Hey, remember this time last year when Reubs whipped up a more modern version of the classic Simpsons: Hit & Run in just a week? Well he’s back in 2022 and has far more ambitious goals for the project.
Source: Kotaku – Fan Wants To Build An Open World Simpsons: Hit & Run
For those of you who’ve been longingly (…or jealously) watching as a lucky few get to play around with their fancy, new Steam Decks, well, I’ve got some good news. Valve has announced it will start sending out Q3 Steam Deck reservation emails later this week. And, it also confirmed it’s ramping up actually shipping…
Source: Kotaku – Valve Is Doubling Steam Deck Deliveries, So Check Your Emails
Today, a Chinese AAA studio announced that it would be adapting a famous wuxia novel series into a martial arts game. The demo trailer showed off stylish combat that heavily incorporates exaggerated aerial movements, which are a common hallmark of wuxia cinema but which I’ve rarely seen so gracefully replicated in…
Source: Kotaku – Wuxia Martial Arts Game Looks Slick As Hell
It’s like clockwork: A game comes out with a robust competitive component…and is instantly inundated by players who rocket to the top via nefarious, unsanctioned means—cheaters, in other words. The latest victim is Neon White, a multi-genre speedrunning game developed by Angel Matrix and published by Annapurna…
Source: Kotaku – The Hottest Game Of The Summer Has A Cheating Problem
Pokémon fan and card game player Matthew Verive used 60 giant novelty cards to play at the Pokémon North America International Championship on June 24. Those cards are huge, and would not fit in my womanly pockets. The three-day championship had events for a few competitive Pokémon games, including the OG Trading Card…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Card Game Player Uses Comically Large Cards At Championship
Sometimes you just wanna explore wastelands all by your lonesome. But Fallout 5 is years away, and Fallout 76 is…fine, albeit multiplayer and developed under brutal working conditions. So many looking for the next big solo Fallout experience have been closely watching the development of Fallout: London, an…
Source: Kotaku – Impressive Fan Creation Fallout: London Coming In 2023
Valve’s Steam Deck is a cool little handheld PC you probably don’t wanna modify too much. However, if the creative juices start flowing and you feel the need to tinker with it, Valve user experience designer Lawrence Yang is at least advising against a mod that increases the literal size of the Deck’s SSD. The reason?…
Source: Kotaku – ‘Please Don’t’ Mod The Steam Deck’s SSD, Valve Warns
A few days ago, I was playing Neon White, which is what I mostly do these days when I’m not doomscrolling Twitter. I had set a fast but not perfect time on a level and was replaying to beat someone on my friend-filled leaderboard. Nothing was working. Then, on run 503 or so, I spotted an angle that would let me shoot…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Feeling Of 2022: Finding Shortcuts In Neon White
Apparently outside of being a 16-time WWE world heavyweight champion, a surprisingly decent rapper, and occasionally intangible to the human eye, John Cena is also a huge mark for the Metroid series.
Source: Kotaku – WWE Superstar John Cena Kept Asking Nintendo For A New 2D Metroid (Then Got It)
Today in Mad-Libs: That Sounds Too Good To Be True Edition, legendary game designer Hideo Kojima was reportedly working on a project that pitted a team of detectives against superpowered humans. That game is now dead, according to Kojima, because it bore too much similarity to The Boys, Amazon’s hit show about more or…
Source: Kotaku – Hideo Kojima Killed A Project Because It Was Too Much Like The Boys
The Day Before is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, but it’s attracting attention for a very different reason. The studio currently uses “volunteers” who are paid with “participation certificates” and free codes, which are, you know, great for paying rent.
Source: Kotaku – MMO Studio Wants Unpaid Volunteers To Make Steam’s Most Wishlisted Game
If there’s one thing that’s helped The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker stand the test of time, it’s the game’s distinctive art style. But it turns out this now-defining aspect stoked some controversy in development. According to a slew of old interviews, resurfaced and translated by the folks at DidYouKnowGaming?,…
Source: Kotaku – Miyamoto Couldn’t Stand Wind Waker’s Art Style At First
Diablo Immortal may be a solid mobile version of Blizzard’s hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, but it’s no secret the game has been mired in controversy due to its egregious microtransactions. It was previously speculated that maxing out a single character could cost as much as $100,000. However, it now seems the…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo Immortal Could Run Your Wallet Way More Than You Thought
Bernie Stolar, one of the most important video game executives of the 1990s, has passed away at the age of 75, GamesBeat reports.
Source: Kotaku – RIP Bernie Stolar, Who Helped Launch Both The PlayStation And Dreamcast
In 1997 Westwood Studios—famous for their real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer and Red Alert—released a game called simply Blade Runner. It was a grimy point-and-click adventure game, and became one of the all-time greats in the genre.
Source: Kotaku – Blade Runner Remake Looks Like Complete Dogshit
Remember in 2006 when we got a Scarface game set after the ending of the classic ‘80s gangster flick? It was a weird setup, but the end result was a slightly clunky, yet kind of fun GTA-like open-world game. Apparently it did well enough that a sequel began development, but it was never finished. However, new footage…
Source: Kotaku – Canceled Scarface 2 Game Footage Leaks On YouTube
Everything feels like it’s exploding in forest fires or uncaring politicians, but at least you can currently get Bugsnax for 50% off in the Steam Summer Sale, which began yesterday and will run until July 7 at 1 p.m. Eastern.
Source: Kotaku – Momentarily Forget The State Of The World With Steam’s Giant Summer Sale
Minecraft is still one of the biggest games in the world more than a decade after its launch. At the same time, the justices of the United States Supreme Court are all over the news lately. It’s a no-brainer: Let’s put those judges in Minecraft!
Source: Kotaku – Here’s How To Add U.S. Supreme Court Justices To Minecraft For No Reason At All
Last night, the creative team behind a highly anticipated fan-made Persona 5 anthology zine announced that its project lead had confessed to spending $27,600 CAD (approximately $21,300 USD) of the zine’s funds for “personal use.” The money was originally intended for printing and shipping unofficial art and…
Source: Kotaku – Persona 5 Fanzine In Disarray After Lead Organizer Allegedly Embezzles ,000
