They say necessity breeds innovation. In Elden Ring, sometimes that necessity looks more like a Thomas the Tank Engine mod or whatever monstrosity is happening in this video. The latest Elden Ring innovation involves players equipping an NPC’s underwear that was apparently cut from the game.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Fans Are Using Cheats To Equip Notorious Cut Underwear
Ayato wanters, rejoice. For eight long months, the Genshin Impact community has been thirsting after a character whose physical appearance hadn’t even been revealed, and their faith has finally been rewarded. HoYoverse–formerly miHoYo–will make him playable at last with the major 2.6 festival update, Zephyr of the…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact’s Inazuma Update Gives Fans What They’ve Waited Almost A Year For
Elden Ring has some incredibly tough bosses. You’re very likely to get wrecked by the many towering enemies roaming the Lands Between—unless you’re this one player, who decided to take a load off and do absolutely nothing against a rather challenging early-game encounter.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Player Beats Boss While Sitting Down, Mostly
A lonely thief looking for revenge. A soldier that held said thief in contempt. A pilot falling for the thief at first sight. All of these tidbits are enough to send some fanfic writers into a furious overdrive, but Apex Legends goes further than that. Where meeker games would leave a love triangle like that hidden in…
Source: Kotaku – Apex Legends’ Unmissable Queer Love Triangle Is A Triumph
PlayStation racing sim Gran Turismo 7 has been offline for maintenance for over a day. Normally, that wouldn’t be a huge deal, but because so much of the game requires an online connection, including a great deal of single-player content, fans have effectively been locked out of Sony’s latest console exclusive.
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation’s Big New Exclusive Has Been Nearly Unplayable For Over 24 Hours
You could draw a direct line between the fictitious villains of Horizon Forbidden West and certain members of the IRL three comma club. The game’s lead writer, however, insists that such characters aren’t based on any real-world people.
Source: Kotaku – Horizon Forbidden West Dev Explains Far Zenith, The Game’s Most Twisted Villains
Here are two essential facts about Stewart Copeland. First is that he was the drummer for The Police. Second is that he composed the soundtracks to the three original Spyro The Dragon games. You’ll need to keep both of those things in mind for this story.
Source: Kotaku – The Drummer From The Police Has A Weird Bobby Kotick Story
If playing a cyberpunk detective game that asks you to find clues to solve cases both in the game and in real-life tickles your fancy, then Chinatown Detective Agency might be your jam.
Source: Kotaku – This Carmen Sandiego-Inspired Detective Game Requires Real-World Sleuthing
While Paradox’s grand strategy game Crusader Kings III is set centuries before the present day, and so could be expected to have done little in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the development team have found one way to make a change, and that’s with the game’s spelling.
Source: Kotaku – Crusader Kings III Makes A Change Following Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Maybe I am a simple man with old-fashioned needs, but when my time with a PC game is up and I want to stop playing, I should be able to quit directly to the desktop. Straight away, no fuss. So please, developers, let me.
Source: Kotaku – Please Let Me Just Exit To The Desktop
Five years after it came to Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to get eight new race tracks as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC, and players are already parsing whether they look deluxe enough. The consensus? There isn’t any, at least not yet.
Source: Kotaku – Mario Kart 8 Connoisseurs Are Already Dissecting Its Newest Courses
In Tunic you wake up as a fox on a colorful, isometric shore. Walk for a little bit and you’ll find some monsters. Go in a cave and you’ll find a stick with which to fend them off. Venture a bit further and you’ll find a maze of rocks, broken bridges, and other obstacles to navigate in search of the next clue to what…
Source: Kotaku – Gorgeous Zelda-Like Tunic Is Exactly What I Needed Right Now
If you’re an overeager (or overly violent) Elden Ring player, then you might have killed a few NPCs here and there without realizing that they were actually crucial to a quest, or that they were holding on to an important item. Have no fear: Some slain NPCs are not permanently dead, or even permanently mad. To wipe…
Source: Kotaku – How To Revive Those Elden Ring NPCs You Murdered Before The Patch Fixed Their Quests
Aside from a handful of hits, Xbox Game Pass has had a bit of a slow month—until yesterday. During a showcase focused on indie games, Microsoft announced two more games would hit the Game Pass library: Tunic and Paradise Killer. Better yet, they’re both already available.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Quietly Adds Two Amazing Games
After nearly three weeks with the game, Elden Ring players had found some extremely effective ways to break it, using OP builds to smash challenging bosses like Malenia as well as other players in PVP invasions. FromSoft took notice, however, and nerfed some of the most popular builds in a massive 1.03 patch that went…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Fans Mourn Nerfed OP Builds That Helped With Tough Bosses
Elden Ring was just updated to v1.03, and while that humble number may not suggest anything noteworthy, the game has actually quietly gone and added (and fixed) some pretty important stuff.
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring’s First Big Patch Adds More Secrets, Quests and People To An Already Massive Game
I know Mario games have involved the beach before, but those times—Mario Sunshine especially—were about work, or quests, and quests are work. This series of illustrations by Léo Chérel instead imagines what it would be like if the brothers (and friends) were all able to take a proper, well-deserved vacation.
Source: Kotaku – The Mario Bros Have Earned A Beach Holiday
Late last year, Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie decided to run an NFT auction, selling off an image of the controversial character in which it was waist-deep in a pool, its asscrack peeping over the surface. Everything that has happened since is exactly how you would imagine such an auction in the insipid Web3 space…
Source: Kotaku – 0,000 NFT Lawsuit Over Pepe The Frog’s Butt Is A Very Funny Story
While I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, with my performance having been pretty good so far, there are a lot of people out there having problems trying to play Elden Ring on the PC. Those playing on Valve’s Steam Deck are not among them.
Source: Kotaku – Valve Fixed Elden Ring Just For The Steam Deck
The forthcoming first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer feature the subtitle “Heart of Chernobyl.” It’s now officially subtitled S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a representative for Ukrainian developer GSC Game World confirmed to Kotaku.
Source: Kotaku – S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Changes Subtitle To ‘Heart Of Chornobyl’ Due To War In Ukraine