If playing a remake of a game that’s already been remastered doesn’t float your boat, maybe you’d be down for a live-action The Last of Us TV show that’s nearly a shot-for-shot remake of Naughty Dog’s 2013 PS3 smash hit? Yeah? Well, it looks like HBO might have you covered.
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us TV Show Sure Looks Like The Game
Ten years ago Total War developers Creative Assembly announced a licensing deal that would see the historical strategy game developers take on, for the first time ever, a fictional setting: the fantasy Warhammer universe. Across three full games and multiple expansions, and all the work and acclaim that has come with…
Source: Kotaku – Total War: Warhammer III: Immortal Empires Is The Best Total War Campaign In Years
Fighting game tournaments are always exciting events. When attendees aren’t being wowed by the amazing announcements or stellar combos on display, they can enjoy the parade of copious controllers people bring to compete in their favorite games. Such controllers often have interesting artwork or other cool details, but…
Source: Kotaku – Tekken 7 Player Competes In Tournament With Big-Ass Buster Sword Controller
Facing criticism of your own creative work can be challenging. I should know. But when responding to criticism involves, well, punching down on marginalized communities, or going on random, unrelated, political tirades that recklessly bash people trying to stay healthy and safe during on-going pandemic, that’s…
Source: Kotaku – Valve Bans Steam Dev From Forums After ‘Abusive’ Behavior
Elden Ring is full of memorable characters, such as “guy covered in shit” and “woman who has sex with dead people,” but few have raised as many questions Goldmask, a decrepit husk of a man who is introduced in the starting cutscene for the open-world game. He’s an important character, to be sure, with an entire ending…
Source: Kotaku – The Mystery Of Elden Ring’s Most Enigmatic Character Reaches An Absurd Conclusion
We will never find the Fountain of Youth people fantasized about centuries ago, but, out of our woe, we can make games. Games let you live again and again in eternally perfect, preternaturally strong bodies, and for the friends in novelist Gabrielle Zevin’s latest book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, this is…
Source: Kotaku – Work, Life, And Sex All Revolve Around Video Games In This Devastating Fiction Book
If you haven’t noticed, 2022 has far and away become the year of media conglomerates capitalizing on ownership of disparate properties. You can see it clearly in the realm of video games like MultiVersus and the final boss of wacky crossovers, Fortnite. Not to be left out, popular manga publisher Shonen Jump has…
Source: Kotaku – Ambitious Shonen Jump Game Teams You Up With Heroes From Spy x Family, Kaiju No. 8, More
If you were hoping Saints Row would sate your hunger between GTA re-re-re-releases, you might be better off waiting a bit longer. Reviews for the open-world crime game, developed by Volition and out tomorrow for consoles and PC, are in, and so far, they’re…not kind.
Source: Kotaku – The New Saints Row Is Getting Trashed By Critics
Three months out from release, there’s still a ton about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet we don’t know, but a new trailer shown during the 2022 World Championship sheds a little more light how the Gen 9 games will shake up the competitive scene in some big ways. Plus, in addition to details on a bunch of new items and …
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Battles Look Intense, New Mechanics Revealed
Today in questions you never knew you wanted the answer to: What’s a black hole sound like? Turns out, the depths of the darkest reaches of oblivion “sound” a whole lot like a video game, according to a NASA data sonification.
Source: Kotaku – Real-Life Black Hole Sounds Like A Mass Effect Reaper
Last week, Wizards of the Coast announced its plans for what the world’s most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, will look like in the next few years. Alongside a refresh of the rules (which Wizards promises will be fully compatible with every fifth edition book that’s been published previously), some…
Source: Kotaku – The Next Big D&D Experience Looks Like A Video Game, And That’s A Problem
A consumer rights advocacy group is suing Sony for charging a 30 percent commission fee on all digital purchases made through the UK PlayStation Store. This is functionally a class action lawsuit that seeks to distribute billions of dollars to players who have used the PlayStation UK store since August 2016.
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Hit By .9 Billion Lawsuit For ‘Ripping People Off’ On Digital Games
For a video game series all about irreverent satire, Rockstar takes its legal control over Grand Theft Auto extremely seriously. The studio and its parent company, Take-Two, are notorious for crackdowns on mods and fan projects, but now it appears they’ve gone after one of the original creators of GTA himself.
Source: Kotaku – Rockstar Forced Takedown Of GTA Prototype Footage, Original Dev Says
Destiny 2 is teaming up with Fortnite according to a new datamine leak. The new collaboration comes on the heels of reignited rumors that Bungie’s loot shooter could finally come to the Epic Games Store and ahead of a giant Destiny summer showcase during GamesCom.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Fortnite Skins Leak Ahead Of Big Lightfall Reveal
It’s been over two years since HBO first announced it was making a TV show based on Naughty Dogs’ The Last Of Us, and today we’ve finally got our first proper look at it.
Source: Kotaku – First Footage From The Last Of US TV Show Released
The best video games are imaginary. Often they exist completely in our heads, or in the dreamy space between their initial announcement and what we finally end up playing. This is where “Arkham World” exists. Born from a 2011 Video Game Awards gag, the completely fictitious entry in the massively popular Batman Arkham series
Source: Kotaku – The Fake Game Taking Over The Batman Arkham Fandom, Explained
Earlier this week was supposed to be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as its reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries. The occasion was marked by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself posting a “selfie” of his in-game avatar in front of a digital Eiffel tower. Sounds cute,…
Source: Kotaku – Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Graphics Backlash, Promises Metaverse Won’t Be Depressing To Look At
In 2019, embattled anime voice actor Vic Mignogna, accused of sexual harassment by several parties, filed a defamation lawsuit against former employer Funimation and several other voice actors. The court ruled against him in October of that year, prompting him to file an appeal. Yesterday, he not only lost his appeal…
Source: Kotaku – Dragon Ball Z Voice Actor Accused Of Sexual Harassment May Have To Pay More Legal Costs Now
The best-selling video game last month was a free-to-play fighter from a company in flux. Yes, MultiVersus, also known as Super Warner Bros. Melee, topped the sales charts for July 2022, according to data-tracking firm NPD.
Source: Kotaku – July’s Best-Selling Game Was MultiVersus, A Free-To-Play Smash-Like
Trans Canadian Twitch streamer and political commentator Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti recently suffered from a second attack in what is shaping up to be a hellish summer, she revealed in an August 18 YouTube video.
Source: Kotaku – Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Now ‘In Hiding’ After Second Dox Attack