We finally got a glimpse of the legendary vampire hunter, Richter Belmont, in the upcoming Castlevania spin-off series, Castlevania: Nocturne during Netflix Geeked Week.
Source: Kotaku – Netflix Reveals First Look At New Castlevania Series Starring Richter Belmont
I started screaming in Kotaku Slack when my fellow weeb (and staff writer) Isaiah linked a screenshot of Dragon Age: Absolution. My favorite western fantasy RPG is getting an anime adaptation? Sign me up. But then I started watching the trailer, and my enthusiasm deflated immediately. Absolution doesn’t look like a…
Source: Kotaku – New Dragon Age Anime Suffers From Typical Netflix Blandness
Capcom released another Resident Evil Village demo earlier this week. It doesn’t include more content than earlier previews, but it does have the distinct advantage of being playable from your internet browser thanks to Immersive Stream for Games, a licensable version of Google’s Stadia tech.
Source: Kotaku – You Can Now Demo Resident Evil Village Right In Your Internet Browser
News of a video game remake is always the bellwether to a hurricane of discourse. Has it really been that long? Does this game really deserve a remake? This week, the eye of the storm is The Last of Us, as fans debate whether or not the visuals in the just-unveiled remake look measurably better than those of the…
Source: Kotaku – The Last Of Us Fans Debate PS5 Remake’s Graphics
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest ended yesterday with a bit of a plop. There were some interesting announcements, including a June 16 release date for TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, but The Geoffening was mostly overshadowed by the smaller Day of the Devs presentation that immediately followed. Still, Keigh3—or whatever…
Source: Kotaku – Dead Island 2 Hopefuls Get Played By Goat Simulator 3 Parody Trailer
Bobby Kotick announced today that Activision Blizzard will recognize Raven Software’s union of quality assurance testers. He promised that “we will engage in good faith negotiations to enter into a collective bargaining agreement” with Communications Workers of America.
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blizzard Recognizes QA Workers’ Union
This is not a drill, boy: God of War Ragnarök is planned for a November release, Bloomberg reports.
Source: Kotaku – Report: God Of War Ragnarök Planned For November
There is, and should be, a huge amount of discussion and debate regarding the exploitative nature of so many practices in modern video games. From gacha and lootboxes to in-app purchases and meaningless cosmetics, right up to the recent idiocy regarding NFTs, both game players and the gaming press need to be holding…
Source: Kotaku – Let’s All Exploit The Exploitative Games
I love video games, I love architecture and I love fancy books about both, so the upcoming Videogame Atlas is something I am super interested in checking out when it releases.
Source: Kotaku – Videogame Atlas Is A Love Letter To Game Levels & Architecture
Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the Metro books that have since become a popular series of video games, has said he is now on a Russian “wanted” list after publicly criticising his home country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Source: Kotaku – Metro 2033’s Author Has Been Added To Russian ‘Wanted’ List
While there are some who can distance Diablo Immortal’s experience from its economy, there are plenty—myself included—who can’t. And sure, we could just talk about how shitty that economy is, but a funnier and more effective way would be for someone to actually start sinking some serious cash into the game and see…
Source: Kotaku – Dude Spends 00 On Diablo Immortal, Gets No 5-Star Legendary Gems
Ten years is a long time in any business, but it’s an eternity in video games, where technology and design is always evolving, and always at the fastest pace imaginable. So it’s both incredible and absolutely wonderful today that we get to slow things down a little and revisit a game that I first wrote about in 2012,…
Source: Kotaku – Unreleased Indie Horror Game Returns 10 Years After Its Debut
Earlier today, Geoff Keighley kicked off this year’s Not-E3 season with Summer Game Fest, a loud, two-hour showcase of all the ways you’ll be able to murder people in video games over the next year or so. It was, to be quite honest, a lot. Thankfully, the folks at Day of the Devs showed up immediately afterward with a…
Source: Kotaku – Once Again, A Quiet Indie Games Show Upstages A Bombastic ‘AAA’ Event
Neon White, an extremely stylish shooter about exterminating demons as fast as possible, finally has a release date. It’s out June 16 for PC and Switch.
Source: Kotaku – Extremely Stylish Shooter Neon White Comes Out Next Week
During the Summer Games Fest, we got a closer look at the stylish urban RPG, Zenless Zone Zero. It’s coming from miHoYo, the developer behind Genshin Impact.
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Devs’ New Urban RPG Looks Gorgeous
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest has been filled with announcements, from Street Fighter 6 character reveals to a look at The Callisto Protocol’s gameplay. Bloober Team came through with an unveiling of its own, which was a revamp of its cult psychological horror series Layers of Fear, a collaboration with Aspyr…
Source: Kotaku – Bloober Team Reveals Horror Sequel That’s Not Silent Hill
One Piece’s manga might be going on a month-long hiatus, but that didn’t stop Game Pope and Muppet enthusiast Geoff Keighley from giving fans a new look at its upcoming JRPG during Summer Game Fest.
Source: Kotaku – New One Piece Odyssey Trailer Gives Straw Hat Pirates Movie-Esque Intro
Summer Game Fest. Hot Geoff Summer. The Geoffening. Keigh3. Call it what you will, but despite a notable absence of E3 this year, the de facto high video game marketing season is nonetheless underway. Over the course of a streamed event that ran for two hours but felt like 2o, host Geoff Keighley ran through more…
Source: Kotaku – Everything Shown At Summer Game Fest’s Big Kickoff Event
