Resident Evil 4, inarguably one of the greatest games of all time, is now playable with full high-definition textures, enhanced 3D models, and revamped lighting courtesy of the Resident Evil 4 HD Project.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil 4 HD Mod, Out Now After 8 Years In Development, Looks Amazing
EA Sports have removed Manchester United and England striker Mason Greenwood from FIFA 22 after his arrest earlier this week on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, assault and “making threats to kill”.
Source: Kotaku – Manchester United Striker Pulled From FIFA After Rape Allegations
Yacht Club Games is working on a new project which, for the first time in the indie studio’s history, has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. It’s called Mina the Hollower, it’s a retro-homage to Game Boy classics like Link’s Awakening, and in a weird twist, Yacht Club is going back to Kickstarter to help fund…
Source: Kotaku – Shovel Knight Devs’ Next Game Is A Mash-Up Of Link’s Awakening And Castlevania
The new animated movie Belle is a marvel. The latest from Mamoru Hosoda, director of 2018’s acclaimed Mirai, Belle features skilled art direction that remains coherent and focused in even the busiest scenes, and I loved the English soundtrack for its haunting beauty, which never strays from its Disney inspiration. It…
Source: Kotaku – Summer Wars Creator’s New Anime Is Visually Stunning, But Misses The Mark
Paul “Ice Poseidon” Denino, a former Twitch star who now streams on YouTube after the Amazon-owned platform banned him in 2017, was caught in a flagrant crypto scheme in which he took some $500,000 from his fans…and kept most of it. Crypto bros are the worst. This scam, uncovered by YouTuber Coffeezilla and first…
Source: Kotaku – Notorious YouTube Streamer Stole 0,000 From Fans In Crypto Scheme (And Won’t Give It Back)
Yesterday Team17—the studio behind the classic Worms series—announced it was getting into the NFT space, teaming up with a third party to release “collectible digital artwork based on one of the most beloved IPs in indie games”. A day later, that plan is in the bin.
Source: Kotaku – Worms Studio Ditches NFT Scam After Only 24 Hours
Wordle took an express ride from a breezy daily distraction to a seven-figure payday for its creator. No wonder everyone is copying it. But many—and there are so many—of its variants are similar exercises in wordplay. Far rarer is the Wordle clone that doesn’t feature any words at all.
Source: Kotaku – A Sensational Wordle Clone Without Any Actual Words
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the biggest Pokémon installment in quite some time, and as such, it can be a little daunting, even for experienced players. There’s a ton of stuff to track from new items and Pokéballs to Pokédex entries and updated Pokémon forms.
Source: Kotaku – Tips For Playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus
If you’ve grown green with envy seeing everyone’s green emoji squares on Twitter celebrating their Wordle success, these tips will help you up your game. People go back and forth about whether it takes skill or luck to be good at Wordle, but the truth is it’s both. Every once in a while, you’ll likely slip up no…
Source: Kotaku – Wordle Tips To Help You Nail It In Fewer Guesses
Hot off the shocking news of its acquisition by Sony, Bungie revealed what new Exotic gear players will soon be getting their hands on in Destiny 2’s The Witch Queen, when launches later this month. TL;DR: the new guns and armor look like some of the loot shooter’s coolest yet.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Is Getting New Guns That Are Bonkers, Like The Exploding Worms Grenade Launcher
The Xbox hard drives of the world needed a break eventually. For February 2022, Xbox Game Pass isn’t cluttering the most jam-packed release slate in recent memory. Not only is the upcoming lineup fairly slight, but some of the best and biggest on Microsoft’s games-on-demand service will soon be unavailable.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Is Losing Some Of Its Best Games
It’s been a rough few months for Battlefield 2042, and things don’t sound like they’re going to magically turn around anytime soon. EA announced today that the live service shooter won’t be getting any new content until summer, over six months after launch, with season one delayed and basic features like team voice…
Source: Kotaku – Battlefield 2042 Just Can’t Catch A Break
For years, Acura waited for the right opportunity to enter the world of anime.
Source: Kotaku – Meet Chiaki And Her Uncle Noboru, Acura’s New Anime Duo Who Are Ushering In a New Era of Type S Performance
After 56 years, Sega’s arcade history is coming to a close. In fall 2020, Sega sold off 85 percent of its arcade business to Tokyo-based Genda. Now, the company has sold off its remaining stock, and Genda is removing the Sega name from arcades.
In its place, Genda will use the “Gigo” name, which Sega had also…
Source: Kotaku – The Japanese Internet Reacts To Sega Leaving The Arcade Business
Yousuke Shiokawa, the director of the massively successful free-to-play Fate/Grand Order, has left his executive position as creative officer at Delightworks just as its game division was spun off and is set to be acquired by Sony-owned Aniplex.
Source: Kotaku – Fate/Grand Order Director Is Going Independent
Raven’s QA workers winning the right to unionize was a short-lived victory; in the days since returning from their strike Activision has announced plans to split everyone up, and then reveal a larger strategy that’s aimed at crushing this movement before it’s allowed to take hold.
Source: Kotaku – Activision VP Posts Anti-Union Message In Company Slack
Since 2004, World of Warcraft players have been asked to pick a faction and run with it. If you were Horde and your best friend was Alliance, your options for doing stuff in-game were practically zero, which made for a thematically strong experience, but also one that could kinda suck if family and friends were on the…
Source: Kotaku – Horde & Alliance Players Will Soon Be Able To Raid Together In World Of Warcraft
The New York Times just announced that it has bought Wordle, the surprise smash-hit word-guessing game that has taken over people’s browsers (and twitter feeds) for the last month, for a price “in the low seven figures”.
Source: Kotaku – Wordle Bought By The New York Times For ‘Seven-Figure’ Sum
January 31, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of a fantastic Sunsoft platformer known as Gimmick, released for the Famicom all the way back in 1992. Excuse me while I spend a few paragraphs gushing about it.
Source: Kotaku – The Best NES Game Turns 30 Years Old Today
Since it acquired Activision Blizzard, we’ve heard a lot of hedged words from Microsoft about potential Xbox exclusivity for Call of Duty in the years to come. In contrast, Sony is being much more upfront regarding its newly announced plan to acquire Bungie: Destiny 2 will remain multiplatform, as will the studio’s…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Won’t Become A PlayStation Exclusive Post-Acquisition, Sony Says