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KotakuKotakuUbisoft Executive Says Users 'Don't Get It' In Extraordinary NFT Interview
Ubisoft’s official foray into the world of Non-Fungible Tokens has not had the best start; the announcement was trashed by fans, and the company’s “garbage” NFTs were largely ignored upon release. In a new interview with Australian site Finder, though, Ubisoft say the blame for this lies with us, not them.
KotakuI Traveled To Facebook's Soulless (But Popular) Metaverse So You Don't Have To
The metaverse is supposed to be the future, so it’s got the world buzzing with excitement. Hilariously, though, the prominence of the “futuristic” buzzword has caused _old_footage of digital worlds to explode on social media, largely driven by the fact that nobody really understands what the hell the metaverse actually…
KotakuRiot Forced To Explain A Valorant Character Is Not Into NFTs
Riot Games, the creators of League of Legends and online shooter Valorant, has issued something of an apology to fans of the latter after a tweet appeared to show one of the game’s characters enjoying the works of an NFT artist.
KotakuHitman 3 Had A Bad Steam Launch, So Everyone Gets An Upgrade
The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historically been reticent in doling out a bevy of publicity screenshots for its hit stealth game, Hitman 3—published a decadent 4K screenshot of suave hero Agent 47 pouring a glass of Argentinian Malbec. No, no, that’s just icing on the cake: IO Interactive is handing…
KotakuHorizon Forbidden West Reusing Animations Isn’t A New Phenomenon (And It's Not Bad, Either)
IGN has published a new comparison video for Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West. The four-minute clip, a rundown of the biggest changes made between the upcoming action-adventure game and 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, showed how similar the two appear to be side-by-side. One particular moment has a subset of Very…
KotakuCanceled Star Wars Game Footage Teases Boba Fett Bounty Hunting Action
Star Wars 1313 footage was recently discovered wiling away in an animator’s online portfolio, providing us with yet another brief glimpse at the canceled game.
KotakuHalo Infinite's Ranked Capture The Flag Matches Are Too Long
Yesterday, developer 343 Industries shook up Halo Infinite’s ranked playlist. For the foreseeable future, matches of capture the flag, specifically on the Behemoth map, will no longer appear in the playlist’s rotation, effectively nixing one of the most widely hated maps. Players of the hit multiplayer shooter widely…
KotakuZombie Atari Celebrates 50-Year Legacy With NFT Loot Boxes
Founded way back in 1972, Atari celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The all-but-defunct company doesn’t really make games anymore, but it does like to plaster its recognizable logo over everything it can find—from hotels to PCs. And to celebrate that the company is still clinging to life, Atari has finally…
KotakuNo Man's Sky Dev Brings Back Older Games To Brighten One Kid's Life
Before Hello Games made a name for itself with the procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, its developer was all about Joe Danger, a cartoonish motorcycle stuntman racing through an eponymous series of console and mobile games. After years of being defunct due to iOS updates, the Joe Danger mobile games…
KotakuYouTuber Hit With Ungodly Number Of Anime Copyright Strikes Gets A Win For Everyone
In a new video, Mark Fitzpatrick of the anime YouTube channel Totally Not Mark revealed he not only won a battle in his copyright strike war with Toei Animation but also influenced YouTube to create a new copyright rule for content creators.
KotakuHow To Get Free Wishes In Genshin Impact
According to a Japanese research study, only 2-5% of players spend money in gacha games like Genshin Impact. This means that the vast majority of players are subsisting on free gacha rolls from various in-game activities. With a little bit of persistence, you can improve your odds and save a pretty significant number…
KotakuWho Knew A Game Boy's Insides Could Be So Beautiful?
Stop encasing your old gaming hardware in resin to make furniture, there is a better way to honor the handheld systems that came before. Art studio Grid is taking apart old Game Boy, PSP, Nintendo DS, and Game Gear consoles, and transforming them into stunning technological dioramas you can hang on your wall.
Kotaku4000-Year-Old Board Game Uncovered By Archaeologists
In December 2021, a team of archaeologists working in Oman made the only type of discovery that would get their work covered on a site like this: they dug up a board game dating back approximately 4000 years, and which it’s thought could be an ancient ancestor to Backgammon.
KotakuCrusader Kings III Is About To Officially Support Same-Sex Marriages
The Crusader Kings series has long supported same-sex relationships in certain forms, but thanks to the way so much of the games have been built around historical ideas of marriage and succession, if players wanted gay characters to get hitched, they had to use mods.
