What’s the worst thing that could go wrong during Jerma985’s next livestream in front of hundreds of thousands of internet strangers? “I get diarrhea and can’t umpire,” he told Kotaku in a recent interview. Twitch’s notorious online jester is pulling his most elaborate stunt yet: officiating a real baseball game at an…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch’s Biggest Clown Talks About His Wildest Spectacle Yet
Apex Legends kicked off its fourteenth season, Hunted, this month. The latest content update adds a bunch of new stuff to the game, including another playable character, tweaks to the OG Kings Canyon map, and a level cap increase. While this should be—and likely is—an exciting time for players of Respawn…
Source: Kotaku – Apex Legends Casuals Think Pros Are Ruining The Game
In a most peculiar state of affairs, PlayStation console exclusive, Death Stranding, is coming to Microsoft’s PC Game Pass. Subscribers to the latter service will soon be able to fall over on a hill for no additional cost.
Source: Kotaku – Sony’s Death Stranding Coming To Microsoft’s PC Game Pass Next Week
In 2021, at the height of the world’s collective blockchain madness, a video game called Untamed Isles—Pokemon, but with crypto stuff—made over $500,000 on Kickstarter. A year later the game is practically dead, and is so broke it can’t even refund its backers.
Source: Kotaku – Kickstarter Game Goes Bust Gambling On Crypto, Can’t Refund Backers
We’ve been writing about the mod NaturalVision for years, almost as long as Grand Theft Auto V has been out on PC, and each time we revisit the project it continues to amaze.
Source: Kotaku – GTA V Mod Looks Like GTA VI
I can think of no better fit for an immersive VR experience than Metal Gear Solid, a video game series that is so often about simulations, distinguishing truth from falsehood, and literal virtual reality. Now, thanks to an inspired modder who’s a dear fan of the games, you can experience the first three main areas of…
Source: Kotaku – Metal Gear Solid VR Mod Would Break Even Hideo Kojima’s Brain
Nowadays we associate them with gold dust and eternally sweet faces, but the fairy is a sort of monster. Southeast Asia’s “yaksha” nature spirits gobble up stray travelers, the Germanic “erlking” can kill a kid with its bare hands. Elden Ring’s Malenia, Blade of Miquella, emerged from a rotting blossom with tangled…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring’s Malenia Tells The Fairytale I Always Wanted To Hear
Ooblets and all its cute little dancing creatures are leaving early access on both Xbox and PC next month. And the folks behind the game announced today that the adorable life sim is heading to Switch too, on September 1.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon-like Ooblets Out For Switch In September, Leaves Early Access
We did it for the Switch. We did it for the PlayStation 5. It’s only fair that we do it for the Xbox, too. Earlier this month, Sony announced it’d purge the barely-used Accolades feature from PS5, which allowed you to bestow awards on others in multiplayer games. This spurred a thought exercise: What other features…
Source: Kotaku – The Xbox Features Most People Forget About
PC Game Pass users now have access to more classic Bethesda and id Software games, including some old Elder Scrolls spin-offs and old-school shooters, like Wolfenstein 3D. And that’s not all. Bethesda is also offering some older games for free in the Microsoft Store on PC.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Adds More Classic Bethesda Bangers To Game Pass
When I left work on Tuesday, I immediately rushed to my nearest McDonald’s in order to secure Pokémon cards from its latest Happy Meal promotion. I bought two kids meals (I do not have any children), and I was slightly disappointed when the employee handed me two plain Happy Meal boxes. I had been hoping to receive…
Source: Kotaku – McDonald’s Pokémon Card Happy Meals Are Back, But Fans Aren’t Happy
During the Pokémon World Championships, an annual invite-only esports event dedicated to all things pocket monsters which kicked off today, developer TiMi Studio Group revealed that the free-to-play MOBA Pokémon Unite will get a new map and a recognizable Gen III legendary dragon sometime soon.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Unite’s New Stage Puts The Fearsome Rayquaza At The Center
The Pokémon World Championships, taking place in London this week, just unveiled a special freebie for those of us who are watching the tournament at home. From now until August 21, you can use a Mystery Gift code to redeem a Victini in Pokémon Sword And Shield.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Sword And Shield Is Giving Out Free Rare Victini Mythicals
Despite what Hollywood may have you think running a cult is tough work—or at least it is in Cult of the Lamb. Out now for consoles and PC, Cult of the Lamb is, depending on who you ask, an action roguelike with city-builder elements or a city-builder with action roguelike elements. Either way, it’s astonishingly…
Source: Kotaku – 18 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Cult Of The Lamb
Indie retro tributes are a dime a dozen, but the really good ones are rarer than you think. Blazing Chrome, a 2019 run ‘n’ gun channeling Contra III, is one of them. And today its developers at JoyMasher announced they’ve got a new one in the works called Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider. It’s basically 16-Bit Ninja Gaiden…
Source: Kotaku – Devs Of Great Contra Tribute Reveal Gorgeous Take On Ninja Gaiden
The Embracer Group, who are slowly buying any and every video game publisher and studio on the market, just announced that they have purchased Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that owns the big-and-small-screen rights to most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important works, including Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Source: Kotaku – Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit Rights Bought By Video Game Super-Publisher
Thank you, All The Right Movies, for digging up this old interview with Bob Hoskins, in which the award-winning British actor talks about the time he got the job playing Mario in the 1993 big-screen adaptation of Nintendo’s series.
Source: Kotaku – We Have All Been Bob Hoskins Contemplating Life And The Super Mario Bros. Movie
FIFA 23 is currently up for preorder around the world, and is supposed to be a full-price retail release, but in one particular market on one particular store, customers could get one hell of a bargain.
Source: Kotaku – FIFA 23 Accidentally Sells For Six Cents, EA Will Honor The Mistake
As you may know, Bethesda’s mega-popular RPG series Fallout is headed to a TV series. This is top of mind again because new pictures from the set of the upcoming post-nuclear Amazon adaptation leaked sometime in the past 24 hours. Live-action video game adaptations are getting pretty good these days, so it shouldn’t…
Source: Kotaku – Fallout TV Show Set Leaks Look Really Authentic, Actually
