In the mood for a retro-style FPS, I dug around the new releases on Steam, and poked at a few, not really clicking. Until, that is, I found Hands Of Necromancy, and then played it all weekend. This is a Hexen-like FPS, with enormous, sprawling maps, a whole bunch of weapons, an array of enemy types, and some fresh…
Source: Kotaku – A Game So Good It Could Have Been Hexen III
As previously established, today is the day all gaming websites that don’t hate their readers, their country, their God, post as much as they can about unknown indie games in penance for all that triple-A blah that occupies our lives. So read on for another 10 games you’ve never heard of before, but will be so glad…
Source: Kotaku – 10 More Fascinating Indie Games To Wishlist Today
Rather than following the more traditional release schedule of repeatedly delaying the Cyberpunk anime for months at a time, until finally releasing it long before they’ve finished coloring it in, Netflix has instead opted to have Cyberpunk: Edgerunners come out on time. And to celebrate this September’s streaming…
Source: Kotaku – Watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Opening Titles
A new job ad, reported by PlayStation Lifestyle after being spotted on ResetEra, strongly suggests that Sony might be trying to hire an engineer to get its PS3 emulation sorted. There’s also rumor of getting old PS3 peripherals working on the new machine. Which would all be such a relief.
Source: Kotaku – A Tiny Glimpse Of Hope For PS3 Emulation On PS5
Welcome! It’s that most famous of national holidays, Indie Penance Day! The day on which major gaming websites attempt to make up for their AAA coverage by dedicating space to unknown indies. Any gaming site you see not joining in both hates indie developers, and America. Not us though, so read on for a whole bunch of…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Unknown Indie Games To Wishlist Right Away
The Polium One is the answer to a question no one has ever, nor will ever, ask. It is a “next-gen console for web3 gaming.” Which is to say, a render on a website for a fictional machine that I believe will absolutely will never get made. I dare them to prove me wrong.
Source: Kotaku – Hilarious ‘Web 3 Console’ Will Never, Ever Happen
Back in October 2020 I did a feature on a project that was trying to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, scan them and upload them onto the internet. I’m happy to report that, as of July 2022, the project has now completed a significant—and for many of you reading this it’s primary—milestone.
Source: Kotaku – Every Single English-Language SNES Manual Is Now Available Online
In case you’ve never seen our coverage of the event before, Yeticon isn’t like most other cosplay shows. Instead of taking place in a convention centre in a big American city, it’s held at the Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario, Canada, which means our gallery is swapping hotel carpet backdrops for the beautiful Canadian…
Source: Kotaku – Our Favorite Cosplay From Yeticon 2022
Summer Games Done Quick, a charity speedrun marathon that was back with an in-person event for the first time in a few years, was held between June 26-July 3 in Bloomington, Minnesota. And at the end of the week, once all the runs were done, the event had raised an enormous $3 million for charity.
Source: Kotaku – Summer Games Done Quick Raises Over Million For Charity
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish.
Source: Kotaku – KOTOR 2 On Switch Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
Fallout: London looks great! It honestly could pass as a real, official expansion if you showed it to someone who had no idea it was a fan-created mod. And apparently the company behind Fallout, Bethesda, agrees that London looks marvelous because it keeps hiring up the ambitious mod’s developers.
Source: Kotaku – Bethesda Keeps Hiring The Fans Creating Fallout: London
When I first watched Netflix’s new anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, I expected a melodramatic anime series along the lines of Record of Lodoss War. What I got was an unapologetically horny show about a wizard and his ever-growing harem of big-haired anime waifus. I loved every second of it.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix’s New Heavy Metal Fantasy Anime Is Unapologetically Horny And That’s OK
When people talk about the “best” year in gaming, they typically trot out the usual suspects: 2007 (Assassin’s Creed! Mass Effect! Halo 3!), 2013 (The Last of Us! GTA V!), 2017 (Horizon Zero Dawn! That other open-world game!). Allow us to posit that one of the best years in gaming happened exactly 20 years ago: 2002.…
Source: Kotaku – Let’s Remember How Amazing 2002 Was For Video Games
Video game companies are notoriously cagey about sharing their plans. In a market saturated with sequels and spin-offs, developers nevertheless treat every new project with extreme secrecy. They’ll rarely even be up-front about what they aren’t working on, but today the PlayStation studio behind Ghost of Tsushima did…
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Studio Refreshingly Honest About What It Isn’t Working On
20-year-old Brian Haugh has spent the past six years purchasing thousands of “:steam2016:” emoticons, which Valve created to promote the 2016 Steam Summer Sale and looks like a hot dog wearing little shoes. On Steam, you can purchase emoticons from other users in the Community Marketplace or create them by playing…
Source: Kotaku – Every Hot Dog Emoji On Steam Belongs To A Guy Named Brian
For the past week, Games Done Quick has held its annual speedrunning festival. As always, the event has been awesome, full of some truly mind-blowing feats, including an exploit-packed run through Halo Infinite’s open-world-ish campaign. But organizers appear to have saved the best for last, with a truly stacked…
Source: Kotaku – PSA: Seriously, Don’t Miss The Final Night Of Games Done Quick
I’ll admit that, until yesterday, I had no idea Fire Emblem Heroes was still active and updated. But a lot of people are still playing the game and apparently spending money on it, too. New data shows that Fire Emblem Heroes has just reached $1 billion in revenue, becoming the first Nintendo mobile game to do so.
Source: Kotaku – Fire Emblem Heroes Becomes Nintendo’s First Billion-Dollar Mobile Game
In the wake of Roe v. Wade being struck down last week, many employees at Skyrim maker Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company ZeniMax Media have grown increasingly frustrated by what they see as their employer’s unwillingness to clearly support employees’ access to reproductive healthcare. This is an especially…
Source: Kotaku – Tensions Rise At Bethesda As Employees Pressure Company On Abortion Measures
Technoblade (or Techno for short), a popular Minecraft YouTuber and internet personality with over 11 million followers on the video-creating platform, passed away on June 30 after losing his battle against cancer. He was just 23 years old.
Source: Kotaku – Tributes Pour In For Beloved Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade
It’s been a while since Electronic Arts was the video game villain of the moment, but on Thursday the FIFA publisher sucked up all the oxygen in the room thanks to a bad joke made even worse by the company’s cutthroat history. If there’s one mega gaming company out there who shouldn’t have been taking casual shots at…
Source: Kotaku – EA Roasted For Dunking On Single-Player Games After Everything It’s Done