Activision Blizzard is facing (what feels like) its 8,583,129th lawsuit, as first reported by Axios. This one’s from New York City, and alleges that longtime CEO Bobby Kotick raced to find a buyer for the mega-publisher he has been leading for 30 years to explicitly avoid consequences for turning a blind eye to claims…
Source: Kotaku – Now New York City Is Suing Activision Blizzard
A new, player-created Elden Ring calculator allows you to easily figure out which seal or staff you should be using to sling magic, providing you with an optimum catalyst for your incantations and sorceries by simplifying one of the game’s most daunting math problems.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Tool Simplifies Nightmare Of Choosing Best Magic-Slinging Gear
An Italian voice actor for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild may have revealed a major plot point in the long-awaited sequel. Spoilers follow.
Source: Kotaku – Did Zelda Voice Actor Just Reveal A Major Breath Of The Wild 2 Plot Point?
The time-traveling, pulse pistol-packing Overwatch character, Tracer, looks like she’s ready for a fight. Bulky tactical gear shields her body and helps mold it into a weapon, and she wears a chunky pair of canary-colored goggles to safeguard her face. But what will keep us, her faithful admirers, safe from horny jail?
Source: Kotaku – ‘Behind’ The Latest Overwatch 2 Porn Controversy
You know what no one could ever have predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable jpeg images might not be end-game, long-term sustainable. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flatlining,” down 92 percent from last September. Which makes it just the most incredible…
Source: Kotaku – NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain
Elden Ring is full of captivating enemies, many of them awe-inspiring and grotesque. Malenia and Radahn are obvious examples of formidable foes in the Lands Between that players have fallen in love with, but there’s another, more humble enemy roaming around Limgrave that has somehow captured the hearts of the game’s…
Source: Kotaku – Somehow, Elden Ring’s Most Forgotten Boss Now Has An Entire Fandom
In light of recent reports by Kotaku and others about worker complaints at Nintendo of America, former president and gaming icon Reggie Fils-Aimé was asked about how the company treats its employees. “I know I was able to achieve [a healthy culture], and certainly what’s being described does not seem like a healthy…
Source: Kotaku – Reggie Fils-Aimé Weighs In On Nintendo Worker Exploitation: ‘This Isn’t The Nintendo I Left’
The inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom aren’t big on speeches. They’ll write long-ass letters, sure, but when it comes to speaking out loud most of them will restrict themselves to the odd soundbyte or celebratory quip. Except, that is, for Wario.
Source: Kotaku – Wario’s First Big Speaking Role Was For…A British Supermarket
You will have seen a lot of Reggie Fils-Aime news lately. The man has a book out, telling stories about the notoriously secretive video game industry, so that’s to be expected. Much of it is insightful, some of it emotional, some of it even a little puzzling. One section, though, simply has me upset.
Source: Kotaku – Reggie Did Not Like The Game Boy Micro, So Now We Are Enemies
Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time is an absolute classic, and while the original—first released in 2003—is still very enjoyable, the modern remake that’s currently in development will hopefully be an improvement. If, that is, the thing can ever find its way out of development hell.
Source: Kotaku – Prince Of Persia Remake Does Not Sound Like It’s Having A Good Time
Halo Infinite’s second season kicked off today, ushering in a handful of new maps, modes, and cosmetics to the popular multiplayer shooter. Developer 343 Industries detailed all of the minor changes in patch notes that are so long they come with a six-chapter table of contents.
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Update Is So Big It Requires A Table Of Contents
Tomorrow is May 4th, aka Star Wars Day. You see, May 4th sounds kind of like “may the force,” which is part of the franchise’s famous phrase “May the Force be with you.” Yeah, it’s kinda dumb, but as is now something of an annual tradition, a bunch of digital storefronts have old and new Star Wars games on sale to…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Star Wars Games To Get During All These May 4th Sales
Perfect Tides is the rare game that sneaks up on you, the kind of game you don’t even see coming, yet turns out to be incredible. A point-and-click adventure game first released back in February, I hadn’t heard of it until last month, when folks I follow in games media started more and more loudly singing its praises.…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Sleep On Perfect Tides, One Of The Year’s Best Games
Resident Evil 4 has stood the test of time as one of the most iconic survival horror games. While you could credit its accolades to its enigmatic merchant, Ashley’s banshee screeches, or Leon’s devil-may-care attitude, perhaps the quintessential RE4 experience is methodically Tetris-ing your gathered weapons and…
Source: Kotaku – Someone Finally Made The Inventory Briefcase From Resident Evil 4 A Puzzle Game
Three things are true in life: death, taxes, and the persistence of Switch players who will do their damndest to circumvent a new Nintendo game’s profanity filter. The latest victim? Nintendo Switch Sports, which has already succumbed to the whims of the crass. Maybe that’s why everyone’s smashing their TVs.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Switch Sports Players Are Already F***ing With The Game’s Profanity Filter
Yesterday, Square Enix announced that it was selling its Western studios, like Crystal Dynamics—and much of the intellectual property (IP) connected to those studios, like the Tomb Raider franchise—to Swedish holding company Embracer Group for $300 million. But while this move seems to signal Square Enix shifting away…
Source: Kotaku – Square Enix Will Hold On To A Few Western-Made Franchises
Massive streaming personality Tyler “Ninja” Blevins claims that he tried to give the prestigious Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament (also known simply as Evo) a bonus $500,000 for its Super Smash Bros. prize pool years ago, only to get shut out by Smash developer Nintendo.
Source: Kotaku – Ninja Says He Wanted To Gift Evo 0,000 For Smash, But Nintendo Ghosted Him
A PAX East Enforcer died from coronavirus after working at the convention last Saturday. Dawn “Deestar” Wood was well-regarded by other Enforcers who donated to the GoFundMe for her funeral (which met its goal in a single day). The organizer for the fundraiser emphasizes that Wood had “the most fun she had in years,”…
Source: Kotaku – PAX East Enforcer Dies From Covid ‘After Being Exposed During The Convention’
The Call of Duty machine stalled last year, in response to which publisher Activision Blizzard is blaming the slowdown on the latest game’s World War II setting and lack of “innovation.” Sure.
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blames Disappointing Call Of Duty Sales On World War II
It’s that time of year again, when the release cadence cools down a bit, giving you time to make your way through your backlog from the spring (or the fall). Game Pass, for the moment, isn’t adding too much to the top, and is in fact removing quite a bit from the bottom. Here’s everything coming to Microsoft’s…
Source: Kotaku – Even Game Pass Knows It’s Backlog Season