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Choosing Random Is A Huge Flex
20.7.2021
Last week, publisher GameMill Entertainment unveiled Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a fighting game featuring iconic Nickelodeon characters like SpongeBob SquarePants, Nigel Thornberry, and that one dude with the toast-shaped face. Between the memes, you might see prospective players debate who’d...
You Can Beat Castlevania Before Guilty Gear Strive Finishes Loading
19.7.2021
Guilty Gear Strive is, by most accounts, an excellent fighting game, but one major issue has been vexing players since it launched over a month ago: the absurdly long time it takes the game to load into its main menu.Read more
US lawmakers don't want Olympic athletes to use digital yuan at 2022 games
19.7.2021
The trio urged the Olympic committee to work with federal agencies "to protect the privacy of American athletes from the Chinese Communist Government."
Polygon launches blockchain gaming and NFT studio
19.7.2021
Through Polygon Studios, Polygon is attempting to corner two key segments of the blockchain industry: gaming and nonfungible tokens
Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
BOTW Fan Finishes Game Without Stepping In The Same Place Twice
19.7.2021
Throughout Breath of the Wild’s four-year life, players have come up with all kinds of quirky ways to play. There are no damage runs, shield only runs, and what I like to call the “Naked and Afraid” challenge where has Link beat the final boss of the Champion’s Ballad DLC with no clothes and only...
Ubisoft Unveils Tom Clancy's XDefiant, Sounds A Bit Like Overwatch
19.7.2021
The debut video for Tom Clancy’s XDefiant, announced today for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC, and streaming services, describes the upcoming free-to-play 6v6 first-person shooter as “fast-paced fire-fights meet punk-rock mosh pit.” That Tom Clancy game universe keeps getting weirder...
PowerWash Sim Devs On Making Cleaning Fun, Advanced Crouching
19.7.2021
What makes FuturLab’s early-access Steam hit PowerWash Simulator so appealing, aside from the ability to draw dicks everywhere? Just look at it. The moment you turn on your sprayer, you’re treated to instant, obvious results. Kotaku recently spoke to PowerWash Simulator design director Dan Chequer...
Call of Duty: Warzone Players Are Going Invisible Again Using Red Doors
19.7.2021
Glitches cycle in and out of Call of Duty: Warzone like stray cats through an abandoned house, but invisibility has caused players more headaches than most. And despite past fixes, Call of Duty’s battle royale players once again appear to be getting shot by opponents they can’t see, this time...
Pokémon Go Fest 2021 Ended In A Total Anticlimax
19.7.2021
This last weekend offered the world Pokémon GO Fest 2021. This year, the mobile game’s biggest annual event attempted a more outgoing vibe yet still managed to end everything on the dampest squib imaginable: a quest line entirely focused on Hoopa, that absolutely in no way included Hoopa.Read more
Psychonauts 2 Hands-On: It's More Psychonauts, And That's Fine By Me
19.7.2021
Psychonauts 2 is a game that, for a long time, felt like it was never going to happen. But then in December 2015, Double Fine ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to create the sequel. Now, almost six years later, the game is nearly here—and I’ve played a few early levels ahead of its August...
Ethermon Builds an Alliance With CoinBurp for DeFi Games
19.7.2021
Ethermon introduces a leading decentralized gaming network with the consolidation of CoinBurp. The blockchain-rooted gaming network will appeal to clients who were children from the 90s and beginning 2000s. The clients who had built an affinity to the prominent animated show Pokemon are in for...
Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $1.3 Billion
19.7.2021
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $1.3 billion, Reuters report.Read more
Nintendo Says Switch OLED Profit Story Is 'Incorrect'
19.7.2021
Last week, a pair of analysts cired in a report from Bloomberg claimed that Nintendo’s new OLED model of the Switch contained “upgrades [that] are estimated to cost around $10 more per unit”, despite the console costing $50 more at the register than its predecessor. Today, Nintendo took the unusual...
Incredibly Rare Nintendo Card Reportedly Returns From Dead, Up For Sale
19.7.2021
All the way back at E3 2002, Nintendo was promoting its new e-Reader platform by handing out prize cards on the showroom floor. The winning cards were all presumed to have been either lost or destroyed, but one has just (reportedly) emerged from the void and is up for sale on eBay.Read more
PS4 "Crypto" Warehouse Was Actually Farming FIFA Crap
19.7.2021
While initial reports last week indicated that an enormous warehouse discovered in Ukraine packed full of PS4 consoles was being used to mine crypto, a little further investigation has found that the machines were probably being used to farm FIFA Ultimate Team cards.Read more
The Week In Games: Witcher On Your Phone
19.7.2021
A new Witcher game comes out this week. Calm down, calm down, it’s that game that looks a lot like Pokemon GO and is coming out only on phones. (The headline should have tipped you off already.) Read more
Watch Dogs Legion’s First DLC Expansion Is So Much Better Than The Main Game
18.7.2021
Watch Dogs Legion’s first DLC brings back old characters in a shorter and better adventure than the main game. Read more
The Next Skate Game Won't Be At EA Play 2021
18.7.2021
EA announced today that the next Skate game, which is currently in development, won’t be shown during EA Play 2021 on July 22. It’s another game to add to the growing list of “Stuff That Won’t Be At EA Play 2021.”Read more
Take-Two Is Removing Old GTA Mods Using DMCA Notices
18.7.2021
Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has spent the past week or so using DMCA takedown requests to remove old Grand Theft Auto mods. The publisher hasn’t explained why it has started this sudden removal of old mods.Read more