In 2012, Disney and Marvel contacted Avalanche Studios—the team behind Just Cause—and began working with them on an Iron Man game that would never see the light of day.
Source: Kotaku – Just Cause Devs Spent Nearly Two Years Working On A Canceled Iron Man Game
File this one under “mods you probably thought already existed.” With Voxel Doom, you can now play the legendary 1993 first-person shooter Doom with all the monsters and items rendered in beautifully chunky, 3D voxels. While smaller-scope voxel mods have existed in the past, this one replaces just about every single…
Source: Kotaku – 29 Years Later, Mod Completely ‘Voxelizes’ Doom
Bungie revealed its massive Arc 3.0 rework of Destiny 2’s lightning abilities today, and while the rundown includes a number of changes that are sure to make fans happy, one of its biggest surprises calls back to one of the game’s darker community moments earlier this year. Fortunately, the developer on the receiving…
Source: Kotaku – Harassed Destiny 2 Dev Drops Mic With Arc 3.0 Ability Reveal
We Are OFK is a coming-of-age story about queer friends struggling to make it in L.A.’s brutal music scene that’s part interactive music video, but fully intense. Billed as an extended play (EP) album launch featuring some synthy bops, this narrative adventure gripped me by the heart with its gut-wrenching themes…
Source: Kotaku – We Are OFK: The Kotaku Review
“Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However, nobody seems more invested in shaping our collective notion of what the metaverse is than Meta and Facebook boss Mark…
Source: Kotaku – Mark Zuckerberg’s Soulless Metaverse Avatar Has Me Worried About Our Digital Future
Yesterday, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser sent out an internal message to employees acknowledging the “media coverage involving claims made about worker conduct.” He wrote that “We have and will always investigate any allegations we become aware of, and we are actively investigating these most recent…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo ‘Actively’ Investigating Recent Claims Of Misconduct
Final Fantasy XVI’s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of Final Fantasy. In a recent interview with Inverse, he said that the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to sea changes in the gaming industry.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy Producer Naoki Yoshida Says The Series Is ‘Struggling’
Super Mario Bros. is one of the most storied games in the history of video game speedrunning, and an incredible new compilation shows just how far players’ mastery has come. Why watch just one world record run when you could watch all of them at the same time, in just 11 minutes?
Source: Kotaku – Witness Every Incredible Super Mario Bros. Speedrun Record Simultaneously
On August 15, “Mike Hawk” (his words, not mine) uploaded a Spider-Man Remastered modification to Nexus Mods that “replaces Newton’s Prism’s artifacts with the stars and stripes,” its description said. But the mod, surreptitiously named “Non-Newtonian New York,” wasn’t the work of a rogue Isaac Newton hater crusading…
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Man Remastered Modder Banned For Letting Players Remove The Pride Flag
With Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, a movie about how Piccolo is Gohan’s real dad, releasing later this week as well as the current DBZ extravaganza going on inside Fortnite, we decided it was the perfect time to rank every Dragon Ball movie and see which one comes out on top. What could possibly go wrong?
Source: Kotaku – Every Dragon Ball Movie, Ranked From Worst To Best
And just like that, 2022’s game of the year season has begun, not with a bang but with the whimpered bleat of a cartoon sheep. Yes, action-cum-management game Cult of the Lamb is excellent—a fascinating creature from the Island of Dr. Moreau’s Video Game Boutique that turns its adorable nose up at any rigorously…
Source: Kotaku – Cult Of The Lamb Is 2022’s Latest GOTY Contender
Today, the PlayStation Store started one of its rotating “Games Under” promotions, which will include hundreds of titles and will run through August 30. This time, PlayStation focuses the promotion on getting “Games Under $20” instead of the $15 benchmark it has occasionally used in the past (it really needs the $5),…
Source: Kotaku – There’s A Huge PlayStation ‘Games Under ‘ Sale Right Now
This summer, it feels like everyone is hot for one thing and one thing only: the kitchen boyfriend. FX’s cooking comedy-drama The Bear, which makes use of Chicago’s dining scene and Jeremy Allen White’s hands looking pretty good holding a quart container full of water, made sure of that. But you don’t really want the…
Source: Kotaku – 6 Trending Cooking Sims On Steam That’ll Keep You Fed ‘Til The Bear Season Two
Fortnite’s new update adds a ton of content directly pulled from the popular anime franchise, Dragon Ball. Specially, beloved heroes like Goku and Bulma are now running around the battle royale rubbing shoulders with Darth Vader and Batman. Wild times. And these new anime characters have brought with them powerful…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Is A Dragon Ball Z Anime Shitstorm Right Now (And I Love It)
One of my favourite Fine Art posts for the year was our showcase for OlliOlli World, so it’s a huge pleasure that we’re able to be looking at art from Roll7’s latest game (Rollerdrome, which is out this week) so soon.
Source: Kotaku – The Art Of Rollerdrome
It’s been a few years since we’ve been able to run a cosplay post from the San Diego Comic-Con, but we’re back in 2022 with a gallery and video recapping what’s probably the biggest nerd show on the planet.
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From San Diego Comic-Con 2022
Paradox released a piece of Crusader Kings III DLC in March 2021 called Northern Lords. For over a year it has been available for $7, but that price is about to be jacked up to $13 for…a reason?
Source: Kotaku – Paradox Almost Doubles Some Crusader Kings III DLC Prices In Bone-Headed Move
Evo Moment 37 is one of the most famous showdowns in video game history, a comeback so incredible that even those of you who know nothing about fighting games have probably seen it at some point. It’s so important, in fact, that to mark the occasion, a few years back Nike started working on a shoe designed…
Source: Kotaku – The Story Of Nike’s Street Fighter Sneaker And Its Botched Release
Activision is back on its bullshit, and by that I mean the massive games publisher is again suspected of lifting ideas from outside artwork to create the skins it sells in Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone. This time, it appears likely the company took direct inspiration from a skin created by an ex-CoD staffer that…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty’s New Skin Looks Eerily Similar To Ex-Dev’s Work
