When I was six, I peed my pants in class because I was too proud to use my public school bathroom. Similarly, suave billionaire and alleged sexual harasser Elon Musk peed his proverbial pants after a Twitter scuffle with the satirical video game site Hard Drive. Neither Musk nor Hard Drive returned a request for…
Source: Kotaku – Elon Musk Gets Into Embarrassing Fight With Video Game Site, Loses
If you spent any time on the internet this weekend, you might’ve seen some news about Bloodborne Remastered coming to PC and PS5 this August. The announcement came from what appeared to be a widely known entertainment and gaming news account by someone named Nibellion, who has been on Twitter since at least May 2012.…
Source: Kotaku – False Bloodborne Remastered Rumor Spreads Like Wildfire On Twitter
While Elden Ring is technically playable in co-op, the convoluted way developers FromSoftware have implemented the mode means hardly anybody ever bothers. That’s about to change, thanks to this incredible mod by LukeYui.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Gets ‘Seamless’ Co-op With New Mod
Hey, there’s a new Ni No Kuni game out! And it looks beautiful! This should be cause for celebration, but we don’t deserve nice things. So instead, we have got a mobile/PC gacha game that is built on a foundation of crypto nonsense.
Source: Kotaku – New Ni No Kuni Game Is Absolutely Rotten With Crypto Garbage
As if the previous fifteen indie games weren’t enough for you, here is another collection of interesting-looking in-development indie projects that you should very probably pop on your wishlist. Scroll on to discover at least something that’s going to catch your eye (wallet).
Source: Kotaku – 15 Fantastic Hidden Gem Indie Games You’ll Wishlist So Hard
Back in February, Nintendo made a very out-of-character move and provided access to a huge library of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl’s sound effects and music, even encouraging people to use them in their own (non-commercial) projects. What a lovely thing to do! So of course, three months later, it’s closing it down.
Source: Kotaku – It’s Your Last Chance To Grab The Pokémon Diamond/Pearl Sound Library
“…no, you can have some water in the afternoon if you’re quiet.” I’m sorry, you’ve caught me just cramming the last of the Kotaku team in the Holiday Closet. As they rest and recuperate in tangled proximity, I have control of the site, and as such can write about indie games no one’s heard of yet. And use proper…
Source: Kotaku – 15 Incredible Indie Games To Slam On Your Wishlist
I have found my happy place! Escape Simulator is such a lovely thing, a first-person simulacrum of escape rooms, built in 3D, with realistic physics. It is, as its title suggests, a simulation of attending a real-world escape room, in a way that almost all room-escape video games are not. Apart from when it’s in space.
Source: Kotaku – This Is As Close To A Real-World Escape Room As You’ll Find
Nintendo released a demo today for its upcoming soccer game, Mario Strikers: Battle League. How does it play? Is it a worthy follow-up to the older games? Is it fun? These are questions for which I don’t have answers. What I can tell you is that in this latest game Waluigi retains his crown as the king of swagger,…
Source: Kotaku – Waluigi Proves He’s Still The King Of Swagger
In recent weeks, WB Games Montreal has been shedding new light on its upcoming Batman game sans Batman, Gotham Knights, and some details have left fans skeptical about the direction the game is taking with Bruce Wayne’s surviving Bat Family. First, a 13-minute gameplay video revealed that GK’s incarnation of Nightwing…
Source: Kotaku – Gotham Knights Dev Addresses Details That’ve Had Fans Feeling Concerned
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the highly-anticipated sequel to 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was finally revealed today via a new teaser trailer during Star Wars Celebration. It will be released in 2023 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Sequel Coming Next Year, Will Be Next-Gen Only
I was horrified by the trailer for Warped Kart Racers, a new kart-racing game that blends together several popular animated shows. But like a terrible car wreck, I couldn’t look away from the waking nightmare of Peter Griffin and Hank Hill racing each other in a Mario Kart clone. It was cursed. And yet, now that I’ve…
Source: Kotaku – Cursed Mario Kart Clone Starring Peter Griffin Is Actually Pretty Good
Morbius can’t be contained. The Jared Leto-led vampire flick has been infecting various pockets of the internet all this week, spreading from Discord to Twitch to Twitter. Now, with a rabid new audience who call themselves “Morbheads,” excited by 24/7 broadcasts of the Marvel film from rogue Twitch streamers, the…
Source: Kotaku – Morbius Memes Are Taking Over The Internet
It feels like the current console generation is only just getting started, and yet, a corner of the internet spent a good part of this week obsessing over the next iteration, the presumed mid-generation hardware refreshes for Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S. The commotion is all thanks to an event…
Source: Kotaku – Why Everyone Spent The Week Losing It Over The ‘PS5 Pro’ And ‘Next Xbox’
Today, Valve released a highly-anticipated update to its portable PC. SteamOS 3.2 brings a lot of fun changes to both the operating system and the Steam client itself, enabling Remote Play Together, tweaks to some visual and UI elements, and the ability to change the screen’s refresh rate The updates to the fan noise,…
Source: Kotaku – Steam Deck’s Latest Update Is Sure To Stir Debate
Players have been hungry for details about Cyberpunk 2077’s first DLC since the game came out, yet nearly 18 months later, the only official news has been about additional delays. But now the dam of secrecy around the upcoming story expansion finally appears to have broken. A dataminer reportedly leaked hundreds of…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Leak May Offer Big Clues About Long-Awaited DLC
If you were wondering what was next on the horizon for the Game Grumps following their zaddy-filled dating game Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, the answer is a horror game.
Source: Kotaku – Dream Daddy Developers Are Making A Psychological Horror Game
The Steam Deck has unquestionably revitalized people’s interests in handheld gaming on anything other than a Switch. But had it never happened, 2022 would still have been a year packed with Switch-sized gaming devices, primarily thanks to evolutions in the world of emulation. Right at the front of that pack is new…
Source: Kotaku – This New Portable Gaming Console Is Hands-Down The Best Way To Play Emulated Games
In this virtual world, you can dance in zaps of electricity, or in the clouds.
Source: Kotaku – The ‘Mutes’ Of Virtual Reality Are Upending The Metaverse Without Saying A Thing
Horizon Forbidden West has been out long enough now that the game’s artists are free to post their work on sites like ArtStation, so tonight we’re going to be taking a look at all kinds of stuff that went into the game’s creation.
Source: Kotaku – The Art Of Horizon Forbidden West