Oreo cookies’ limited-edition Super Mario collaboration is now available for purchase at Walmart and other big-box retailers. The cookies’ themed packaging advertises them as “collectible,” which is also how mold spores would describe themselves, if they could.
Source: Kotaku – The New Super Mario Bros. Oreo Cookies Actually Are A Game, Too
Just under two weeks after the Pokémon Go dev laid off over 200 workers, Niantic is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging the company has a “systemic sexual bias” against women employees.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Go Dev Accused Of ‘Boys Club’ Workplace Culture In Lawsuit
The Pokémon Company struck gold when it made Pikachu the mascot for its monster-catching series, and was so pleased with the marketable little yellow guy that the developers at Game Freak started including lookalikes in nearly every mainline game that followed. These little guys are typically electric-type Pokémon…
Source: Kotaku – Ranking Pikachu Clones From Worst To Best
Controversial YouTuber Logan Paul is making headlines again, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has called on The Food and Drug Administration to investigate the influencer’s energy drink, Prime. Why? Well, there are concerns that it’s potentially unsafe for kids, with one can containing the same amount of…
Source: Kotaku – Senator Says YouTuber Logan Paul’s Energy Drink Is Unsafe For Kids
The upcoming Pokémon Sleep tracker app seems to include “shiny” Pokémon, or Pokémon that appear in atypical color variations. Joe Merrick, webmaster of Poké-compendium Serebii.net, noted shinies’ presence in Sleep on Twitter, along with a warning for players: “I hope you’re all prepared for your Shiny Hunting streams…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Sleep App Will Include Shiny Hunting
There’s always something more to do in Diablo IV: another level to grind, better loot to find, or another character to play. With season 1 about to roll out later this month requiring players to start a new hero from scratch, it’s not surprising that some players are already feeling burnt out just five weeks into the…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Devs Remind People It’s OK To Stop Playing
During a press junket interview for the upcoming animated film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, actor and co-writer Seth Rogen revealed that he’s been enamored with the heroes in a half shell for so long that he’s got the battle scars to prove it. More precisely, Rogen cracked his dome open playing with…
Source: Kotaku – Seth Rogen Loves TMNT So Much He Busted His Head Open With Nunchucks
To say that Tears of the Kingdom is “feature rich” doesn’t even scratch the surface of what the latest Zelda game offers players. Between the versatile abilities afforded to Link and the unexpectedly thorough physics simulation, utility and possibility are endless. But now that Tears of the Kingdom has been in the…
Source: Kotaku – Tears Of The Kingdom: Fans Debate The Game’s Most ‘Useless’ Features
Are we going to get more remasters from Square Enix’s overwhelming catalog of classic PlayStation role-playing games? The Final Fantasy maker isn’t ruling it out following the apparent success of the series’ Pixel Remaster anthology, telling shareholders it’s still “considering” bringing other games like Final Fantasy…
Source: Kotaku – Square Enix ‘Considering’ Remastering More Of Its Long-Lost RPGs
Sometimes, opening up TikTok is like walking into a crime scene and having to piece together what happened. That’s what several users are experiencing right now as they try to sort through how a VTuber concert spawned dozens to hundreds of responses and a new meme format on the platform. If you have been seeing videos…
Source: Kotaku – Vtuber’s Face Reveal Concert Is Unraveling On The Internet
Turns out the rumors were true and Electronic Arts is in fact working on a new single player Black Panther game. It’s coming from the publisher’s new Cliffhanger Games studio formed by industry veterans, including developers from Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor studio, Monolith Productions.
Source: Kotaku – New Black Panther Game Coming From Former Shadow Of Mordor Devs
The original Mario Kart isn’t the easiest game in the series, especially if you weren’t raised on its Mode 7-induced peculiarities, but that’s a relative thing. It’s fine, it’s still easy to look at, it’s easy to play, that’s why they’re still selling trillions of copies of Mario Kart games to this day.
Source: Kotaku – True Horror Is Mario Kart x Resident Evil’s Camera Angles
To populate all the various digital worlds we explore in video games, developers often recycle the same kinds of enemies, like zombies or spiders. And then there’s one type of enemy who, throughout game history, has been perhaps the most ubiquitous of all: robots. These AI-powered artificial monsters are often…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Games That Let You Kill Robots And AI-Powered Monsters
Coming off the heels of Bleach’s upcoming season of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is the announcement that the popular supernatural sword-fighting anime is also receiving a new video game that looks pretty stunning and action-packed.
Source: Kotaku – Bleach Anime Is Getting A New Game And It Looks Rad
Zany and prolific actor Nicolas “Nic” Cage is coming to the asymmetrical survival-horror game Dead By Daylight on July 25. If you know anything about him, you’d expect his voice lines to be unhinged as hell. Well, they’re so unhinged that people on TikTok are marveling at Cage’s dedication to his latest role.
Source: Kotaku – Nicolas Cage’s Dead By Daylight Voice Lines Have Zero Chill
Diablo IV’s first season arrives on July 20, and with it a new era for Blizzard’s latest ARPG. Each new season will demand a brand new character, with tons of new challenges and enemies. Seasons are nothing new to the franchise, but the way they’re implemented as part of Diablo IV’s live-service elements makes them…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: What You Need To Get Ready Before The First Season
Baldur’s Gate 3 is imminent, and every time we see more of Larian Studio’s upcoming fantasy RPG, I’m reminded at just how large this game is going to be. The team put together one more Panel From Hell presentation to show off some more of the game before it launches out of Early Access for PC on August 3 (PlayStation…
Source: Kotaku – 6 Cool Things We Just Learned About Baldur’s Gate 3
I did not expect Final Fantasy XVI to be one of the year’s biggest lightning rods for gaming controversy but here we are. The Square Enix action-RPG hasn’t even been out a full month, and fans are already losing it over how well the game may have sold. It’s already crossed 3 million copies shipped worldwide (good!)…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy XVI’s Early Sales Figures Are Its Latest Battleground
To some of MyHouse.wad’s biggest fans, the free mod for 1994’s Doom II might even be the best horror game released this year. There are two reasons for this: the technology and the people.
Source: Kotaku – The Horror Game Of The Year Is A Doom II Mod
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a big game, and with all that depth and capital C content comes character customization. While you can pick between different races, classes, and appearances, the latest Panel From Hell presentation may have accidentally revealed you can pick your character’s genitals, as well.
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Lets You Customize Your Character’s Genitals