The moment Kirby sucked up a car in the latest Nintendo Direct, things changed. The internet is now filled with countless memes starring Carby—the name of Kirby when they have a giant car in their mouth. So it’s not surprising that after only a few days, someone has brought Carby into Mario Kart 8 via ...
image: Nintendo/Mario Wiki/Wikimedia Commons/Kotaku Recently indicated Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser has been handed a 40-month prison sentence by the US District Court for the Western District of Washington for creating and selling “console-hacking software and devices used to play pirated Nintendo Switch games.” This is according to a victory lap-style press release published by Nintendo ...
Ben Palmer is invited to the cookout. Screenshot: Meta / Kotaku It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done ...
Screenshot: 343 Industries On unrewarding battle pass. Big Team Battle. The freakin’ mangler. Halo Infinite‘s most hardcore fans have long had minor gripes with the shooter, but here’s a new one: cross-promotional tie-ins. Some players say they recently bought beauty products solely for the purpose of scoring cosmetics for use in Halo Infinite. Instead, they ...
image: Nintendo / Kotaku The US government suggested to a federal judge on Thursday that Nintendo hacker and modder Gary Bowser receive five years in prison after he pled guilty to two charges involving the selling and creation of mod chips that could allow people to play pirated games on their Nintendo Switch. As spotted ...
Yep, that’s the Nintendo logo.photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP (Getty Images) while Xbox other Sony are entering an acquisition arms race, Nintendo isn’t so eager to snap up a slew of game studios. IAt a recent investors’ meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about acquiring game companies—a timely question for sure. “Our brand was built upon ...
Zombies! Love them or hate them, they’re still a huge part of pop culture. And later this week the next big zombie game, dying light 2releases for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. I was a big, big fan of the original game when it came out in 2015. The mix of parkour and first person melee ...
photo: Christian Peterson (Getty Images) Thanks to an investigation into online gaming subscriptions by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft will soon improve the ways in which its Xbox Game Pass service handles auto-renewal, refunds, and inactive memberships. (h/d PC gamers) Perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Microsoft will no longer continue ...
image: House brand / Sony Ever since Microsoft announced it would buy Activision Blizzard biggest gaming deal ever, Sony fans were keen to see the PS5 maker react somehow, as if the console giant had “big news” stored away in a t-shirt cannon, ready to be hurled into the starving crowd in no time. But ...
image: The Pokémon Company / Nintendo Pokémon Legends: Arceus is almost there. The next big entry in the franchise, set in the past, is coming to Nintendo Switch on January 28th. This week is pretty empty for me as I don’t care much about it Pokemon or Serious Sams latest spin off. So I’m going ...
