Image: Riot Games Riot Games’ upcoming fighting game set in the world of League of Legends finally has a proper name and it’s um…2XKO. Yeah, that clears things right up. The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Mortal Kombat 1 Formerly known as Project L (y’know, in reference to [...]read moreRiot Games’ Project L Now Named 2XKO, Launching in 2025
Beleaguered electric trucking company Nikola has sold the Badger electric pickup truck assets it was once supposed to build with General Motors. The buyer? A new company called Embr Motors created by vehicle builder and television personality Dave “Heavy D” Sparks, one half of the former TV duo the Diesel Brothers. Embr now owns the [...]read moreNikola sells abandoned electric Badger pickup truck program to friend of disgraced founder Trevor Milton
Screenshot: Arrowhead / Kotaku A new Helldivers 2 patch, out now on PC and PS5, fixes some bugs and improves performance in the critically acclaimed and super popular third-person sci-fi shooter. But more importantly, it will kick AFK (away from keyboard) players after a set amount of time. The hope [...]read moreNew Helldivers 2 Patch Will Kick AFK Players Taking Up Space
Substack is updating its peer-to-peer recommendation system, the company announced today. With this new update, Substack is helping writers aid other writers in expanding their reach and potentially getting more subscribers and followers, as the company is now allowing writers to curate and share a list of publications for their readers to subscribe to. In [...]read moreSubstack now lets writers curate a ‘network’ of recommended publications for their subscribers
Cloud Strife, the broody protagonist of Final Fantasy VII and its remakes, has a pretty elaborate backstory. He grew up in Nibelheim, went on to become a SOLDIER, and got mixed up with Sephiroth along the way. But after almost 30 years, we still don’t know who his father is. However, as Square Enix has [...]read moreFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth Book Drops A Big Clue About Cloud’s Dad
Google said Thursday it plans to roll out the SoundPod, its portable speaker designed to instantly validate and announce successful payments, to small merchants across India over the coming months. The Google Pay expansion in India, where the company is among the mobile payment market leaders, comes even as the firm phases out some of [...]read moreGoogle Pay takes its QR sound-box to small merchants in India after trial run
Mother 3 is one of those games everyone talks about but hardly anyone has played—and for a bummer reason. The 2006 Game Boy Advance RPG was never officially released outside of Japan (it’s called Earthbound everywhere else) so unless you imported it and understood Japanese, you couldn’t experience the famously elusive title. Creator Shigesato Itoi [...]read moreIf You Want Mother 3 In English, Hit Up Nintendo, Creator Says
The NFT space may be down substantially from all-time highs, but brands and loyalty programs looking to reach fans in new ways can still find value, said Steve Kaczynski, co-author of the book “The Everything Token” and community lead for Starbucks Odyssey. “Brand anchors” to gated areas like reward programs is something that companies will [...]read moreStarbucks Odyssey’s community lead sees NFTs as the best way to build brand loyalty
Obsidian Entertainment, the developer responsible for sprawling RPGs likeFallout: New Vegas, released its medieval murder mystery title Pentiment in November 2022. A smaller and more reserved title compared to the rest of Obsidian’s catalog, and an expertly written story that offers the player choices in how they navigate an intricately designed Bavarian town and the [...]read morePentiment Is On PS5 And Switch, Now You Have To Play It
After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Kristine Locker finally decided to launch a social shopping platform (which she named after herself) that could take her endless tabs and organize them into a shareable, virtual wish list all in one [...]read moreLocker organizes your shopping links into virtual wish lists and collages