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CultureSony Sued For Restricting Its Digital Game Sales To PlayStation Store
Two years ago, Sony stopped selling digital download codes for its games through retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. And now the gaming giant has been hit with a class-action lawsuit. Bloomberg reports that the proposed suit—Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC in a San Francisco U.S. District Court—alleges that limiting the digital purchase…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanMade In Abyss Game Gets Slapped With Adults-Only Rating In Japan
Surprised to see the game based on Made In Abyss receiving an adults-only rating? If you’ve seen the anime, you might not be. The video game adaptation has just been given a CERO-Z. That’s Japan’s adults-only, 18-years-old-and-up rating. While the screenshots look fairly cute, the original anime does have its share of blood and gore—a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2021 -
CultureIllumination Founder And Despicable Me Producer Joining Nintendo Board
Today, Nintendo announced that Chris Meledandri will join the Nintendo board as an Outside Director as of June 29. This, the company adds, will become effective dependent on approval at the upcoming shareholders meeting that same date. Previously, Meledandri produced CG movies including Ice Age and Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who! before founding Illumination…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2021 -
CultureSuper Mario 64 On PC Looks Like An Entirely Different Game
We’ve taken a glance at Super Mario 64’s PC port before, as recently as February, but this very extensive look by Digital Foundry shows just how damn good the thing can look when given the right amount of love and attention. Everything difference from the original game you see here is thanks mostly to two…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureOutriders Is Finally Giving Some Players Back Their Lost Gear
Of all the many (many) issues to plague Outriders since its early April launch, few have caused more pain than the insidious inventory-deletion bug. As of today, affected players should start to see lost gear return, developer People Can Fly announced via the game’s subreddit. Shortly after the loot-shooter launched for basically all the platforms,…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureHuh, The New Fable Runs On The Forza Engine
The next installment in the Fable franchise is being built with the ForzaTech engine, which as the name implies, is the foundation beneath Xbox’s popular Forza racing games. This detail was first spotted by IGN in a Microsoft job listing for Turn 10 Studios, the Xbox Game Studios subsidiary that’s developed the core Forza series…
By Ian Walker Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureApple To Epic: What’s A Kotaku?
Today, as part of the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case, Apple counsel Rich Doren, while cross examining Epic engineer Andrew Grant about a Minecraft Earth-related email chain between Epic employees, asked a very important question. “Are you familiar with that website?” Doren asked in reference to a confusingly named website called Kotaku, from which…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureNintendo Just Very Quietly Announced A Brand New Game
Nintendo doesn’t always need a big Direct to announce a new first-party game. Sometimes they can just drop a trailer and say, hey, here’s a new thing, which is exactly what just happened with Game Builder Garage Coming to the Switch in June, it builds off the company’s recent work with everything from the Labo…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village Mod Does Something To Lady Dimitrescu, But I Can’t Put My Finger On What
PC modders have done something to Resident Evil Village’s resident tall lady, Countess Alcina Dimitrescu, but I can’t figure out exactly what. Can you? Take your time. I know: It’s a real head scratcher! Alright so, I just got off the phone with experts at the intersection of tall ladies and trains, and they’ve informed…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureReturnal Patch Aims To Reduce Crashes, Increase…Corpses? [UPDATE: Save Corruptions Reported, Patch Pulled]
Update: May 6, 9:45 a.m. ET: Housemarque released patch 1.3.4 overnight. Here are the notes Update: May 5, 5:20 p.m. ET: The latest patch for Returnal has been pulled and the game reverted to the prior patch, developer Housemarque announced via Twitter. “We are fixing the issue now and a new patch will be published…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsBRB, Making My Own Mass Effect Legendary Edition Logo
BioWare must have sensed that I had thoughts about the Mass Effect companions on my spirit today, as it released a new tool that lets you pick and choose among the Mass Effect companions to make your own version of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition logo. Would-be custom logo recipients answer a handful of questions…
By Ash Parrish Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureHumble Bundle Rethinks Unpopular Charity Split
Two weeks ago, Humble Bundle announced a controversial plan to remove sliders that allow users to customize what percent of their game purchase goes to charity. Today, Humble announced that it’s rethinking that plan. “We’ve heard everyone loud and clear and apologize for the way these changes were rolled out,” the company wrote in a…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureFlashback Getting A New Sequel For Its 30th Birthday
With its gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds, stunning (for its time) rotoscoped animation, and engaging science fiction storyline, 1992’s Flashback is one of gaming’s all-time greats. Now original game designer Paul Cuisset is back, supervising a team of developers creating Flashback 2, coming in 2022 for consoles and PC. There’s not a lot of information on the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureGamesCom Wises Up, Goes Fully Digital
GamesCom 2021 will be a fully digital event this year, GamesCom officials announced in a press release today. The move is a reversal of earlier plans for a semi-live event, inadvisable given the, y’know, roiling pandemic that’s still an ever-present aspect of everyday life. Held annually in Cologne, Germany, GamesCom is one of the more…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureLatest Outriders Bug Is Killing Players Instantly
To follow Outriders’ post-launch journey is to watch an Olympic game of whack-a-mole. Developer People Can Fly will stamp out one issue, only for another to pop right up. The latest: Some players are apparently getting instantly killed by attacks that otherwise would not cause instantaneous death. “We are aware of the issue whereby damage…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
EsportsChinese Overwatch Teams Threaten Boycott Of Korean Player For Statements On Taiwan And Hong Kong [Update: Teams ‘Resume Normal Activities’]
One of the most beloved players in the Overwatch League is facing backlash over political comments he made in a stream. On Chinese social media site Weibo, several members of the Chinese Overwatch League teams stated they would boycott any events that include Korean player Jong-ryeol “Saebyeolbe” Park due to his apparent stance on Hong…
By Ash Parrish Published May 5, 2021 -
ReviewsMultiplatformResident Evil Village: The Kotaku Review
I remember vividly the first time I played one of my favorite games of all time, Resident Evil 4 While not what I would call a huge fan of the survival horror series before then, I voraciously devoured every bit of Resident Evil 4 info I could get my hands on leading up to its…
By Ian Walker Published May 5, 2021 -
OpinionI Can’t Stop Thinking About This New Hot Wheels Game
Ever since the joy-inducing Hot Wheels expansion pack for Forza Horizon 3 I’ve been craving a high-quality game about racing my favorite toy cars through real-world locations. I’m really hoping September’s Hot Wheels Unleashed is it. Coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, PC, and Switch on September 30, Hot Wheels Unleashed is part racing game, part creative tool.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureCS:GO Players Can Now Pay A Buck A Month To Access Better Statistics
Why use free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stat tracking websites like csgostats.gg or Leetify when you can now pay a $.99 monthly subscription fee for Valve’s official and less comprehensive CS:GO 360 Stats service? Because they’re free and more comprehensive? Ah. CS:GO’s Operation Broken Fang recently came to a close, but the operation’s stat tracking lives…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureNike Has Some New PlayStation 5 Sneakers Coming
Following on from their 2018 collaboration, Sony and Nike have announced a new pair of NBA star Paul George’s signature shoes are on the way, once again with PlayStation stuff all over them. This time the Sony collab will feature on a pair of PG5s (the last time around they were PG2s), and in keeping…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2021