Axie Infinity, the play-to-earn, decidedly exploitative, crypto Neopets, has reopened its proprietary Ronin blockchain bridge after unintentionally exposing its users to a $600 million hack in March.
Source: Kotaku – NFT Pokémon Clone Recovers From 0 Million Hack, Ready To Chew Players Up Again
Cyberpunk 2077 will always be a cautionary tale of how not to make and release a game. It was notoriously marred by technical bugs and developmental woes and now, according to a new report from YouTuber Upper Echelon Gamers, a QA firm allegedly misled CD Projekt Red during the game’s development. But in response, the…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 QA CEO Claps Back, Says People Don’t Understand Testing
Thanks to some internet sleuthing, it seems the release date for Ubisoft’s upcoming pirate game, Skull And Bones, has leaked online. According to data found on the Xbox store, the game is set to release this November, which lines up with information Kotaku has heard about the game’s rocky development.
Source: Kotaku – After Nearly A Decade Of Development, Ubisoft’s Pirate Game Likely Out November
Spellbreak, the magic-based battle royale, is spellbroken, shutting down early next year, developer Proletariat announced in a blog post. Also, the whole studio is getting absorbed by Blizzard, the result of a recent acquisition intended to beef up development on World of Warcraft.
Source: Kotaku – Fantasy Battle Royale Spellbreak Shutting Down, Studio Absorbed By Blizzard
There’s a Japanese arcade game called Fishing Spirits that in 2019 was ported to the Switch, then released in the West as Ace Angler. It now has a sequel, and it is not your average fishing game.
Source: Kotaku – Wonderful, That Bonkers Fishing Game Series Is Back
Last year, a game was released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan called Crayon Shin-chan: Ora to Hakase no Natsuyasumi (Crayon Shin-chan: My Summer Vacation With The Professor). A crossover between legendary manga Crayon Shin-chan and the long-running My Summer Vacation series of video games, it looked slow and cruisy…
Source: Kotaku – Cruisy Japanese Summer Game Gets Surprise English Release
A new law recently passed in Quebec, Canada designed to force immigrants to learn and use French in a short amount of time has many game developers in the area worried. The new bill could make it harder for studios to recruit and keep talent in a part of Canada that contains numerous big game studios and companies.
Source: Kotaku – New Quebec French Language Law Has Game Devs Fearful Of The Future
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released a new Robin-centric Gotham Knights trailer showing the caped crusader bam! pow! and kerpslatting goons while (checks notes) teleporting.
Source: Kotaku – Holy Hole in a Doughnut, Batman, Robin Is Teleporting In The New Gotham Knights Trailer
At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was “confident” that the studio was not crunching, and that it was “unfair” to attribute crunch culture to…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Head Defends Bethesda In Wake Of Crunch Allegations
Neon White, a laser-quick first-person shooter thing, unfolds in a Heaven where angels threaten to detonate your face and experimental music outfit Machine Girl pierces your wrong moves with saturated breakbeats.
Source: Kotaku – Neon White Wouldn’t Be ‘Freaky’ Without Machine Girl’s Music
Today, during the latest third-party-focused Mini Direct, Nintendo finally announced a release date for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, its cartoonish take on a tactics game made in conjunction with Ubisoft. It’s set to come out on October 20, 2022, exclusively on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Kotaku – Mario + Rabbids: Sparks Of Hope Launches October 20, Sees Bowser Join The Fun
Switch-owning JRPG fans are feasting today. The biggest standouts from today’s Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase include Persona 5 Royal and Nier: Automata ports for the Nintendo Switch, but there were also neat-looking indie titles like the beautifully handcrafted RPG Time: The Legend of Wright and visually…
Source: Kotaku – Everything Shown At Today’s Nintendo Direct Mini
Three beloved Atlus games, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal, are finally making the leap to the Nintendo Switch, as announced earlier today during Nintendo’s Mini Direct.
Source: Kotaku – Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden, And Persona 3 Portable Coming To Switch, Too
The anime adaptation for Junji Ito’s critically acclaimed horror manga Uzumaki might be as cursed as its own fictional town of Kurouzu-cho because it’s been delayed for the third time.
Source: Kotaku – Junji Ito’s Uzumaki Anime Spirals Into Its Third Delay
Just when you thought you were finally safe from that guy making “the cake is a lie” jokes (before misquoting some Monty Python), Valve has surprise-launched the Switch port of both Portal and Portal 2 today. Announced during the very Mini Nintendo Direct, the 2007 smash hit puzzle game should be on your handheld’s…
Source: Kotaku – Portal: The Companion Collection Out On Switch Today
Nintendo announced today during its Mini Direct Partner Showcase that PlatinumGames’ moody action-RPG Nier: Automata is coming to the Switch on October 6. Dubbed The End of YoRHa Edition, this launch will include previously released add-ons such as the “3C3C1D119440927″ DLC as well as new console-exclusive…
Source: Kotaku – Nier: Automata Hits Nintendo Switch On October 6
Amid news of misconduct and hush money payouts at the WWE, Rita Chatterton, the first female referee for the then-World Wrestling Federation, revisited her rape accusation against WWE CEO and chairperson Vince McMahon in an interview with New York Magazine.
Source: Kotaku – Vince McMahon 1986 Rape Allegation Resurfaces As Former Wrestler Corroborates Story
Thanks to this morning’s peculiarly throwaway Nintendo Direct Mini, we have finally seen footage of Ron Gilbert’s Return To Monkey Island. While there has been a blitz of information and PR for the game since its announcement in April, this is the first time we’ve got a glimpse of how it will look when playing.
Source: Kotaku – Return To Monkey Island Looks Damned Pretty
