Image: Bandai Namco We’ve all heard plenty of stories about poor working conditions for those in the video game industry – perhaps most recently with Team17 – so it’s lovely to see companies taking positive actions to improve the lives of the people who create the games we love. Bandai Namco has moved to increase ...
image: Bandai Namco Elden ring is currently one of the largest highly acclaimed games in recent times and also his fair share of problems on the computer and PS5. Recently, countless Xbox players have reported that they can no longer play the open-world role-playing game online since its launch yesterday. While the centerpiece of Elden ...
screenshot: By Software / Kotaku Early elden ring Players were shocked when an NPC in the closed network test referred to their character as a “bitplayer” who should “die in a ditch somewhere”. His blunt and direct hostility has been seen by some as the embodiment of souls-like genres of brutal difficulty, but I’m here ...
Image: Bandai Namco Bandai Namco ended its two-day ‘Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2022’ event with the release date reveal of Android 21 (Lab Coat) for Dragon Ball FighterZ. In case you missed it, she will arrive next week on February 24th. So what’s planned for this Dragon Ball game now that this character is ...
image: Retro Studios/Nintendo/Fox/Kotaku love Metroid, but being a longtime fan does weird things to you. Take, for example, the latest kerfuffle over Retro Studios updating its Twitter banner. Where a normal person might see a cool piece of Samus Aran concept art, the ravenous Metroid fan, their hunger unsatiated by Metroid Dreadimagines a portal hiding ...
image: FromSoftware / Bandai Namco All PC versions of the Dark Souls games will remain offline for the foreseeable future, according to a new tweet from series publisher Bandai Namco, in order to fix at least one major security vulnerability. Further, the developers are working to ensure that the same serious vulnerability does not persist ...
After 56 years, Sega’s arcade history is coming to a close. In fall 2020, Sega sold off 85 percent of its arcade business to Tokyo-based Genda. Now, the company has sold off its remaining stock, and Genda is removing the Sega name from arcades. In its place, Genda will use the “Gigo” name, which Sega ...
image: Arc System Works Even in a franchise as full of brilliant characters as Guilty Gear, Baiken rules. The fucked-up samurai, despite missing both an eye and an arm, is canonically one of the strongest people in the fighting game’s universe, and it’s hard not to be charmed by the brash swagger she brings to ...
Screenshot: Acid nerve / Kotaku Last year in the allocation my top 10 games of 2020I thought I was naughty. See, Hades, which was officially released on PC and Switch in September 2020 was so transcendent that I just had to give up all ten places. Supergiant’s ever-popular roguelike hit PlayStation and Xbox this year, ...
Image: Bandai Namco It appears Switch fans of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will have to wait a little bit longer for the free ‘Card Warriors’ game update. While it was scheduled to arrive on Nintendo’s hybrid platform before the end of this year, Bandai Namco has delayed it until 2022. In an update on the ...
