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Skull And Bones Loses Another Creative Director, Faces Union Campaign
6.9.2023
Ubisoft’s open seas pirate fantasy from hell has lost its third creative director. Kotaku has learned that Elisabeth Pellen, who began working with the Skull and Bones team back in 2018, left Ubisoft Singapore to return to the French publisher’s Paris headquarters earlier this summer. The game’s...
Skull And Bones Loses Another Creative Director, Faces Union Campaign
6.9.2023
Ubisoft’s open seas pirate fantasy from hell has lost its third creative director. Kotaku has learned that Elisabeth Pellen, who began working with the Skull and Bones team back in 2018, left Ubisoft Singapore to return to the French publisher’s Paris headquarters earlier this summer. The game’s...
Not Even Charles Martinet Knows What A ‘Mario Ambassador’ Is
5.9.2023
Charles Martinet, the iconic voice behind everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber for over 25 years, has transitioned from playing the character into being a “Mario Ambassador” instead, Nintendo recently announced. But there’s one problem: Martinet still doesn’t know what his new role at Nintendo...
Not Even Charles Martinet Knows What A ‘Mario Ambassador’ Is
5.9.2023
Charles Martinet, the iconic voice behind everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber for over 25 years, has transitioned from playing the character into being a “Mario Ambassador” instead, Nintendo recently announced. But there’s one problem: Martinet still doesn’t know what his new role at Nintendo...
Nifty News: Gucci to drop Otherside pendants, Jack Daniels taps AR, Web3 and more
4.4.2023
Jack Daniels is dropping digital collectibles in an AR game, while FIFA launched an AI-football simulation game that will eventually ship NFT integrations
Indonesian Government Blocks Steam, Epic & Nintendo For 270 Million People
1.8.2022
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.Read...
Yahoo launching Metaverse events for Hong Kong residents under restrictions
16.6.2022
Yahoo has announced its intention to launch a series of Metaverse projects in Hong Kong, apparently creating a brief rally for Decentraland’s native token, MANA
Nintendo Takes Down Scans Of 1996 Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide
25.3.2022
Good morning, and welcome to what feels like the 1097th episode of “Nintendo Gets Some Cool Shit Taken Off The Internet”, only this time we’re not even talking about a tribute game or piece of fan art, but a harmless old book.Read more
Japanese Software Giant Line Plans to Launch NFT Market Next Month
24.3.2022
The Japanese social media and messenger software firm Line Corporation has announced the company is introducing a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace on April 13. Line detailed on Wednesday that the market will be called “LINE NFT” and it will showcase “more than 100 types...
Toei Animation Hacked, Delaying Dragon Ball Anime Movie
21.3.2022
Originally slated for an April 22 release in Japan, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero has been delayed after an unauthorized third party hacked Toei Animation.Read more
Street Fighter 6 Logo Also Looks Like A Taiwanese Retailer's Old Logo
23.2.2022
Not only does Street Fighter 6's logo look like $80 clip art, but it also looks like the old logo of a Taiwanese company.Read more
Pro Gamer Fired After Making Disparaging Remarks About Men's Height
17.2.2022
Professional Tekken player Tanukana has been booted from Osaka-based esports team Cyclops Athlete Gaming for remarks she made in a livestream. Read more
NBA Star Accused Of Lying About His Wordle Score
14.2.2022
Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns is, like the rest of you, playing Wordle on a daily basis, then tweeting about it straight after. But when he shared his results last week, more experienced players noticed something was very off.Read more
Trans Jeopardy! Champ Breaks Records, Becomes Highest-Earning Woman In Show History
30.12.2021
Last Friday, Amy Schneider became the highest-earning woman in the history of the quiz show Jeopardy! That makes her the fourth-highest-earning contestant overall for regular season games, and fifth for overall winnings. After her latest game yesterday, she’s tied with Julia Collins, who had...
Retro Zelda Game Sells For Nearly $4,000 Thanks To Ramen Sticker
21.12.2021
A rare Famicom Disk System copy of the original The Legend of Zelda was recently purchased for thousands of dollars, all because the disk features a sticker with the name of a popular instant noodle brand.Read more
Man Arrested For Allegedly Stealing Four Copies Of Tokyo Revengers Manga Worth $18
22.10.2021
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing four volumes of Tokyo Revengers, a popular manga about hoodlum high school kids. Illustrated and written by Tokyo Revengers, the award-winning Tokyo Revengers is serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. (Full disclosure: My first...
Hideo Kojima Wants To Make Video Games That Change In Real Time
13.9.2021
You gotta give Hideo Kojima this: He always has interesting ideas for the video games he’s made or would like to make. While the final product might not live up to those concepts, at least the guy is trying to push the envelope. In a recent interview with Japanese lifestyle magazine An-An (via...
Yakuza Director & Jet Set Radio Artist Is Back At Sega
7.9.2021
I’m not normally someone to dwell on personnel changes at video game studios, but this isn’t your everyday career change: Ryuta Ueda, who while at Sega served as Art Director on both Jet Set Radio titles, has announced his return to the company almost a decade after he left.Read more
Nintendo Lawsuit Forces Japanese Dev To Cough Up $30 Million
4.8.2021
In December 2017, Nintendo sued Japanese developer Colopl over patent infringements in the free-to-play mobile game Shironeko Project. According to an official statement, Colopl has agreed to pay Nintendo 3.3 billion yen ($30 million).Read more
Yahoo! Japan works with Line to launch NFT trading
27.7.2021
Yahoo! Japan collaborates with messaging giant Line to enable secondary trading of NFTs issued on Line’s proprietary blockchain