The International Game Developers Association has been an outspoken critic of the culture at companies like Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard that has led to so many lawsuits, departures and firings over the last few years. Yet a report today by GI.Biz says that the group has failed to act on its own internal problems.
Source: Kotaku – Report: IGDA Failed To Act On Internal Harassment Claims
If NFTs are a scam—and they are, I’m just going through the rhetorical motions in building a sentence here—then The Sandbox is one of the biggest engines driving them in the video game space. So it makes perfect sense that it’s the location for Ubisoft’s next foray into the world of all this bullshit.
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Rabbids Join Blockchain Game, Welcome To Hell
Destiny 2 is in a weirder spot than usual right now. Anticipation for its upcoming Witch Queen expansion is through the roof, but the game’s current seasonal story hasn’t progressed in months. Nothing highlights the gap between the growing hype and the current snooze better than the game’s latest weekly update. While…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2’s Mysterious Bridge Is Finally Finished, And Nothing Happened
By now, Halo Infinite has been out long enough for you to get pretty good. But there comes a point in all competitive shooters—hey, no shame in this—where you hit a plateau. Your matches start playing out just as the previous 50 did. You find yourself falling back on the same tactics, to the same effect. You’re not…
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Tips For People Who Already Know What They’re Doing
Dying Light 2 is a massive game, with tons of little nooks and crannies in which to find treasure. One such hidey-hole squirrels away a blueprint for the Left Finger of gloVa, a powerful piece of equipment that lets players kill zombies simply by pointing at them.
Source: Kotaku – Secret Dying Light 2 Blueprint Gives Players A Lethal Finger Gun
Halo Infinite is slipping. As first reported by Forbes, 343 Industries’ popular shooter—the marquee Xbox game of this generation—has dropped out of the top five most-played games on Xbox, down from once upon a time holding fast in the top position.
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite’s Xbox Numbers Slip Behind Roblox
It’s no secret that Minecraft is a game of infinite possibilities. It is this open-endedness that allowed the game to achieve the ultimate gamer status of being, quite literally, the best-selling video game in history. In Minecraft, your imagination is the only limitation. With this in mind, it comes as no surprise…
Source: Kotaku – Minecraft Was Getting Too Easy, So These Players Made Their Own Galactic Challenge
In early fall, the hugely successful Dungeons & Dragons “actual play” series Critical Role announced plans for their third campaign, set in the fictionalized world of Marquet. While the campaign would draw inspiration from real-life SWANA [Southwest Asian/North African] cultures, the group would work together with…
Source: Kotaku – The Problem With Critical Role’s Latest Campaign
Pokémon Legends: Arceus hasn’t launched with nearly as many exploits as last year’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes, but players have still managed to discover one particular glitch with huge consequences for Shiny hunting. Want to start raking in Shinies and dish them out to all your friends?…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends: Arceus Players Find Glitch To Clone Shinies
I promised myself I wouldn’t write about Wordle today. It didn’t matter how clever the spin, how cute the twist on the theme, I was determined. And then I discovered the existence of Squirdle, a Wordle-like guessing game about Pokémon, and I’m helpless.
Source: Kotaku – Uh-Oh, Now Pokémon Has A Wordle, Too
Switch owners can finally chill for a minute. The first Nintendo Direct of 2022 has been revealed, and it’s taking place tomorrow, February 9. The lengthy presentation will “mainly” cover games coming out in the first half of the year, so news about Breath of the Wild 2 might be a long shot, but there’s still hope.…
Source: Kotaku – Surprise, The First Nintendo Direct Of The Year Has Been Scheduled
Dying Light 2 was released last week and quickly became one of the most popular games on Steam, at one point hitting over 240,000 concurrent players. The open-world zombie RPG is the follow-up to the also successful Dying Light, launched back in 2016. And while game critics have had some mixed things to say about …
Source: Kotaku – Dying Light 2, As Told By Steam Reviews
Since its debut in 1995, Neon Genesis Evangelion has spawned piles and piles of merch. Figures, t-shirts, stickers, coffee cups—you name it. An endless supply of stuff like that is normal. But Evangelion also has other things, like wedding rings.
Last fall, wedding rings inspired by the Spear of Cassius from Evangelion…
Source: Kotaku – Even More Evangelion Wedding Rings For Getting Hitched
Founded in 1972, Sunrise Inc. is one of Japan’s most famous anime studios. The studio’s corporate name will be no more starting this spring.
IT Media reports that Sunrise will become Bandai Namco Filmworks as of April 1st 2022. Bandai Namco Arts and Bandai Namco Marketing will merge with Sunrise to form the new entity. …
Source: Kotaku – Gundam Anime Studio Is Changing Its Official Name
The first two OlliOlli games were great, but developers Roll7 have really outdone themselves with the third entry in the series, OlliOlli World, which is out this week.
Source: Kotaku – The Art Of OlliOlli World
One of the cutest things about Wordle, and also one of the most important if you value having any kind of success with the game, is the selection of your starting word. For most players this has probably been their own favourite combination of vowels and consonants, but if you really want to get things done fast, math…
Source: Kotaku – Wordle’s ‘Best’ Starting Word Has Been Found, And Ruined, By Math
The debate between Star Trek and Star Wars is older than time—I know it’s older than I am anyway—and it reared its head as recently as the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle, which poses a brain-breaking question.
Source: Kotaku – Sneaky NY Times Crossword Breaks Star Wars, Star Trek Fans’ Brains
Over the weekend, a tweet blew up reminding the world of BioShock Infinite’s “Bread Boy”, a very strange, joyous little man from the game’s Burial At Sea DLC.
Source: Kotaku – BioShock Infinite’s ‘Bread Boy’, Explained
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has sold like gangbusters, received largely positive reviews, and achieved the highest user score of any game in the series in years. That hasn’t stopped it from being mired in controversy when it comes to its graphics, however. A week after the game’s release, the debate over how good (or bad)…
Source: Kotaku – People Won’t Stop Arguing About Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Graphics
Several unique items have yet to be unearthed in the PlayStation 5 remake of Demon’s Souls, trusted modder and dataminer Lance McDonald recently stated on Twitter. That said, he’s not quite ready to give up the details.
Source: Kotaku – Demon’s Souls Expert Claims PS5 Remake Still Hides Secrets