If you’re still playing Elden Ring and never want to stop, you’re in luck. A new randomizer mod for PC changes up everything from item placement to boss locations. You can even transform every enemy into Malenia. Consider it the unofficial “new game plus” FromSoftware was too merciful to ship itself.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Randomizer Turns It Into A Whole New Game
Today marks the tenth anniversary of Wit Studio, the anime production company who, with Attack on Titan, quickly established itself as a powerhouse in the anime industry. However, Wit’s great body of work extends beyond the walls of its anime adaptation of AoT. Wit’s also the driving force behind superb anime…
Source: Kotaku – Celebrate Attack On Titan Maker Wit Studio’s 10th Anniversary With These 10 Anime
One of the most popular Steam games right now is V Rising, a vampiric action-survival role-playing game by Stunlock Studios. The game is tearing up the charts, with some 95,000 people playing it at any given time according to Steam Charts. Most telling, though, is V Rising’s reception on Valve’s PC gaming platform,…
Source: Kotaku – V Rising, As Told By Steam Reviews
A brief preview of Sonic Frontiers was enough to get folks talking about Breath of the Wild again, but now that we have more footage, it’s clear what this upcoming game is all about. Sega finally listened to YouTube comments and hired one of those “remade in Unreal” guys.
Source: Kotaku – Sonic Frontiers Looks Like A Bland Unreal Engine Tech Demo
Nintendo just showed off its second trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and it looks like a great game! The starters are cute, the environments look a lot better than in Legends, and the professors are hot. Wait, what?
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Professors Are Uncomfortably Attractive
The new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trailer introduced players to three new exciting Pokémon, the fluffy and electric Pawmi, greasy, gasping Smoliv, and the lil’ piggy Lechonk, who is already the subject of adoring fan art and odes of protection. But in this chonk eat chonk world, no one can protect the crusty-eyed pig…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Crying Lechonk Would Be Great On A Sandwich
Hot professors! Four-player co-op! Lechonk! Today, the Pokémon Company dumped a trove of info about the next mainline Pokémon versions for Switch, Scarlet and Violet, including the release date (November 18, 2022). But a new trailer also pulled back the curtain on the two new version-specific legendary Pokémon, …
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Know About Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Legendaries
Today, the Pokémon Company announced the release date for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The games are out for November Switch on November 18. Here’s a new trailer, featuring something entirely new for the series: not one but two professors.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Will Have Different Version Professors, Four-Player Co-Op
Junichi Masuda, Game Freak’s former managing director and one of the company’s founding members, has stepped down from the role, to take up a new, far more senior position as The Pokémon Company’s “Chief Creative Fellow.”
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Pioneer, Game Freak Co-Founder Junichi Masuda Leaves Studio For Bigger Role
Like a poor young suckling puppy being torn from its mother, millions of Pokémon GO players are unable to log in, or take part, in their favourite mobile game. Reports are coming from all around the world that the game is down. POGO is no-go.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon GO Is Down, Weep And Gnash Teeth
The retro PC game collecting scene was rocked by an unexpected scandal last week when a prominent member of the community, who was also a moderator of a major Facebook group, was accused of selling people fake copies of classic games.
Source: Kotaku – Retro Game Collector Accused Of Selling 0,000 Worth Of Intricate Forgeries
Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment general manager and head of some of Electronic Arts’s biggest franchises, spoke out on Twitter in defense of transgender rights ahead of the start of Pride Month on June 1. Kotaku has learned that this rare display comes after an internal roundtable discussion earlier today, in…
Source: Kotaku – Respawn Boss Vince Zampella Speaks Out On Trans Rights, Even As EA Refuses
I have complicated feelings about the modern vampire story. Violence is cheap. Tasty humans are plentiful. And skyscrapers provide ample shelter from the sun. The sanctity of human life doesn’t mean much to creatures that will kill people over a simple meal. It can feel powerful to be so far removed from the…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Breakout V Rising Is A Stellar Survival RPG
Hey! Remember Blitzball? It was that weird-looking, but also kind of cool underwater sport from Final Fantasy X? Well, now Blitzball is (sort of) a part of the Star Wars universe thanks to a person who used to write about the NHL and his new book starring Anakin and Obi-Wan.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy X’s Blitzball Now Exists In Star Wars, Sort Of
Earlier today, Sega shared a brief look at Sonic Frontiers, the next installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise launching on every major gaming platform later this year. It’s open-world and very green, so you know what that means: Folks couldn’t help but make comparisons to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild…
Source: Kotaku – Sonic Frontiers Clip Gets Breath Of The Wild Trending On Twitter Again
Last week, workers at Seven Seas Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based publishing company that sells licensed manga, webcomics, and light novels from Japan, formed the United Workers of Seven Seas union. The union claims Seven Seas employees and freelancers are being “overworked” and “underpaid.” But the company is…
Source: Kotaku – First Manga Worker Union Forms Amid Alleged Union Busting
Well, here’s some bad news for people who live in Belgium or the Netherlands and are excited to play Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s upcoming free-to-play dungeon crawler out June 2 on PC and mobile devices. It turns out, due to local loot box laws, that Blizzard’s next action RPG won’t be released in either country.
Source: Kotaku – Diablo Immortal Won’t Launch In Some Countries Due To Loot Box Laws
This year’s not-E3-but-basically-E3 kicks off on Thursday with Sony’s big summer State of Play showcase. PlayStation has already had a pretty banner year, thanks to a number of exclusives (Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, Ghostwire: Tokyo) and a forthcoming revamp of its subscription services. But there’s a lot…
Source: Kotaku – What To Expect From Sony’s Big Not-E3 Press Conference
A popular Sims 4 NPC family is at the center of a minor fan debate after getting an unexpected makeover, raising questions about The Sims’ complicated history of Eurocentric character design.
Source: Kotaku – The Latest Sims 4 Update Tries To Reckon With Its History Of Whitewashing
In April, Microsoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Origins would come to the Xbox Game Pass library, but didn’t say when. Today, in a blog post, Microsoft said that Ubisoft’s open-world action RPG will officially be available early next month, alongside a number of other games. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Assassin’s Creed Game Is Coming To Game Pass