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Heartopia has officially shared initial details about its first-ever collaboration event. The game, which launched a month ago to great success on mobile, as well as Steam on PC, has already been a staple among fans of Animal Crossing and The Sims. Things are kicking into gear, it seems, because the game is already about to host its first collaboration event, and it is with My Little Pony. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The Heartopia X My Little Pony event officially begins on February 14, but a pre-launch login event is now live through…

The Poké Court, a local Pokémon card and collector’s shop in Manhattan, was robbed at gunpoint back in January. Armed burglars showed up and terrorized guests during the middle of a crowded event. As traumatic as it was, the employees told Kotaku that the broader Pokémon community showed up to support them. Bust as word spread, Nintendo was apparently made aware of the store has since reached out to the owners to…ask them to change their branding. The shop posted on its Instagram account that Nintendo reached out with “concerns” about its name and logo, which included the iconic red-and-white…

It’s no secret that Highguard had a seriously rocky launch. What had been a secret — until today — is where the struggling “raid shooter” got its funding. The game’s developer and publisher, Wildlight Entertainment, has repeatedly referred to the game as “fully funded,” but never disclosed that a majority of that funding came from China’s gaming powerhouse Tencent. According to anonymous sources who spoke to GameFile journalist Stephen Totilo, Tencent was the game’s biggest financial backer. Tencent is the world’s largest video game company, with a massive investment portfolio including games like PUBG Mobile and League of Legends. It…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood was one sour batch of sauerkraut. Marinated in a noxious and ill-fitting live-service-adjacent brine, this troubled spin-off (and the mediocre virtual reality title it launched alongside) left a bad taste that has lingered for almost seven years. Developer MachineGames’ adventures with another famous Nazi-killer and increasingly longer AAA development cycles have meant Youngblood’s aftertaste has stuck around longer than it should have.This drought is reportedly almost over, though, since reports forecast the streets will once again run red with Nazi blood sometime soon in a new Wolfenstein game, further backing up light teases from the MachineGames team itself.…

Love and Deepspace has kicked off the next big in-game moment and is celebrating Chinese New Year with the arrival of a new 5-Star Memory Series. This year’s spring-themed banner is available now until February 27, and it comes with a host of events. The Mortality’s Tenderness banner features five new limited-time 5-Star Memories, one each for the game’s five love interests. The theme is all about warmth, reunion, and intimacy, taking place in a Wuxia-inspired setting that’s once again an alternate universe from the main story of the game. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie…

People started noticing last week that the Steam Deck was becoming impossible to buy. Valve declined to comment on the situation at the time but has now updated the PC gaming handheld’s store page to note that, yes, the Steam Deck is currently out of stock and will remain that way from time to time for the foreseeable future due to the AI-fueled memory crisis currently threatening every piece of the economy that relies on computers to run. “Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages,” reads the new disclaimer. “Steam…

On a semi-regular basis, a discussion prompt resurfaces on various social networks that amounts to this question: What movie or book would you like to see adapted with Muppets replacing all of the humans except one? (Frequent follow-up question: And why is it Knives Out?) Brian Henson, the director of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island, should take that as a high compliment to his work. The ubiquity of the prompt speaks to how heavily his two Muppet movies loom over the characters’ history, even 30 years after the release of Treasure Island — even if the latter…

Ubisoft has released its roadmap for Assassin’s Creed Shadows through to the end of March, showing off the game’s next title update, a parkour challenge for players to compete in, and a release date for the game’s DLC on Switch 2.The game’s next title update lands on February 17–that’s tomorrow–and will introduce three new additions to the game, all of them significant in their own way. The first is a detailed stats page, which can be accessed from the inventory, which will let you dig into all the stats relating to your loadout at a micro level. If you want…

Blizzard has recently been celebrating its major running games by hosting big livestreams to reveal some major changes, and it’s now Diablo’s turn. The Diablo series is 30 years-old, so this all just ties in nicely with some of the reveals planned for tonight’s showcase. The Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight is set to kick off today at 2pm PT, 5pm ET, 10pm GMT. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings The biggest reason why you might want to tune in is, of course, that a whole chunk of the event will focus on Diablo 4. Blizzard…

Given the current extended wave of Pokémon card lunacy began with Logan Paul in 2020, perhaps this weekend’s sale of the YouTuber’s Illustrator Pikachu card for a completely deranged $16.49 million could be the end of it? Bookend this nonsense with the same awful man. Logan Paul’s Illustrator Pikachu is without doubt one of the rarest Pokémon cards in existence. The special card, created in 1997 as part of an illustration contest in Japan, has a unique image of Pikachu with a paintbrush and saw only 41 printed. Of those, only one has ever been graded by PSA (a company…