Homebody is an unassuming horror game at first, set up similarly to recent socially anxious thrillers like Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and All My Friends Hate Me (2021): you’re late to meet up with old friends, they may or may not be mad, and there’s a killer, you think. But across the four hours I spend with Game…
Source: Kotaku – You’ve Never Heard Of This Life-Changing Horror Game
Street Fighter 6 players have uncovered a hidden code in the game that transforms its commentators into shout-casting animals.
Source: Kotaku – Street Fighter 6 Cheat Turns Commentators Into Animals
Baldur’s Gate III arrives on PC on August 3 and is right around the corner on PlayStation 5. But what about Xbox Series X/S? The sprawling role-playing game still doesn’t have a release date on Microsoft’s console, and developer Larian Studios still isn’t sure if that version of the game will be ready before the end…
Source: Kotaku – When Is Baldur’s Gate III Coming To Xbox? It’s Complicated
A recent Street Fighter 6 European tournament saw quite the blunder as the event’s host, who was streaming the competition from their PC, accidentally left a nude mod for Chun-Li on during a match.
Source: Kotaku – Street Fighter 6 Tournament Accidentally Flashes Chun-Li Nude Mod
The Wii U isn’t dead, it’s just resting. Nintendo finally brought the console’s servers for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 back online after a mysterious five month outage. “Please accept our sincere apologies for the extended waiting period,” the company wrote in an update, though it’s not making any promises that the…
Source: Kotaku – The Great Wii U Server Outage Of 2023 Is Over
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, one of this year’s worst games, received a massive update on July 27 that addressed multiple issues across all platforms.
Source: Kotaku – 2023’s Worst Game Just Got A Pretty Big Patch
When Wizards of the Coast adapted Lord of the Rings into a Magic: The Gathering set, it decided to create a special variant of Sauron’s Ring that would be one of a kind. The hyper-rare card was first found back in June and now the owner has sold it to rapper Post Malone. The amount hasn’t been confirmed yet, but…
Source: Kotaku – Famed Magic: The Gathering Collector Post Malone Buys Lord Of The Rings Card Valued At Over Million
Street Fighter 6 characterizes its fighters in odder, more specific ways than prior games in the franchise. The broad strokes—the character archetypes—are still the same. Ryu is a stoic warrior. Dhalsim is a serene yoga master. E. Honda is a prideful sumo fighter. But Street Fighter 6 grounds these iconic characters…
Source: Kotaku – 15 Character Revelations We Learned In Street Fighter 6
Respawn and Electronic Arts’ popular single-player Star Wars sequel, Jedi: Survivor, is making the leap from current-gen to the older PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Is Coming To PS4, Xbox One
It is far too often the case that failed hardware components lead to unnecessary disposal. That means another expensive purchase for you and more stuff sitting in landfills for the Earth. Thankfully, Microsoft is now offering replacement parts and educational info for fixing tired and worn out controllers, meaning you…
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft Now Sells Xbox Controller Replacement Parts
The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival—a Switch-exclusive budget game that many called a knockoff of Sony’s The Last of Us—has been removed from the Nintendo eShop. Meanwhile, Sony has started removing the game’s trailers from YouTube.
Source: Kotaku – Switch’s The Last Of Us Clone Has Vanished, And Sony Is Killing The Trailers
After nearly 15 years, feminist game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s non-profit organization Feminist Frequency will cease operations in early 2024. The news was delivered via official press release with Sarkeesian citing endless burnout and exhaustion from growing the site over the years, which she says has proven…
Source: Kotaku – Anita Sarkeesian Shutters Feminist Frequency, Operations To Cease In Early 2024
Do you have any Xbox gamers in your life? Maybe you’ve occasionally tried to talk to them about peculiar hobby? They can be a prickly bunch, and understandably so given how rough it’s been out there for, well, about a decade now. Time heals all wounds, unless you’re an Xbox fan and someone says the wrong thing.
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things You Should Never Say To An Xbox Gamer
On the surface, Venba, a charming cooking puzzle game in which you restore a family’s cookbook, is just that. It’s a colorful, AMSR-esque cooking game that’ll light a fire in your belly to stop ordering takeout and get busy making dishes in your own kitchen. However, after rolling the credits on the narrative puzzle…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Miss This Moving, Mouthwatering Cooking Game Now On Game Pass
At Dream Con, an anime and video game convention in Austin, Texas, actor Khleo Thomas, perhaps best known for the 2003 movie Holes, competed in and won a Mortal Kombat 11 tournament. Thomas, who played Zero in the 2003 Disney film opposite Shia LaBeouf, won the Mortal Kombat 11 tournament while cosplaying as Powerline…
Source: Kotaku – Holes Actor Wins Mortal Kombat Tourney In Goofy Movie Cosplay
Xbox announced its first wave of August Game Pass titles in an August 1 blog post, and it looks like players have some great under-the-radar games to look forward to, including the cozy fan-favorite A Short Hike.
Source: Kotaku – This Perfect Cozy Game (And Much More) Is Coming To Game Pass
If you thought August was gonna be a snoozefest for gaming, I’m here to wake you the hell up because this month looks like it’ll have something for everyone—and that’s not just BS boilerplate.
Source: Kotaku – August Is An Epic Month For Game Releases
Lizzo wore a sequin-spotted pink bodysuit while headlining the Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba, Japan on Sunday, giving life to, she said on stage, her “favorite television show growing up,” Sailor Moon. The bodysuit, made and styled by Venezuelan designer Ruben Isaza and inspired by a popular cosplayer (who asked not to…
Source: Kotaku – Sailor Moon-Inspired Cosplay Turns Lizzo Into Love And Justice Barbie
Starfield is the latest Xbox Series X/S exclusive to support Xbox Play Anywhere, the feature that lets players buy the game once and then access it on both console and PC. No, it doesn’t count for Steam versions of the game, but in a world where the biggest console blockbusters are increasingly getting ported to PC, …
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Will Support One Of Xbox’s Lowkey Best Features
