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KotakuKotakuHow EVO 2022’s Banger Of A Soundtrack Almost Missed The Show
Last weekend, the world’s biggest fighting games tournament, Evolution Championship Series—colloquially known as EVO—featured a cavalcade of announcements like rollback netcode coming to a couple fighting games in desperate need of it as well as some sleek character announcement trailers. But what almost didn’t make…
KotakuTwitchCon 2022 now requires attendees to wear masks indoors and provide vaccination cards, negative covid tests
Update 08/12/2022 1:55 p.m. ET: A new blog post from Twitch now requires TwitchCon San Diego attendees to wear masks indoors. The blog post also states that all attendees must provide proof of vaccination or a negative covid test taken within 72 hours of the event. Original article continues below:
KotakuNo, Elden Ring And GTA V Are Not On Game Pass (Yet)
Earlier this week, some folks checking Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming beta website noticed something weird: listings for games like Elden Ring and Grand Theft Auto V not only said they were part of the company’s Game Pass offering, but would also be playable on the cloud.
KotakuUnity Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract To Help U.S. Army And Defense Agencies
Popular video game engine Unity has had a lot of bad press over the last year, the result of things like large-scale layoffs and some really terrible comments from its CEO. Today the trend continues, as it was announced recently that the company has signed a new multi-million dollar, three-year deal with a technology…
KotakuBreaking Bad Creator Wanted To Make A GTA-Like Game Based On Show
One of the most critically acclaimed and popular TV shows of the past few decades wasBreaking Bad on AMC. Its spin-off, Better Call Saul, has also been hugely popular and successful. Now, ahead of Saul’s final episode, the creator behind both shows, Vince Gilligan, has confirmed that there were plans and attempts to…
KotakuIslets Is Like A Gorgeous, Hand-Drawn Hollow Knight
KotakuMicrosoft Snarkily Schools Sony On How To Better Run PS Plus
That treasure trove of a document filed by Microsoft to the Brazilian competition authorities on Tuesday, in response to Sony’s objections to its efforts to buy Activision Blizzard, contains another absolute gem. In it, Microsoft took time out to tell Sony just how it could (read: should) better run its revamped PS…
KotakuElden Ring’s Burping Basilisks Are Simply The Worst
KotakuOverwatch League Team Apologizes To Support Player For Firing Him Via A Damn Tweet
Losing a job is always an uprooting event, but getting fired in public is straight-up embarrassing, especially when you don’t know it’s coming. That’s exactly what happened this week in the world of the Overwatch League (OWL), with the New York Excelsior team unceremoniously terminating main support player Sang-min…
KotakuMicrosoft Accuses Sony Of Blocking Games From Game Pass
Last week, Microsoft argued to Brazilian regulators that Call of Duty was not an essential game series while Sony protested that it was. In the latest episode of the Activision Blizzard acquisition drama going down in Brazil, Microsoft accused the PlayStation manufacturer of trying to “inhibit growth” of Game Pass.
KotakuGoku Probably Next Childhood Hero To Get A Gun In New DBZ Fortnite Crossover
Fortnite’s developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. And now after weeks of datamine leaks it’s finally official: Dragon Ball Z is taking over Fortnite on August 16. My first wish after summoning Shenron will be to sear the image of Goku holding an MK7…
KotakuApex Legends Shatters Records As Players Urge Fans To Stop Playing Apex Legends
It’s not a universal maxim, but in many cases, there’s no surer sign a game is alive and well than when waves of players start calling it a “dead game.” The most recent example is Apex Legends, which just set an all-time player count record amid a coordinated—I use that word generously—social media campaign urging…
KotakuSplatoon 2 Players Will Have A Leg Up In Splatoon 3 Thanks To Save Data Transfer Rewards
Some players have poured hundreds of hours into Splatoon 2. Thankfully, Nintendo recently revealed that all of that hard work won’t be wasted when fans boot up Splatoon 3. Instead, they’ll be able to transfer their save data and reap big rewards in the process.
KotakuTwo Point Campus, Now On Game Pass, Is A Chill Time For Everyone
College management sim Two Point Campus, which just came out on pretty much every gaming platform and Xbox Game Pass, is the sequel to 2018’s Two Point Hospital. Both games use an identical art style, similar UI, and contain the same mix of zany, weird sight gags and jokes. But while Hospital was all about stressing…
KotakuHalf-Life 2 Will Soon Be Playable In VR
After years in development, and loads of ups and downs along the way, the developers of a virtual reality mod for the original Half-Life 2 have announced a public beta that’ll be kicking off next month.
