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PS5 Exclusive Returnal Delayed To April 30
Returnal’s release is now pushed by just over a month, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today.
KotakuKotakuMobile Monster Strategy Dragon Quest Tact Launches Worldwide
Dragon Quest Tact is a big hit in Japan, with more than 10 million downloads since its 2020 release. It’s now available worldwide for iOS and Android devices, giving fans everywhere a chance to collect cartoony monsters and make them kill each other. Yay!
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KotakuRobinhood Blocks Users From Buying GameStop Stock [Update: And The Price Is Tanking]
The stock trading app Robinhood is currently blocking users from buying any more GameStop stock citing “recent volatility” as its price soared from just under $20 at the beginning of the month to over $300 at the end of yesterday.
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KotakuNew Cyberpunk Patch Fixes The Old Cyberpunk Patch
CD Projekt Red released a patch last week that inadvertently introduced a new game breaking bug, preventing some players from finishing Cyberpunk 2077. Today it released a new patch to fix that issue, as well as address some recent problems with loot randomization.
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KotakuJeanette Maus, Actor For Resident Evil Village, Dies At 39
Jeanette Maus, who lent her talents to Resident Evil Village , died this weekend. She was 39.
KotakuRare Magic The Gathering Card Goes For Over $500,000
This week, an ultra-rare Magic The Gathering Alpha Black Lotus card with a signature by artist Christopher Rush sold for $511,100.00.
KotakuFake Hollywood Movie Trailers Of Anime Adaptations
YouTuber Fake Eiga FMT has been creating phony trailers of Hollywood live- action versions of popular anime. These trailers are faux harbingers of just how Hollywood could leave its distinctive mark on beloved source material.
KotakuTrack: Suki, Suki, Suki (London) | Artist: Sadistic Mika Band | Album: Live in London
Track: Suki, Suki, Suki (London) | Artist: Sadistic Mika Band | Album: Live in London
KotakuGlitter, doom, and elephant sex: An oral history of Southland Tales
In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of ’80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called Donnie Darko , first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously un -bomb, gaining a…
KotakuCyberpunk 2077 Removes Mod That Let You Bang Keanu Reeves
There was a mod available for Cyberpunk 2077 that let you have sex—or a very unsettling approximation of it—with Keanu Reeves’ character. That mod is gone now.
KotakuFallout Mod Pulled After Artist Allegedly Posts "Animated Pedophillic Content"
We only wrote about the big new Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier last week when it was released! And now we’re writing about it again, because the mod has been “hidden” (basically temporarily removed) from Nexus Mods and pulled from its own website after allegations that one of its artists posted “animated…
KotakuGive Me All The GameStop Jokes
I’m not even going to pretend to understand what’s going on with GameStop—I’ll leave that to the excellent reporting of fellow Kotaku writer Ethan Gach. No, as with most things in life, I’m just here for the jokes. And social media has produced no shortage of silliness in response to this absurd situation.
KotakuAssassin's Creed Valhalla Is Too Damn Long
I finally got around to finishing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla this week. And while I had a great time with the game I also parted ways on a pretty sour note, because like its predecessor, it is just too damn long.
KotakuDiscord Bans r/WallStreetBets Server For 'Hateful' Content [Update: Subreddit Briefly Taken Offline]
WallStreetBets, the subreddit behind engineering GameStop’s record-shattering stock price surge over the past week, has been banned from Discord for hate speech, The Verge reports.
KotakuTencent Buys Stake In Life Is Strange's Creators
Tencent continued its massive expansion in the gaming world today after
acquiring a minority stake in French developer Dontnod, maker of Life is
Strange, Vampyr, and _Tell Me Why.
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KotakuToo Fast Too Fantasy XV: Episode Gladio? More Like Episode Bad-io
When I sit down for my daily session of Final Fantasy XV I’m expecting one of two things: A happy-funtime road-trip adventure with my boys, or a sad, emotionally wrought meditation on the bonds of friendship. I am not expecting a horror-suspense thriller filled with stealth mechanics and jump-scares, yet that’s…
KotakuWhat's New on HBO Max in February 2021
One of the biggest selling points for HBO Max is that it offers exclusive access to every film from Studio Ghibli, the legendary Japanese filmmakers behind My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away —and that includes a brand new one dropping in February, Earwig and the Witch (Feb. 12).
This film is a big deal for Studio…
KotakuMass Effect 2 Almost Had Another Gay Romance, With Jacob
Turns out Jack’s pansexuality wasn’t the only instance of BioWare scrubbing same-sex romance from Mass Effect 2 before it shipped. Jonathan Cooper, a former BioWare cinematic animator, revealed on Twitter this morning that his team also worked on a similar scene involving party member Jacob Taylor.
KotakuReport: Activision Blizzard Calls Policy To Make Hiring More Diverse ‘Unworkable’
Earlier this month, Activision Blizzard was asked to institute some version of the Rooney Rule, a policy requiring employers to interview diverse candidates when hiring, according to a new report by Motherboard. Lawyers for the massive publisher behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft responded that such a policy…
KotakuThe 10 Best Deals of January 27, 2021
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KotakuAssassin’s Creed Valhalla Players Figured Out How To (Legitimately) Score That Secret Bow
Over the weekend, players of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla uncovered a secret bow (the laughably powerful Noden’s Arc) by...smacking a rock in the middle of a lake over and over again. The trick bounced around the web. Ubisoft’s Darby McDevitt even chimed in, describing it as a “clever brute force hack” before mentioning…
KotakuTwitch Is Cracking Down On Small (But Not Big) Streamers Who Made Channels Before They Turned 13
AverageHarry, a 15 year-old aspiring Twitch streamer from the UK, was in spitting distance of his dream. He’d had a breakout 2020, amassing an audience of nearly 90,000 followers, somewhat ironically off the back of a viral clip in which randos in a hotel lobby made fun of him for streaming. Late last year, he decided…
KotakuThe Best Amazon Deals of the Day
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KotakuHitman Player Tries To Kill Every NPC In One Map With A Single Rubber Ducky
Twitch streamer RTGame (meatspace name: Daniel) had a dream: to kill every NPC in a single Hitman level. But while you can find dozens of videos on YouTube of people doing the same thing, Daniel’s plan was a bit more explosive, chiefly because he intended to take out everyone at the same time. Unfortunately, things…
KotakuA Video Look At The Medium, The First Next-Gen-Only Game On Xbox
On January 28th, developer Bloober Team makes its debut on the Xbox Series S and X with The Medium, a third-person psychological horror game that’s a console exclusive on the next-gen Xbox. Featuring what the developer calls “dual-reality gameplay,” which you’ll see in the video above, players will be traversing two…
KotakuThere's A Lot Of Sonic And Nights In Balan Wonderworld's Trippy Demo
Want to spend an hour or so wandering colorful cartoon dreamscapes crafted by the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog? Do you enjoy the sensation of being pleasantly bewildered? If you answered yes to either of those questions you’re going to want to play the demo for Balan Wonderworld. It’s something else.