While new titles compete for audiences, games such as Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V, and The Sims 4 are still some of the most-played games in the U.S., with each nearly a decade or more removed from their original releases. In fact, only three of the top ten most-played games (Madden NFL 22, Call of Duty: Vanguard,…
Source: Kotaku – Here Are The Top 10 Most-Played Games Of The Year So Far
In what has surely been the strangest leadup to a new Destiny 2 season in some time, Bungie surprise revealed Season of the Haunted last night after it accidently leaked ahead of Tuesday’s launch and some big things are happening. The giant Cabal ship from the first raid is back, its communing with the evil pyramid on…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Takes Players Back To The Leviathan Raid In Season Of The Haunted
Some folks are talking about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance again, and not just that: they’re playing it, too. A 2013 hack-and-slash action game by PlatinumGames, it seems the nearly 10-year-old Revengeance really lives up to its name, a portmanteau of revenge and vengeance. Because if you look at a recent statistic…
Source: Kotaku – Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Is Blowing TF Up
Let’s cast our minds back to January, when I wrote a story called ‘Crypto Losers Buy Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Have Played Themselves’, a piece which I thought at the time perfectly captured the extent to which brainworms had infested the blockchain community.
Source: Kotaku – Dune Crypto Leader Quits NFT Project After Being Accused Of Racism, Homophobia & Grooming
As the new PlayStation Plus service launches around the world, folks have reportedly discovered a major downside to the subscription’s classic games: Many of them use versions released in PAL regions rather than the NTSC versions many of us are familiar with.
Source: Kotaku – Looks Like Some Classic Games On PlayStation Plus Will Have Crappy PAL Framerates
It’s not easy when your pining for the superior, virtual men in your favorite video game goes unnoticed. But rarely, once in a blue moon, a voice actor will provide solace to fans by acknowledging your appreciation for their characters. Today fans of Elden Ring’s breakout furry husband Blaidd the Half-Wolf are eating…
Source: Kotaku – Congrats, Blaidd’s Voice Actor Read Your Horny Elden Ring Tweets
As reported by The Verge over the weekend, the legendary repair advocates over at iFixit.com plan to offer essentially every part of the Steam Deck for sale, including the motherboard with its custom AMD chip. While word of this was undoubtedly exciting for Steam Deck fans, iFixit took to Twitter to state that the…
Source: Kotaku – Valve Made Steam Deck Easy To Mod And Repair, And It’s Starting To Pay Off
A former PlayStation employee is suing parent company Sony for a second time over what the lawsuit describes as “gender-based discrimination and gender-based harassment” after a similar legal action was dismissed in April. (h/t Axios)
Source: Kotaku – Sony Is Being Sued For Gender Discrimination At PlayStation Again
Ed Fries, the former Microsoft vice president of game publishing who launched the original Xbox, recently appeared on a podcast where he discussed some concerns he has regarding Xbox Game Pass. Fries said that he’s “scared” that the service could lead to a future in which folks stop buying games, opting instead to…
Source: Kotaku – Former Xbox Vice President Worried Game Pass Could Hurt The Industry
Despite months of negative talking points by Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, quality assurance staff at its Raven Software studio voted to unionize Monday, becoming the first union at a big studio in the U.S. The successful vote comes with talk of labor organizing picking up across the gaming industry as…
Source: Kotaku – Gaming Gets Its First Union At A Major U.S. Studio
Typically, when Game Pass starts trending, it’s either because it scored a killer game or some influencers concocted a viral “joke” that ultimately does nothing other than hand a $2 trillion corporation two days of free marketing. Over the past few days, however, Microsoft’s games-on-demand program started trending…
Source: Kotaku – After Years Of Hype, The Xbox Game Pass Burnout Is Here
After One Piece Odyssey’s announcement in March, producer Katsuaki Tsuzuki teased fans with the promise of a “full-blown” roleplaying game with an authentic One Piece feel. Thanks to an update on the game’s website, we know that Tsuzuki’s wasn’t capping. One Piece Odyssey will feature a sandbox exploration component…
Source: Kotaku – Upcoming One Piece JRPG Will Have Classic Turn-Based Combat
PS Plus 2.0 makes its North America debut on June 13, and new details have already started trickling in thanks to those with access to the revamped subscription service. PS1 games included as part of the $18 Premium tier are reported to have a few features players can choose from, including a “Retro Classic” filter…
Source: Kotaku – PS Plus Classic Games Will Have A Retro PS1-Like Visual Filter
It’s wild to think about a world in which Insomniac didn’t make one of PlayStation’s fastest-selling games of all time, and yet it very nearly happened. After cutting a decade-long partnership with Activision, Marvel Games had been shopping the Spider-Man IP to other major publishers. Taking on an external IP didn’t…
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Man Could Have Been An Xbox Exclusive
Babylon’s Fall fell indeed, and now the live-service loot slasher’s next season is going to last twice as long as Square Enix had originally planned. After promising players everything was just fine a couple months ago, Platinum Games is now planning to “re-evaluate” its future content plans.
Source: Kotaku – The PS5’s Worst Game Is Taking A Long, Hard Look At Itself
While the great Ralph McQuarrie is rightly remembered as the primary visionary behind the look of the Star Wars universe, he wasn’t the only artist playing a major role in the creation of the original trilogy. There was also Colin Cantwell.
Source: Kotaku – Colin Cantwell, Designer Of The X-Wing, Has Died
3D artist Graham Rust has a Valve Index VR headset and some skills with modelling, so decided for fun that he’d take Half-Life: Alyx and bring some of its action inside his own house.
Source: Kotaku – Dude Recreates His Living Room In Half-Life, Blasts It To Hell
The people of Australia had a very good time over the weekend, as we resoundingly voted out a conservative government that had spent a decade doing…well, nothing really except put their boots to the throats of the poor, the young and anyone who thinks that a rapidly-warming planet might be a bad thing.
Source: Kotaku – Horror Game Helps Australia’s Deadbeat Former Prime Minister Find A New Job
Minecraft’s next big update is called The Wild Update and it will add a ton of new nature-related content to the game. However, no fireflies! The glowing little buggers, which were planned to be the food supply for the newly added frogs, got cut from the planned update after Mojang received feedback from players that…
Source: Kotaku – Fireflies Finished Following Frog Fan Feedback In Minecraft
The video game market is consolidating like never before, and Electronic Arts is scrambling like everyone else. The Battlefield and FIFA maker recently pursued a merger with NBCUniversal, and also held potential acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and other companies, according to a new report by Puck. While a deal…
Source: Kotaku – Report: EA Looking To Sell Or Merge