Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands takes Gearbox’s loot shooter series out for a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired spin. Does it work? Critics are split. The consensus appears to be that, for better and for worse, it’s more Borderlands. Shocking, I know! But it sounds like there are also enough new tricks to make Wonderlands a fun…
Source: Kotaku – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Reviews Say D&D Trappings Don’t Change The Borderlands Core
Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs announced Wednesday that, from April on, the mobile game’s Community Days will revert to their pre-pandemic length of only three hours long. Following the recent enormous nerfing of in-game item Incense, players are not at all pleased at Niantic’s seeming refusal to listen to what had…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Go Fans Upset As Dev Undoes Another Great Change
Have you spent a long time murdering eagles and other assorted avians in Elden Ring, only to walk away with a pouch full of mostly bird feathers—and a flock that’s largely flown away? That’s certainly been my experience trying to get the drops needed to craft Gold Pickled Fowl Foot, the go-to item that boosts rune…
Source: Kotaku – You Can Boost Your Elden Ring Runes Without Really Trying
Over the past month a number of the world’s biggest tech companies have been hacked by a group known as Lapsus$, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft, Samsung and Okta. These haven’t been minor breaches, either; Nvidia lost sensitive GPU designs, and Microsoft gigabytes of important source code. Now a report is…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft Hacked By Suspected Teenagers
Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as a gif, has died at the age of 74.
Source: Kotaku – The Creator Of The Gif Has Died
Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally praised successor, XCOM 2. (The spinoff XCOM: Chimera Squad, released in 2020, is fine.)
Source: Kotaku – 6 Games To Check Out If You Like XCOM
Gather ‘round, readers, as I regale you with another tale of the weird shit players are up to in Elden Ring. Don’t worry, this post won’t be about panties, murdering turtle clergy, or rolling death strats (we’ve already done those). This time around, Elden Ring has become an even wackier gameplay experience thanks to…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Mods Turn The Game Into A Surreal Fever Dream
Elden Ring is massive, filled to the brim with all sorts of murderous creepy crawlies seemingly designed to make your stay in the Lands Between as unsettling as possible. But the enemies that keep giving me the most trouble are also the most banal.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring’s Wildlife Can Go All The Way To Hell
Triangle Strategy drops one of its most difficult maps very early on in its story campaign. To be fair, it’s not meant to be one of the most grueling encounters in the game. I made the fight much more difficult than it had to be because the alternative was becoming an arsonist.
Source: Kotaku – My Most Grueling Triangle Strategy Battle Was Kind of An Accident
The embargo for Kirby and the Forgotten Land reviews has lifted, raising the floodgates for opinions on HAL Laboratory’s latest platformer. So far, most critics are feeling positive about Kirby’s new adventure, with the Nintendo Switch exclusive sitting comfortably at an 85 score on Metacritic. From the sounds of…
Source: Kotaku – Kirby And The Forgotten Land Reviews Knock Its Simplicity, But Say Mouthful Mode Rocks
Sony rolled out a firmware update for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 this morning. Around the same time, PlayStation’s online services went down, with players reporting connection issues with Elden Ring and GTAV, among other titles. It’s not yet clear if there’s a connection between the update and the downtime.
Source: Kotaku – Sony’s Latest PlayStation Update Did Not Proceed As Planned
Elden Ring players have discovered no shortage of ways to grief one another in PVP, but one exploit on PC was especially dastardly. It allowed players to trap opponents in an endless death loop that would effectively ruin their save files. Not good! Fortunately, developer FromSoftware finally addressed the bug in a…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Patches Out Spiral Of Death Exploit That Bricked Saves
Popular chess streamer and Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura thought it would be okay to watch Dr Disrespect play chess on Twitch. He was wrong, it seems.
A chess prodigy, the five-time US champion is one of the best in the world. At age ten, he was then the youngest American to beat an International Master. At 13, he was…
Source: Kotaku – After Streaming Dr Disrespect’s Chess Match, Hikaru Nakamura Gets Banned On Twitch
Launched in September 2018, Dragalia Lost is a mobile role-playing game set in a kingdom filled with dragons. It is Nintendo’s first totally original mobile game, and this summer, the RPG will receive its final update.
Below is the official announcement about the game’s future:
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Mobile Game Dragalia Lost Is Shutting Down
For every exploit and glitch FromSoftware try and patch out of Elden Ring, you can rest assured that nosy players—especially those with an interest in speedrunning—will discover fresh ones.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring’s Horse Can Sometimes Fly (After Falling To Its Death First)
Vladimir Motsar is an artist at GSC Game World, the Ukrainian studio behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Cossacks series.
Source: Kotaku – Standing Watch
A new Ghosbusters game has been announced. Called Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, it’s an asynchronous, 4v1 multiplayer shooter where four Ghostbusters can take on one player controlling the ghosts.
Source: Kotaku – New Ghostbusters Game Coming To PC, Consoles
Elden Ring’s “spirit ashes” are one of its standout new features, letting you summon ghostly monsters to fight by your side. But now one Elden Ring modder, known as King Bore Haha, has taken the concept to a new extreme.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Modder Summons Ridiculously Huge Enemies
Yesterday CD Projekt Red announced a “new saga in The Witcher franchise.” As part of a new multi-year collaboration with Epic Games focused on open-world design, the game will be made in Unreal Engine 5 rather than the studio’s own REDengine. It won’t be The Witcher 4, but that’s what people are calling it in the…
Source: Kotaku – New Witcher Game Director Promises No Crunch Despite Studio History Of Crunch
A video making its way around the internet shows just how many attachments can be connected to a single Game Boy Color at one time.
Source: Kotaku – Game Boy Color Becomes A Frankenstein’s Monster Of Unnecessary Accessories