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Oasys Partners With SBI Group’s SBINFT Market to Boost Crypto Gaming in Japan
16.5.2024
Oasys, a blockchain network focused on gaming, has partnered with SBINFT Market, an NFT platform operated by a subsidiary of the Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Group, to expand the crypto gaming sector in Japan. The collaboration will allow developers on the Oasys platform to sell NFTs through...
Hi-Fi Rush Devs Fix The Tiniest Bugs In One Last Update
15.5.2024
Hi-Fi Rush, developed by Tango Gameworks, is a colorful action-rhythm game that got a surprise release in 2023 and ended up being one of the best games of the year. But the studio behind it was recently closed by Xbox, making the game’s final update a somber farewell to fans. Read more
Porting Zelda: Majora's Mask And Other N64 Classics To PC Just Got Much Easier
15.5.2024
A new fan-developed tool will soon let users easily port nearly any Nintendo 64 video game to PC, helping preserve the console’s library for future generations and allowing players to graphically improve even the most obscure N64 games. And you can already get a taste of what this new tool can...
How (And Why) To Become A Mentor in Final Fantasy XIV
15.5.2024
Final Fantasy XIV makes it easy to accessorize your character, but glamming up your display name requires great responsibility. Those little crowns you see next to certain players’ names indicate that they are Mentors, who are (in theory) experienced players who can show newer players the ropes...
People Can’t Stop Comparing King Charles' New Portrait To Dark Souls Bosses
15.5.2024
King Charles III, the current monarch of the United Kingdom, unveiled a new portrait of himself on Tuesday, May 14. The portrait, painted by British artist Jonathan Yeo, marks the first official portrait of the king since his coronation one year ago. In the reveal video of the portrait, Charles...
Here's How Street Fighter 6 Nailed The Jacked Look Of Its Fighters' Bodies
15.5.2024
Street Fighter 6 has a huge roster of martial artists, each with different fighting styles and training methods. Each comes from a different discipline, which means they all have different body types, from Zangief’s hulking bodybuilder frame to E. Honda’s heavier sumo build. As such, developer...
NieR Devs' New Mystery Game Is Definitely NieR 3, Right?
15.5.2024
If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and has previously developed extremely popular duck-based video games, then it’s fairly safe to say it’s a duck. NieR series producer Yosuke Saito, NieR series director and writer Yoko Taro, and NieR series composer Keiichi Okabe are all working on a...
Metaplanet Unveils ‘Bitcoin-First’ Strategy to Face Japan’s Economic Weakness
15.5.2024
Metaplanet, a Tokyo-listed public company, has unveiled a “bitcoin first” strategy to combat the Japanese economy’s weakness and the yen’s devaluation. In a document shared on social media, the company stated it will adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset, taking advantage of...
Here’s why US debt is out of control — and Japanese debt isn’t
15.5.2024
Japanese debt might be high, but it isn't comparable to American debt, which is set to trigger a financial implosion — and light a spark under Bitcoin
Dead By Daylight's Sprawling Horror-verse Expanding With D&D And Castlevania
14.5.2024
Believe it or not folks, the asymmetric horror multiplayer game Dead by Daylight is somehow eight years old. Over the years, the game has swallowed multiple horror properties into it, such as Scream, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and more. Today, as it celebrated eight long years, developer Behaviour...
8 Movies We Want To See In Chris Pratt's Proposed Nintendo Cinematic Universe
14.5.2024
Nintendo wants to lean hard into movies. After the astronomical success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, why wouldn’t it? But Mario actor Chris Pratt is dreaming even bigger—He wants the company to think beyond just having an adaptation in theaters every few years and consider an extended film...
Is This Aerith's Ghost In The Original Final Fantasy VII?
14.5.2024
Aerith’s death (spoilers) in the original Final Fantasy VII was one hell of an emotional ordeal. And while fans scoured the game years after its release for a chance at finding a way to revive her, there was a way to catch a quick glimpse of her in the late game after she dies. Is it a ghost or...
Akuma May Be Better Than Ever In Street Fighter 6
14.5.2024
Street Fighter 6 was one of my favorite games of last year, and I’m so convinced I’ll get back to its sublime, best-in-its-class fighting that I still haven’t uninstalled it from my PS5 despite months away. Every time I so much as see a clip of Street Fighter 6, I’m reminded that Capcom’s hallmark...
Animoca Brands Japan and Quidd to Release ‘FAIRY TAIL’ Digital Collectibles
14.5.2024
Animoca Brands Japan introduces digital collectibles of popular manga “FAIRY TAIL,” featuring 29 characters including Natsu and Lucy, launching on Quidd on May 24.
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18 Cool Things Metal Gear Solid 2 Doesn’t Outright Tell You
13.5.2024
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and its follow-up expanded release, Substance, released on the PS2 all the way back in the early 2000s, dramatically expanding the gameplay systems of Metal Gear Solid and opening the narrative up to wild and unexpected twists and turns. Read more
Hi-Fi Rush: The Kotaku Retrospective Review
13.5.2024
There’s a scene late in Hi-Fi Rush, the rhythm action game by the now-defunct Tango Gameworks, in which protagonist Chai explores a museum dedicated to the antagonistic, oppressive megacorp Vandelay Technologies. In it, the corporation tells a sanitized version of its own history, one that glosses...
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Has A Freak Straight Out Of Bloodborne
13.5.2024
The team at FromSoftware is really good at making the most fucked-up creatures imaginable. Some of the stuff that team has fit into its games are utter nightmares ripped out of the deep dark recesses of the human mind. Parts of its catalog, like Bloodborne, have explicitly leaned into that haunting...
Final Fantasy Maker Promises 'Quality Over Quantity' And Fewer Exclusives In Major Strategy Reboot
13.5.2024
Square Enix has announced that it will be moving away from releasing games exclusively to select platforms, opting instead to pursue multiplatform launches in the near-future to amplify the sales of its flagging games. It’s all part of “aggressively pursuing” a new business strategy after a...
Japanese listed firm adds Bitcoin as reserve asset with 117 BTC
13.5.2024
Since announcing its Bitcoin strategy in April, Metaplanet has accumulated around 117.7 BTC valued at $7.2 million
Metaplanet Adopts Bitcoin as Reserve Asset Amid Japan’s Debt Burden
13.5.2024
Metaplanet strategy “unequivocally prioritizes a Bitcoin-first, Bitcoin-only approach” with financial options such as long-dated yen liabilities.
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