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Players Stock Up On PS Now Subs To Save Big On New PS Plus
4.4.2022
When Sony’s revamped version of PS Plus launches in June, its priciest tier will cost twice as much as what you’re currently paying. But there’s a way to slash that in half: If you can secure a year of PS Now now, you’ll be able to temporarily lock in the new service at a lower price point....
Military MMO Dev Wargaming Cuts Ties With Belarus, Russia Over Invasion works
4.4.2022
Hit freemium developer Wargaming is abandoning its operations in Belarus and Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, now in its 39th day. The World of Tanks maker said it has turned over live operations of its games in both countries to its now-former studio in Russia and will “not profit from this...
NFL Star's Version Of Water Cup Challenge Now In Running For GOTY 2022
4.4.2022
Here’s how one guy ended up thrown into a swimming pool in front of millions of viewers. On Friday, professional NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster was recorded taking the “water cup challenge” on TikTok. It was the most nerve-wracking two minutes of Jenga I’ve ever endured. No matter how full the...
Game Developer Group States Using NFTs in Gaming Presents Ethical Issues
4.4.2022
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a group integrated by a number of game developers and programmers from companies across the globe, has addressed the use of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) in the gaming industry. The director of the group has stated that the introduction of these...
Ertha’s Inter-Metaverse Portal NFTs Bought for $60K
4.4.2022
It’s now possible to travel between metaverses thanks to Ertha’s Portal NFTs. The game’s passionate community has already spent over $60,000 on these NFTs, despite their purpose being a mystery until now. Ertha’s players will travel instantly between their home planet...
Manga Publisher Shueisha Establishes Game Company
4.4.2022
Shueisha publishes Weekly Shonen Jump, the most famous weekly manga magazine in Japan. And now, the company is getting into gaming in a much bigger way. Famitsu reports that the iconic publisher established Shueisha Games on February 16, 2022, to develop and release games for consoles, PC and smart...
Logan Paul's Latest Stunt: Paying $6 Million For Rare Pikachu Card And Wearing It To WrestleMania
3.4.2022
Internet personality, boxer, and Pokémon investor Logan Paul recently spent $6 million dollars on a very rare Pokémon card and then wore that card during his WrestleMania 38 appearance. Why? Because the internet and speculators have destroyed reality.Read more
Awkwardly, Ubisoft’s Division 2 Update Is All About A Nuclear Power Plant Invasion
2.4.2022
During Russia’s ongoing and horrific invasion of Ukraine, Russian military forces have taken over and held various nuclear power plants located in the country. In what is unfortunate but likely unintentional timing, Ubisoft has revealed that the new mode coming in loot shooter The Division...
Bandai Namco Announces Gundam Themed Metaverse
2.4.2022
Bandai Namco, a game developer and publishing company involved in the production of toys from several intellectual properties (IPs), has revealed more information about its $130-million metaverse gambit. The company says this new initiative will be based on its Gundam IP, being one of the first...
Moxy․io Introduces the ‘Play and Earn’ Concept Ahead of Moxy Club Pre-Launch
2.4.2022
PRESS RELEASE. The Moxy.io team has built a team consisting of several veterans from the video game industry to take gaming to a whole new level by bringing blockchain technology to mainstream games. The team began their adventure in 2021, when a band of blockchain enthusiasts joined up with...
Get To Know The World Of Warcraft-Playing, Twitch-Streaming Grandma Who Just Turned 80
1.4.2022
WowGrandma78, the elderly streamer who’s been broadcasting on the platform since January 2020, celebrated her 80th birthday last month. To honor her eight decades around the sun, WowGrandma78 is hosting a multi-day sub-athon on Twitch, which entered day 15 as of this writing. It’s unclear whether...
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Players Trolled By Loot
1.4.2022
Loot shooter series Borderlands is about picking up a shiny new gun one minute and throwing it away for something more powerful the next. TIny Tina’s Wonderlands continues this trend, but with a few added wrinkles that can end up trolling unsuspecting players who aren’t paying close enough...
We’re Getting More Hyper Light Drifter, Be Still My Beating Heart
1.4.2022
It’s been nearly nine years since the evocative pixel-art action RPG Hyper Light Drifter first took my breath away in its Kickstarter teaser. Now developer Heart Machine has a successor planned and it’s just around the corner. It’s called Hyper Light Breaker, it will be 3D instead of top-down,...
13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
1.4.2022
If you’ve played Borderlands, you’ve played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Gearbox’s latest, a fantasy twist on the loot-shooting series for which the studio is known, feels a lot like the previous four games—and 400 expansions and events—in the series. You shoot a bazillion guns. You find a bazillion...
The Best (And Worst) April Fools’ Jokes In Gaming For 2022
1.4.2022
April Fools’ is finally upon us, or as our UK editor John Walker likes to call it: “International Lying Day.” Never fear, readers. We Kotaku bloggers are vigilantly keeping alert for any announcements that seem a little bit too good or too weird to be true. Not me, though. Some April Fools’ jokes...
Axie Infinity Delays Launch of ‘Origin’ Game Following Massive Hack
1.4.2022
The new “Axie Infinity: Origin” was originally supposed to debut on March 30
The Xbox Series X Is Easy To Buy For The First Time In Years
1.4.2022
It seems an extraordinary thing for it to be a news story that, one-and-a-half years after release, you can buy an Xbox. But we live in extraordinary times, and right now is the first time the Xbox Series X has ever been easily available. You can just buy one! You know, if you have a spare...
Atlas Corporation Uses Chainlink Data Feeds and VRF for NFT-Based Game
1.4.2022
Atlas Corporation, a Web3 development group that is creating the technical foundation for a rising number of NFT communities, has incorporated Chainlink Verifiable Random Function (VRF) and Chainlink Data Feeds on the Ethereum mainnet. Atlas now has direct exposure to a tamper-proof and fully...
Xbox Game Pass nabídne výhodnější rodinné předplatné, tvrdí insideři
1.4.2022
Forgotten Pokémon Musical From 2000 Gets 68-Minute Documentary
1.4.2022
For one brief, shining moment in time over 20 years ago, Pokémon ascended from the anime/video games plane where it normally resides and became something more. Something fancier, something jauntier. And then, just as quickly as it rose, it slipped right back down again, and most folks now forget...