr. Beast and SSSniperWolf. However, on August 24, the number-one trending video was a callout against the platform itself, with accusations of racism or favoritism…
Source: Kotaku – Black Horror Game YouTuber Has Everyone Debating Platform Racism, Favoritism
Most of us are lucky to say that we survived Elden Ring’s toughest optional bosses, especially the non-stop torrent of them that awaits us at the end of the game. MissMikkaa is built different, though. The Twitch streamer recently blew up on social media because she is the only person who can say she defeated Elden…
Source: Kotaku – She Beat Elden Ring At Level One With A Single Hand (Yes, Even Malenia)
Originally announced and funded via Kickstarter last October, Path of the Planebreaker is the latest foray into the fifth edition set of rules for Dungeons & Dragons from Monte Cook Games. This time, veteran D&D designers Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds, and Mr. Cook himself treat players and game masters to the…
Source: Kotaku – Path of the Planebreaker Is A Worthy Addition To Your D&D Campaign
