Image: Natural Selection 2 So many online games have shut down so far in 2023 that we’ve already had to do a roundup, and it’s only February. Which means loads more are going to meet similar fates over the next 10 months, and the next two to meet their demise are Natural Selection 2 and
Image: Valve It was pretty cool last week when Valve, developers of the ancient Team Fortress 2, said that the game was getting “a full-on update-sized update”. It is less cool a week later to find that the company has edited that announcement post in an attempt to pump everyone’s brakes. You can’t blame folks
Screenshot: PlayerFirst Games MultiVersus, Warner Bros. popular online fighting game that made the phrase “LeBron James frame data” a real thing you can say, has experienced a significant drop in its daily player count on Steam. According to SteamDB, the number of folks playing MultiVersus simultaneously has gone from its peak of 153,433 concurrent players
Image: Toaplan / Kotaku / eveleen (Shutterstock) Toaplan’s Zero Wing is the game that spawned the classic (ancient, even) meme of “All your base are belong to us.” And it’s now out on Steam, easily accessible on modern hardware. As you might expect, the game’s store page references the beloved memes Zero Wing spawned decades
Guess you could say TDM was Apex Legends’ lifeline. 👈(ﾟヮﾟ👈)Illustration: Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment) Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam. As of today, Apex Legends’ new peak for the number of people playing simultaneously is
Image: PuppyHexy / VRChat / Kotaku An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.” In online VR games like VRChat, players can
Image: Riot Forge / Digital Sun / Kotaku Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night shouting “no more kings, no more queens, no more mageseekers!”? If so, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story aims to satisfy that sudden midnight urge to violently alter the political landscape of a
Image: Blizzard A Reddit user recently posted a brief, bombshell documentation of how they accomplished something they claim has never been done before: arrive at World of Warcraft’s newbie starting area, Exile’s Reach, at the highest possible character level 70. Initially noticed by Games Radar, user Cheatcho’s post is happy confirmation that anything is possible,
Image: Mundfish / Kotaku The composer for Doom and Wolfenstein II recently announced that he would be donating the fee from his work on Atomic Heart to the Ukraine Crisis Appeal of the Australian Red Cross. This decision comes weeks after the studio Mundfish was embroiled in controversy over its connections to Russia. Yesterday, Mick
Crunchyroll / CloverWorks / Wit Studio Release Year: 2022 Genre: Action, Comedy Studio: CloverWorks, Wit Studio Where To Watch: Crunchyroll, Hulu Why It Rocks: Spy x Family took the anime community by storm the moment it premiered last spring, and for good reason. The show’s titular family is comprised of Loid Forger, a suave super