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Netflix Cancels Cowboy Bebop After One Season
The Hollywood Reporter has the news this evening that Netflix’s live-action adaptation of classic anime series Cowboy Bebop has been cancelled after just one season.
KotakuKotakuInside The Revolt That Led To Activision Blizzard Workers' Historic Unionization Push
Several Call of Duty developers have revealed to_Kotaku_ that Activision Blizzard’s internal unwillingness to directly respond to the recently announced Raven Software layoffs was what ultimately sparked the just-revealed, broader labor organizing effort at the troubled publisher.
KotakuOne Of The Best Cowboy Games Ever Made Is Now Free On Steam
Don’t get me wrong, _Red Dead Redemption II_and Gun are fun and all. I certainly enjoyed my time with them, and I even still play Red Dead Online. But Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger, perhaps a better cowboy game than both of them (and most others), is now free on Steam for a limited time. And if you love a good ol’…
KotakuHow To Quickly Level-Up Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass
Halo Infinite, out in its entirety this week for Xbox and PC, has officially flooded the tubes. Surely you’ve heard of friends playing it. They may have sung its praises as a top-flight arena shooter, or a return to form for a dormant series. They may have also lambasted its battle pass as a glacial mode of…
KotakuDestiny 2 Gets Evil Tobey Maguire Dance From Spider-Man 3
Destiny 2's mid-season expansion celebrating Bungie’s 30-year development history includes nods to Halo, Marathon, and...2007's Spider-Man 3? Sure, why not. I mean there’s a literal trans-dimensional space pony currently chaperoning players through a The Price Is Right horde mode too, so clearly any thing is fair game.
KotakuRiot Games Sues Scammers Offering Folks Fake Jobs At The Studio
A nasty scam has become more popular over the last few months. People desperate for work at popular game studios like Riot and Rockstar Games get an email from a recruiter asking them to apply. They do and eventually get the job only to realize it’s all fake, usually after losing money to the scammers. Now, Riot Games…
KotakuHalo Infinite's Campaign Opening Is Awful
For a game sold on its wide open spaces, player freedom, and great big sticky-up hexagons, Halo Infinite’s opening couple of hours couldn’t be much less representative. The approximately 700 miles of the same blue-gray corridors and chambers that gate access to the open-world game, feel as though someone remembered …
KotakuThis Senior Couple Were The MVPs Of A Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Tourney
The 2021 CEO Fighting Game Championships tournament last weekend had plenty of surprising announcements, but nothing quite as surprising as the participation of Tinker and Arachius. Tinker and Arachius are a senior couple who competed at CEO to understand how a professional fighting game tournament was run so that…
KotakuDon’t Use Quick Resume With Halo Infinite, Devs Warn
343 Industries is telling Halo Infinite players not to use Quick Resume, a key feature of the Xbox Series X/S, for fear of missing out on special multiplayer cosmetics.
KotakuLogin Hassles Aside, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Is Off To A Fantastic Start
One of the first areas you visit in Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion is the tropical island of Thavnair. The locals of Thavnair paint their buildings in bright colors, combinations of blues, reds, yellows, and purples. It’s some of the prettiest scenery I’ve encountered in a video game.
KotakuActivision Blizzard Devs Announce Work Stoppage And Strike Fund
Employees at publishing giant Activision Blizzard, who formed the ABK Worker Alliance, have called on supporters today to donate to a strike fund. They have announced their intention to stop working, in protest of their management’s ongoing response to months of lawsuits and reports about widespread sexual harassment…
KotakuThe Hello Kitty Gaming Chair Was Bound To Happen
This was inevitable! Razer is teaming up with Sanrio for a whole bunch of Hello Kitty and Friends branded gaming gear that includes a gaming chair and headphones. I am not surprised. No one is surprised. This is, after all, Hello Kity we’re talking about.
“Come along with Hello Kitty and Friends this holiday as they…
KotakuMasayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
Masayuki Uemura was the lead architect for the Famicom (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicon (aka the SNES). The mark he left on the gaming industry and popular culture is indelible. According to Oricon News, Uemura passed away on December 6. He was 78.
KotakuDiscord Server Gets Over 1,000,000 Members For The First Time Ever
For the first time ever, a Discord server has attracted over one million members, with the platform’s official Snowsgiving 2021 hitting the milestone earlier today.
KotakuU.S. Government Curious Why Teslas Allow Gaming While Driving
When Tesla expanded its growing list of dashboard touchscreen games last winter, the update inexplicably allowed drivers to play them while the electric car was in motion. Almost a year later, the United States government is finally asking the company why.