KotakuVery Bad Forspoken Ad Gets Absolutely Roasted
Earlier this week the marketing team behind Square Enix’s upcoming action game Forspoken posted a Tweet with a few sales bullet points and a short gameplay video. It should have been a very normal and forgettable exercise in video game promotion, but readers, I am here to tell you that this video is bad.
Kotaku$30 Humble Bundle Bags You A Shitton Of Resident Evil Games
Sometimes Humble Bundle just comes along with virtually an entire franchise of games for the cost of less than one, making it hard to avoid the siren’s song of that “purchase” link. Today, with Humble’s “Decades of Horror” bundle, that franchise is Capcom’s Resident Evil. How would you like to own most of them on…
KotakuNow You Can Play Stray From The Cat's Purr-Spective
KotakuActivision Pulls Cute But Stolen Call Of Duty Skin, Apologizes For ‘Misstep’
Call of Duty, the first-person shooter once based on historical events, is pulling a very ahistorical skin after a concept artist accused the game’s publisher of plagiarizing a design of theirs. Hilarious and cute, the new skin featured an anthropomorphized samoyed doggo, armed and ready to murder everyone. Named…
KotakuNintendo Faces A Second Labor Complaint Amid Worker Frustrations
A new labor complaint has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board against Nintendo and contract hiring agency Aston Carter. The second complaint this year, it accuses the Mario publisher of interfering with “concerted activities” of workers, including possible retaliation and coercion. It comes months after …
KotakuPiccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, And Pop Culture Effortlessly Shines A Light On Black Nerd Experience
When I was a child, I excitedly anticipated the commute my mom and I took every Sunday to our humble Black Lutheran church in Cabrini Green. But what excited me wasn’t hearing the children’s sermons from our youth pastor or the potluck lunches that followed morning service. My excitement came from pulling out my …
KotakuOnly A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunning community is constantly looking for new ways to push the state of the art, and one player just achieved what was previously thought of as an impossible feat…at least for a human.
KotakuPopular Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Arrested After 'Traumatizing' Swatting Incident
Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, a trans streamer and political commentator, was arrested by Canadian police last week after a swatting incident. Keffals was left rattled, saying in a YouTube video recounting the event that the police terrorized her and locked her out of her accounts because she’s “still a suspect in an…
KotakuThe PS Plus Library Keeps Getting Bigger—And Keeps Forgetting The Classics
Following a ballyhooed June relaunch, Sony’s PS Plus membership now comes with access to a games-on-demand library (well, if you pay for either of the two pricier tiers). Like Microsoft’s competing Xbox Game Pass service, PS Plus is starting to see a regular addition of several games on a monthly basis—gotta keep the…
KotakuThe PlayStation 5 Features Most People Forget About
Earlier this month, Sony announced the purge of a PlayStation 5 feature for the honestly pretty reasonable rationale of “absolutely fucking nobody was using this thing.” Called Accolades, it allowed users to award points to opponents in multiplayer games. Yeah. I’d also never heard of it before Sony sent it directly…
KotakuTurns Out The Afterlife Is Bullet Hell In Stylish Upcoming HD-2D Adventure
KotakuSplatoon 3's Best New Feature Is A Shoe Store Run By A Hairy Crab-Lobster
You don’t need to be a Splatoon aficionado to be able to recognise good. Mr. Coco, an enormous wife-beater-wearing crab-like who runs a shoe shop, is purest goodness. That’s just solid good. The store is called Crush Station, and that makes no sense on any level. Perfection.
KotakuSpider-Man Remastered’s PC Port Is A Swinging Success
Sony announcing its plan to release first-party games on PC was a shock to the system. Not because the idea of seeing a God of War on Steam was strange—that phenomenon had already happened—but because of the company’s desire to really push publishing efforts on the platform, ramping up from a few high-profile games…
KotakuEverything We Learned About Splatoon 3
Nintendo opened the floodgates today and unleashed a torrent of info about its upcoming party shooter, Splatoon 3. In addition to revealing 12 new maps, a Wednesday Direct also showcased new weapons, personal lockers, and shops galore. Splatfests are also confirmed, with three idols at the helm this time around. It…