This Week In The Business: The Customer Is Always Right?

QUOTE | “We try to remove ego from the equation completely on our side. We’re not going to make something because it’s something we like, or we want. Those words don’t mean anything to us.” – Frostkeep co-founder Jeremy Wood says if Rend’s players and developers want different things, the developers are probably wrong QUOTE…

World Of Warcraft Players Are Removing Pieces Of Armor To Protest Recent Plot Developments

Despite being the leader of World of Warcraft’s Horde, Sylvanas is currently on Horde players’ shit list. The reason? Earlier this week, she did too big of a murder. Now another major Horde character has turned against her, and players are demonstrating in-game to show solidarity. In a cinematic released yesterday, legendary Horde warrior Varok…

Valve Finally Confirms Dota 2’s Latest Loot Box Was Bugged

After days of players complaining of a rare item not dropping in Dota 2’s latest loot box, Valve put out a statement overnight confirming that they were right: Theories that the loot box was bugged weren’t sour grapes, but actually true. On July 31, Valve released “Immortal Treasure III,” the newest Dota 2 loot box…

Black Ops 4‘s Beta Is Fast-Paced, Frantic Fun

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now in closed beta for PlayStation 4, and it’s an addictive, fast-paced, fresh change to the formula. 2016’s Infinite Warfare’s high-speed jetpacking catered to a newer generation of Call of Duty players but isolated many old school fans of boots-on-the-ground gameplay. 2017’s WWII brought the franchise back to…

The Weekend In Esports: Evo 2018, StarCraft II, And More

With the Overwatch League’s inaugural season firmly in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to move on to the fighting game world. This weekend’s Evo is the biggest tournament of the year, starring street fighters, smash brothers (and sisters) and a crap ton of Gokus Evo 2018 will be home to a number of heated rivalries…

Inspired By Her Game Dev Dad, 7-Year-Old Releases Her First Steam Game

Penny McDonald’s debut game, Answer The Question, released on Steam this week to unanimously positive reviews. Also, Penny is 7 years old. Penny’s illustrious game development career began last week, though she’s been playing games since she was a toddler. She was intrigued by the progress of an ongoing project by independent game developer Lance…

I’m Back

Back in March I suffered a devastating injury and was rushed to the hospital for emergency open heart surgery. Since then I’ve spent every waking hour working my way back to you folks. Hi. As our Editor-In-Chief documented in an April post filled with comments I cannot read without tearing up, on March 22 I…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for going to the botanical garden near my house to admire all the cool plants I would probably kill if I owned them. Also, video games. I bought Battle Chef Brigade a few weeks ago when I was thinking about cooking but didn’t have any food in the house. I got a…

Four Years Later, Players Found A Metroid Hidden In Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze

There’s a metroid in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and someone finally found it. The search took four years, but it turns out it’s actually not that hard to find once you know where to look. Players have long suspected there might be more Metroid-themed easter eggs hiding out in Tropical Freeze after seeing Samus’…

No Man’s Sky Bug Causes Ships To Shoot Themselves

In a game as big and complex as No Man’s Sky, some things are bound to go wrong. Some players in this vast virtual universe have been running into an unusual problem: their ships appear to be shooting themselves. Players on the No Man’s Sky subreddit have been noting the bug since the release of…

Actually, Hollow Knight‘s Tough Platforming Is Fantastic

It’s not every day you get assigned to write an article about how your boss is completely wrong, but this morning during one of our many discussions about the fantastic game Hollow Knight, Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo told me to write [Editor’s note: suggested you write] about how wrong he is about the nails-tough platforming…

Here’s a shot of ship customization in October’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, as briefly shown in the game’s new behind-the-scenes Facebook video series. Note the slots for crew recruitment, a feature Ubisoft has said is tied to the ability to recruit most non-player characters in the game.

Epic Will Keep Fortnite Off Google’s Store To Make More Money

Epic Games has confirmed that when Fortnite Battle Royale releases on Android phones it won’t be sold through the Google Play store. In an email to The Verge, CEO Tim Sweeney said this was in part to avoid the 30% cut Google takes on in-app purchases for games sold through its storefront. “The 30 percent…

Collegiate Esports Is Uncharted Territory, So Smaller Schools Are Staking Their Claim

In the past five years, collegiate esports programs have been popping up at schools all over America, and these programs have also become a way for smaller schools to stand out from the pack. SUNY Canton, a state college in the upper tip of New York half an hour from the Canadian border, announced its…

First Look At The New Code Geass Animated Movie

Next February, a new Code Geass anime feature will be released in Japanese movie theaters. It’s called Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection As pointed out on My Game News Flash, it was revealed in a live stream that this is an entirely new work. The movie takes place after Code Geass: Lelouch of the…

South Korean Webcomic Accused Of Copying From Famed Manga

Online in South Korea, fans noticed that two panels in Kim Song-mo’s latest manhwa, the webcomic A Record of a High School Life, looked familiar. Comparisons of the panels appeared to show the drawings seemed to mirror art from manga Slam Dunk, which ran from 1990 to 1996. (Of course, Slam Dunk’s manga artist Takehiko…

Sega Is Making Edible Logos And Selling Them In Japan

Earlier this year, Sega launched its own taiyaki stand. Taiyaki is a classic Japanese fish-shaped snack typically filled with sweet red bean paste or custard cream. Screw fish, Sega is going to sell ones shaped like its logo. As previously posted, Sega’s taiyaki stall is located in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro and is called “Sega no Taiyaki”…

Senran Kagura Press Conference Removed From YouTube For Sexual Content

Yesterday, a press conference was streamed live online for the Senran Kagura series. It was too lewd for YouTube. Note: The article contains NSFW content. According to Hachima, YouTube has removed the stream It doesn’t appear that game publisher Marvelous was banned from the site, because its account is currently active. Also, previously uploaded Senran…