WB Games announced today that Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga had a massive launch, selling through over 3 million copies worldwide, and has set new records for Lego games across all platforms around the world. To put it another way: This latest Lego Star Wars game is one of the biggest releases of the year, and…
Source: Kotaku – Why Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Is Selling Zillions Of Copies
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands hasn’t even been out a month, but fresh on the heels of releasing the game’s first expansion, developer Gearbox has rolled out the biggest patch yet for its buzzy loot-shooter. Let’s break it down.
Source: Kotaku – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Patch Makes Its Strongest Class Even Stronger ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Skateboarding games have changed a lot since the 1980s. With new hardware comes new engines, which leads to better physics, fancier graphics, and new innovations like the genre-changing dual-stick controls seen in games such as Skate. But while the genre is seeing a resurgence thanks to SkateBird and a new Skate…
Source: Kotaku – 8 Kick-Ass Skateboarding Games You Should Totally Play
Between 2016 and 2019, Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg used her political clout to bury two news stories about a restraining order filed against Activision Blizzard exec Bobby Kotick, according to a bombshell report this morning from The Wall Street Journal. Sandberg was dating Kotick at the time.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Killed News About Bobby Kotick’s Restraining Order
Earlier this week, we learned that Amy Hennig would get another chance to help make a Star Wars game following the infamous shutdown of her previous attempt with EA and Visceral. A big announcement to be sure, but have you noticed? There are a lot of Star Wars games being announced this past year or so. And it’s a…
Source: Kotaku – Holy Crap, There Are A Lot Of Star Wars Games Coming
EA appears to have quickly sniped leaked footage of Skate 4 before it can make the rounds. In other news, have you heard of the Streisand Effect?
Source: Kotaku – Skate 4 Footage Leaks, Gets Pulled, Leaks Again
Kirby and the Forgotten Land puts to bed any doubt that Nintendo’s pink puffball can more than carry his own 3D adventure game.
Source: Kotaku – Kirby And The Forgotten Land: The Kotaku Review
We’re coming up on the tenth anniversary of the release of 2013’s Shadowrun Returns, and it’s only today I learned that the game (and its two sequels) were never released on console. I just assumed they had been, at some point! That sucks, so it’s wonderful to see Paradox get around to fixing that with the…
Source: Kotaku – Shadowrun Trilogy Is Coming To Xbox, PlayStation And Switch
Long-awaited strategy JRPG Digimon Survive finally has a release date and it’s July 29, 2022. Any other year, like the ones Survive was previously supposed to release in, that would be a perfectly reasonable date for a niche game with a cult following. But the announcement comes just a day after Nintendo…
Source: Kotaku – Digimon Survive Is Coming Out The Same Day As Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Longtime Borderlands players will notice something…different about Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: It’s comparatively tamer than its predecessors. That’s by intent, as it’s the first game in the series to feature a “T” rating, something its creative director called a “pillar” of its design in a recent interview, meant to…
Source: Kotaku – Why Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Isn’t An M-Rated Borderlands, A Series First
Today, we got a better look at TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, an upcoming four-player side-scrolling beat-’em-up being developed by Streets of Rage 4 publisher Dotemu. This new retro-looking action game is heavily inspired by Konami’s popular TMNT arcade classics and the original 1987 animated show. It was even revealed…
Source: Kotaku – TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge Stars Original Cast, Out This Summer
The Pokémon Company has announced that it will be acquiring The Millenium Print Group, the manufacturer that has been printing the Pokémon trading card game since 2015. According to a press release put out by TPC, Millenium will remain autonomous, while benefiting from TPC’s investments and expertise to expand its…
Source: Kotaku – The Pokémon Company Buys Its Trading Card Manufacturer While Demand Soars
Elden Ring’s already a punishing game filled with tough bosses that’ll break your spirits, but patch 1.04, which changed the game balance in late April, makes one of the hardest enemies even harder. Players are reporting the late-game boss Malenia, Blade of Miquella is totally busted now. There seems to be a bug in…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Update Accidentally Made Malenia So Much Harder Now, Cool
Microsoft’s head of Xbox research and design, Chris Novak, will leave the company after nearly two decades, he announced yesterday. The veteran console architect was a leading creative force in a division that oversaw the creation of everything from achievements to Game Pass, a service that upended the way many people…
Source: Kotaku – Head Xbox Researcher For Achievements And Game Pass Leaves After Nearly 20 Years
In the wake of Elden Ring’s latest game-upending patch, players are combing through the Lands Between to see what may have been quietly added—or lost. Among the wreckage: YouTuber Zullie the Witch found that the game’s infamous gazillion-HP illusory walls are no more, a change that wasn’t indicated by the developer in…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring’s Legendary ’50 Hit’ Illusory Wall, Murdered In The Big Patch (RIP)
Wasting no time capitalizing on its second smash-hit live-action video game adaptation, Sega reaches its pristine, puffy white gloves into its content bucket, pulling out Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 (& Knuckles), and Sonic CD and bundling them all together as Sonic Origins, a $40 “remastered” package…
Source: Kotaku – Sega Remasters The First Four Sonic Games For Sonic Origins
It has been nine years since I last wrote about a Robotech/Macross board game on this website, and I feel like that is far too long, so thankfully I’m getting the chance to revisit the subject with a new tabletop experience.
Source: Kotaku – Robotech Board Game Fires Enormous Missile Barrage Into Kickstarter Funding Goal
Battlefield 2042’s big update dropped earlier today, adding stuff like VoIP communications, more scoreboards and some much-needed balancing. I’ve been playing the game all day to see what difference it has made and…things are better.
Source: Kotaku – Battlefield 2042 Is Now A Little Bit Better
The “Tracer Pack: Snoop Dogg Operator Bundle” dropped on Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard today, introducing Snoop Dogg as a playable operator, meaning that he is now, alongside Captain Price and Kevin Spacey’s ghost, a part of Call of Duty canon.
Source: Kotaku – Snoop Dogg Is Now Playable In Call Of Duty