KotakuForget Just Right Clicking, Now We're Printing NFTs With Game Boys
We can all agree that NFTs suck, right? They chew through energy like termites eating wood and shit out a ton of greenhouse gas emissions, destroying our world one crypto sell at a time. On top of that, you don’t get anything physical, just a digital certificate of blockchain ownership. Thankfully, the internet is…
KotakuThe Ongoing Fury Around Halo Infinite's Store And Its Prices, Explained
Last night, Microsoft announced that Halo Infinite has been played by more than 20 million people since its surprise release last November. In other words, at any given moment, up to 20 million people (or more!) are engaged in roiling debate over some aspect of how developer 343 Industries runs its hit game. This…
KotakuHalo Infinite Removes Its Worst Map From Ranked Play, Pros Rejoice
The behemoth has been slayed, literally. Starting this afternoon, you’ll no longer see Halo Infinite’s worst mode (capture the flag) appear on Halo Infinite’s worst map (Behemoth) in ranked playlists. Halo senior community manager John Junyszek confirmed the news in a post over on the Halo Waypoint forums today.
KotakuIt’s Not Just You: Miyamoto Hated Navi In Ocarina Of Time, Too
Navi. That simple, two-syllable word is enough to send even diehard Legend of Zelda fans into a tailspin. But as it turns out, even Shigeru Miyamoto–the legendary designer behind the action-adventure franchise and countless other Nintendo properties–felt a touch of frustration toward Link’s annoying fairy sidekick…
KotakuThe New Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Is Taking Over The Steam Charts
Trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1999 and Konami has been putting out video games versions of the TCG for just as long. So why is the free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, released with little fanfare last week, hitting so hard there are a couple hundred thousand people playing it on Steam at any given…
KotakuValve Announces Cloud Saving For Steam Deck
Valve announced a big feature for its highly anticipated Steam Deck: cloud saving. The cloud saving option will allow players to seamlessly transition from playing on PC, Steam Deck, and back again without losing any saved data.
KotakuPokémon Legends: Arceus Reviews Are Calling It The Franchise's Best (And Messiest) Entry In Years
Pokémon Legends: Arceus arrives on Nintendo Switch on January 28, but the embargo for press outlets who receive game code ahead of release lifts today–and so far, these assessments are raving about the latest monster collector. Many are calling it the best in the series.
KotakuGenshin Impact Players’ Zhongli and Ganyu Rolls Are Looking A Little Funny
Normally, I’m a good person. I celebrate my friends’ wins when something good happens to them. But when half the internet is crying at the sad, sad state of their Genshin Impact rolls for the Lantern Rite event, I can’t help but get a bit of schadenfreude. How’s that C6 Qiqi treating you? (Sisi assures me this is a…
KotakuBlizzard Teases First New Game Universe Since Overwatch Amid Developer Exodus
Still reeling from a workplace misconduct reckoning, staff exodus, major game delays, and a record-breaking deal to be acquired by Microsoft, Blizzard announced yesterday that it’s working on its first game set in a new universe since the launch of Overwatch six years ago. Details were scant, but but developer hype…
KotakuUncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Doesn’t Need To Exist, But It’s Still Great
My entire time with Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves has been underscored by a question: Why?
KotakuCall Of Duty Maker Reveals Plan To Squash Union Effort
Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognize their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labor Review Board,…
KotakuMysterious! Guilty Gear Character’s Boobs Keep Growing With Every Sequel
Even in a franchise as full of brilliant characters as Guilty Gear, Baiken rules. The fucked-up samurai, despite missing both an eye and an arm, is canonically one of the strongest people in the fighting game’s universe, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the brashswagger she brings to every battle. But one thing…
KotakuPlayStation Fans Reeling From Xbox Call Of Duty Deal Swear Something Is Afoot
Ever since Microsoft announced it was buying Activision Blizzard in the biggest gaming deal ever, Sony fans have been desperate to see the PS5-maker respond in some way, as if the console giant had “big news” stored in a t-shirt cannon ready to be blasted out into the ravenous crowd at the drop of a hat. But the signs…
KotakuHigh-End PC Graphics Cards Get A Little Cheaper As Crypto Tanks
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card you’ve been after to complete your “Extreme Gaming PC” build is still in short supply but finally getting slightly cheaper. That’s thanks to a drop in crypto mining participation as the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies plummet ahead of what some analysts are…
KotakuLatest Nintendo Switch Online Update Also Reduced Ocarina Of Time Input Lag
Last week, we reported that the Nintendo Switch Online’s emulation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Timesaw a small graphical tweak with the service’s latest update. It signaled potential good news for the quality of emulated games on NSO, which players have decried for some time. In another promising sign, fans…