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KotakuKotakuThe 7 Best BDSM Sex Games To Play, Learn, And Experiment With Kink
Video games, like all art forms, can inform and inspire people…and their sex lives. Popular culture might like associating games with crushed cans of Monster Energy and glasses held in the middle with tape, but some video games are sexually active. Some, like the ones in this slideshow, can welcome their ready players…
KotakuAnimal Crossing's Biggest PC Rival Sure Has Grown
Over the past year, an idyllic life sim starring anthropomorphic animals has quietly picked up steam. No, it’s not a new Animal Crossing. It’s an under-the-radar game called Hokko Life, and it’s coming to consoles next month.
KotakuNew Predator Film’s Composer Got The Job After Director Heard Her Work In Assassin’s Creed
Sometimes decisions in Hollywood happen only after months and months of research, auditions, testing, and more. Other times, a director might just find exactly what they needed by luck. Such is the case of Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, who was playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla while preparing to shoot the movie. He…
KotakuCall Of Duty Keeps Bleeding Millions Of Players
Success is relative. Many gaming companies would kill for a blockbuster franchise that’s an annual top-seller like Call of Duty. But for embattled publisher Activision anything short of top billing month after month isn’t enough, and Call of Duty has recently been falling short more and more.
KotakuCompetitive Pokémon Now Allows Mythicals, And It Changes Everything
Competitive Pokémon trainers are both excited and terrified at the recent rule changes in the video game championships (VGC), where players compete against one another via Pokémon Sword and Shield in an array of leagues. Mythical Pokémon are now allowed for official tournament play for the first time. This means that…
KotakuGame Pass Loses One Of Its Best Games, Gets One Of Ubisoft’s Worst
On the one hand, Game Pass is losing a lovingly-made dungeon crawler that Says Things about the existence of modern life. But on the other hand, at least it’s getting one of the most callous Ubisoft map games in recent memory (I’ll give you one guess). Here’s what’s coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service in the…
KotakuNew Gotham Knights Gameplay Suggests It May Be More Than A Boring Loot Grind
What happens if you want to make a game about Gotham City but can’t center it around Batman? Easy! You tap the benchwarmers. Warner Bros. has revealed the opening chapter of Gotham Knights, its action game DC heroes who aren’t the Caped Crusader.
KotakuHBO's Historic Virtual Reality Movie Isn't Fully Honest With Itself
Director Joe Hunting’s documentary We Met In Virtual Reality, the first to be filmed entirely in the social game VRChat, is not as compelling as its multilayered subject matter. It’s filmed at a personal range, with Hunting always hidden but his camera absorbing cartoonish faces like a curious, patient eye. It lingers…
KotakuFive Steps For Learning Even The Most Daunting Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Tabletop roleplaying games can be intimidating. With hefty tomes of rules that can mirror and outpace the size of a college textbook, even veterans of the hobby can sometimes be overwhelmed when they just want to dive in quickly and get to the point of a new game. And look, I won’t name names here, but some games just…
KotakuSurprisingly, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Won Me Over In The First Few Hours
I’ve been looking forward to Monolith Soft’s next game since the last one ended in 2017, though not without my fair share of reservations. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was a meandering JRPG with a hodgepodge of systems and extremely uneven storytelling. As much as I love the series, I was worried Xenoblade Chronicles 3…
KotakuBattlefield 2042 Update Is Going To Give Everyone Beards
Beleaguered multiplayer shooter Battlefield 2042, which has not exactly been the success EA would have been hoping for, will take another step towards being an actual video game this week with the release of its next update.
KotakuTwitchCon Doesn't Care That The Pandemic Is Still Happening
TwitchCon will be taking place in San Diego between October 7-9, and if you had any thoughts about attending whatsoever, know that the organisers are under the assumption that we’re living in 2019, not 2022, and that you’re very much going to be taking your personal safety into your own hands.
KotakuHere's The Shooter That Dr. Disrespect Says Will Blow Away Call Of Duty
So, gameplay footage of the debut project being developed by contentious streamer Dr. Disrespect’s recently formed studio is now floating around online. Dubbed a “vertical extraction shooter” that the Doc has claimed will blow Call of Duty’s engine outta the water, the NFT game, titled Deadrop, does have an intriguing…
KotakuSomeone Built A Gaming PC Into A Working Toilet
A YouTuber built a PC out of a working toilet, creating what might be the first toilet capable of both handling your waste and playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. What a world we live in!
