The Metroid series took a little nap during the N64 era, with Nintendo unable/unwilling to release a single home console game between the success of the SNES’ Super Metroid in 1994 and the GameCube’s Metroid Prime in 2002. So a fan is stepping in—and back in time—to make one for themselves.
Source: Kotaku – What A Metroid 64 Could Have Looked Like
Blizzard shared a lengthy list of Overwatch 2 patch notes today detailing changes it’s making to the first-person shooter a little more than a week into the player-versus-player mode’s closed beta.
Source: Kotaku – First Overwatch 2 Patch Introduces Big Changes To Multiplayer Beta
In 2009, THQ pulled a publicity stunt by covering a Nintendo Wii in 24 karat gold and trying to get it delivered to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never actually got her hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinx, you might be able to.
Source: Kotaku – The 24 Karat Gold Nintendo Wii Is Finally Up For Sale
The Call of Duty machine can never stop. It must endlessly push forward, through lawsuits, controversies, and layoffs. To stop would mean…well, we don’t know, because it never has. And to help keep the machine going, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s biggest and most…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Has The Population Of A Small Town Working On Call Of Duty Games
Sykkuno, one of Twitch’s top streamers known for his wholesome demeanor and for playing games like Among Us and GTA Online, left the Amazon-owned platform for the red pastures of YouTube Gaming this month. The move shocked the livestreaming space because Sykkuno was something of a household name on Twitch, boasting …
Source: Kotaku – Big-Name Streamer Sykkuno Ditched Twitch Partly Because It Misspelled His Name
Popular Twitch streamer xQc recently admitted that he lost $1.8 million to gambling over the last month. After news of his losses spread online, his dad called him during a stream to ask if he was okay and to express how worried he was about the streamer’s gambling problems.
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamer xQc Claims He Lost Over .8 Million Gambling Last Month
Genshin Impact raked in over $3 billion from mobile players in less than two years, according to the latest report from analytics firm Sensor Tower.
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Makes Its Devs One-Quarter Of A Bethesda Every Year
Life imitates art, and nowhere is this more apparent than through these YouTube videos of a guy running through the streets of Tokyo, Japan as if he were a character from Grand Theft Auto 3. While the movement is strange for a human, it will look familiar to anyone who has tried moving around in a video game…
Source: Kotaku – Uncanny: YouTubers Recreate GTA 3 Animations IRL All Over Tokyo
WWE superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin is so pumped to play Johnny Cage in the next Mortal Kombat movie, all that’s left is for him to actually get cast.
Source: Kotaku – WWE Superstar The Miz Should Play Johnny Cage In Mortal Kombat II, And You Know It
A studio best known for blockbuster games about shooting aliens now increasingly has a reputation for not taking shit from the people who play them. Creator of Halo and Destiny 2, Bungie, took fire from angry gamers this week, for coming out in support of abortion rights. Instead of flinching like so many other gaming…
Source: Kotaku – Bungie Defends Abortion Rights Even As People Urge It To Stick To Games
The Stanley Parable was a cultural phenomenon. It was an overnight hit, turning its two primary developers, William Pugh and Davey Wreden, into indie millionaires, almost driving them apart, and feeling like an ending to the so-called Indiepocalypse of the preceding few years. But this was 2013, almost a decade ago.…
Source: Kotaku – The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Is The Smartest, Silliest Game Of The Year
Hangar 13 studio head Haden Blackman is leaving the Mafia III maker after seven years, 2K Games announced Wednesday. The publisher wrote in an email to staff that the former LucasArts veteran is going to “pursue his passion at a new endeavor.” Kotaku understands that the move comes with a new Mafia game very early in…
Source: Kotaku – Hangar 13 Bosses Leave, New Mafia In Development
When you hear the air alerts in the capital city of Ukraine, game developer Oleksandr Sienin told Kotaku, you make a judgment call. Maybe you wait in a safe place for the suggested 30 to 60 minutes minutes after the alerts go off, because you know that they denote missiles that could potentially hit Kyiv.
Source: Kotaku – Missiles And Massacres: Ukrainian Game Developers Persist Amid The Russian Invasion
Busted challenges. A dysfunctional battle pass. A bunch of ultimately ineffectual “fixes.” A cacophonous uproar of player feedback, much of which isn’t positive. It may sound like the launch-window era of Halo Infinite, but no: This is Halo Infinite today, six months after its launch, during the first week of its…
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Just Can’t Catch A Break
Last year, Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced that it was doing away with its logo, the same one it had used since the two formerly separate companies had merged all the way back in 2006.
Source: Kotaku – I Like Bandai Namco’s New Logo
From 2005 to 2008, French studio Arkane—who we now know as the team behind Dishonored and Deathloop—were working on a Half-Life game. We knew this, and have even seen the game before, but today we got a real good look at it.
Source: Kotaku – A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game
The Metroid Prime logo looks so perfect and appropriate for the game that you probably never really noticed or thought about it much. It’s just one of those things that looks like it always existed or came into this universe fully formed. But the designer behind the iconic logo is here to remind us that even the…
Source: Kotaku – Metroid Prime’s Iconic Logo Took Creator 53 Revisions To Get Just Right
Kind of long ago, in a galaxy not that far away…The original Lego Star Wars game came to be, and it was great, a wonderful and silly retelling of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy using Legos and kid-friendly gameplay. It was a mostly wholesome adventure. Except for the weirdly cursed “pregnant Padme” minifigs that…
Source: Kotaku – 17 Years Later I’m Still Thinking About The Cursed, Pregnant Padme In Lego Star Wars
