It’s a universally agreed-upon truth that the Wii Shop Channel music is a banger. No doubt about it. One of the best pieces of music humanity has ever created. And now, thanks to a nifty and clever little browser add-on, you can have this wonderful song play wherever you go, provided it’s on the internet. So for…
Source: Kotaku – Make Shopping Online Better With The Wii Shop Channel Song
A championship on the line. A move so cold and calculated it has to be a troll (probably). A vitriolic fanbase armed with keyboards and anonymous screen names. And you thought these sorts of things only happened in video games. But even chess, a turn-based strategy game first released for wooden boards some 1,500…
Source: Kotaku – The Chess World Is Losing Its Mind Over One Grandmaster Potentially Trolling Another
Sony has responded to Microsoft’s record-shattering deal to buy Activision Blizzard with acquisition news of its own, announcing today it plans to buy Destiny 2-maker Bungie for $3.6 billion.
Source: Kotaku – Sony Buys Bungie, Makers of Destiny 2 For .6B
Pokémon do not mess around in the ancient Hisui region. Life might not be nasty, brutish, and short, but it’s far from breezy in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. That’s especially evident in some of its more RNG-based side-quests, where hard work and determination can’t overcome bad luck. Arceus does a lot right, but forcing…
Source: Kotaku – Pokemon Legends: Arceus Fans Keep Getting Stuck On Its BS Random Monster Quests
In 1994, Andy Davidson had an idea. That idea was to take the infinitely copied mid-70s Tektronix 4051 game, Artillery, but do it with cartoon worms. Then-developer Team17 snapped it up, called it Worms, and have since wrung out every last drop of miserable profit from the mediocre idea ever since. So of course…
Source: Kotaku – Worms Developer The Latest To Sell Out Over NFTs
I’ve found my mortal enemy in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and no, it’s not the surly-faced captain who threatened to leave me to die in the wilds. It’s the guy standing right outside of her office. You know who I’m talking about. It’s Bagin, the guy who offers to expand your inventory–for a price.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Inventory Expansion Is A Rip-off
YouTuber Handy Geng noticed that all his buddies had bigger power banks than his. “I’m not so happy with that,” he writes. It bothered him! He could not sleep. So Handy Geng decided to change that by building the biggest power bank of all.
Handy Geng put his D.I.Y. skills to the test, welding a metal frame and making…
Source: Kotaku – Man Makes Power Bank Able To Charge 5,000 Smartphones
Japan’s pachinko industry, a bulwark in the country’s amusement industry, has been hit hard during the pandemic.
According to pachinko news site Green Belt, nearly 640 pachinko parlors closed in 2021. As of December 2021, there were 7,637 pachinko parlors affiliated with the Japan Amusement Business Cooperation.
Source: Kotaku – Pachinko Is Not Doing Well In Japan
In November 2021 a team of fans at Zelda 64 Reverse Engineering—having spent two years on the project—revealed that they’d painstakingly recreated the entirety of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. Now, only a few months later, we’re getting a good look at one of the main goals of that project: a proper PC port of…
Source: Kotaku – Let’s Check Out Ocarina Of Time’s PC ‘Port’
Zombies! Love or hate ‘em, they are still a big part of pop culture. And later this week the next big zombie game, Dying Light 2, releases for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
Source: Kotaku – The Week In Games: The Zombies Are Coming
If I dumped 25,000 Lego bricks and pieces in front of you and gave you a few months to build something with them, what would you make? You’d probably be more concerned that I dumped all that plastic on you. But one Zelda fan and Lego builder took all those blocks and created a marvelous looking recreation of the…
Source: Kotaku – NES Zelda Map Recreated By One Person Using 25,000 Lego Bricks
While it was teased in December, the first full trailer for the upcoming Halo TV series was just released and it looks, if nothing else, very expensive.
Source: Kotaku – First Proper Trailer For Halo’s TV Series Drops
A YouTube channel that uploads video game soundtracks has reportedly been sent over 1300 copyright blocks in one day. This news isn’t shocking if you know Nintendo’s track record when it comes to fan creations and communities, but it’s still a frustrating situation as much of the music that is removed from YouTube is…
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo Hits YouTube Soundtrack Channel With Over 1300 Copyright Blocks
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: Wow!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An NFT project sells a ton of tokens, making a shit ton of cash in the process for a thing that probably will exist in the future. Then the project and folks involved disappear with the money, leaving those who bought into it screwed. Well, it’s reportedly happened again, this…
Source: Kotaku – NFT Minecraft Project Sells .2 Million In Tokens, Deletes Everything A Few Days Later
You might think you are good at Wordle, with your favorite starting word and all that. But a real Wordle expert can complete puzzles using the worst starting word as determined recently by a computer and TikTok user.
Source: Kotaku – Science Has Figured Out The Worst Starting Word In Wordle
The internet’s favorite Simpsons scene, often referred to as “Steamed Hams,” has been recreated in hundreds of strange ways over the years. Now someone has turned the whole thing into a playable point-and-click adventure game, not unlike classics like Monkey Island.
Source: Kotaku – Steamed Hams Is Now A Playable Point-And-Click Adventure Game
Thanks to an investigation into online gaming subscriptions by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft will soon improve the ways in which its Xbox Game Pass service handles auto-renewal, refunds, and inactive memberships. (h/t PC Gamer)
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Will Soon Stop Taking Money From Inactive Accounts
If you’ve frequented Félix “xQc” Lengyel’s Twitch channel recently, you’ll have noticed he’s doing a lot of Grand Theft Auto Online role-play and reactions to video content. That’s fine. It’s his channel, so he can do whatever he wants with it…or maybe not? A small but vocal portion of his millions-strong community…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Are Harassing Top Twitch Star xQc For ‘Too Much’ GTA Role-Play
We are less than a month out from the release of Elden Ring. Some are already planning to take off from work to play it. Others are planning to take off from the internet to avoid what will likely be another round of game difficulty discourse. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki has broached the subject in a new interview,…
Source: Kotaku – Elden Ring Director On Game’s Difficulty: ‘More Players Will Finish It’