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CultureCD Projekt Refunded Only 30,000 Copies Of Cyberpunk 2077
Only a tiny fraction of the overall Cyberpunk 2077 sales resulted in refunds, CFO Piotr Nielubowicz told investors during an earnings call earlier today. Out of the 13.7 million copies sold, the Polish developer apparently issued just 30,000 refunds. As for the monetary impact, the “Help Me Refund” program CD Projekt set up to handle…
By Ian Walker Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureDestiny 2‘s New Transmog System Sounds Like A Grind-In-The-Ass
Bungie finally shed some light on Destiny 2’s upcoming transmog options in a blog post today. The new system, called Armor Synthesis, will be added to the loot-shooter service game within a few weeks, fulfilling a long-standing request of the Destiny community. Unfortunately, its implementation sounds like more of a grind than anything you’d find…
By Ari Notis Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureHades Wins Game Of The Year At The 2021 DICE Awards
Beloved indie game Hades scored the most wins at this year’s DICE Awards. Supergiant’s excellent roguelike action game ultimately won five awards, including “Game of the Year.” While Hades had a great showing, it was Sony’s stable of PlayStation exclusives that swept the awards, winning nine awards across five games. Ghost of Tsushima grabbed four…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureGearbox Threatens To ‘Expand Outside’ Texas Over Anti-Trans Bill
During a committee hearing held yesterday in the Texas House of Representatives, Gearbox exec David Najjab testified against Texas House Bill 4042, which would force transgender athletes in public schools to compete in sports according to the gender they were assigned at birth. “I’m a Texan,” said Najjab, who has worked as Borderlands developer Gearbox’s…
By Ian Walker Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureMicrosoft Adds FPS Boost To 13 More Xbox Games
Microsoft announced today that 13 EA Play games now support FPS Boost on Xbox Series X/S consoles. A bunch of these FPS-boosted titles support 120Hz including Star Wars: Battlefront, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, Titanfall 2, Battlefield V, and more. The vast majority of these newly boosted games originally ran at 60fps on Xbox One…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsNew Fortnite Skin Is Full Of References To Game’s Past Maps
Eco is a new Fortnite skin in the item shop today. It looks like the Earth, maybe for Earth Day. But it’s also full of easter eggs to the old battle royale island. Epic tweeted that the skin was inspired by Fortnite creator NolloBandz. It sells for 1500 Vbucks, and the set also contains a…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureEpic Games Store Adds New Apps Including, Um, Another Game Store
Epic announced today that a slate of new non-gaming apps are now available on the Epic Games Store. The most interesting new app added is the indie games storefront Itch.io, potentially giving the thousands of smaller games on their store a huge new audience of EGS users. The Itch.io store being added to EGS is…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureThe Nintendo Download: It’s Picross Day, Motherpuzzlers
Another Thursday, another 35+ new games for the Nintendo Switch. This week one of those games is Picross S6. The rest of them? Shantae? MotoGP 21? Dungholes? Not nearly as important. It must be hard being a Nintendo Switch game released the same day as a new installment of math deduction puzzler Picross. It doesn’t…
By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureThe Olympics Gets A Virtual Sports Tie-In Event
It’s not quite esports in the Olympics, but the International Olympics Committee (IOC) will host a virtual sports event May 13 to June 23, tied to the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. Produced by DreamHack Sports Games, the Olympic Virtual Series will be “the first-ever, Olympic-licensed event for physical and non-physical virtual sports,” according to…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureNew Battlefield Game Promised For Later This Year
Today, EA announced it’s working on two new Battlefield games and promised a console/PC release for later this year. “We have our biggest team ever on a Battlefield game for console and PC,” wrote DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson. “Together, we are creating a jaw-dropping experience for you to enjoy later in 2021.” Gabrielson said…
By Ash Parrish Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureBehold, A Little Pikachu Photo Printer From Nintendo And Fujifilm
