Nearly seven years after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released, players still weren’t sure they’d discovered everything there was to see in the sprawling fantasy game. Recently, a developer at CD Projekt Red teased a “last secret” in the game, driving one player to break the game with time travel in search of it.
Source: Kotaku – Witcher 3 Player Finds Game’s ‘Last Secret,’ Breaks Game Spectacularly
Reviews for Ghostwire: Tokyo, an immersive sim from the makers of a game series so scary I can’t mention its name without collapsing in a fit of sobs, landed this morning. Publisher Bethesda Softworks did not furnish Kotaku with early access, because duh, so we’re experiencing the game, and its press cycle, alongside…
Source: Kotaku – Ghostwire: Tokyo Reviews Are All Over The Map
A 54-year-old resident of Toyokawa, Japan, was arrested on March 16 for allegedly sending repeated death threats to Sega.
Source: Kotaku – Man Arrested For Allegedly Sending Death Threats To Sega
Originally slated for an April 22 release in Japan, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero has been delayed after an unauthorized third party hacked Toei Animation.
Source: Kotaku – Toei Animation Hacked, Delaying Dragon Ball Anime Movie
Ultimate Ink Trash is an artist with a very clear goal: to take some of the biggest video games of the modern age and imagine what it would look like if they had the kind of illustrated, retro vibes you’d see on the box art for consoles like the Mega Drive and TurboGrafx.
Source: Kotaku – Modern Video Games With Retro Box Art
A “series of copyright takedowns” have been striking the Destiny community since late last week, taking down musical videos hosted on YouTube. While normally this kind of action comes at the request of a publisher or studio, in this case Bungie says it has nothing to do with them.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny Copyright Takedowns Go Rogue, Are Even Hitting Bungie Videos
For at least the last few months or more I’ve been dreading this week. As someone who is excited to check out Ghostwire: Tokyo, play my first Kirby game and enjoy some more co-op action in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, I’m sort of screwed. All of those games (and more!) come out this week on March 25.
Source: Kotaku – The Week In Games: Prepare For March 25
Bad news for anyone trying to redownload some old 3DS digital games or Wii titles via each consoles’ respective store channels: Currently, players report both channels are down and have been for a few days now. Many are now concerned the channels may not return, possibly locking away a lot of digital content that…
Source: Kotaku – Wii And 3DS Shop Channels Have Been Down For Days With No Sign Of Return
Come, sit down and let me tell you the tale of one really strange, hidden door in the massive open-world RPG Elden Ring. You might have to hit it 50 times or more to open it up, they say. There seems to be more of the doors, though this all could be a weird bug that someday might be fixed. While fans are still trying…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Secret Wall Blows Everyone’s Mind, Turns Into Saga
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.
Source: Kotaku – Sunday Comics: Grandpa
Indie digital storefront Itch.io has raised over $6 million via its recently ended Bundle for Ukraine charity package. Meanwhile, Humble Bundle’s similarly large collection of games and comics has already raised over $6 million as well, with six days left before it ends. That’s a massive amount of money, all of it…
Source: Kotaku – Two Massive Charity Game Bundles Have Now Raised Over Million For Ukraine
In less than seven weeks, in May, the fifth season of Activision Blizzard’s official Overwatch League starts, kicking off with a large live event in Texas. However, this close to the start, the league still lacks any sponsors. Officials claim there are “ongoing discussions” happening with various partners, but…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Two Months Before Return, Overwatch League Still Has No Sponsors
Three men in Russia were reportedly arrested after stealing 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 TIs from a suburban warehouse. While they successfully made off with the video cards, a haul worth nearly $38,000 USD, they were arrested after trying to sell them to local pawn shops.
Source: Kotaku – Warehouse Employees Steal Over ,000 Worth Of Video Cards
Babylon’s Fall came out earlier this month, and already it feels like it’s on life support. The only reason it seemed to make any splash at all amidst the current release calendar onslaught was because of just how bad it is. Now publisher Square Enix is trying to reassure fans the new worst PS5 game isn’t dead and…
Source: Kotaku – Babylon’s Fall Bombed, But Square Enix Swears It’s Not Dead
Xbox Game Pass seems to get better every month, even when the games that join the subscription service aren’t always blockbuster hits. But among the crop of games just filed to Game Pass, FoamPunch’s Shredders is the clear standout here. Y’all, this game is sick! It’s a loving callback to wildly popular and…
Source: Kotaku – Shredders Is The Skate Of Snowboarding, And I Love It
The Pokémon card craze isn’t slowing down anytime soon, it appears. Case in point: Someone recently spent $125,000 at auction on a single, extremely rare Magikarp card that was part of a Japanese Pokémon Snap promotion back in the 90s.
Source: Kotaku – Someone Spent 0,000 On A Very Rare Magikarp Pokémon Card
You probably subscribe to Game Pass for the blockbusters. As far as deals go, it’s pretty good: The price of one brand-new AAA game gets you several months of access to a digital library featuring hundreds of games, plenty of which happen to be recent zeitgeist-making tentpoles.
Source: Kotaku – The Best Xbox Game Pass Games To Binge In A Weekend
Moon Studios’ Ori games are some of the most excellent and beautiful platformers around. Some developers now claim that the same can’t be said for the founders of the studio that made them. According to a new report by VentureBeat, current and former developers say Moon could be an “oppressive” place to work where…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Ori Studio Accused Of Being ‘Oppressive,’ ‘Sexist’ Workplace
Grand Theft Auto Online will never die. Rockstar will just keep porting it to future consoles until the heat death of the universe. (Or until people stop playing it…whichever comes first.) And so, because the universe is still kicking and people are still playing, Rockstar recently ported GTA Online onto PS5 and Xbox…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Settings To Change In GTA Online On PS5 And Xbox Series X/S
