In a new video, Mark Fitzpatrick of the anime YouTube channel Totally Not Mark revealed he not only won a battle in his copyright strike war with Toei Animation but also influenced YouTube to create a new copyright rule for content creators.
Source: Kotaku – YouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone
According to a Japanese research study, only 2-5% of players spend money in gacha games like Genshin Impact. This means that the vast majority of players are subsisting on free gacha rolls from various in-game activities. With a little bit of persistence, you can improve your odds and save a pretty significant number…
Source: Kotaku – How To Get Free Wishes In Genshin Impact
Stop encasing your old gaming hardware in resin to make furniture, there is a better way to honor the handheld systems that came before. Art studio Grid is taking apart old Game Boy, PSP, Nintendo DS, and Game Gear consoles, and transforming them into stunning technological dioramas you can hang on your wall.
Source: Kotaku – Who Knew A Game Boy’s Insides Could Be So Beautiful?
In December 2021, a team of archaeologists working in Oman made the only type of discovery that would get their work covered on a site like this: they dug up a board game dating back approximately 4000 years, and which it’s thought could be an ancient ancestor to Backgammon.
Source: Kotaku – 4000-Year-Old Board Game Uncovered By Archaeologists
The Crusader Kings series has long supported same-sex relationships in certain forms, but thanks to the way so much of the games have been built around historical ideas of marriage and succession, if players wanted gay characters to get hitched, they had to use mods.
Source: Kotaku – Crusader Kings III Is About To Officially Support Same-Sex Marriages
We can all agree that NFTs suck, right? They chew through energy like termites eating wood and shit out a ton of greenhouse gas emissions, destroying our world one crypto sell at a time. On top of that, you don’t get anything physical, just a digital certificate of blockchain ownership. Thankfully, the internet is…
Source: Kotaku – Forget Just Right Clicking, Now We’re Printing NFTs With Game Boys
Last night, Microsoft announced that Halo Infinite has been played by more than 20 million people since its surprise release last November. In other words, at any given moment, up to 20 million people (or more!) are engaged in roiling debate over some aspect of how developer 343 Industries runs its hit game. This…
Source: Kotaku – The Ongoing Fury Around Halo Infinite’s Store And Its Prices, Explained
The behemoth has been slayed, literally. Starting this afternoon, you’ll no longer see Halo Infinite’s worst mode (capture the flag) appear on Halo Infinite’s worst map (Behemoth) in ranked playlists. Halo senior community manager John Junyszek confirmed the news in a post over on the Halo Waypoint forums today.
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Removes Its Worst Map From Ranked Play, Pros Rejoice
Navi. That simple, two-syllable word is enough to send even diehard Legend of Zelda fans into a tailspin. But as it turns out, even Shigeru Miyamoto–the legendary designer behind the action-adventure franchise and countless other Nintendo properties–felt a touch of frustration toward Link’s annoying fairy sidekick…
Source: Kotaku – It’s Not Just You: Miyamoto Hated Navi In Ocarina Of Time, Too
Trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1999 and Konami has been putting out video games versions of the TCG for just as long. So why is the free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, released with little fanfare last week, hitting so hard there are a couple hundred thousand people playing it on Steam at any given…
Source: Kotaku – The New Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Is Taking Over The Steam Charts
Valve announced a big feature for its highly anticipated Steam Deck: cloud saving. The cloud saving option will allow players to seamlessly transition from playing on PC, Steam Deck, and back again without losing any saved data.
Source: Kotaku – Valve Announces Cloud Saving For Steam Deck
Pokémon Legends: Arceus arrives on Nintendo Switch on January 28, but the embargo for press outlets who receive game code ahead of release lifts today–and so far, these assessments are raving about the latest monster collector. Many are calling it the best in the series.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends: Arceus Reviews Are Calling It The Franchise’s Best (And Messiest) Entry In Years
Normally, I’m a good person. I celebrate my friends’ wins when something good happens to them. But when half the internet is crying at the sad, sad state of their Genshin Impact rolls for the Lantern Rite event, I can’t help but get a bit of schadenfreude. How’s that C6 Qiqi treating you? (Sisi assures me this is a…
Source: Kotaku – Genshin Impact Players’ Zhongli and Ganyu Rolls Are Looking A Little Funny
Still reeling from a workplace misconduct reckoning, staff exodus, major game delays, and a record-breaking deal to be acquired by Microsoft, Blizzard announced yesterday that it’s working on its first game set in a new universe since the launch of Overwatch six years ago. Details were scant, but but developer hype…
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Teases First New Game Universe Since Overwatch Amid Developer Exodus
My entire time with Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves has been underscored by a question: Why?
Source: Kotaku – Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Doesn’t Need To Exist, But It’s Still Great
Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognize their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labor Review Board,…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty Maker Reveals Plan To Squash Union Effort
Even in a franchise as full of brilliant characters as Guilty Gear, Baiken rules. The fucked-up samurai, despite missing both an eye and an arm, is canonically one of the strongest people in the fighting game’s universe, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the brash swagger she brings to every battle. But one thing…
Source: Kotaku – Mysterious! Guilty Gear Character’s Boobs Keep Growing With Every Sequel
Ever since Microsoft announced it was buying Activision Blizzard in the biggest gaming deal ever, Sony fans have been desperate to see the PS5-maker respond in some way, as if the console giant had “big news” stored in a t-shirt cannon ready to be blasted out into the ravenous crowd at the drop of a hat. But the signs…
Source: Kotaku – PlayStation Fans Reeling From Xbox Call Of Duty Deal Swear Something Is Afoot
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card you’ve been after to complete your “Extreme Gaming PC” build is still in short supply but finally getting slightly cheaper. That’s thanks to a drop in crypto mining participation as the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies plummet ahead of what some analysts are…
Source: Kotaku – High-End PC Graphics Cards Get A Little Cheaper As Crypto Tanks
Last week, we reported that the Nintendo Switch Online’s emulation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time saw a small graphical tweak with the service’s latest update. It signaled potential good news for the quality of emulated games on NSO, which players have decried for some time. In another promising sign, fans…
Source: Kotaku – Latest Nintendo Switch Online Update Also Reduced Ocarina Of Time Input Lag