Ubisoft’s ongoing NFT odyssey continues to bewilder and demoralize not just longtime fans but also its own developers. The company recently held another workshop aimed specifically at addressing the concerns of skeptical employees, yet also started giving out special NFTs to some members of the Ghost Recon team to…
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Latest Galaxy-Brain Move Is To Gift Scammy NFTs To Employees
Activision Blizzard, a publisher under a government investigation revolving around sexual harassment at the company, allegedly stopped a Call of Duty personality from leading her own team within a tournament held by her own organization. The reason? She’s claiming that the publisher was uncomfortable with her…
Source: Kotaku – Activision Blizzard Allegedly Wouldn’t Let Call Of Duty Twitch Streamer Run A Team Due To ‘Oversexual’ Posts
Game Freak’s first stab at a semi-open world Pokémon game is quite good. In some ways it’s shockingly so. How do I know this? In part because I and a bunch of other players got immediately hooked on Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ first area and wasted hour after hour there doing tons of stuff without even a thought as to…
Source: Kotaku – Pokemon Legends: Arceus Players Are Spending Forever In Just The First Area
Last night, developer Tango Gameworks delivered an in-depth look at the gameplay and narrative of its upcoming supernatural action-adventure game Ghostwire: Tokyo. We saw some tight abilities, some cool exploration, and some adorable kitties. We also now know that the March 25 release date that’s been floating around…
Source: Kotaku – Ghostwire: Tokyo Looks Like Dishonored In Modern-Day Japan And I’m Here For It
You’ve probably been trying to catch ‘em all in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but sometimes the Pokémon just want to catch you. And kill you. It’s probably fair, since I’m trying to put their friends and family in Pokéballs. But in the heat of running away from a weirdly aggressive Paras, I just want these fuckers to eat…
Source: Kotaku – Pokemon Legends: Arceus Fans Agree: Paras Is Satan
The magic behind Wordle is, of course, that there’s only one puzzle a day. Combined with the ease with which players can paste their spoiler-free results to social media and group chats, it’s that the whole world is all playing the same puzzle, the same day, that makes it so alluring. But screw that! You can now play…
Source: Kotaku – With Wordle Archive, You Can Play All The Wordles That Came Before Whenever You Want
For years now, Pokémon fans have been begging Game Freak for a more “mature” monster-collecting video game, ideally one that’s more difficult than the mainline games in the franchise. With Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it seems that folks might have finally gotten what they wanted–and it’s kinda unsettling. Let me explain.
Source: Kotaku – Can We Talk About Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Shockingly Dark Tone For A Second
Anime content creators on YouTube have been entrenched in a brutal fair use battle with aggressive Japanese copyright owners for a while now, but as one content creator tells it, things are starting to get out of control. Japanese companies don’t want YouTubers using their footage. YouTubers need clips to critique,…
Source: Kotaku – The Battle Between Anime YouTube and Japan Keeps Escalating
Well, after years of rumors and fake-outs, it’s finally happened. Rockstar Games has confirmed that the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto franchise is in active development. We already knew this was the case, of course, based on a variety of reports and leaks—not to mention how long it’s been since the last GTA game…
Source: Kotaku – Rockstar: GTA 6 Development Underway, And It’s ‘Significantly’ More Ambitious
Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs are the kind of game that people get lost in, finding friends and communities to spend days and days with. Virtual reality has quickly become a popular way for folks to interact with others, often in wild and strange worlds or environments. So combining the social interactions of an…
Source: Kotaku – Six Hours With Zenith, The Latest MMO Hit On Steam
Genshin Impact’s events can often feel puzzle-driven and sparse. Last year’s Lantern Rite Festival was a bit like a festive museum display. The Windblume Festival and Moonlight Merriment events, meanwhile, were little more than vehicles for seasonal minigames. In contrast, this year’s Chinese New Year-themed Lantern…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact’s Best Update Yet Is Full Of Killer Moments
Dying Light 2, Techland’s massive sequel to the 2015 original, is an open-world action-adventure game with RPG elements. So as you might expect, there are tons of skills to unlock. Some are useful. Others, not so much. There are also a few tantalizing ones that may seem like things you’d want to acquire early on but…
Source: Kotaku – The Five Skills You Should Get ASAP In Dying Light 2
This morning, Genshin Impact revealed the next major update for the game, which consists of new content for the Inazuma region. Yae Miko will become playable for the first time, the Enkanomiya sub-region will get its own event, and players will be able to fight a boss who looks suspiciously like the Raiden Shogun.
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact’s Inazuma Update Adds Yae Miko, New Enemies, And Bartending
One Piece began publication in 1997 and has now surpassed 1,000 chapters. There’s a lot for fans to celebrate! But according to website My Jitsu, some manga readers in Japan are not happy about how things are going.
My Jitsu reports that a segment of fans in Japan are not only annoyed by the pacing of the current …
Source: Kotaku – One Piece Manga’s Hiatus Leads To Fan Complaints In Japan
Ah, yes. It’s that time of year again. Time for eateries in Japan to slather things with chocolate in the name of Valentine’s Day, commerce, and science.
Last year, we got chocolate ramen. And this year? Japanese fast food chain Lotteria has what it’s calling a choko baagaa (チョコバーガー) or chocolate burger—but a…
Source: Kotaku – Japanese Fast Food Chain Giving Away Half-Assed “Chocolate Burgers” For Valentine’s Day
Video games can be hard at times. They require accuracy, attentiveness, dexterity, and above all, patience. So playing on Normal isn’t always an option, especially if you’re rusty in a particular genre or have a disability that impedes your gameplay. Dying Light 2, the sequel to Techland’s 2015 predecessor, is already…
Source: Kotaku – It’s Ok To Start Dying Light 2 On Easy
Wojtek Ostrycharz is currently art director on development of The Invincible, a retro sci-fi thriller based on a Stanisław Lem novel that’s coming to Steam later this year.
Source: Kotaku – The Future Is Also The Past
It was only earlier this week that we were reporting that Battlefield 2042’s first major content updates won’t be out for months. Now the smaller updates are being pushed back as well.
Source: Kotaku – Even Battlefield 2042’s Smaller Updates Are Being Delayed
Bungie dropped a bombshell in today’s blog post, and it had nothing to do with being bought by Sony. The studio revealed some more major changes coming to Destiny 2 with the launch of the long anticipated Witch Queen expansion later this month. While the game’s crating system was the big topic of discussion, Bungie…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Exotic Guns Are About To Get Way Stronger
Star Citizen, a game that has been in development for over a decade and has raised over $400 million in funding, is nowhere near being done. Not even close. And as work continues on the game, recent changes to the way the studio communicates their progress with fans have not exactly been helping matters.
Source: Kotaku – Star Citizen Studio Calls ‘Loud’ Fans A ‘Distraction’ In Very Bad Post