KotakuSandbox Game Removed From Steam After Allegations Of Code Theft
Myth of Empires, a game that has only just been released, has now been delisted from Steam after the team behind Ark: Survival Evolved accused its creators of stealing source code.
KotakuUbisoft's NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company know their feelings.
KotakuHilarious Halo Infinite Glitch Turns Warthogs Into Go-Karts
Despite its trappings as a jingoistic space opera, the Halo franchise often finds itself straddling the line between serious and humorous. The latest example of this phenomenon is a glitch that sees the series’ ubiquitous Warthog jeeps shrunk down to comical proportions during multiplayer matches.
KotakuThe VTuber Isn't The Human, It's The Talking Cat On Her Shoulder
VTubers have quickly become my favorite new type of content creators on the internet. Though I’ve seen enough now to know that the possibilities for what creative and wildly entertaining forms their avatars might take are endless, I still wasn’t prepared for the inventive and adorable VTuber persona of Atom and…
KotakuHalo Infinite Is Harder Than You’d Expect, And That's By Design
You may want to be a hero, you may even want to be a legend, but know that sometimes it’s totally fine to be normal. Case in point here is Halo Infinite, a first-person shooter out today for Xbox and PC. If you’re just starting out the campaign, be sure to play on Normal—at least at first.
KotakuSexually Harassed Activision Blizzard Employee Holds Press Conference To Demand Apologies, Money
Today, a woman named Christine who works at major game publisher Activision Blizzard held a press conference with her lawyer Lisa Bloom to describe the sexual harassment she experienced at the company. This is the latest in the ongoing battle between Activision Blizzard and its employees surrounding sexual harassment…
Kotaku27 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Halo Infinite’s Campaign
You may have spent the past month playing Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, but the campaign, out now for Xbox and PC, is a wholly different beast. As in previous Halo games, your ostensible goal is to aim your gun and shoot at a zealous battalion of aliens. But Halo Infinite bucks precedent by throwing an open(ish)…
KotakuDestiny 2 Debuts Gjallarhorn With Powerful New Perk
Destiny 2’s massive mid-season update went live yesterday, and while there are a million aspects to discuss about it, the first thing a lot of returning players will want to know is how to get Gjallarhorn, the overpowered Exotic rocket launcher from Destiny 1. The answer isn’t complicated, but it’s not a stroll in the…
KotakuDr. Dre And Franklin Star In GTA Online’s New Story Expansion
Rockstar Games just announced a new major content drop for Grand Theft Auto Online. The series of missions titled The Contract will feature Franklin, one of GTA V’s protagonists, and rapper Dr. Dre. In addition to Dr. Dre’s music, Rockstar promised sweeping updates to the game’s radio stations—including special guest…
KotakuGenshin Impact Event's Ninja Dogs Are Even Tougher Than Bosses
Step aside, Can You Pet the Dog, Genshin Impact players have discovered that it’s possible to _kill_the guarding ninja dogs in the stealth phase of the latest event. Previously assumed to be invincible, it’s an act that, gruesomely, takes millions of points of damage to achieve. I don’t know what’s more horrifying: The…
KotakuDestiny’s New Space Horse Is Stealing The Show
There is so much to talk about in Destiny 2’s Bungie 30th Anniversary mini-expansion. There’s a fantastic new dungeon, tons of interesting new guns, and sweeping balance changes to the sandbox. Fuck all of that. For now we are talking about the horse because it’s taking over Destiny and it’s just as amazing and absurd…
KotakuThe Game Developers Who Enable Speedrunners To Break Their Games
It was a few days after Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had launched on PS5, and Insomniac Games had a problem. Using a glitch known as the swingboost to gain phenomenal amounts of forward momentum, a small group of players had found a method of tearing this carefully-crafted experience apart, skipping large portions of…
KotakuI'm Obsessed With These New Halo Infinite Armor Attachments
Every Tuesday, the Halo Infinite store refreshes with a new stock of items and armor to help your Spartan stand out in the battlefield. For the most part, it’s the sort of borderline bro-y stuff you’d expect: ammo belts, additional visor colors, decals, what have you. More recently, the game’s been selling something…
KotakuYouTuber Hit With 150 Copyright Claims For Reviews Featuring Anime Footage
YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick of Totally Not Mark has made a name for himself with his manga and anime videos on YouTube. His reviews edit together montages from whatever he’s reviewing or critiquing as he expounds his thoughts in voice over. Mark says his use of copyright material is fair. Toei Animation, it seems,…
KotakuIndie Game Says Kalashnikov Stole Their Shotgun Design, Turned It Into A Real Gun
Ward B, the developers of upcoming FPS Oceanic, have accused Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov of outright stealing one of their weapon designs for a new shotgun that’s being sold commercially.