Earlier this year, Arkane Austin’s Redfall entered the pantheon of terrible game launches. Taking up its place alongside Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, No Man’s Sky, and many more, the long-awaited Xbox exclusive struggled with performance, felt incomplete, and was full of opposing ideas that just didn’t quite come…
Source: Kotaku – Meet The Fans Still Playing The Worst Xbox Exclusive Of The Year
This week, Anime Expo had a bunch of announcements and trailers for visitors and folks at home to get excited about. In fact, the “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America” almost had too much to reveal for attendees to take time and parse, especially if they were stuck in its long lines and…
Source: Kotaku – All The Recent Big, Surprising Anime News You Should Know About
Only Up! quickly became a smash hit on Steam thanks in large part to its simple premise and its popularity on the streaming site Twitch. But while the excitement around that game has cooled, a clone of the game built in Fortnite has become bigger than the original, making itone of the most popular games around.
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite’s Only Up! User Map Is Now Way Bigger Than The Original Game
The source code for Ubisoft’s 2004 open-world first-person shooter Far Cry has leaked online. Since source codes for video games seem to leak all the time, tell me, y’all, who could’ve seen this leak coming?
Source: Kotaku – Far Cry’s Source Code Has Leaked All Over The Internet
The first episode of The Witcher season 3 begins with a lengthy recap of the previous two seasons: flashes of Henry Cavill in that initial, questionable Geralt wig, Freya Allen as a much-younger, more eyebrow-less Ciri, everyone’s shittier eye contacts, sword fights, magic, and a bit of sex. While watching, I was…
Source: Kotaku – Can The Witcher Survive Henry Cavill’s Departure?
If you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 in early access, you’ve probably met Halsin, the Druid companion who can transform into a bear that you can recruit as a party member. He’s also a romance option, and that transformation comes into play when you’re getting down and dirty with him. And I was not prepared for the…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Everything: Polyamory, Bear Banging, Blood Sacrifice
The player responsible for a 2020 swatting incident at Ubisoft Montreal has been sentenced in French court to three years of community service, the Montreal Gazette reports. The player called in a hostage situation at the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry studio leading to a lockdown and raid by police, all seemingly…
Source: Kotaku – Player Who Spent .5K On Rainbow Six Siege Sentenced For Swatting Ubisoft Studio
Two PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) players could face several years in prison for illegally crossing some South Asian borders to live together, according to a recent New York Times report.
Source: Kotaku – PUBG Players Say They Fell Madly In Love Only To End Up In Jail
If you’ve never tried Game Pass Ultimate before, now’s a good time. The Netflix-like subscription service’s $1 deal is back, letting first-time players sign up for basically nothing.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Brings Back Game Pass Ultimate Deal After Price Hike
The Genshin Impact community is no stranger to navigating choppy waters, whether it’s discussions about farming, characters and their voice actors, or even the genre of game itself. If you want to survive out there, you’ll want to avoid some sore subjects to avoid facing wrath or disappointment.
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Genshin Impact Player
Well. What a week it’s been, huh? I don’t know about you, but I could definitely go for some good times mashing buttons to a moving image—especially since I basically threw out my neck and destroyed my voice at that Cynic concert last night; I ain’t goin’ anywhere for a couple of days, so I need some games to play,…
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Get Lost In
Diablo IV has six Uber Uniques that are the rarest and some of the most powerful items in the game. Players have spent hundreds of hours without ever coming across them—until now. A trick for easily earning them was recently discovered and Blizzard has now removed the items from the game entirely to try and stop the…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Pulls Rarest Item After Fans Find Easy Exploit
There’s a lot to love in Street Fighter 6, one of the best games I’ve played in the last couple of years. I love the new characters. (Marisa, the jacked up pankratiast, is my main, and Manon, the supermodel ballerina, is my secondary.) I love the new Drive Impact attack, which lets you reverse the momentum of the…
Source: Kotaku – Street Fighter 6 Features The Best Chun-Li In 24 Years
In April 2021, at the height of Web 3 Mania, Sega was one of the biggest companies to pledge its future to the scam that was “play to earn”. Now, just two years later and after the ass has completely fallen out of that market, Sega has had a change of heart.
Source: Kotaku – Sega Bins Blockchain Plans, Calls F2P Games ‘Boring’
Yeah, it’s cute, it’s folklore, people used to blow into the cartridge slots of their Nintendo games in the olden days if they were having hardware issues. The thing is, it was all bullshit. It didn’t fix them, if anything it made things worse. Yet so strong has the urban legend become that, in The Year Of Our Lord…
Source: Kotaku – It Is 2023, Please Stop Blowing Into Nintendo Consoles
On July 6, Blizzard announced the first new Diablo class in almost a decade, confirming that a vampire-themed Blood Knight class will be coming to mobile spin-off Diablo Immortal on July 13. This is the first new class introduced in the franchise since 2014, when the Crusader was added in Diablo III’s first…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo’s First New Class Since 2014 Is A Cool-Looking Vampire Warrior
Much like how stand users in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are drawn to one another, I found myself pulled into the orbit of a few popular Black anime content creators while traversing the convention floor of Anime Expo 2023, the self-described largest anime convention in the U.S. Specifically, I ran into anime influencers…
Source: Kotaku – The Shows Anime Expo’s Greatest Think You Should See, Including Spicy NSFW Ones
When it comes to things you should never say to a gamer, we’ve covered the console wars extensively, offering you sayings to avoid in the presence of PS5 dudes and PC elitists to prevent any confrontation. Now, however, we want to give you some tips to ensure things remain copacetic between you and any Overwatch …
Source: Kotaku – 10 Things You Should Never Say To An Overwatch Player
Powerful AoEs, the ability to shapeshift into a vicious fursona, the very wrath of nature, these are yours to wield as a Druid in Diablo IV. With a number of different build options, the Druid is as versatile as they are powerful. But where to start?
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV: Three Go-To Druid Builds That’ll Crush Everything
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is now in theaters, finding Harrison Ford’s swashbuckling archaeologist returning to the big screen for one last (?) adventure. And boy, do people have opinions on this movie. I rather liked it (careful, my letterboxd review has spoilers); my friend, the great film critic Walter…
Source: Kotaku – Now’s A Great Time To Play This Classic Indiana Jones Game