Screenshot: 343 Industries For years, the teabag has been the go-to competitive Halo taunt: you can condense an entire victory speech within a few seconds. You’ve likely experiencedif not doled out, a teabag at some point while playing Halo Infinite. Possibly you’ve even bought the teabag gun charm for some extra burn. But I’ve noticed ...
Pokemon games are famous for basing regions on real-world locations. The Hisui Region in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, for example, was based on Hokkaido. But the setting is not the only thing the game appears to borrow. As noted on 2ch, Japan’s most popular bulletin board, the way that traveling merchant Volo throws a Poké Ball ...
Screenshot: The Pokemon Company / Kotaku Game Freak’s first stab at a semi-open world Pokemon game is quite good. In some ways it’s shockingly so. How do I know this? In part because I and a bunch of other players got immediately hooked on Pokemon Legends: Arceus‘First area and wasted hour after hour there doing ...
image: Devang Thakkar / Kotaku The magic behind Wordle is, of course, that there’s only one puzzle a day. Combined with the ease with which players can paste their spoiler-free results to social media and group chats, it’s that the whole world is all playing the same puzzle, the same day, that makes it so ...
Screenshot: Battlefield 2042 It was only earlier this week that we were reporting that Battlefield 2042’s first major content updates won’t be out for months. Now the smaller updates are being pushed back as well. “We’ve had to make some big decisions to ensure that our next set of updates can be focused on delivering ...
For the last few years, a Guitar Hero player called Schmooey was widely believed to be the best in the world, having racked up achievements and displayed feats that other players thought impossible. A discovery made last yearhowever, shows there was a very good reason for that. In a detailed 27-minute report, Karl Jobst explains ...
image: Rocksteady Games Your calendar is not lying, it’s only the first week of February, but according to reports Warner Bros. have decided to get in early and kick the upcoming Suicide Squad game all the way into 2023. As reported by Bloomberg ahead of a more formal announcementthe game was originally supposed to be ...
image: blizzard Since 2004, World of Warcraft Players were asked to choose a faction and race with it. If you were Horde and your best friend Alliance, your options for doing things in the game were virtually nil, making for a thematically strong experience, but also one that might kind of suck if family and ...
photo: OnlyPhoto (Getty Images) The New York Times just announced that it has bought Wordle, the surprise smash-hit word-guessing game that has taken over people’s browsers (and twitter feeds) for the last month“for a price”in the low seven figures”. The paper’s announcement says the acquisition is part of its digital subscription growth strategy, with its ...
image: BySoftware We’re less than a month away from that release of elden ring. Some are already planning to step away from work to play it. Others plan to go off the internet to avoid another likely round Discourse on game difficulties. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki has addressed the issue in a new interview, saying that ...
