That Massive Pokémon Scarlet, Violet Leak Looks Plausible After The Latest Official Trailer Drop

The latest info dump for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will likely only add fuel to the fire for rumors and speculation about the upcoming games. That’s because it confirms Pokémon in the Gen 9 entry will be able to transform into more powerful crystallized versions of themselves. That detail was previously revealed in a

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Source: Kotaku – That Massive Pokémon Scarlet, Violet Leak Looks Plausible After The Latest Official Trailer Drop

The Nintendo Switch Features Most People Forget About

The PlayStation 5’s Accolades feature has allowed users to offer awards to fellow players in multiplayer games, the idea being it’d help foment kindness and camaraderie in the gaming community. But Sony formally retired it from PS5 this week for one reason: No one used it. Most people (hi) didn’t even seem to know it…

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Source: Kotaku – The Nintendo Switch Features Most People Forget About

Pokemon Scarlet, Violet's Legendaries Are Goddamn Motorcycles, Here's The Open World You'll Explore

Pokémon fans didn’t have to spend long scouring blurry leaked images for details about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet versions. Today, during a Pokémon Presents livestream, Nintendo showed off a ton of footage for November’s Switch-exclusive tent poles, including new details about the legendary Pokémon—who you may join…

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Source: Kotaku – Pokemon Scarlet, Violet’s Legendaries Are Goddamn Motorcycles, Here’s The Open World You’ll Explore

Fire Emblem Fans Should Give This Steam Hit A Try

There’s been a raft of intriguing strategy RPGs this year, but one of my favorites so far is Symphony of War. It’s been climbing the charts on Steam in recent months, and for good reason. From a distance it looks like another Fire Emblem knockoff. Up close it’s doing enough interesting things to stand on its own, and…

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Source: Kotaku – Fire Emblem Fans Should Give This Steam Hit A Try

Blatant God Of War Knock-Off Being Sold On Xbox Store

God of War Ragnarok is one of the most anticipated games of 2022 and has people around the world hyped, as the kids say. But it’s only coming to PlayStation consoles. Well don’t worry Xbox players, someone has spent at least 20 minutes developing an Xbox version of God of War. Except it uh…sucks, looks terrible, and…

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Source: Kotaku – Blatant God Of War Knock-Off Being Sold On Xbox Store

The 7 Best BDSM Sex Games To Play, Learn, And Experiment With Kink

Video games, like all art forms, can inform and inspire people…and their sex lives. Popular culture might like associating games with crushed cans of Monster Energy and glasses held in the middle with tape, but some video games are sexually active. Some, like the ones in this slideshow, can welcome their ready players…

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Source: Kotaku – The 7 Best BDSM Sex Games To Play, Learn, And Experiment With Kink

New Predator Film’s Composer Got The Job After Director Heard Her Work In Assassin’s Creed

Sometimes decisions in Hollywood happen only after months and months of research, auditions, testing, and more. Other times, a director might just find exactly what they needed by luck. Such is the case of Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, who was playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla while preparing to shoot the movie. He…

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Source: Kotaku – New Predator Film’s Composer Got The Job After Director Heard Her Work In Assassin’s Creed

Call Of Duty Keeps Bleeding Millions Of Players

Success is relative. Many gaming companies would kill for a blockbuster franchise that’s an annual top-seller like Call of Duty. But for embattled publisher Activision anything short of top billing month after month isn’t enough, and Call of Duty has recently been falling short more and more.

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Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty Keeps Bleeding Millions Of Players

Competitive Pokémon Now Allows Mythicals, And It Changes Everything

Competitive Pokémon trainers are both excited and terrified at the recent rule changes in the video game championships (VGC), where players compete against one another via Pokémon Sword and Shield in an array of leagues. Mythical Pokémon are now allowed for official tournament play for the first time. This means that…

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Source: Kotaku – Competitive Pokémon Now Allows Mythicals, And It Changes Everything

Game Pass Loses One Of Its Best Games, Gets One Of Ubisoft’s Worst

On the one hand, Game Pass is losing a lovingly-made dungeon crawler that Says Things about the existence of modern life. But on the other hand, at least it’s getting one of the most callous Ubisoft map games in recent memory (I’ll give you one guess). Here’s what’s coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service in the…

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Source: Kotaku – Game Pass Loses One Of Its Best Games, Gets One Of Ubisoft’s Worst

New Gotham Knights Gameplay Suggests It May Be More Than A Boring Loot Grind

What happens if you want to make a game about Gotham City but can’t center it around Batman? Easy! You tap the benchwarmers. Warner Bros. has revealed the opening chapter of Gotham Knights, its action game DC heroes who aren’t the Caped Crusader.

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Source: Kotaku – New Gotham Knights Gameplay Suggests It May Be More Than A Boring Loot Grind

HBO's Historic Virtual Reality Movie Isn't Fully Honest With Itself

Director Joe Hunting’s documentary We Met In Virtual Reality, the first to be filmed entirely in the social game VRChat, is not as compelling as its multilayered subject matter. It’s filmed at a personal range, with Hunting always hidden but his camera absorbing cartoonish faces like a curious, patient eye. It lingers…

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Source: Kotaku – HBO’s Historic Virtual Reality Movie Isn’t Fully Honest With Itself