Nintendo and Fujifilm have joined forces for a small printer called Instax Mini Link for Nintendo Switch Smartphone Printer. As PetaPixel and the official release explains, the printer makes it possible to print out in-game images, and is based on Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Link smartphone printer, but with added Switch-themed red-and-blue accents. There’s also a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 22, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanManga Artist Hiro Mashima Is Teaming Up With Square Enix For A Totally New RPG
Award-winning manga artist Hiro Mashima, best known for the smash hit Fairy Tail, is joining forces with Square Enix for an entirely new fantasy role-playing game called Gate of Nightmares for iOS and Android. Check out the debut trailer below: Mashima designed the characters and the game’s overall look, while Jin Fujisawa, a Dragon Quest…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 22, 2021 -
CultureThere’s A Full Console Port Of Virtua Fighter 5 Inside Yakuza
The Yakuza series has contained playable Sega minigames for a while now, from Outrun to Virtua On, but folks digging around in the code for Yakuza: Like A Dragon and Yakuza 6’s new PC release have found something a bit more substantial: basically the entire Xbox 360 version of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, which…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2021 -
ReviewsBoard GamesPlaying Pandemic Legacy In 2021 Was Not The Best Time
As life in Australia slowly settles back into something resembling normality—at least for now—after everything that happened in 2020, my board game crew have been finding our feet again and getting back into regular sessions. First up for 2021 was a long-overdue run through Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, which…may not have been the best idea.…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2021 -
CultureResident Evil 4 Now Has Dual-Wielding In VR
During today’s Oculus Gaming Showcase, executive producer Ruth Bram shared more information on the upcoming virtual reality port of Resident Evil 4 Resident Evil 4 on Oculus Quest 2, which is being developed by Armature Studio, shifts the classic survival horror game from the often-imitated, over-the-shoulder viewpoint of the original to a first-person perspective with…
By Ian Walker Published April 21, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsReturnal Feels Like An Actual PS5 Game
A busted spaceship. An uncharted exoplanet teeming with hostile life. An emphasis on scanning objects, upgrading equipment, and retracing your footsteps. Those might sound like core components of a new Metroid Prime, but they’re not, at least not in this case. They’re the ingredients of a riveting—if somewhat punishing—action game called Returnal, out next week…
By Ari Notis Published April 21, 2021 -
CultureTwitchFans Criticize Poor Timing Of In-Person Twitch Star Uno Tournament
Last night, esports and lifestyle organization 100 Thieves held an all-star streamer Uno tournament featuring Twitch and YouTube stars like Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, Ali “Myth” Kabbani, Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, Ludwig Ahgren, Hasan Piker, and the Botez sisters, whose otherworldly skill at chess sadly did not quite carry them to victory in a children’s card game.…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 21, 2021 -
CultureGameStop’s CEO Is Getting $179 Million For Quitting
In further proof that our current economic system is entirely fine and normal, GameStop CEO George Sherman—who is leaving his post in the Summer—will be getting $179 million. Just for quitting his job As Reuters reports, having crunched the numbers and gone over some of the company’s filings, GameStop probably thought they were doing a…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 21, 2021 -
CultureCall Of Duty: Warzone‘s Nukes Finally Went Off
Today, Call of Duty: Warzone’s long-teasedzombies and nuke event finally kicked off. A zombie-infested map led to a full-on kaboom that not only marked the end of Season Two, but the destruction of Verdansk. But we haven’t actually seen the last of Verdansk just yet: The nuke live event was just the beginning of Warzone’s…
By S.E. Doster Published April 21, 2021 -
ReviewsBacklogClock Tower Is Creepy As Hell For A Super Nintendo Game
I had one simple reason for playing 1995 survival horror classic Clock Tower decades after its original release: I didn’t want to be a poser anymore. Clock Tower first became a personal brain worm of mine thanks to an episode of GameCenter CX (which you can still check out right here on Kotaku). Watching comedian…
By Ian Walker Published April 21, 2021