Over the weekend, thousands of fighting game fans descended on Las Vegas, NV for Evo 2023, the biggest fighting game event of the year. It was a reminder of how cool esports can be, especially when built of the passion and tenacity of grassroots communities. For some competitors there was just one problem: some of the…
Source: Kotaku – PS5s Got So Hot At Fighting Game Tournament, Things ‘Melted’
As Blizzard had decreed, there were to be two Realms in Diablo IV: Seasonal and Eternal, the former for characters built during each season, the latter for retired Seasonal characters. s Those born in the Seasonal Realm could transition to the Eternal, but never the other way, lest you incur the wrath of Blizzard’s…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Players Are Getting Banned For Transferring Characters Between Realms
One important tip for folks to keep in mind heading into Baldur’s Gate 3: always save your progress. Shit can go bad real quick in Larian Studios’ RPG, and I don’t just mean in combat scenarios. One bad dice roll and you can lose a party member because you did something to annoy them. But friends, I come to you as the…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Rely On Quick Saves In Baldur’s Gate 3
After years of waiting and months of reignited rumors of a remaster, Rockstar Games has finally revealed a port for the first Red Dead Redemption. Over a decade after its release, the critically-acclaimed third-person shooter is making the jump to PlayStation 4 and Switch on August 17, but a “next-gen” upgrade for…
Source: Kotaku – Red Dead Redemption Comes To Switch And PS4, Remaster Is MIA
Pokémon fans come in all shapes and sizes. There are the competitive sickos, the shiny hunters, or the lore nerds that just want to learn more about Game Freak’s world with each game. On top of that, there’s anime watchers, card game collectors, Pokémon Go players whose biggest touchstone with Pikachu is catching one…
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Pokémon Fan
Finding nonsensical solutions to a problem is a core part of the Dungeons & Dragons experience, and not many people know that better than actor and Critical Role DM Matt Mercer. With Baldur’s Gate 3 out this week, it seems only natural that a D&D superstar would make his way to Larian Studios’ RPG set in that universe…
Source: Kotaku – Critical Role’s Matt Mercer Solves Baldur’s Gate 3 Problems In The Most D&D Way
The author of The Witcher books, which inspired both the CD Projekt Red game series and the Netflix show of the same name, confirmed that he’s working on a new addition to the novels that tell the story of Geralt of Rivia, Cirilla of Cintria, and Yennefer of Vengerberg. It’ll be the first new Witcher book in 10…
Source: Kotaku – The Witcher Book Series Is Getting A New Addition 10 Years Later
Twitch star Kai Cenat, who recently became the most subscribed creator on the streaming platform, asked his fans and followers to show up for a real-life giveaway in New York City. And they did, with reportedly 2,000 people arriving, leading to chaos and arrests.
Source: Kotaku – Chaos: Twitch Star Kai Cenat Pulls Thousands Of Fans Into NYC Streets
There’s a lot of sex in Baldur’s Gate 3. Some of it’s pretty tame, with typical relations between two humanoid characters. Some of it gets a little weirder, like the druid bear sex scene. But if you’re playing a cooperative campaign with your friends, you might not want them to see your avatar get down with other…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Lets You Hide Your Sexy Times From Co-Op Friends
“There was a sense that video games were toys. And Sony is not a toy company.” That’s how a new mini-oral history about PlayStation revolutionizing console gaming begins over at IGN. The words belong to former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden, and they ring true for anyone who grew up with an NES or SNES.…
Source: Kotaku – Let’s Get Really Nostalgic About The Early Days Of PlayStation
Fortnite, Epic Games’ crossover meme of a video game, is once again becoming the stage for some historical education, as a group of developers has used Epic’s Unreal Editor For Fortnite program to create an in-game museum dedicated to the Holocaust.
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Has A Museum Dedicated To Teaching About The Holocaust
Nintendo and Lego are planning to release Animal Crossing Lego sets according to the latest information from reliable Lego leakers online. While this news might be exciting, keep in mind none of this has been confirmed by Lego or Nintendo yet. Still, the idea of a Lego minifig version of Tom Nook is making me very…
Source: Kotaku – Looks Like Lego Animal Crossing Sets Are Coming
Self-described Hades “fucking legend” and speedrunner Jade, or AngeL1C, became the first known player to complete the cult-favorite roguelike at its max difficulty settings on August 2, 10 days after roguelike content creator Haelian said it couldn’t be done in a July 25 YouTube video.
Source: Kotaku – Hades’ ‘Impossible’ Setting Just Got Beaten For The First Time
I like Sojourn, the latest damage hero to be added to Overwatch 2, and have been eagerly awaiting her animated short, Calling, since it was teased over a year ago. Now that it’s here, I am so infatuated with her dog, Murphy, that I barely processed any of the cool shit that happened in the seven-minute short.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Great Sojourn Short Is Only Viewable In The Game
Coming off the heels of The Witcher’s final season with Henry Cavill, an executive producer of the fantasy series came forward to address some fans’ accusations that the show’s writers don’t respect the books.
Source: Kotaku – Witcher Producer Says Writers Do Respect The Books, Misspells Character’s Name
The Witch From Mercury, the latest entry in the long-running Gundam franchise, not only features the series’ first lead female protagonist, but also proudly centers a queer romance. In Gundam’s 40+ year history, there has been plenty of gay subtext, queer secondary and tertiary characters, and fan shipping, but never…
Source: Kotaku – This Gundam Anime Is Gay, No Matter What Its Owners Say
Baldur’s Gate III has a whole suite of useful Twitch integration features, and players are already enthusiastically taking notice after its August 3 release. Larian Studios’ eagerly anticipated entry in the BioWare-created Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game series seems to have thought of mostly everything a…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate III Has Super Impressive Twitch Features
A new Destiny 2 cheat maker is ruining its competitive multiplayer, and Bungie is banking on its string of recent legal victories to crush it. The Sony-owned studio filed a lawsuit against the group behind the Ring-1 software as it claims the days of players “feeling free to engage in a wholesale assault” on the …
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 ‘Assault’ By Cheaters Is Ending, Bungie Says In Lawsuit
Baldur’s Gate III is taking over Steam right now, but one small save bug is stopping some players in their tracks and forcing them to lose valuable progress in their journeys.
Source: Kotaku – Beware This Baldur’s Gate 3 Bug That Prevents Players From Saving
It feels like this week’s passed quickly…perhaps owing to the wild news? Just for starters, a certain former president got indicted a third time, pop star Lizzo broke a million hearts, and that supposed room-temperature superconductor is still keeping us nerds in suspense.
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games To Check Out