Why can’t far-right provocateurs just be good at anything? Acquitted, an action-shooter game by first-time developers, Nordic Empire Games, is intended to be a provocative celebration of the acquittal of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse. Instead, it’s a very poorly made zombie shooter, without even a glimmer of the courage…
Source: Kotaku – Far-Right Dev’s Kyle Rittenhouse Steam Shooter Isn’t ‘Edgy,’ It’s Embarrassing
The Overwatch 2 technical beta started on April 26, and players have already started mining the build for content. One player even made a side-by-side lighting comparison video of the differences between the beta and the original game, which recently took off on Twitter. The two video captures appeared to be nearly…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Beta Visuals Aren’t Helping Perception That It’s Barely An Update
Somewhere, a baby is crying. Their lonely yelps stick to the air like mist sticks to glass. The sound stretches out over the mirror of water upon which Rom, the Vacuous Spider just died as the nightmare moon descends. It trails you through every unlit building, but melts into happy giggles when you slay the child’s…
Source: Kotaku – Bloodborne Is Scarier Than Ever In 2022
If Xbox Live was Microsoft’s online gaming service at the height of its powers, then this past weekend was Xbox Dead. For more than 36 hours in mid May, Xbox players had trouble connecting to the Xbox network. In some cases, players say they couldn’t even play single-player games offline that they purchased digitally.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Network Had A Rough Weekend
Today’s Wordle answer was supposed to be “fetus,” and for many it still was, despite The New York Times trying to pull the word ahead of time. In light of reports that the Supreme Court is currently slated to overturn Roe v. Wade and toss out abortion rights for millions along with it, the Greylady said its latest…
Source: Kotaku – Wordle Removes ‘Fetus’ Answer Following Attack On Abortion Rights
Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, have issued a statement apologising to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams.
Source: Kotaku – 40K Developers Criticised Over Dumb Twitch Drops
Is there a better argument for Breath of the Wild having one of the all-time great open worlds than the fact that, so many years after release, players are still messing around with the game’s items and physics to pull off cool shit that we’ve never seen before?
Source: Kotaku – Zelda Player Kills Guardian With Anime-Ass Swordplay
On Saturday the Chinese government announced a number of changes to the way kids can access and interact with content online, with the National Radio and Television Administration saying “platforms need to step up controls to stop underage users from tipping livestreamers or becoming livestreamers themselves without…
Source: Kotaku – Kids ‘Tipping’ Streamers & Watching After 10pm Is Being Banned In China
In case you’re eager for some more Halo content but want to wait until Infinite figures itself out first, one of the best campaigns of the series just received an impressive mod that widens the sandbox, throws new enemies at you, and promises more updates around the corner.
Source: Kotaku – Halo 3: ODST Reimagining Mod Expertly Enhances One Of The Series’ Best Campaigns
Microtransactions in games like Grand Theft Auto Online have become big business for video game publishers. And it’s likely this won’t be changing anytime soon. New details spotted in a recent contract extension for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick explain that the CEO will earn a big bonus if more players spend more…
Source: Kotaku – By The Way, Take-Two’s CEO Profits From All Your GTA Online, NBA 2K Microtransactions
Looking online it seems there have been approximately 64,534 Star Wars games released since the first film hit theaters in the ‘70s. (Editor’s note: That’s incorrect.) But, while many of them are good, some are really, really good. These are the kind of games that are so great that even non-Star Wars fans can’t deny…
Source: Kotaku – The 10 Best Star Wars Games Ever Made
Something bad is happening over in the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the year-old NFT collection owned by blockchain tech firm Yuga Labs. Bad things seem to happen almost daily in the NFT sphere and the cryptocurrency community at large, which are both unfortunately frequent targets of multimillion-dollar hacking initiatives…
Source: Kotaku – Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Fans Lose Millions Trying To Buy Video Game ‘Land’
If you’ve visited Twitch lately, you may have noticed that the most-popular “Just Chatting” category and the front page have been dominated by one thing: the defamation trial between actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. What started on April 11 as an in-court battle recounting a toxic relationship filled with abuse and…
Source: Kotaku – Top Twitch Streamers Are Capitalizing On Depp V. Heard Trial Trauma
During the keynote of this weekend’s EVE Fanfest convention in Reykjavik, Iceland, EVE Online creative director Bergur Finnbogason previewed an upcoming collaboration between the spacefaring MMO and Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program in front of a crowd of dedicated fans. They ate it up.
Source: Kotaku – Listen To A Bunch Of EVE Online Nerds Go Wild Over An Official Excel Collab
Nvidia, producer of graphics cards since prehistoric times, has just been fined $5.5 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to divulge to investors how much of its 2017-18 revenue came about from crypto-miners.
Source: Kotaku – Nvidia Fined .5 Million For Failing To Acknowledge Crypto-Miners Juiced Its Profits
Halo Infinite’s second season, which was supposed to be a much-needed phoenix down, is off to a rocky start. Three days after its rollout, the developer has acknowledged its pitfalls, promising to “review options.” Also: Every player is getting free stuff.
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Devs Acknowledge Botched Season 2 Rollout, Are ‘Reviewing Options’
According to a recent operations report from the development studio People Can Fly, the online loot shooter Outriders didn’t make any profit by the end of 2021.
Source: Kotaku – Outriders, Square Enix’s Answer To Destiny, Didn’t Turn A Profit In Its First Year
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands tees up a flurry of intriguing narrative ideas, a veritable world of possibility full of fascinating concepts and mind-blowing potential outcomes. And then…it does nothing with them, culminating in an ending that fails to realize its own potential. Let’s chat about it.
Source: Kotaku – Let’s Talk About The Disappointing Ending To Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
I answer the questions dutifully—“Where are your parents from?” “My dad is from Bangladesh, my mom is from Bulgaria”—but growing up in predominantly white Long Island made me embarrassed that anyone ever had to ask. I’m pale. My hair is thin and bleached blonde, and I could never grow it out to lie strong and curled…
Source: Kotaku – Jumpstart AAPI Month With Thai Survival Horror And Five More Hidden Gems
