Might Nintendo intend to create some sort of animated Nintendoverse? The Japanese gaming behemoth just announced it’s buying CG animation and motion capture studio Dynamo Pictures, now to be known as Nintendo Pictures.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Is Buying An Animation Studio
For years, the thrill of nabbing a Platinum trophy on PlayStation has been motivated by one thing: bragging rights. But later this year, once PlayStation rolls out its new loyalty program, you’ll actually reap tangible benefits (read: $$$, kinda).
Source: Kotaku – New PlayStation Rewards Program Can Give You Money For Playing Games, Getting Trophies
Looks like some people have been enjoying a little more than just early footage of the upcoming Skate 4. While EA continues to keep fans refreshingly up-to-date on a game that’s still a while off, the developers have written a blog post to say there’s a limit to that sentiment, and to ask folks to please stop playing…
Source: Kotaku – Skate 4 Team Says People Have Been Playing A Leaked, Early Build Of The Game
While you’d all be aware that celebrities, despite their wealth, are given expensive shit for free all the time, today we’re going to take a look at one gift in particular. Partly because it’s a gaming PC, but also because we kinda have the receipt for it as well.
Source: Kotaku – Drake Gets 00 Gaming PC Just To Gamble In A Browser
Drew Karpyshyn, a former BioWare writer, recently visited Reddit for a Q&A session promoting his latest novel, Time Kings of Las Vegas. The conversation, however, focused largely on his video game work. One user was even able to suss out a funny anecdote about how he reacted behind the scenes to Mass Effect fans…
Source: Kotaku – Mass Effect Writer Was Somehow Surprised Players Wanted To Bang Aliens
You may have seen some recent posts, on social media accounts typically associated with self-serious multiplayer shooters, about the “skill gap”—the general disparity in ability between pro players and casual fans in a given game.
Source: Kotaku – Fall Guys Is Hotter Than Ever Now That It’s Free To Play
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was released last month across multiple platforms and to widely positive reviews. Now, the studio behind the retro-inspired arcade beat ‘em up has shared the news that TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge sold one million copies in just its first week. Impressive as shell, I say!
Source: Kotaku – TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge Sells 1 Million Copies In A Week
A month after launching its answer to Xbox Game Pass, Sony plans to add a slew of new and old games to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on June 19.
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Plus’ Game Catalog Expands With Stray, Way Too Much Assassin’s Creed
If you’re a wrestling fan, you likely already know that WWE’s empress of tomorrow Asuka is a force to be reckoned with in the ring. But unless you’re terminally online like myself, you might not know that she excels in the art of shitposting as well.
Source: Kotaku – WWE’s Asuka Is The Shitposting Queen Of Wrestling
Red Dead Online’s last major update was released exactly a year ago today, and since then the game has lingered like a zombie as the community gradually lost hope that more content was coming. Before the anniversary, some players began planning an online funeral for Red Dead Online. And then last week, Rockstar Games…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Hold Virtual Funeral For Red Dead Online One Year After Last Update
What’s more grim? That GameStop slashed headcount to cut costs right before launching an NFT marketplace, or that the NFT marketplace which the company spent millions on earned only an estimated $44,500 on its big debut? For those keeping score at home, that’s less than the price of a new truck.
Source: Kotaku – GameStop NFT Marketplace Earns ,500 In Its First Day
Game-engine maker Unity said it plans on acquiring Ironsource, an ad tech firm, in a press release this morning. The news comes just two weeks after a wide round of layoffs rocked the company, where remaining employees are not exactly thrilled with the strategy.
Source: Kotaku – Unity Buys Another Company As Staff Fumes Over Massive Layoffs
Following 2018’s substantial and mostly excellent revision to the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade, and before the expected release of the upcoming 5th edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse’s core rulebook, Hunter: The Reckoning gets its turn with a 5th edition book, celebrating the latest…
Source: Kotaku – This Tabletop Horror RPG Will Have You Putting Away D&D
Five years ago, I had a terrible idea: I wanted a BioShock tattoo. Obsessively.
Source: Kotaku – How To Get A Gaming Tattoo You Won’t Hate Next Year, According To Artists
The second half of Nintendo’s 2022 Switch release lineup continues to come into focus. On Wednesday the company announced in a new trailer that Bayonetta 3 will come to the hybrid handheld on October 28, letting Platinum Games’ gun-toting witch make her triumphant return right in time for Halloween. And that’s not…
Source: Kotaku – Bayonetta 3 Is Out In October, And It’s Got A Mode To Make The Game Less Sexy
Imagine, your significant other has, yet again, taken it upon themselves to spring a surprise road trip on you without telling you where you’re going. Though you feign a smile at it being a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of the Leonid meteor shower, you’re distracted by the glowing red eyes from a swarm of mothmen…
Source: Kotaku – Spooky New Game Rekindles The Horror Of The Cryptid Legend
Elden Ring is still a new game as far as I’m concerned, but it’s also one many players have already sunk dozens or even hundreds of hours into, and any game, no matter how great, can start to lose its luster after a while. A new big thing starts calling out to you, like Neon White, or maybe you become preoccupied with…
Source: Kotaku – Eight Ways To Make Elden Ring Feel New Again While You Wait For DLC
It’s been ten years since we first wrote about The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, a 1986 film—released only in Japanese—that was the first time a movie had ever been made about a Nintendo character. So it’s cool to be able to report in 2022 that efforts are once again underway to dub the film for an…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Are Dubbing Japan’s 1980’s Super Mario Bros. Anime
