Season of Plunder is off to a fun but rocky start, and there’s no better example of that then Destiny 2‘s heavy grenade launchers. Almost all of them have been temporarily disabled just a day into the new update after a glitch was discovered that was making them output more than double their normal damage. The move…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Disables Heavy Grenade Launchers After Glitch Makes Them OP
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, recently described the progress of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard as heading in a “positive direction,” as the company awaits regulatory approval of the deal that would see it owning wildly popular franchises such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. He also believes that…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Boss Says Exclusives Aren’t The Future While Company Buys Up Exclusives
If you make use of the popular personal media server Plex on your Xbox, PlayStation, smart TV, or just about any other device, you’re going to want to update your password.
Source: Kotaku – Popular Media Platform Plex Hacked, Advises Users To Change Passwords
Content Warning: This story includes graphic mentions of suicide.
Source: Kotaku – As Twitch Streamer Flees, Pressure Mounts On Cloudflare To Stop Protecting Controversial Kiwi Farms Site
The first game of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live was Everywhere, a shooting game led by the producer of the Grand Theft Auto series. However, the announcement and developer interview was so vague that many people started speculating that the game might be hosted on the blockchain. Today, the developers clarified that …
Source: Kotaku – GTA Producer’s New Game Doesn’t Have NFTs, They’re Just Hiring People With Blockchain Experience
The Expanse has been saved once before, thanks to one of the great social media campaigns of the modern era. Then the show ended on a hell of a cliffhanger, leaving fans hungry for a second case of IRL deus ex machina. It’s happening, but in a way most might not expect: a Telltale game.
Source: Kotaku – The Expanse: A Telltale Series May Be Exactly What Fans Of The Show Need
Denuvo, the company best known for its heavily-criticized PC gaming DRM technology, has set its sights on a new scourge: Nintendo Switch piracy. The software maker announced during GamesCom 2022 on Wednesday that it will begin selling a new product called Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection to prevent Switch games…
Source: Kotaku – Controversial DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy
Elden Ring fans have spent the last few months begging FromSoftware for new content, but rather than wait, environmental artist Eugenia Lysa started imagining her own world. Then, she went all out to make it real.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Fan’s Incredible DLC Concept Project Almost Looks Real, Playable
Released in September of last year, The Signal State was a surprising and fun way to translate the process of making modular synth patches into cool logic puzzles—which is kind of what modular synthesis is all about in the first place. In a new update, developer Reckoner Industries has added a fun new sandbox mode to…
Source: Kotaku – This Puzzle Game Is A Fun, Affordable Way To Learn Electronic Music
On August 24, the Indonesian developers at indie game studios Toge Productions and Mojiken Studio announced that their new point-and-click adventure game A Space For The Unbound is indefinitely delayed following their contract termination with publisher PQube Games. The developers were moved to terminate their…
Source: Kotaku – Game Devs Accuse Publisher Of Exploiting Their Identity For Diversity Funding, Then Never Seeing A Dime
Look, I would really rather not be a hater. It’s nice to like things. It makes life simpler, and we can all be happy together. Plus, humor is a highly subjective thing; what’s funny to you may not be funny to me. But, woof, man. The latest trailer for High on Life had me cringe so hard, my soul withered away from my…
Source: Kotaku – Rick And Morty Creator’s ‘Quip Gun’ Is The Epitome Of Cringe
Phew! This year’s Opening Night Live was kinda exhausting, what with the plethora of new trailers and “world premieres” host Geoff Keighley showered us in. While the two-hour broadcast may be over and done with, one moment from the show is now living in my mind rent-free: a short message from European Space Agency…
Source: Kotaku – There Are So Many Space Games, Even NASA Has Noticed
One week ago, headlines were abuzz with the news that Capitol Music Group had signed a digital rapper called FN Meka whose lyrics were generated by artificial intelligence. Now, after much backlash and criticism from around the internet, Capitol Music Group is undoing that decision, instead axing the rapper with a…
Source: Kotaku – Label Drops AI Rapper With Music Project From Fortnite Pro, Apologizing To Black Community
Oh hey, some red meat for the folks who love looking at games and saying they bear a strong resemblance to other games: Developer Deck 13 debuted gameplay footage for its forthcoming action-RPG Atlas Fallen, which looks a whole lot like Square Enix’s forthcoming action-RPG Forspoken, which looks a whole lot like Deck…
Source: Kotaku – Can You Tell The Difference Between These Two Upcoming Magical Action-RPGs?
Just like big shows in the US, cosplay conventions are slowly returning to the calendar in Europe as well, and that includes Japan Expo, held in France and the biggest of its kind on the continent.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Photos From Japan Expo 2022, Europe’s Biggest Cosplay Show
Back in 2018 Cecilia published an exhaustive feature about the doomed attempt to remake classic anime Sailor Moon for American audiences. It was a fantastic story but its search for unseen footage of the never-aired show sadly ended in disappointment.
Source: Kotaku – The Pilot Episode Of America’s Bizarre Sailor Moon Remake Has Been Found
Homeworld 3 was first announced back in 2019. A lot has happened since then, least of all to this game’s development—like its weird fan investor scheme being lauded then cancelled—but now, in August 2023, we have got our first real look at the game in action.
Source: Kotaku – Homeworld 3’s First Proper Gameplay Footage Finally Drops
If you like miniature battle games and enormous fantasy books that are sure to do a d12’s worth of damage if you throw them at someone, then fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds might just have something cool in store for you. Moonbreaker, a new “turn-based strategy, tabletop…
Source: Kotaku – Subnautica Devs And Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson Team Up In Cool-Looking Miniatures Battle Game