KotakuThe Best Time To Play Nier: Automata Is Right Now
Nier: Automata spent the last week in the headlines, the result of a secret door that sent the community into a scramble. The mystery itself may have come to a sudden, surprising conclusion, but that doesn’t mean the base game it was part of should drop off your radar. In fact, it’s all the more reason to revisit what…
KotakuNetflix’s Cyberpunk 2077 Anime Looks More Breathtaking Than The Game
Netflix just dropped a new trailer for its anime series based on Cyberpunk 2077, and it’s more breathtaking than CD Projekt Red’s action role-playing video game.
KotakuDestiny 2 Chat Shut Off After Players Abuse It To Crash Games
Over the weekend, Bungie disabled Destiny 2’s in-game text chat across all platforms after trolls discovered a way to use it to crash other players’ games. Now, the chat still remains off and Bungie hasn’t provided an ETA for when it will return.
Kotaku10 Things Every GTA Online Player Trying The Giant New Update Should Do
With the new Grand Theft Auto Online update released last week, the game has become easier after Rockstar added more ways to make money that don’t involve ripping your hair out and putting up with annoying trolls. But a big update like this for an already massive game can be very overwhelming.
KotakuDiablo Immortal Player Says He Can’t Get A Match After Spending $100,000
Diablo Immortal’spay-to-win mechanics have been controversial since the game launched back in June. Now they’ve also apparently broken the game for at least one YouTuber who reportedly spent over $100,000 on beefing up his Barbarian character. The player’s win rate is seemingly so good the game won’t even match him…
KotakuHere’s The Lowdown On That Kickass, Scott Pilgrim-Esque Skateboarding RPG
Thirsty Suitors has all the makings of the next big game.
KotakuBlizzard Asks Overwatch Players If They'd Pay $45 For A Skin
Those dastardly loot boxes containing randomized goodies might be a thing of the past come Overwatch 2’s launch later this year, but a recent survey suggests the hero shooter’s monetization may become more aggressive elsewhere.
KotakuSony Says It'll Pump Out More PS5s For The Holidays, So Maybe You'll Finally Get One
Sony announced it will increase the production of the PlayStation 5 in preparation for the holiday shopping season. The company still plans to hit its projected 18 million units sold for the 2022 fiscal year, but a new financial earnings report published on July 29 reveals that “significant improvements” in the supply…
KotakuSony Retiring PlayStation 5 Feature Almost Nobody Knew About
Sony updated its important notices page today to tell PlayStation 5 users that the console’s Accolades feature will, as of this fall, “no longer be supported,” citing that it “hadn’t seen the level of use we anticipated.” Like most PS5 users, this was the first time I’d heard that the console had a built-in…
KotakuSeven Bonkers Minecraft Mods That Will Throw You Into A New Level Of Madness
Minecraft is a game of infinite customization, where players attempt to push boundaries on what can and cannot be done in a video game. The game has been used to recreate the entire country of Denmark, as an educational tool to introduce children to programming, and even has applications in secondary school science…
KotakuPokémon Presents Big Info Dump Announced Amid Alleged Leaks
The Pokémon Company announced its next Pokémon Presents livestream will take place on August 3. The upcoming info dump on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and other Pokémon games comes just in time as fans, desperate for new details, pour over a recent flood of alleged leaks for the earlier than expected Gen 9 entries.
KotakuIndonesian Government Blocks Steam, Epic & Nintendo For 270 Million People
Over the weekend the Indonesian government began the task of blocking any website or service that had failed to register as part of new “internet control” laws. That ended up being a lot, including everything from Steam to the Epic Games Store to Nintendo Online to EA and Ubisoft’s platforms.
KotakuTony Hawk Makes Surprise Appearance For Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Cover Band
I had no idea there was a cover band specialising in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtracks. I’m happy enough today knowing such a thing exists, but even happier knowing that they had a show on the weekend blow up because the man himself was there and joined them on stage for a couple of tracks.
KotakuNo One Expected GTA Online’s Latest Mission To Be So Terrifying
Earlier this week, Rockstar released a massive free update for Grand Theft Auto Online. For the most part it focused on improving and expanding on what was already in the game. But the update also included a new series of missions involving covert government operations and conspiracies, and this new campaign ends with…
KotakuHave You Seen This Dog? Call Of Duty Pup Is ‘Plagiarized,’ Artist Claims
If you’ve been following along with Call Of Duty lately, you’re no stranger to seeing skins that remind of something you’ve seen before, be it John McClain from Die Hard or Ghostface from Scream. A recent, very adorable, very fluffy skin, however, is looking all too familiar to one artist, and they’re now accusing the…