Resident Evil Village is getting new DLC in October that will finally make its star, Lady Dimitrescu, playable, and today Capcom finally showed off how she will play. Baroque furniture will be smashed and hordes of enemies will get the 9’6” chokehold. Also Chris Redfield will be there, I guess.
Source: Kotaku – Slash, Choke, And Throw Vanities As Lady Dimitrescu In Resident Evil Village DLC
Summer is here. But, likely, you live in a part of the world where recent heat waves and high temperatures have been prevalent. So, I don’t need to tell you it’s summer. But while summer is often a time when the world gets very hot, it’s also the time of year when many people start going outside again, visiting the…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Summer-Themed Games And Levels
MultiVersus, the free-to-play Smash-like based on Warner Bros. properties like Scooby-Doo and Steven Universe, launches in open beta on July 26. And according to fresh news out of today’s Comic Con presentation, NBA superstar LeBron James will join the fighting game as a playable character that same day.
Source: Kotaku – Real Human Being LeBron James Is Taking His Talents To MultiVersus
Stray strays from modern conventions in one notable way: It doesn’t allow you to customize your character—at all. But three days into the game’s release cycle, modders are already doing their damndest to set things straight.
Source: Kotaku – Why The Cat In Stray Is Orange (And How You Can Change It)
Pokémon. They come in all shapes and sizes, with enough diversity that everyone can find at least one they like. And though it’s difficult to have beef (or pork) with many of them, odds are you’re going to run into a few bad apples when you have over 900 of something. Humans are imperfect, of course, so some misplaced…
Source: Kotaku – Top 10 Pokémon That Should Die
The leaks continue with The Last Of Us Part I, but don’t roll your eyes at the idea you could be spoiled on a game you’ve already played and hasn’t changed just yet. This one’s actually great. Screenshots of the game’s accessibility features are rolling in, and they show essential options the original definitely did…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Part I Remake’s New Options Make A Case For Why The Game Needs To Exist
The whole world has a bad fever. Here, in New York, I sit inside with the fan directly on my face as the city sweats out its hottest week in almost a decade. Europe is getting swallowed in wildfires, drought is constricting East Africa, and unrelenting monsoon rains are drowning Bangladesh. The world is very sick.…
Source: Kotaku – Do’s And Don’ts For Gaming In A Neverending Heat Wave
Bruce Wayne really and truly bites it at the start of Gotham Knights, creative director Patrick Redding confirmed at a San Diego Comic Con panel on Thursday. WB Montreal’s upcoming loot-focused beat ’em up won’t feature the Joker either, though Redding left the door open to Harley Quinn showing up and smashing a few…
Source: Kotaku – Batman Really Is Dead In Gotham Knights (And The Joker’s MIA)
MultiVersus is a free-to-play platform fighter, a statement that might draw comparisons to Nintendo’s original take on the genre, Smash Bros. But a good platform fighter will take the basic foundation established by Nintendo’s popular franchise and use it to create something newish. MultiVersus accomplishes that…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing MultiVersus, WB’s Smash-Like Fighter
It’s not quite Steam, but the Nintendo Switch is full of free games. There are plenty of obvious ones, of course—y’know, games like Rocket League, Pokémon Unite, Apex Legends, or that one battle royale named after a frankly silly British chronological term. But Nintendo’s handheld is full of zero-dollar gems, with …
Source: Kotaku – The Best Free Games On Nintendo Switch (Right Now)
It may look and play like an asset flip, but Refund Me If You Can is nothing if not clever with its premise: You have two hours to evade a monster, get out of a sewer-like maze, and you must to promise—on your honor—that you will not request a refund through Steam. You are otherwise, and the game isn’t shy about…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Horror Game Challenges You To Beat It Quick Enough To Refund It
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords is a horror story. What happens when the Force no longer favors you? Can you survive when you walk away from being the chosen one? KotOR 2 shows you the dead, unbeating heart of an endlessly vast and uncaring galaxy. Instead of fully committing itself to…
Source: Kotaku – Review: Knights of the Old Republic 2 On Switch Is A Buggy, Brilliant Triumph In RPGs
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, publisher Electronic Arts decided to remove all Russian sides from FIFA 22. They won’t have to do the same for FIFA 23, because those teams are never making it into the game in the first place.
Source: Kotaku – Russian Teams Won’t Be In FIFA 23
My colleagues have been playing Stray on PS5 and by all accounts it has been an absolute joy. I, however, have been playing on PC, where things aren’t quite as rosy.
Source: Kotaku – Stray Has Some Annoying Hiccups On PC
Roblox is one of the most popular games in the world, and now it’s getting a graphical overhaul to bring its fidelity slightly more in line with its reach. It’s not quite gaming in ray-traced 4K, but it will no doubt go a long way toward helping the surprisingly shady, social “not-a game” platform insinuate itself…
Source: Kotaku – Roblox Updating Its Potato Graphics To Look Mildly More Realistic
Employees from Activision Blizzard walked off their jobs today in order to demand protections for the staff members impacted by the loss of abortion rights in the United States. The walkouts impacted studios in California, Texas, Minnesota, and New York.
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blizzard Workers Walk Out Over Lack Of Roe v. Wade Support
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are currently caught in a whirlwind of purported leaks, but the text on one less-than-legitimate photo sneakily mocks people fiending for any morsel of information they can get rather than providing any real info on the upcoming games.
Source: Kotaku – Fake Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Leak Sneakily Mocks Thirsty Fans
Unless you’re a card-carrying member of Kotaku Australia, seeing the indie simulation game Dinkum swimming up the Steam new release chart maybe seems bizarre. But don’t confuse Dinkum, which gets its name from the Australian slang term “fair dinkum,” meaning genuine (more or less), with your dinky old Converse or my…
Source: Kotaku – What The Hell Is Dinkum, Steam’s New Favorite Game?
