The best Uncharted game doesn’t open in media res with hero Nathan Drake hanging, gutshot, off a derailed train in the Himalayas. It doesn’t start with him tearing through 12-foot Pacific swells in a speedboat on a stormy night. No, it kicks off with a focus on his sporadic companion Chloe Frazer perusing a market in…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Uncharted, Out Now For PS5, Doesn’t Star Nathan Drake
Any number of things can serve as personal distractions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but one I’m sure a lot of folks will enjoy is shiny hunting. Searching out with these alternately colored pocket monsters is half the fun of these games for many hardcore fans, and Arceus offers up an interesting way to do so with its…
Source: Kotaku – To Get Shinies In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, You Need To Exploit Mass Outbreaks
While trotting about the first free-roaming area of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it would behoove you to visit the massive, angry Rapidash roaming the Horseshoe Plains. You’re sure to get on like a house-sized horse on fire.
Source: Kotaku – What Happens When You Attack That Pokémon Legends: Arceus Giant Rapidash
A new Pokémon game means, well, new Pokémon, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus is no exception. And while the latest installment in Nintendo’s flagship role-playing franchise may skew from the series’ foundational elements in interesting ways with its fluid, open-world gameplay, some of these debuting Pokémon still come…
Source: Kotaku – How To Evolve Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ New Monsters, Plus Old Ones With Weird Requirements
Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot of things differently from the mainline Pokémon games, and that includes completing your Pokédex. Where before the games tasked you with collecting the entire monster compendium to fill out the encyclopedia within the device, Arceus takes place in the past, presumably before Bill…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Easy Pokedex Tips That Will Make A Huge Difference
In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the New York Times with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is the Times crossword editor who is now the gatekeeper, selecting puzzles from the nearly 200 submissions he gets a week.…
Source: Kotaku – The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
Destiny 2’s longest season still has a month to go. That’s bad news for everyone eagerly awaiting the game’s massive upcoming Witch Queen expansion, but good news for those who still need time to tie up a few loose ends. That’s especially true for newer players who may be a bit behind on the four-year old live service…
Source: Kotaku – Eight Things To Do In Destiny 2 To Prepare For The Witch Queen
Face it, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End isn’t exactly a nail-bitingly difficult game. In fact, the debatably toughest moment of Naughty Dog’s modern classic comes in the form of a game-within-a-game: Crash flippin’ Bandicoot.
Source: Kotaku – How To Beat The Bizarrely Difficult Crash Bandicoot High Score In Uncharted 4
Even if shiny hunting in Pokémon games isn’t your cup of tea, it’s always exciting to randomly happen upon one of these uber-rare, alternately colored pocket monsters. Fortunately, Pokémon Legends: Arceus makes achieving this feat easy by reviving an old series tradition and giving players one guaranteed shiny by way…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends: Arceus Gives You A Shiny Ponyta With A Special Legacy
Dan Eder is an artist currently working on Warner Bros’ fighting game Multiversus.
Source: Kotaku – My, Link, How You’ve Grown
Ubisoft’s official foray into the world of Non-Fungible Tokens has not had the best start; the announcement was trashed by fans, and the company’s “garbage” NFTs were largely ignored upon release. In a new interview with Australian site Finder, though, Ubisoft say the blame for this lies with us, not them.
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft Executive Says Users ‘Don’t Get It’ In Extraordinary NFT Interview
The metaverse is supposed to be the future, so it’s got the world buzzing with excitement. Hilariously, though, the prominence of the “futuristic” buzzword has caused old footage of digital worlds to explode on social media, largely driven by the fact that nobody really understands what the hell the metaverse actually…
Source: Kotaku – I Traveled To Facebook’s Soulless (But Popular) Metaverse So You Don’t Have To
Riot Games, the creators of League of Legends and online shooter Valorant, has issued something of an apology to fans of the latter after a tweet appeared to show one of the game’s characters enjoying the works of an NFT artist.
Source: Kotaku – Riot Forced To Explain A Valorant Character Is Not Into NFTs
The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historically been reticent in doling out a bevy of publicity screenshots for its hit stealth game, Hitman 3—published a decadent 4K screenshot of suave hero Agent 47 pouring a glass of Argentinian Malbec. No, no, that’s just icing on the cake: IO Interactive is handing…
Source: Kotaku – Hitman 3 Had A Bad Steam Launch, So Everyone Gets An Upgrade
IGN has published a new comparison video for Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West. The four-minute clip, a rundown of the biggest changes made between the upcoming action-adventure game and 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn, showed how similar the two appear to be side-by-side. One particular moment has a subset of Very…
Source: Kotaku – Horizon Forbidden West Reusing Animations Isn’t A New Phenomenon (And It’s Not Bad, Either)
Star Wars 1313 footage was recently discovered wiling away in an animator’s online portfolio, providing us with yet another brief glimpse at the canceled game.
Source: Kotaku – Canceled Star Wars Game Footage Teases Boba Fett Bounty Hunting Action
Yesterday, developer 343 Industries shook up Halo Infinite’s ranked playlist. For the foreseeable future, matches of capture the flag, specifically on the Behemoth map, will no longer appear in the playlist’s rotation, effectively nixing one of the most widely hated maps. Players of the hit multiplayer shooter widely…
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite’s Ranked Capture The Flag Matches Are Too Long
Founded way back in 1972, Atari celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The all-but-defunct company doesn’t really make games anymore, but it does like to plaster its recognizable logo over everything it can find—from hotels to PCs. And to celebrate that the company is still clinging to life, Atari has finally…
Source: Kotaku – Zombie Atari Celebrates 50-Year Legacy With NFT Loot Boxes
Before Hello Games made a name for itself with the procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, its developer was all about Joe Danger, a cartoonish motorcycle stuntman racing through an eponymous series of console and mobile games. After years of being defunct due to iOS updates, the Joe Danger mobile games…
Source: Kotaku – No Man’s Sky Dev Brings Back Older Games To Brighten One Kid’s Life
