Here’s how one guy ended up thrown into a swimming pool in front of millions of viewers. On Friday, professional NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster was recorded taking the “water cup challenge” on TikTok. It was the most nerve-wracking two minutes of Jenga I’ve ever endured. No matter how full the cup got, it was…
Source: Kotaku – NFL Star’s Version Of Water Cup Challenge Now In Running For GOTY 2022
Don’t let your memes be dreams gamers, because last night Kirby, in the year of our lord 2022, won a Grammy.
Source: Kotaku – Kirby Is Officially The Only Nintendo Character To Win A Grammy Award
Merriam-Webster defines “wall” as “a means of access” or “a usually swinging or sliding barrier by which an entry is closed and opened.” Wait, nope, my mistake. That’s the Elden Ring definition of “wall”—and as spotted by Polygon’s Mike Mahardy, apparently the Tina Tina’s Wonderlands one, too.
Source: Kotaku – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Has Fake Walls That Hide Loot, Just Like Elden Ring
One of Elden Ring’s toughest bosses just got harder, again. FromSoftware released a small patch overnight to buff Starscourge Radahn after the game’s massive 1.03 patch accidentally weakened some of the demigod’s attacks. Some Elden Ring players are already rejoicing, because if there’s one thing they love it’s…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Boss Radahn Back To Kicking Players’ Asses After Accidentally Being Nerfed
Shueisha publishes Weekly Shonen Jump, the most famous weekly manga magazine in Japan. And now, the company is getting into gaming in a much bigger way.
Famitsu reports that the iconic publisher established Shueisha Games on February 16, 2022, to develop and release games for consoles, PC and smart devices. The…
Source: Kotaku – Manga Publisher Shueisha Establishes Game Company
After a few delays, the next entry in the Lego Star Wars series is nearly here and is arriving on Tuesday on… everything!
Source: Kotaku – The Week In Games: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away… And Filled With Lego Bricks
Internet personality, boxer, and Pokémon investor Logan Paul recently spent $6 million dollars on a very rare Pokémon card and then wore that card during his WrestleMania 38 appearance. Why? Because the internet and speculators have destroyed reality.
Source: Kotaku – Logan Paul’s Latest Stunt: Paying Million For Rare Pikachu Card And Wearing It To WrestleMania
Gex is back. But not how his fans probably were hoping for. Instead of a new game or remake, fans can check out a demo for Gex Jr. a never-before-seen PS1 spin-off of the original Gex franchise. This new demo has surfaced online over 20 years after it was seemingly abandoned.
Source: Kotaku – 2001 Demo For Previously Unknown Gex Jr. Leaks Online
On April 1, Twitch streamer Seki did something very impressive in FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. After many attempts and practice, the expert player completed what appears to be the world’s first recorded no-hit/no-damage run of Elden Ring.
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Streamer Beats Elden Ring Without Damage Of Any Kind
Sony has quietly announced that all of the online and multiplayer features of 2015’s Everybody’s Golf will be taken offline permanently in September. This will make some trophies impossible to collect, though the game’s singleplayer and offline modes will remain playable.
Source: Kotaku – Everybody’s Golf PS4 Servers Shutting Down In September
Okay, before we begin, you won’t be able to play this version of Doom on a pregnancy test or cash register. But whatever, the original Doom with ray tracing is so cool that I can forgive that one drawback.
Source: Kotaku – Classic Doom With Ray Tracing Looks Amazing
During Russia’s ongoing and horrific invasion of Ukraine, Russian military forces have taken over and held various nuclear power plants located in the country. In what is unfortunate but likely unintentional timing, Ubisoft has revealed that the new mode coming in loot shooter The Division 2’s upcoming Year 4 update…
Source: Kotaku – Awkwardly, Ubisoft’s Division 2 Update Is All About A Nuclear Power Plant Invasion
WowGrandma78, the elderly streamer who’s been broadcasting on the platform since January 2020, celebrated her 80th birthday last month. To honor her eight decades around the sun, WowGrandma78 is hosting a multi-day sub-athon on Twitch, which entered day 15 as of this writing. It’s unclear whether she plans to stop…
Source: Kotaku – Get To Know The World Of Warcraft-Playing, Twitch-Streaming Grandma Who Just Turned 80
18 quintillion planets, and you still can’t get away from the worst people on Earth. To wit: The central nexus of No Man’s Sky, a region of charted space known as the Galactic Hub, was recently menaced by a troll who players say is a “neonazi.” Developer Hello Games has banned the griefer, permanently, but players…
Source: Kotaku – No Man’s Sky Neo-Nazi Banned After Wreaking Havoc On Galactic Hub
Loot shooter series Borderlands is about picking up a shiny new gun one minute and throwing it away for something more powerful the next. TIny Tina’s Wonderlands continues this trend, but with a few added wrinkles that can end up trolling unsuspecting players who aren’t paying close enough attention.
Source: Kotaku – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Players Trolled By Loot
It’s been nearly nine years since the evocative pixel-art action RPG Hyper Light Drifter first took my breath away in its Kickstarter teaser. Now developer Heart Machine has a successor planned and it’s just around the corner. It’s called Hyper Light Breaker, it will be 3D instead of top-down, and it’s coming to Steam…
Source: Kotaku – We’re Getting More Hyper Light Drifter, Be Still My Beating Heart
The best moment of any good puzzle game is when it rewires your brain and you suddenly feel like the smartest person in the world. That moment when you look at a puzzle and think to yourself, “Oh…that would work!” and then it actually does and you feel amazing. But a great puzzle game should also be filled with…
Source: Kotaku – Steam’s Latest Puzzle Sensation Is Very Trippy, Very Good
Twitch just can’t seem to scrub porn off its platform. Thanks to the “Boost This Stream” feature the Amazon-owned company introduced last October, viewers are paying to promote, or “boost,” sexually explicit content onto the platform’s front page. Unsurprisingly, Twitch has paused the boosting feature indefinitely.
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Pauses ‘Boost’ Feature After Porn Sneaks Onto Front Page
If you’ve played Borderlands, you’ve played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Gearbox’s latest, a fantasy twist on the loot-shooting series for which the studio is known, feels a lot like the previous four games—and 400 expansions and events—in the series. You shoot a bazillion guns. You find a bazillion more.
Source: Kotaku – 13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
