Electronic Arts won’t be joining some other big game studios in publicly supporting abortion and transgender rights, Kotaku has learned. Asked about it during a May 24 company-wide town hall meeting, the gaming publisher told staff it couldn’t take a stance on every public issue and that “being an inclusive company…
Source: Kotaku – EA Tells Devs It Won’t Take Stand On Abortion Rights, Encourages ‘Healing Circles’
Until recently, a “Witcher School” in Poland ran live-action role-playing (LARP) events for fans of the wildly popular fantasy series with the official blessing of Witcher-series game publisher CD Projekt Red. But last Friday, its organizers, a company called 5 Żywiołów, announced that the “school” would be…
Source: Kotaku – Real Life ‘Witcher School’ Shuts Down Over Organizer’s Ultra-Conservative Political Ties
It’s the color of a shrunken oily olive. Its true eyes are pinpricks of light situated on either side of its threateningly wide mouth, and its false eyes wobble like (boobs?) batteries rolling around a broken flashlight on top of its scaly head. It is FromSoftware’s loathed but consistent creature the burping…
Source: Kotaku – Dark Souls’ Awful Basilisks Taught Me How To Play The Game
A future issue of DC Comics’ Detective Comics (that’s Detective Comics Comics’ Detective Comics for those of you keeping score at home) will feature a variant cover by none other than prolific Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, the company’s August 2022 catalog announces.
Source: Kotaku – Yoshitaka Amano Makes Batman Look Like Final Fantasy And I’m Here For It
On May 5, a man in Glendale, California met up with another man to buy from him a sealed two-pack of ultra-rare Funko Pops for $100K cash. This deal, the first six-digit Funko Pop sale ever recorded, is believed to be the largest in Funko Pop collecting history, and it might just be the start of bigger deals to come.
Source: Kotaku – Someone Just Bought Two Super-Rare Golden Funko Pops For 0K Cash
The forthcoming cyberpunk game Replaced won’t make its planned 2022 release. Today, developer Sad Cat Studios announced the side-scrolling platformer is now planned for next, citing the ongoing war in Ukraine as the cause.
Source: Kotaku – Belarusian Devs Delay Cyberpunk Game Due To Ongoing War In Ukraine
Dozens of games were shown during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase earlier this month, but only one featured a crab heading out in search of treasure, sword in claw, and taking on the undersea world. The Switch game in question, Another Crab’s Treasure, sounded perfectly niche, but its developers at Aggro Crab pitched…
Source: Kotaku – Soulslike Dev Explains Nintendo World Showcase ‘Selling Out’ Joke
If you just bought Ghostwire, Deathloop, or any other big PlayStation game, I am so, so sorry. You probably could’ve picked it up a lot cheaper today, as PlayStation’s big spring sale kicks off.
Source: Kotaku – Some Of The PS5’s Biggest Games Are On Sale ATM
The next No Man’s Sky expansion is all about space whales. Well, okay, there’s a whole new, roguelike-style expedition for players to tackle too but come on. Space whales, baby.
Source: Kotaku – No Man’s Sky Gets Space Whales, Roguelike Adventuring In Latest Update
V Rising came out on May 18, and I would bet that on the day almost none of you would have ever heard of it. One week later and it’s sold over 500,000 copies, and as I type this is being played by more people on Steam than Elden Ring.
Source: Kotaku – V Rising’s Huge Success On Steam Has Even Taken Its Developers By Surprise
Battlefield 2042, a game that has been swimming upstream from the moment it launched, needs both new content and some serious fixes, and it needs them quickly. In a major presentation made to fans earlier today, developers DICE revealed that players will be getting a little bit of both. Eventually.
Source: Kotaku – Major Battlefield 2042 Update Leaves Remaining Fans Dismayed
10 months after a California lawsuit alleged widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, employees at the company don’t feel like it’s made the necessary changes and have created a worker committee to demand further reforms. Chief among them are calls for independent…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blizzard Devs Demand Breastfeeding Protections And Other Reforms
Last Friday, when I started playing Steam Early Access farming sim Immortal Life, I was only planning to play for a couple of hours before bed. I finally ended my session at 5 a.m. It’s a standout among farming sims because it tries to emulate the verisimilitude of life instead of the dreary economics of running a…
Source: Kotaku – This Beautiful Farming Sim Combines Chinese Fantasy With Stardew Valley
Seth Green is having a bad time after he claims some of his NFT apes were stolen from him using a phishing scam. One very special ape in particular was taken and then sold to another user, which is bad news for him because Green planned and created an entire new TV show starring that digital ape NFT. Now that he no…
Source: Kotaku – Seth Green Created A TV Show Around His NFT Ape, Then Someone Stole It
An esports pro has been lambasted after a video surfaced online in which an individual, who is allegedly Fortnite Champion Series Grand Final contender Sin, shows off a fully stocked weapons closet and states, in the year 2022, that the stockpile of firearms is “just in case there’s ever a zombie apocalypse or a…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Pro Spouts Racial Slur, Shows Off Gun Stockpile In Widely Condemned Video
Nope, that key art above isn’t a promo image for Wolfenstein. It’s a promotional shot for a cosmetic set of Halo Infinite armor called Eaglestrike. Pretty neat, right? Good news: The kit itself is pretty easy to get. Bad news: Your personalized version won’t look cool for months.
Source: Kotaku – How To Get Halo Infinite’s Kick-Ass WW2-Inspired Armor
After over a decade away, it appears as if 2006’s Sonic the Hedgehog (or Sonic ‘06 to all the savvy hedgehog connoisseurs out there) is once again available on the Xbox Marketplace. And it’s only $5, if you still happen to have an Xbox 360 hooked up to your television for whatever reason. (h/t Fanbyte)
Source: Kotaku – Human Woman Kissing Simulator Sonic ‘06 Relisted In Xbox 360 Store
In an interview yesterday, former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about his thoughts on unions, which currently barely exist in the video game industry. Fils-Aime’s answer was not a ringing endorsement of unions, with the former exec saying they aren’t good or bad, just a situation to be dealt…
Source: Kotaku – Reggie Fils-Aime: Companies Need To ‘Embrace’ Unions If That’s What Employees Want
Sony’s new and improved PlayStation Plus program has already launched in some parts of the world, and players are seemingly running into all sorts of issues. But the one players are freaking out about the most right now is a potential wrinkle in how the pricing for upgrading works which could leave some of them on the…
Source: Kotaku – Some PS Plus Players Are Seemingly Getting Hit With A Giant Upgrade Tax
After a four-year hiatus, the creator of the popular shonen manga Hunter x Hunter not only created a Twitter account today, but announced that he is working on four new chapters of the series.
Source: Kotaku – Hunter x Hunter Creator Joins Twitter, Reveals Manga’s Long Hiatus Is Ending