That treasure trove of a document filed by Microsoft to the Brazilian competition authorities on Tuesday, in response to Sony’s objections to its efforts to buy Activision Blizzard, contains another absolute gem. In it, Microsoft took time out to tell Sony just how it could (read: should) better run its revamped PS…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Snarkily Schools Sony On How To Better Run PS Plus
Losing a job is always an uprooting event, but getting fired in public is straight-up embarrassing, especially when you don’t know it’s coming. That’s exactly what happened this week in the world of the Overwatch League (OWL), with the New York Excelsior team unceremoniously terminating main support player Sang-min…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch League Team Apologizes To Support Player For Firing Him Via A Damn Tweet
Last week, Microsoft argued to Brazilian regulators that Call of Duty was not an essential game series while Sony protested that it was. In the latest episode of the Activision Blizzard acquisition drama going down in Brazil, Microsoft accused the PlayStation manufacturer of trying to “inhibit growth” of Game Pass.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Accuses Sony Of Blocking Games From Game Pass
Fortnite’s developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. And now after weeks of datamine leaks it’s finally official: Dragon Ball Z is taking over Fortnite on August 16. My first wish after summoning Shenron will be to sear the image of Goku holding an MK7…
Source: Kotaku – Goku Probably Next Childhood Hero To Get A Gun In New DBZ Fortnite Crossover
It’s not a universal maxim, but in many cases, there’s no surer sign a game is alive and well than when waves of players start calling it a “dead game.” The most recent example is Apex Legends, which just set an all-time player count record amid a coordinated—I use that word generously—social media campaign urging…
Source: Kotaku – Apex Legends Shatters Records As Players Urge Fans To Stop Playing Apex Legends
Some players have poured hundreds of hours into Splatoon 2. Thankfully, Nintendo recently revealed that all of that hard work won’t be wasted when fans boot up Splatoon 3. Instead, they’ll be able to transfer their save data and reap big rewards in the process.
Source: Kotaku – Splatoon 2 Players Will Have A Leg Up In Splatoon 3 Thanks To Save Data Transfer Rewards
College management sim Two Point Campus, which just came out on pretty much every gaming platform and Xbox Game Pass, is the sequel to 2018’s Two Point Hospital. Both games use an identical art style, similar UI, and contain the same mix of zany, weird sight gags and jokes. But while Hospital was all about stressing…
Source: Kotaku – Two Point Campus, Now On Game Pass, Is A Chill Time For Everyone
After years in development, and loads of ups and downs along the way, the developers of a virtual reality mod for the original Half-Life 2 have announced a public beta that’ll be kicking off next month.
Source: Kotaku – Half-Life 2 Will Soon Be Playable In VR
Earlier this week the marketing team behind Square Enix’s upcoming action game Forspoken posted a Tweet with a few sales bullet points and a short gameplay video. It should have been a very normal and forgettable exercise in video game promotion, but readers, I am here to tell you that this video is bad.
Source: Kotaku – Very Bad Forspoken Ad Gets Absolutely Roasted
Sometimes Humble Bundle just comes along with virtually an entire franchise of games for the cost of less than one, making it hard to avoid the siren’s song of that “purchase” link. Today, with Humble’s “Decades of Horror” bundle, that franchise is Capcom’s Resident Evil. How would you like to own most of them on…
Source: Kotaku – Humble Bundle Bags You A Shitton Of Resident Evil Games
Call of Duty, the first-person shooter once based on historical events, is pulling a very ahistorical skin after a concept artist accused the game’s publisher of plagiarizing a design of theirs. Hilarious and cute, the new skin featured an anthropomorphized samoyed doggo, armed and ready to murder everyone. Named…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Pulls Cute But Stolen Call Of Duty Skin, Apologizes For ‘Misstep’
A new labor complaint has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board against Nintendo and contract hiring agency Aston Carter. The second complaint this year, it accuses the Mario publisher of interfering with “concerted activities” of workers, including possible retaliation and coercion. It comes months after …
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Faces A Second Labor Complaint Amid Worker Frustrations
When I was a child, I excitedly anticipated the commute my mom and I took every Sunday to our humble Black Lutheran church in Cabrini Green. But what excited me wasn’t hearing the children’s sermons from our youth pastor or the potluck lunches that followed morning service. My excitement came from pulling out my …
Source: Kotaku – Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, And Pop Culture Effortlessly Shines A Light On Black Nerd Experience
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunning community is constantly looking for new ways to push the state of the art, and one player just achieved what was previously thought of as an impossible feat…at least for a human.
Source: Kotaku – Only A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now
Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, a trans streamer and political commentator, was arrested by Canadian police last week after a swatting incident. Keffals was left rattled, saying in a YouTube video recounting the event that the police terrorized her and locked her out of her accounts because she’s “still a suspect in an…
Source: Kotaku – Popular Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Arrested After ‘Traumatizing’ Swatting Incident
Following a ballyhooed June relaunch, Sony’s PS Plus membership now comes with access to a games-on-demand library (well, if you pay for either of the two pricier tiers). Like Microsoft’s competing Xbox Game Pass service, PS Plus is starting to see a regular addition of several games on a monthly basis—gotta keep the…
Source: Kotaku – The PS Plus Library Keeps Getting Bigger—And Keeps Forgetting The Classics
Earlier this month, Sony announced the purge of a PlayStation 5 feature for the honestly pretty reasonable rationale of “absolutely fucking nobody was using this thing.” Called Accolades, it allowed users to award points to opponents in multiplayer games. Yeah. I’d also never heard of it before Sony sent it directly…
Source: Kotaku – The PlayStation 5 Features Most People Forget About
