Image: Meta / Kotaku Earlier this week would be a celebratory time for the folks at Meta, as the reality-devouring project Horizon Worlds was now available in more countries. The occasion was marked by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself who posted a “selfie” of his in-game avatar in front of a digital Eiffel Tower. Sounds …
Screenshot: Warner Bros. Last month’s best-selling video game was a free-to-play fighter from a company on the move. Yes, MultiVersusalso known as Super Warner Bros. meleeat the top of the sales charts for July 2022, according to data tracking company NPD. Released last month after an open beta period, MultiVersus is a platform fighter in …
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Screenshot: 505 games In a very peculiar state of affairs, exclusive to the PlayStation console, Death Stranding, coming to Microsoft’s PC Game Pass. Subscribers to the latter service will soon be able to fall on a hill at no extra cost. The news was announced by Microsoft through a nice tweetfeaturing a Sam “Porter Bridges”-a-like …
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Image: Pristine Islands In 2021, at the height of the world’s collective blockchain craze, a video game called Untamed Islands – Pokemon, but with crypto stuff—over $500,000 earned on Kickstarter. A year later, the game is practically dead and so broken that it can’t even repay its backers. In a message on the game’s Steam …
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Image: Lord of the Rings The Embracer Group, which slowly buy every video game publisher and studio on the markethave just announced that they have acquired Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that owns the large and small screen rights to most of JRR Tolkien’s major works, including Lord of the Rings and the hobbit. Some background …
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Image: Bethesda / Kotaku / Fedorovekba (Shutterstock) As you may know, Bethesda’s mega-popular RPG series precipitation going to a TV series. This is top of mind again because new pictures of the set of the upcoming post-nuclear Amazon adjustment leaked somewhere in the past 24 hours. Live-action video game adaptations are getting pretty good these …
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poison: id Software / Cheello / Kotaku Save it under “mods you probably thought already existed.” Of Voxel Doomyou can now play the legendary 1993 first person shooter demise with all monsters and items rendered in beautifully thick 3D voxels. While smaller voxel mods existed in the past, this one replaces just about all of …
Image: Meta / Kotaku “Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the past two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain help power the metaverse. Could be cows will even be part of it? However, no one seems more invested in shaping our collective idea of what the metaverse is than …
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Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy XVI‘s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of Final Fantasy. In a recent interview with Inversehe said the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to the changes in the game industry. “As for whether Final Fantasy is successfully adapting to industry trends, I believe the …
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Screenshot: insomnia games On August 15, “Mike Hawk” (his words, not mine) uploaded a Spider-Man Remastered change to Nexus Mods who “replace the artifacts of Newton’s Prism with the stars and stripes,” according to the description. But the mod, secretly dubbed “Non-Newtonian New York,” wasn’t the work of a rogue Isaac Newton hater who traveled …
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