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EA Lays Off Over 100 Apex Legends Testers Over Zoom Call
28.2.2023
Over 100 quality assurance testers at Electronic Arts’ Baton Rouge, LA office were abruptly laid off during a surprise Zoom call on Tuesday, three sources familiar with the meeting tell Kotaku. They worked predominantly on Apex Legends, the publisher’s hit battle royale developed by Respawn...
Mercy Player Wins Competitive Overwatch Match By Hiding In A Bush
28.2.2023
According to a very disappointed Reddit user, a Mercy player recently won a competitive Overwatch game by submerging herself completely in a bush. Hey! Cut it out, stop laughing. This isn’t a product of Rule 34 or your Discord friend’s sick, twisted fantasy, it’s real life. And it’s effective—safe...
Naruto Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
28.2.2023
There are so many games (maybe too many?) based on mangaka Masashi Kishimoto’s wildly popular shonen series Naruto. Some date back to the Game Boy Advance and OG PlayStation, while others, such as the *new* game Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections that was revealed during Sony’s...
Hitman Devs Announce An Online Fantasy RPG
28.2.2023
Today, IO Interactive announced it is working on a new game, unrelated to Hitman or its past titles, codenamed “Project Fantasy.” And unlike Hitman, this upcoming game will be an online fantasy RPG with a focus on teamwork and comradery, with IO further confirming that, after Project Fantasy...
Miyamoto Says Don't Worry About His Nintendo Retirement, Maybe Go Outside
28.2.2023
Nintendo existed long before Shigeru Miyamoto joined back in 1977, and it will continue to do just fine after he’s gone, the famed game designer told NPR in a new interview. Following the grand opening of the Super Nintendo World theme park in California last week, one of the creators behind Super...
The New Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Raid Has A Glitch Straight Out Of A Creepypasta
28.2.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet received two new tera raids yesterday, which brought Paradox versions of Suicune and Virizion to both games. However, some players have managed to join these raids without updating their games with the latest patch, and it’s broken the entire battle in a way that not only...
Death Stranding Is Secretly A Stealth Retelling Of This Japanese Legend
28.2.2023
Death Stranding is undeniably an odd game. It has floating spirits, rain that makes you older, ghost-detecting babies, and pee bombs. That’s not to say that the weirdness makes it bad, though. Even its harshest critics, who deride it as a “massive failure” or (gasp!) a “walking simulator” will...
The Last of Us Dev Shares Great Example Of Game Doors’ Absurd Complexity
28.2.2023
The HBO adaptation of apocalyptic survival horror The Last of Us just released its seventh episode on Sunday, and—I don’t know if you know this, but—there were a lot of doors in it. There are a lot of doors in the world all the time: in your house, at your workplace, and in your video games....
Six Anime Characters With Permanent Invitations To 'The Cookout'
28.2.2023
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Elden Ring Expansion Announced, Called Shadow of the Erdtree
28.2.2023
FromSoftware just announced a major expansion for most people’s 2022 Game Of The Year, Elden Ring, is in development. It’s called Shadow of the Erdtree.Read more
Diablo Was On The Catwalk At Milan Fashion Week
28.2.2023
Milan Fashion Week has just wrapped up, and while this is not normally the kind of thing we would be covering on this, a website about anime, reality television and comic books, 2023's show featured a surprise inclusion: Blizzard’s Diablo series.Read more
Oldest Known Miyamoto Interview Reveals Nintendo Staff Loved…Donkey Kong Jr. Math
28.2.2023
A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto was into, and his hopes for Mario’s future. Read more
At Least $100,000 Worth Of Magic Cards Dumped In Landfill
28.2.2023
Over the weekend, Reddit user LATIN0 posted some pics on the internet of something neat they saw while at the dump. They’d spotted a bunch of boxes, all in pristine condition, that were full of Magic: The Gathering cards.Read more
New Patch Fixes One Of Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Most Overpowered Monsters
28.2.2023
In a whirlwind of Pokémon news coming out of the Pokémon Presents showcase this morning, there was actually a pretty notable balance change in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet which finally fixies one of the more overpowered strategies hanging over the game’s competitive scene. Dondozo the giant...
Xbox Boss Now Downplaying Importance Of Controversial Activision Merger
27.2.2023
In a new interview Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, said that “Xbox will exist” even if its massive deal to buy up Call of Duty publisher Activision falls apart due to continued and intense regulatory scrutiny and public pushback. Read more
Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe Is Great On Switch
27.2.2023
“Kirby is the best game of all time,” I repeat all weekend, hypnotized by Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe Nintendo Switch remake, convinced it was a shimmering portal into a better life. The remake—released on February 24—is a brighter, but mostly exact, copy of the 2011 Wii game Kirby’s Return...
10 Creatures We Wanna Ride In Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
27.2.2023
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I Met The Most Annoying Yakuza NPC In Like A Dragon: Ishin!
27.2.2023
We’ve all been there. You initiate a conversation with some NPC off the side of the road. Suddenly, you’re trapped in the world’s longest and most non-skippable conversation. Your fingers hurt as you mash the buttons really hard. Your eyes glaze over as the other person goes on and on and on....
Everything You Need To Know About Pokémon Scarlet’s Exclusive Paradox Suicune Raid
27.2.2023
After teasing them in the main game, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have finally introduced two new Paradox Pokémon available through tera raids. Walking Wake is a prehistoric version of Suicune that appears in Scarlet and Iron Leaves, a futuristic interpretation of Virizion, is obtainable in Violet....
Shooting The Pope: The Near Ruin Of A Country's Gaming Industry
27.2.2023
March of 2011. After a couple of moderately successful decades, the Italian gaming industry was facing its worst crisis yet; only a couple studios survived the dawn of the 2010s, and the country was still reeling from 2008’s global recession. Because of limited funds and developers leaving...