Author: Darren Jones

A metaverse filled with digital worlds and avatars might be coming someday, but it won’t be cheap. Facebook parent company Meta has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and it shows that this year alone, the company’s virtual reality-focused department has lost $2.96 billion so far. This…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest update saw Square Enix give serious players a new “ultimate” raid to conquer. The last few days have been a whirlwind as groups try to be the first to complete the raid, known as Dragonsong’s Reprise, and new developments concerning the potential revival of a dearly departed ally have only…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

The Last of Us Part II’s biggest badass is so tough even guns can’t kill her. That’s at least according to the U.K.-based modder Speclizer, who used mods to experiment with various ways of breaking Naughty Dog’s PlayStation 4 swansong in order to put some longstanding player-held “myths” to the test.Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

Let’s just get the easy, obvious joke out of the way now: Reggie’s body is ready for the blockchain. Very funny, moving on…But yes, apparently the former Nintendo of America COO and president is a fan of blockchain technology and play-to-own games, with the caveat that it “makes sense for the player.”Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

Shareholders at Call of Duty and Overwatch 2 publisher Activision Blizzard voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a $69 billion sale to tech giant Microsoft. The deal gives golden parachutes to top execs at Activision, including embattled CEO Bobby Kotick. But despite gaming’s biggest acquisition ever moving one…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

Ch-Ching! For Borderlands fans, that noise sets off an almost pavlovian response. A legendary gun has dropped. You’ve gotta be the first to get it. You heard that noise all the damn time in Borderlands 3. If you’ve been messing around in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, you may feel like it happens less. According to the…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

Call of Duty: Vanguard has added a new tool to its arsenal of methods for trying to humiliate cheaters. The online shooter’s anti-cheat tech now includes a new “mitigation technique” called Cloaking that will make everyone but the cheater invisible, a punishment worthy of Black Mirror.Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

A good scary game is often a thrilling experience. And if you are currently a Game Pass subscriber and in the mood to play something terrifying, creepy, or just downright spooky you already have access to some fantastic horror games for no additional cost. This is nice, because the only thing scarier than deadly…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

The review embargo for Nintendo Switch Sports has lifted ahead of its April 29 launch, and critics’ impression is that the sports game is a spiritual return to Nintendo’s remote-waggling classic Wii Sports. Its predecessor was a cultural phenomenon, so the Switch version has massive shoes to fill. Is it more…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

We’ve entered the timeline where the world’s richest troll, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has bought Twitter. The deal, which ran him a cool $44 billion, will pretty much give the tech bro free rein over the Bird App. Now, he can “authenticate all humans” like he intends to, pushing us ever closer to our seemingly inevitable…Read more… Source – kotaku.com All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.