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Japanese Pokémon Fan Theory Links The Regis To World War II
15.10.2021
There are countless Pokémon fan theories. One of the most famous in Japan is that the Regis represent hibakusha—the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. Read more
Nintendo Apologizes For Metroid Dread Bug And Promises An Update
15.10.2021
Near the end of Metroid Dread, some players are getting an error message that reads, “The software was closed because an error occurred.” The error prevents the player from proceeding, because the game goes into forced shutdown. “A bug has been found in #MetroidDread that can prevent players from...
Battlefield 2042's Last Mode Seems Like Exactly What The Beta Was Missing
15.10.2021
DICE has long insisted that Battlefield 2042, its forthcoming first-person shooter, wouldn’t have a battle royale component. Today the company detailed the game’s third and final gameplay mode, Hazard Zone, in a blog post, and it is not a battle royale. But it’s not not a battle royale either.Read...
GTA Trilogy Remaster's Achievements Seem To Have Leaked, And They're Great
15.10.2021
Another day, another bit of information leaks out from Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. This time, dataminers have dug into files found in the Rockstar Games Launcher on PC and retrieved a full list of achievements players can attain in the remakes when they release later...
GTA Online Update Keeps Teleporting Entire Lobbies To A Single Player's Home Base
14.10.2021
Picture this. You’re playing GTA Online in a public lobby, doing your personal crimes and heists while other players go about their business. Suddenly, the screen goes black, and when it comes back up you’re in front of a home or garage entrance along with every other player in the lobby. Everybody...
Far Cry 6: 22 Things We Wished We Knew Before Starting
14.10.2021
Far Cry 6 blows a lot of stuff up. But the biggest thing it blows up is the Far Cry formula. Yes, as many have noted, there’s a lot of fundamental overlap with every other game in Ubisoft’s long-running open-world shoot-everything-you-see series. When you get into the weeds, though, you’ll find...
Metroid Dread Developers Criticize Studio For Not Crediting Them
14.10.2021
Released last week for the Nintendo Switch, Metroid Dread has wowed critics and players alike. It currently sits at 89 on Metacritic, with some already calling it the best 2D Metroid in the series. Now, some of the developers want to know why they’re not mentioned in the critics.Read more
Pokemon Go's About To Make Egg Hatching Less Of A Pain
14.10.2021
Niantic announced Wednesday that it’s planning to test a new raft of “minor gameplay adjustments” for Pokémon Go over the next few months. Among them, at long last, there are plans to improve the experience for new players starting the game today.Read more
Halo 2 Remaster Updated 7 Years Later To Fix Bleh Graphics
14.10.2021
Halo 2 is a very good video game. It has everything you could ever want: little blue-green guys, bigger blue and red guys, some cool gorilla men, the list goes on! However, in its 2014 re-release in the Halo anthology the Master Chief Collection, it did not have most of the graphical details that...
ResetEra Owner Cashes Out Gaming Forum For $4.5 Million
14.10.2021
Four years after the popular gaming forum, ResetEra, was born from the ashes of NeoGAF, it has been sold to a network of Swedish esports sites for an eye-popping $4.5 million. While the deal puts a price tag on the previously unquantifiable value of discussions like, “How did Blizzard get away with...
Ubisoft Postpones Closed Beta For Ghost Recon Frontline, The Game Nobody Asked For
14.10.2021
It’s only been a matter of days since Ubisoft announced a new Ghost Recon game, Frontline, but public reception to its reveal has seemingly been strong enough to have already had an effect on the game’s planned closed beta testing.Read more
Former Pac-Man Champ Billy Mitchell Can Now Sue World Record Leaderboard Group
14.10.2021
Billy Mitchell, a pro gamer best known for making the numbers on an arcade machine get really big, is going to court. As spotted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, a U.S. appeals court gave the green light yesterday for Mitchell to proceed with a defamation suit against Twin Galaxies, the popular gaming...
Pokémon Fans Mixed On Experience Share Feature Making Diamond, Pearl Remakes Easier
14.10.2021
Not every Pokémon player is happy about the new gameplay details that are emerging for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the Switch remakes of Nintendo DS’ Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. In fact, a significant portion of the playerbase is currently upset because Exp. Share (a feature in which...
Spelunky World Record Holder Busted As A Cheater
14.10.2021
A player by the name of BarryMode has, for the last eight years, held the world record for a run through Spelunky. Not anymore, though, after fans discovered that he’d cheated, with the evidence clearly visible in the video he’d recorded of the run.Read more
Activision Says Call Of Duty: Warzone, Vanguard Are Getting New, Souped-Up Anti-Cheat
13.10.2021
Amidst numerous lawsuits claiming the company fostered an abuse-filled working environment, Activision Blizzard is getting serious about Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters with the introduction of its new, proprietary Ricochet Anti-Cheat system.Read more
Diablo II: Resurrected Plagued By Login Issues, Some Players Demand Refunds
13.10.2021
For the past six days, Diablo II: Resurrected players in the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom have experienced intermittent difficulties when attempting to log in to the game’s online servers. Now, some are taking to social media to demand refunds. Read more
Genshin Leak Teases Massive Cliffhanger Resolution With Albedo
13.10.2021
Hey, it’s me: the Kotaku staffer who explains why a random Genshin Impact character is trending on Twitter. Today, several notable Genshin Impact leakers stated that the geo element swordsman Albedo will be making an event appearance in the 2.3 update.Read more
FFXIV Director Wants You To Be Normal About The Game’s Success
13.10.2021
In a recent interview with PC Gamer, Final Fantasy XIV Director Naoki Yoshida spoke at length about the MMO’s influx of players, and his mixed feelings about World of Warcraft comparisons. At the heart of it all is Yoshida’s consistent refrain that video games are just that: video games. So don’t...
New Chinese Action-RPG Is Like The Witcher, But More Focused
13.10.2021
Sometimes, I want the gritty fantasy storytelling of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt without dealing with hundreds of hours of content or an open world map. Xuan Yuan Sword 7, the latest entry in an action roleplaying series that has been a cornerstone of Chinese gaming for almost 30 years, scratches that...
Far Cry 6's Autosave Bug Keeps Killing Players Repeatedly
13.10.2021
Arkane’s recent and well-regarded immersive sim isn’t the only death loop of the fall. Thanks to a rare autosave bug in Far Cry 6 that spawns players milliseconds before a death, some players have found themselves stuck in an unbreakable feedback loop, with no apparent way to break the cycle.Read...