Photo: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) Those well-versed in their Metal Gear Solid trivia will know that the original ending for Metal Gear Solid 2 was changed before release. Scenes involving a massive ship crashing into Manhattan island were a bit too much in a very young post-9/11 world, with images and videos of planes striking
Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) Last month, the legendary co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog was arrested for allegedly purchasing shares in a development studio before its involvement in a Dragon Quest game was announced. A month later, he was arrested a second time for reportedly buying stock in a company that was set to work
Screenshot: Squanch Games Have you ever found yourself paying for over-salted food and overpriced drinks at an Applebee’s and thought: “What if I just stayed here…forever?” Well, a bug making the rounds in the Rick and Morty-adjacent shooter High On Life is allowing such a macabre fantasy to come true. Released earlier this month on
Image: Respawn Entertainment / EA Respawn’s excellent action-adventure adaptation Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order leads another loaded month of free games for the cheapest tier of Sony’s PlayStation Plus subscription service. This is great news for everyone who still needs to finish it ahead of Jedi: Survivor’s launch in March. It’s less great news for
Image: Team OFK / Kotaku Wow, it’s the end of 2022 already? Maybe this is always the case, but the first half of the year felt so slow, it felt like this year would never end.. However, once August rolled around, I swear I blinked and it was December. Where’d the time go? Anyway, in
Screenshot: Pokimane / Kotaku One of the biggest female streamers on Twitch wants to take a harder stance on revenge porn—nude photos that are posted online without their owners’ consent. Imane “Pokimane” Anys said in a recent Twitch stream that it should be “illegal” to possess nudes without their owners’ consent, and that she wanted
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Screenshot: Avalanche Software The Harry Potter books, and the universe they spawned, are beloved by millions. It’s so unfortunate, then, that the franchise’s creator, author J.K. Rowling, has repeatedly proven herself to be the worst kind of anti-transgender bigot. That bigotry is in the spotlight once again as the big-ticket Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy
Image: FromSoftware / Bandai Namco 2022 was truly the year of Elden Ring, with FromSoftware’s latest game exploding into the mainstream unlike anything it had previously created. As such, a lot of people played and finished Elden Ring. In fact, according to one set of data, Elden Ring was the most completed game of 2022.
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