Hey, quick question: If you had a spare $200,000 laying around in your bank account, what would you spend it on? You’d probably spend it on a house, or maybe a new car (several new cars?). What you probably wouldn’t do is drop that kind of cash on a 16-year-old iPhone. But that’s what happened over the weekend.
Source: Kotaku – Someone Bought A 16-Year-Old iPhone For Over 0,000
Starfield isn’t out until September 6, but Xbox head Phil Spencer already appears to be playing the massive spacefaring RPG.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Head Phil Spencer Is Probably Playing Starfield Right Now
In 1998, Nintendo was in the early years of promoting Pokémon while Game Freak’s monster-capturing phenomenon was making its way to the west after success in Japan. Part of that effort included repurposing 20 Volkswagen Beetle cars to look like Pikachu, the series’ adorable, electric mouse mascot, complete with…
Source: Kotaku – The Pikabug Is An Important Part Of Pokémon History
The European Union dropped new regulations demanding future consumer tech products, including gaming handhelds like successors to the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, have user-replaceable batteries by 2027.
Source: Kotaku – New Laws Might Require Gaming Handhelds Have Replaceable Batteries
A suspenseful action sequence in the recently released Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One involving a dangling train and some precarious jumps might have seemed a bit familiar to anyone who’s played Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. That game’s co-director thought so too, and pointed out the similarity online.
Source: Kotaku – Uncharted 2’s Co-Director Also Noticed That Mission: Impossible Train Scene
Remember Shadowrun? No, not the tabletop RPG with incomprehensible rules. Nope, not the very good 1993 SNES game either. And no, not Shadowrun Returns. Rather, I’m talking about the oft-ignored, largely forgotten Xbox 360 multiplayer FPS. It wasn’t a very good competitive first-person shooter, but if you want to…
Source: Kotaku – Dig It: You Can Still Play Xbox 360 Shadowrun On Xbox Live
According to a recent report from Deadline, Hayao Miyazaki’s final Studio Ghibli movie, How Do You Live?, has earned an impressive total of $13.2 million in its opening weekend in Japan. This accomplishment is particularly astonishing considering Studio Ghibli never released a single trailer to promote Miyazaki’s…
Source: Kotaku – Studio Ghibli’s Final Miyazaki Film Opens Huge Despite Zero Marketing
I think everybody expected Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world Star Wars game, Star Wars: Outlaws, to be huge. That’s been the case with most of the publisher’s recent open-world games. But the developers behind Outlaws recently confirmed just how big it might be, explaining that planets in the game will be as big as…
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars: Outlaws Planets Will Be As Big As Entire Assassin’s Creed Games
In a surprise move, Activision has revived the multiplayer servers for a number of Xbox 360-era Call of Duty games, and it’s proved to be a popular decision. In fact, this past weekend, Xbox 360 Call of Duty games reportedly had more players than both Halo Infinite and Battlefield 2042 combined.
Source: Kotaku – Looks Like More People Played A 13-Year-Old Call of Duty Game This Weekend Than Halo Infinite
The FBI used a Nintendo Switch console to locate an abducted 15-year-old girl, who had been missing for 11 days back in August 2022, ABC15 reports.
Source: Kotaku – FBI Used Nintendo Switch To Locate Abducted Child
After nearly two decades, Xbox Live Gold will die on September 14. In its place is Xbox Game Pass Core, a cheaper version of the Game Pass service that’ll allow gamers to play online together, as well as offer a curated selection of games to play. And, yes, that also means Games with Gold is going away too. You’ll…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Live Gold Ending After 18 Years As Microsoft Launches Game Pass Core
Microsoft and Sony have finally reached a deal for keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation once the Activision Blizzard merger goes through. The surprise agreement comes after months of fighting between the two companies, that included a court battle with the FTC, and is a sign the acquisition is all but inevitable.
Source: Kotaku – Microsoft And Sony Finally Reach Deal For The Future Of Call Of Duty On PlayStation
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Federal Trade Commission’s final request to pause Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard, likely paving the way for the biggest-ever merger in gaming to finally move forward after a more than year-long regulatory saga.
Source: Kotaku – Activision Set To Become Part Of Microsoft After FTC’s Last-Ditch Effort Fails
With the gift of magic, Sorcerers can set things on fire, freeze their enemies, and create wondrous demonstrations of lightning’s lethality. Reminds me of when I was a teen, really. As a result, the Sorcerer is a hell of a lot of fun to play and very versatile thanks to their many options for direct damage, area of…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: Essential Sorcerer Builds For Mastering The Dark Arts
The Flash has been a disaster for DC and Warner Bros. The Ezra Miller-led superhero film is securing a record as one of the biggest box office flops in the business. There are a lot of factors that led us to that point, but Warner Bros. attempts to get any money out of the film before the DC cinematic universe reboots…
Source: Kotaku – The Flash Movie Trainwreck Reaches A New Low With NFTs
Procrastinators are once again reaping. Xbox Series X/S owners who haven’t yet picked up some of the biggest games of this year and last can get them for up to 45 percent off, in case you didn’t already have enough to play after the recent jam-packed release window.
Source: Kotaku – Official Xbox Sale Discounts Some Of 2023’s Biggest Games
During a recent Konami shareholder meeting, the game company’s president addressed concerns that its latest free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, has negatively affected the franchise’s growth. A shareholder noted that Master Duel’s play style poorly translates to the popular trading card game’s tabletop…
Source: Kotaku – Yu-Gi-Oh! Is Faltering, But Fans Feel Konami’s Ignoring Them
Xbox’s Director of Programming and long-time public figure in the company’s history, Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb has announced he’s leaving Microsoft after 22 years at the company.
Source: Kotaku – Major Nelson Is Leaving Xbox After Two Decades
Remember that awful looking The Last of Us clone, The Last Hope, that got released earlier this month? Well, it turns out the game is much worse than the trailer first suggested. Apparently, the whole game is only about 20 minutes long, takes place in one street, and is a broken mess.
Source: Kotaku – There’s A New Worst Game Of 2023, And It’s A Switch Exclusive
