Megalithic game-thing Roblox doesn’t exactly have the best of reputations. Accusations of exploitation of children’s labor are hardly a good look, and this week also saw staff reporting that there has been little effort to address the lack of diversity at the studio. On top of all that, today it’s been revealed that a…
Source: Kotaku – Roblox Leak Reveals 4,000 Developers’ Detailed Personal Information
SpongeBob SquarePants fans have been experiencing an influx of distress after NSFW drawings of the beloved characters hit their social media timelines. While many, like myself, dismissed the lewd drawings as Rule 34 content seeping into social media platforms, the drawings are apparently legit, according to the…
Source: Kotaku – NSFW SpongeBob Artwork By Show’s Artists Surfaces After 20 Years
If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or YouTube lately, you might’ve seen some short, strange videos of heads emerging from toilet bowls to sing a somewhat catchy song. The clips, built using the software behind some of Valve’s games like Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, have been racking up millions of views on YouTube…
Source: Kotaku – YouTube’s New Trend Features Creepy Singing Toilet-Creatures
According to a new report from Variety, Adult Swim has ordered a new anime series for Toonami by Shinichirō Watanabe, legendary director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, and studio Mappa, the popular animation studio behind Chainsaw Man and the final seasons of the mega-popular anime series Attack on Titan.
Source: Kotaku – The Creator Of Cowboy Bebop Is Coming Back With A New Anime
Quick, without looking it up (or I guess remembering the headline) what’s currently the bestselling game on Xbox? Elden Ring? Maybe a new Call of Duty? Perhaps that popular Diablo IV? Nope! It’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for Xbox 360. And the rest of the top 10 is filled with other classic CoD games as players flock…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox’s Top 10 Bestselling Games Are Mostly Old Xbox 360 Call Of Dutys
Like many games these days, the highly anticipated Baldur’s Gate 3 comes in a few different editions at a few different price points. Obviously if you’re a D&D superfan, you might be interested in the most expensive one, but what, exactly, will shelling out that extra cash get you? And what of the other versions?…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3: Which Version Of The Mega RPG Should You Get?
In a vacuum, Genesis: An Overwatch Mini-Series is great. The three-part anime is lovingly animated and well-acted, and finally expands upon the origins of Overwatch in a way that goes beyond voice lines and passing mentions in comics or short stories. But each time I finished one of the episodes, I was hit with the…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch’s Anime Is Good, But Feels Like It’s Years Late
As the summer sun once again sets Earth on fire, that means only one thing: sales! And so Sony launched its annual summer sale with a not unreasonable 3,081 games at cheaper prices. Rather crucially, that number includes some bigger names, such as Elden Ring down by a third, and many Sony first-party titles down to…
Source: Kotaku – Look At These White-Hot PS5 And PS4 Sales Happening Right Now
While Nintendo loves a lawsuit and emulation is often a contentious issue for publishers, few situations have been quite as high-profile as the recent attempt to launch GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin on Steam. The 20-year-old emu engine has long been available online, but this attempt to become more “mainstream”…
Source: Kotaku – Despite Nintendo And Valve, Emulator Dev Isn’t Worried About Legal Danger
Overwatch 2 is in a rough spot as Blizzard prepares for one of its biggest content drops yet next month. After a collection of bad news since its October 2022 launch, including the gutting of PvE content and charging $15 for story missions, Overwatch 2’s engagement and money investment has declined—despite the promise…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Players Are Playing And Spending Less Now, Blizzard Says
As a work of epic fantasy, I expected Final Fantasy XVI to dazzle me visually—especially on my expensive PlayStation 5. But while select scenes do delight visually, they are sadly infrequent. For whatever reason, about halfway through Square Enix’s latest mega-budget RPG the game decides that it’s mostly going to…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI Has The Most Depressing Visuals In Series History
On Wednesday, CD Projekt Red juiced up The Witcher 3 with yet another patch, giving the eight-year-old fantasy role-playing game improved cross-platform progression on consoles, new features for Nintendo Switch, and even better-looking grass for touching purposes.
Source: Kotaku – Latest Witcher 3 Patch Gives Switch Some Love, Improves Combat
I love The Muppets and Sesame Street. With their loveable puppets and goofy characters, these shows are quintessential children’s TV. However, I also have this odd fear. What if the puppets in those shows were real? Like actually existed in our world? Would they all be immortal? Powerful? Controllable? Lucky (I guess)…
Source: Kotaku – Fantastic New Horror Game Mixes Sesame Street With Resident Evil
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the creative director on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 revealed that he was nervous about finding the right person to play the sequel’s notorious big bad, Venom. That is, until he heard the unmistakably awesome voice of Candyman actor Tony Todd.
Source: Kotaku – Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Found Its Ideal Venom In A Horror Icon
Things are looking dire for the Overwatch League (OWL), the competitive esports scene built around Blizzard’s popular hero shooter, as the company laid off some 50 employees on July 18.
Source: Kotaku – The Overwatch League As We Know It Is Dead
A lot of people never finish the video games they buy. We’re all guilty of it, and as a result, we’ve missed out some pretty memorable finales, both good and bad. For some games, an ending can be a great culmination of hours and hours of storytelling, design decisions, and and interacting with the world around you.…
Source: Kotaku – The Video Game Endings We’ll Never Forget, For Better Or Worse
Diablo IV’s first season arrives on July 20. As was previously announced, players will make new characters with each fresh battle pass. Though it might seem a little unexpected, making new characters on a regular basis is common in the world of Diablo. Sadly, the latest patch might make those future characters of…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV’s New Patch Is Full Of Painful Changes That Affect Everyone
Pokémon Sleep, an official Pokémon-themed free app designed to track your sleep, is out now in select countries via a soft launch following an Android-only beta in places like New Zealand and Australia. And some players have noticed that the app records noises you make while sleeping, like yawning, coughs, or even…
Source: Kotaku – New Pokémon App Records Your Farts While You Sleep
If you, like many others, are very particular about which PC launcher you like to open to play your games and are partial to Steam, you’re in luck. Blizzard has announced it’s bringing some of its games to the platform, starting with Overwatch 2. So you won’t have to worry about keeping the Battle.net launcher that’s…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 And Other Blizzard Games Are Coming To Steam
