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Nintendo's Switch Testing Program Just Got Uglier
14.7.2021
When a Nintendo Switch rolls off the proverbial factory conveyor belt, the systems don’t just get stuffed into boxes for sale. Nintendo tests all hardware to make sure that it runs correctly, of course. And as of the latest (and handy) Switch firmware update, the tool it uses to put the system...
Id’s Mario PC Port Discovered In Museum Donation
14.7.2021
There’s a parallel universe in which Id Software, known for popularizing the first-person shooter genre, created PC versions of Nintendo games. In 1990, the studio created a demo for a PC port of Super Mario Bros. 3. That demo is now in a literal museum.Read more
Hideo Kojima Handed Out Flyers To Sell First Metal Gear
14.7.2021
Last night Hideo Kojima, seemingly in a reflective mood on his prolific Twitter account, told a couple of gorgeous mini-tales of the lengths he went to in order to help sell his earliest games like Metal Gear. These included handing out flyers, and cranking up in-store demo volumes.Read more
Sony Japan Recommends Two-Step Sign-in After PSN Account Takeovers
14.7.2021
While two-factor authentictaion is not new to the PlayStation Network, today the official Ask PlayStation Japanese Twitter account recommended the verification progress be used for logging in. As website Game Impress Watch reports, there have been “many reports” from users of accounts being taken...
Hero Erects Entire Switch Game Wiki After Finding Little Online
13.7.2021
The internet is so big and vast and great and terrible that whenever I can’t find something, I just assume I must not be looking in the right place. In actuality, there’s just a lot of stuff that doesn’t exist because it got deleted or nobody wrote in the first place. That’s what one fan discovered...
Ninja Gaiden's Disastrous PC Port Now At Least Has In-Game Graphics Options
13.7.2021
Just over a month after its release on PC, Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection—a full-priced product from a major international publisher—has finally got around to adding some in-game graphics options.Read more
Next-Gen Sports Games On PC Always Suck, This Is Nothing New
13.7.2021
This year, fans of EA Sports titles like FIFA and Madden who play on PC—and there are more of us than you think!—are upset that those games will be ports of the last-gen versions, and not of the fancier editions appearing on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.Read more
Your Future PC Might Have A PS5 Chip Inside
12.7.2021
This is the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit, a small piece of hardware that combines a CPU, cooler, and memory on a tiny motherboard. It’s basically a mostly self-contained computer system that will soon be appearing in more than 80 different machines from AMD’s system integration partners. It’s also...
Thousands Of PS4 Pros Discovered In Warehouse Raid
12.7.2021
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) busted a cryptocurrency mining farm filled with racks of PS4 Pros for allegedly stealing electricity off the nation’s power grid, the spy agency reported late last week.Read more
South Korean internet giants bid for central bank digital currency pilot
12.7.2021
The Bank of Korea plans to select an operator to run a blockchain-based CBDC pilot next month that will test a digital won in various use cases
Report: Judgment Series Is Ending Over PC Version Disagreement
12.7.2021
Sega scored a big coup by signing up Takuya Kimura, one of Japan’s biggest celebrities, to star in its Judgment games. With Kimura comes bonafide star credentials and, of course, talent agency power. That last point, according to one report, could be the budding franchise’s downfall.Read more
The Week In Games: Skyward Sword (NOW IN HD)
12.7.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is out this Friday on Nintendo Switch and is one of the biggest games releasing this week. Read more
A Sealed Copy Of Super Mario 64 Just Sold At Auction For $1.5 Million
11.7.2021
Super Mario 64 is a good game. But would you pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of it? Probably not. But somebody just did. Read more
A Nearly 20-Year-Old Half-Life Easter Egg Was Just Found
10.7.2021
At the very end of Half-Life: Decay there’s a tiny Easter egg to be found, but only if you change your perspective and pay close attention to a destroyed computer. Read more
Man Arrested For Selling Modded Zelda Save Files
10.7.2021
A 27-year old man in Japan was arrested after he was caught attempting to sell modified Zelda: Breath of The Wild save files. Read more
Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
9.7.2021
Y’all! A Black woman was named the winner of not one but two world records for having the largest collection of LCD and playable gaming systems and my mind is alight with joy.Read more
Former COD Pro Plays With 5 Cameras To Combat Cheating Accusations
9.7.2021
Yesterday, Charlie “MuTeX” Saouma, a Call of Duty Twitch streamer with over 600k followers, ran an unusual livestream. While he played Call of Duty Warzone, as he often does, this time he had set up five different camera angles, each one pointed at different parts of his gaming setup. All of this...
'Undetectable’ Console Cheat YouTube Ad Taken Down By Activision
9.7.2021
Earlier this week we reported on an insidious new cheating system for competitive shooters that works on consoles and PC alike and promises to be completely undetectable. Looks like Call of Duty maker Activision already has the cheat makers in their sights, striking down their YouTube ad for...
Rust Is Big Again On Twitch, Now With Beautiful Music About A Blood God
8.7.2021
Trends come and go on Twitch, but the Blood God is forever. Or at least, that’s the impression I get from a cult dedicated to this imaginary deity is one of the central throughlines between Rust role-playing’s first popularity explosion late last year and its latest, which is happening right now....
Kotaku Is Hiring, Come Work For Us
8.7.2021
Exciting times lie ahead at Kotaku, and we’re looking to fill three positions that will help us try to redefine what a video game website can be. Two of these roles are staff writer positions, ideal for hungry reporters and critics who want to blog daily about what matters most in the world...