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Palworld Devs Are Aware Of The Game’s Growing Cheating Epidemic
25.1.2024
Folks just can’t get enough of Palworld, the “Pokémon with guns” survival game that’s selling like hot cakes right now. While everyone and their mother’s getting in on the action, the game’s official servers are being plagued by cheaters and hackers that developer Pocketpair hopes will get stamped...
Palworld’s Road Map Indicates Some Big New Features Are Coming
25.1.2024
New survival sensation Palworld, which earned the nickname “Pokémon with guns,” has taken the darn internet by storm. Though its popularity is complicated by clear similarities to that other monster-catching game, many are finding absolute joy in its gameplay. That gameplay is due for some...
Zelda Producer Appears In Universal Parks Video, Prompting Speculation
25.1.2024
If you’ve ever wanted to visit Hyrule in theme park form, take heart: rumors and speculation are floating around that you might soon be getting the chance to do just that. Eiji Aonuma, the producer of The Legend of Zelda series, has been spotted in a video from Universal Studios on-site at one...
New Shiny Pokémon TCG Set May Have The Best Pull Rates Of All Time
25.1.2024
One of the great laments of the Pokémon TCG in 2023 was its return to brutal, unforgiving pull rates. After 2022’s Sword & Shield big finish, Crown Zenith, the Scarlet & Violet era ushered in the guarantee of a holo, but a vast diminishing in the chances of scoring anything better. Sets like...
Forgotten Sephiroth Lore Could Reveal FF7 Rebirth's Tragic Twist
25.1.2024
Death and sacrifice are as fundamental to Final Fantasy as chocobos, moogles, and gruff guys named Cid. With the death of a key character at the end of Final Fantasy VII disc one, the series set a heartbreaking trend for many installments that followed. That’ll likely be the same with the upcoming...
Pokémon Company Issues Statement About Palworld, Says It Will 'Investigate'
25.1.2024
The Pokémon Company has released a statement about Palworld, the survival game colloquially called “Pokémon With Guns” whose familiar creature designs have courted controversy since well before its January 19 launch. Well, we can assume the statement is about Palworld and the allegations...
Palworld Has Sold An Astonishing Number Of Copies In Five Days
24.1.2024
Everyone’s talking about Palworld, developer Pocketpair’s open-world survival creature-collector that came out in early access on January 18. From the AI allegations to the Pokémon comparisons, this game has become 2024’s first gaming phenomenon. And now, we have some eye-popping data to back that...
Pokémon Concierge On Game Boy Is Too Good To Be Real
24.1.2024
Pokémon Concierge, the stop-motion animated series that launched on Netflix in December, is a total vibe. After spending time watching a lovely series about a Pokémon resort, I almost don’t want to go back to battling and training. I just want to hang out with all these little guys and take...
Japanese Lawmakers Want To Carve Out New Web3 Policies: CoinDesk Japan
24.1.2024
"We would like to grasp the current situation in areas other than decentralized autonomous organizations and identify new important points for policy," Congressman Hideto Kawasaki said
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth: The Kotaku Review
23.1.2024
I’m soaking up the sun as I stroll along the beautiful beaches of Hawaii when suddenly a group of suspicious-looking characters take notice. As they approach, threatening me, I’m transported from the reality of Hawaii around me to some kind of alternate dimension where I’m expected to pull off some...
Tekken 8 Is Getting Some Seriously High Praise
23.1.2024
Tekken 8 comes out on January 26 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and reviews are popping up ahead of the game’s release date. It’ll be the eighth mainline entry in Bandai Namco Entertainment’s long-running franchise, and it seems critics are enjoying the game, with Tekken 8 currently...
Princess Peach: Showtime Reveals Ninja Peach And Pastel Pink Joy-Cons
23.1.2024
This March we receive the triumphant return of the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Her Majesty Princess Peach. Princess Peach: Showtime, the resilient monarch’s first headline game since 2005’s Super Princess Peach, is a stage-based action-adventure, as shown in new footage released by Nintendo...
Japanese Crypto Advocate Wins Parliament Seat
23.1.2024
A leading Japanese crypto advocate has won a seat in the House of Councilors, the nation’s lower parliamentary house. Per CoinPost, Takeshi Fujimaki, a former lawmaker who lost his seat in the 2019 election, has been restored to the house under proportional representation rules. Fujimaki,...
Monster Hunter Rise Broke On Steam Deck After Capcom Added DRM
22.1.2024
Monster Hunter Rise, the sixth mainline entry in Capcom’s creature-slaying action RPG, is now broken on Steam Deck. It seems that, right after the company replaced its old digital rights management (DRM) software with a new one, the game just wouldn’t boot up anymore. That sucks, but Capcom...
Unpacking The ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Game Palworld And Its Controversies
22.1.2024
It has been a whirlwind of a weekend for Palworld, the Ark-like survival game colloquially called “Pokémon With Guns.” Pocketpair’s latest has already sold over five million copies since launching in Early Access on January 19, and shot to the top of Steam and Twitch charts over the weekend....
New Ad Turns Umbrella Academy Actor Into Persona Character For Some Reason
22.1.2024
Sega revealed a new live-action commercial for Persona 3 Reload today, and I’m trying to pin down why it’s breaking my brain. I think I’m coming to the conclusion that there isn’t just one thing about it. There are so many bad things about it that it just feels like a fever dream. Can anyone who’s...
After Playing Palworld For 6 Hours I Still Haven't Shot A Pokémon With A Gun
22.1.2024
Over the weekend, I downloaded Palworld on my PC. I was excited. After all the weird trailers and screenshots showing Pokémon-like creatures using assault rifles or being shot with handguns, I was ready to earn official Xbox achievements as I killed Pokémon facsimiles using modern guns. It...
Palworld Devs Aren’t Worried About A Nintendo Lawsuit
22.1.2024
We’re about done with the first month of the year, and 2024’s biggest game is already here in the form of Palworld. The colloquially named “Pokémon with guns” open-world survival crafting title is dominating both Steam and Twitch in spite of the controversy it’s courted, particularly around...
Eight Years Later, Final Fantasy's Best Ending Still Hits Hard
22.1.2024
Brotherhood is a theme so overt in Final Fantasy XV that it’s the title of the game’s five-episode prequel anime. An outlier in a series that usually leverages expansive and diverse casts, FF15 instead focuses entirely on a road trip with four lads. Tehy spend most of their time cruising around...
Animoca Brands Japan, Honda, and Darewise form Web3 gaming alliance
22.1.2024
A coalition is formed between Darewise Entertainment, Animoca Brands Japan, and Honda Motor to develop the AAA science fiction space series Life Beyond. This is a transportation vehicle-themed game. Darewise is, notably, a subsidiary organization of Animoca Brands. The alliance was conceived...