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McDonald’s running Pokémon promotions with its Happy Meals is no new phenomenon. Most years, the two corporations team up to include packs of McDonald’s-marked Pokémon TCG cards in the kids’ meals, and it generally proves very popular. But recently, something else has changed: over the last year, Pokémon cards have become outlandishly popular, to the point … Read more
Battlefield 6‘s open beta weekend drew in over a half a million people playing at the same time, smashing the all-time concurrent player record of Call of Duty. People, we have ourselves a good-old-fashioned FPS game-off. In these awful times, where ludicrous shareholder expectations and bigwig dividends drive publishers into wantonly firing hundreds of developers … Read more
If you’re after more evidence that this year’s Battlefield 6 launch is going to be one of the biggest ever for the series, the game’s beta has plenty to offer there. Over the weekend, the beta’s first open weekend took place, and it’s been dominating the charts on Steam. This comes just a day or … Read more
Summer is barreling to a close, and so is this week. Naturally, we here at Kotaku have yet another round of great games to suggest if you’re looking for some fun pixels to interact with on your time off. That is, if you’re not playing the Battlefield 6 open beta, which is having some cheating … Read more
Popular comedy streaming service and website Dropout, formerly known as College Humor, has become more and more famous online thanks in large part to its hit show Game Changer. The series, hosted by Dropout CEO Sam Reich, features comedians playing different, often complex, devious, and hilarious games each episode. It’s a great concept for a … Read more
Originally released as part of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, an augmented version of Snake Eater that hit PS2 the following year, Metal Gear Online was a strange beast. The online take on MGS’ stealth gameplay would receive a few other iterations, with one accompanying Metal Gear Solid 4, another a part of the PSP … Read more
A software engineer who goes by Desimulate on X recently posted a five-second clip of AI-generated pixel art that went viral. Think your favorite Instagram pixel artist recreating Daggerfall with wild parallax scrolling effects. It was such a hit on Elon Musk’s Grok-infested social media platform that Desimulate decided to try and actually make the … Read more
Battlefield 6‘s open beta launched less than 24 hours ago across consoles and PC. And already, there are numerous videos floating around that show players using cheating software that gives them an unfair advantage. This has led to a firestorm online as many PC players are upset about being forced to jump through hoops to … Read more
I had a good time with Doom: The Dark Ages this year. Maybe it even peaked at “great” a few times. I can’t say I remember much of the story, which was a major focus of this new Doom, but I did have a solid 20 or so hours blasting demons and cranking up the … Read more
The Witcher 3. It’s a decade old now. CD Projekt’s well on its way with The Witcher 4. However, in a really cool turn of events, the studio’s now realed it’ll be putting out one more patch for TW3 later this year, finally bringing mods for it to consoles. Yep, clearly CDPR didn’t get enough … Read more