Nintendo issued an update on the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives yesterday, and while this is normally a pretty stale kind of thing to read through as a fan, this particular publication had one thing that stood out.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Japan Says It Recognises Same-Sex Marriages, Even Though Japan Doesn’t
When I was a kid there was nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon with a model kit. Snipping the parts off the board, patiently gluing everything together, painting each careful brushstroke and delicately placing each decal was a process that was almost meditative, and after leaving the hobby behind…
Source: Kotaku – Nothing Is More Relaxing Than Building A Plastic Model Kit
For two long years, manga readers have awaited the second coming of our lord and savior, Chainsaw Man. Finally, Chainsaw Man Part 2 is among us, and folks, its first chapter slaps.
Source: Kotaku – Chainsaw Man Part 2’s First Chapter Is Exquisite
Bungie senior visual designer Signy Davis recently shared a blistering message on Twitter demanding that her company, along with the gaming industry at large, throw much-needed support behind inclusive health care for transgender workers.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny Dev Demands Bungie Support Trans-Inclusive Health Care
How do you keep a nearly 20-year-old game fresh and relevant? According to the team behind the colossal, space-based MMO EVE Online, you do it by constantly reinvesting in your infrastructure and by working to keep your new player experience–those early hours that introduce newcomers to the basics of the game’s…
Source: Kotaku – The Most Intimidating MMORPG Is Trying To Feel More Welcoming To Newcomers
Since Naughty Dog’s Summer Games Fest announcement that The Last Of Us is getting a PlayStation 5 remake, gamers have been up-in-arms on social media over whether or not the infection-killing dad simulator even needs a remake. According to two developers at Naughty Dog, the remake isn’t the “cash grab” gamers have…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Devs Promise PS5 Remake Isn’t A ‘Cash Grab’
In case you haven’t heard it yet from literally every other publication on the planet, today marks the start of Prime Day, the annual capitalism ritual wherein Amazon pushes every working class person into a locker and steals their lunch money. While much of the promotion is total bullshit, there’s the occasional…
Source: Kotaku – A Prime Day TV Deal That Boosts Your PS5 And Xbox Series X Graphics
While there are many parts of the world more used to hitting the likes of 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the rapid increase in global temperatures means such heat is becoming a factor elsewhere. So much so that Nintendo has just issued a warning not to play with your Switch once the thermometer hits the big numbers.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Gives Switch Warning As Summer Temperatures Rise
Kirby has a second game coming out in 2022 and it’s giving the internet major Fall Guys vibes. On Tuesday, Nintendo quietly announced Kirby’s Dream Buffet, a multiplayer game where you race friends around delicious hazards. The Switch eShop exclusive is due out in the next couple of months.
Source: Kotaku – Kirby Gets The Fall Guys Treatment In Surprise New Switch Game
I know there have been a lot of attempts at releasing multiplayer mods for Skyrim over the years, but none of those have been as ambitious as the co-op mod Skyrim Together Reborn, which aims to get between 2-8 players running around in the same game, completing the same quests and fighting the same monsters.
Source: Kotaku – Skyrim Co-Op Mod Released, Mostly Actually Works
Comedy group Mega64 just released a super impressive new video in which the team re-enact the entire, epic Maijin Buu story arc from Dragon Ball Z in just five (well, five-ish) minutes. To get it done, though, they needed some help.
Source: Kotaku – Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell And Other Superstar Developers Star In…A Dragon Ball Z Video
During Brazil’s International Games Festival last week, developer Mark Venturelli (Chroma Squad) was scheduled to give a talk called “The Future Of Game Design”. A few seconds in, he flipped and revealed the presentation’s real title—“Why NFTs are a nightmare”—to a room full of applause.
Source: Kotaku – Developer Ambushes NFTs In Public Talk, Makes Crypto Sponsors Real Mad
GameStop celebrated the launch of its NFT marketplace on Monday. Its Ethereum-based depot for virtually autographed JPEGs arrived just days after the meme stock giant ruthlessly laid off more employees, and based on my short tour through its website, it’s also still a little broken in places.
Source: Kotaku – GameStop Boss Celebrates NFT Marketplace Days After Laying People Off
Bandai Namco, the Japanese publisher behind the Ace Combat, Dragon Ball Z, and Dark Souls games, appears to be the latest major gaming company to suffer a major hack. The ransomware group BlackCat added the Elden Ring publisher to its list of victims earlier today, though it’s not yet clear the extent of the damage or…
Source: Kotaku – Hacker Group Claims Elden Ring Publisher Is Its Latest Victim
A sequel might be on the horizon, but there’s still a lot of game left in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Half a decade after its release, players are still finding new ways to crack Nintendo’s open-world RPG wide open. Just this week, glitch hunters have discovered what might be the most game-breaking…
Source: Kotaku – Incredible New Breath Of The Wild Glitch Lets You Supercharge, Remake Weapons
I know your mind is racing, so why don’t you sit down tonight with your Nintendo Switch and try out one of these six relaxing games?
Source: Kotaku – The Best Cozy Switch Games To Tap Out Of Your Daily Grind
After courting controversy for playing in a major Super Smash Bros. tournament over the weekend despite being seriously ill, world-class competitor Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma is now apologizing for his “incredibly selfish” decision.
Source: Kotaku – Smash Champ Apologizes For Attending Tournament While Seriously Ill
Over the weekend, life imitated art in the grandest way imaginable at a fighting game tournament and folks, it’s a tear-jerker.
Source: Kotaku – Dragon Ball FighterZ Player Has Awesome Anime Comeback That Would Make Goku Proud
