Copies of Baldur’s Gate 3’s sold-out Collector’s Edition are being purchased on online reseller eBay for up to $1,975 as of this writing. That’s slightly more than seven times as expensive as the developer’s original $270 asking price.
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Collector’s Editions Are Reselling For Nearly ,000
Fans of Overwatch 2’s shield-bashing support hero, Brigitte, can rejoice, as her arms will soon be restored to their former glory with an update to her new skin.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Is Buffing Brigitte’s ‘Guns’ In A New Update
Twitch has introduced a new update to its settings menu that finally prevents banned and blocked users from viewing livestreams, a feature that some may be surprised to learn didn’t already exist.
Source: Kotaku – Finally, Twitch Lets You Block Banned Users From Watching Your Stream
The initial pitch for Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, a choice-based musical where player decisions inform the direction a song goes is great. Summerfall Studios’ debut game sets a stage adorned by a modern-day Greek mythology backdrop, and conceptually, I should be lapping this up. In some ways, I am sincerely…
Source: Kotaku – The Thing That Makes This Musical RPG Special Is Also Its Worst Aspect
If you’ve played any amount of Baldur’s Gate 3 lately, you might’ve noticed how frequently the game is getting updates. Well, it turns out that a recent one has caused a bit of an issue, prompting developer Larian Studios to roll back the patch and issue a temporary hotfix to fix the problems caused by the original…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Developer Pulls Hotfix Following Save Issues
Soon-to-be-released football simulation game Madden NFL 24 made sure to retain a very important detail on Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes: his tongue. That’s what she said, or whatever.
Source: Kotaku – Madden NFL 24 Comes With A Kansas City Easter Egg
As someone who regularly hears “uh, you need to pay for that” or “ma’am, you need a license to drive this,” I’m accustomed to people interrupting my fun with strange, made up rules. And it looks like Starfield will also hit me with a warning I’m more than used to by now: “You need to clear storage space to play this…
Source: Kotaku – Get Ready To Clear Your Disk Space For Starfield
Xbox 360 Marketplace, the console’s online store, will cease operations on July 29, 2024. After that day, 360 owners will no longer be able to purchase new games or entertainment content for their consoles, and the Microsoft Movies and TV app will stop working, too.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox 360 Store Shutting Down For Good In 2024
If the Steam Deck or ROG Ally have caught your attention but you said “I’d like something more Nintendo Switch-ish,” first I’d tell you not to say the word “Switch-ish.” Then I’d tell you about a possible new Steam Deck competitor from Lenovo called the Legion Go. Portable like the Deck and Ally, it seems like it will…
Source: Kotaku – Another Steam Deck Competitor Might Be Around The Corner
Alan Wake 2, the highly anticipated adventure horror game sequel from Remedy Entertainment, has suffered a minor 10-day delay.
Source: Kotaku – Alan Wake 2 Spooked By October Games Onslaught, Delayed 10 Days
Netflix has released a new teaser for its upcoming Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime, and it looks pretty good. The eight-episode series will premiere on the service on November 17, and much of the creative team and cast behind the 2010 live-action film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which was based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s…
Source: Kotaku – The Scott Pilgrim Netflix Show Could Redeem The Movie’s Greatest Sin
It’s 2023 and over the weekend I accidentally stayed up far later than I expected replaying Undead Nightmare on my Nintendo Switch. Not only am I having a sweet time with the 13-year-old expansion, but I’m excited that one of the best zombie games ever made, and one of Rockstar’s greatest hits, is finally accessible…
Source: Kotaku – Undead Nightmare, Now Out On Switch/PS4, Is Still One Of The Best Zombie Games
Red Dead Redemption, one of Rockstar’s best games, has always been one of its hardest to play, especially if you don’t own an Xbox console or a PlayStation 3. So it’s great to see RDR making the long-awaited leap from old consoles to Switch and PS4 via newly released ports. I’ve now had time to play the Switch…
Source: Kotaku – Red Dead Redemption On Switch Is Good, But The Price Is Still A Problem
An Alabama corrections officer was arrested and fired over the weekend for stealing Pokémon cards at a Walmart.
Source: Kotaku – Cop Arrested And Fired For Allegedly Stealing Pokémon Cards
On Wednesday, Netflix released a teaser trailer for its upcoming anime adaptation of Scott Pilgrim, as well as announcing a release date for the hotly anticipated series.
Source: Kotaku – Here’s Our First Look At The Scott Pilgrim Anime
Starfield is only a few weeks away, and Bethesda is still drip-feeding new information to players desperate to finally get their hands on the long-awaited Xbox console exclusive. Will you be able to buy apartments in the cities you travel to? Will you get to smuggle illicit items across galactic borders? Will you go…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Reveals Even More RPG Details About Its Sci-Fi World
Gamers and porn enthusiasts have always had something of a symbiotic relationship. In 2022, popular games like Minecraft, Fortnite, and Overwatch dominated Pornhub searches, and PCGamer reported that the site has tons of Let’s Play-style videos that are devoid of pornographic content. Turns out the popular destination…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Place For Video Game Tips Is Pornhub’s Comment Section
Starfield, Bethesda’s gigantic space-based RPG with over 1,000 planets, has gone gold, meaning it’s passed certification and will soon be ready to hit store shelves both physical and digital. As such, the studio announced that preloading on PC and Xbox will start very soon.
Source: Kotaku – You Can Preload Starfield On PC, Xbox Starting This Month
The more I play of Baldur’s Gate 3, the more I realize how unsure I am of what I’ve done. This extraordinary, enormous game has me in deep, meticulously exploring its every tiny detail, getting involved in every aspect I can find, and the further I get, the less certain I am about every choice I’ve made. Which, it…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Makes It Impossible To Know If I’m Making The Right Choices, And I Love It
Linus Tech Tips has become ground zero for accusations of conflicts of interest, sloppy testing, and rushing out too much content too quickly to feed its ever-rising ambitions. Now, the media empire valued at over $100 million is on pause.
Source: Kotaku – Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Taking Break Following Massive Controversy