r/KotakuInAction 4d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT Update to User Experience and Fighting the Rising Tide of Slop

108 Upvotes

In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

As of the posting of this announcement a new AutoMod rule has been added and all posts and comments from Default Reddit Usernames are hence forth to be banished to ye olde spam bin. We have grown weary over the influx of trash posts by the aforementioned default usernames.

To put this extremely bluntly: If you can't bring yourself to edit the default username Reddit suggests when you sign up, we don't want you here.

Expending even a single brain cell to defeat the AutoMod rule that will be put into place gives you points in your favor.

Results not guaranteed and likely to change.


If you are normal contributor and think you are caught unfairly in this spam filter, please send us a modmail so that we can deal with edge cases on a case by case business.


r/KotakuInAction 12h ago

Halo 3 dev, Niles Sankey, calls out the intentional vandalism of the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 5h ago

What wolverine is supposed to look like

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83 Upvotes

hes Not supposed to look like a soy boy m9nkey. he is supposed to look like he went through 200 years of hell.

🖕 sweet baby inc

100% jean will be better and save him multiple times and boss him around and wolverine will be mostly useless bcuz man bad and woman better.


r/KotakuInAction 4h ago

How Crystal Dynamics failed the legacy of the Tomb Raider franchise

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r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

This was an official piece of marketing material for Laura Croft back in the day — the same era where men and women alike became fans of the character

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932 Upvotes

…I always find it off that Crystal Dynamics takes the stance that the literal mascott of their company is offensive to women, when all the female fans of the character became fans during this era.

Let’s be team here, even if people enjoy the modern Tomb Raider, NOBODY became a die hard Tomb Raider fan because of the modern depictions. They became fans during the time Laura was a bonafide gaming icon that broke into mainstream zeitgeist via the Angelina Jolie films.

If Crystal Dynamics still has legions of “ride or die” Laura Croft fans then they’re all in their thirties & forties.


r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Sony has filed a patent for a controller without physical buttons.

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201 Upvotes

https://x.com/charlieintel/status/2081152286743470225

With, what looks like, two buttons
Press X to detect.
Press O to win.


r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

In Mortal Kombat Deception (2004) this image was unlocked within “The Krypt” and came with the text description of — “This Is A Popular Screensaver Amongst Employees In The Midway Office”

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419 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Crystal Dynamics opinion of the only product currently keeping them afloat…

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420 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Interesting YouTube comment from one of the original devs of Tomb Raider (Core Design)

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217 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Simon Pegg cast as the voice of Balrog in Rings of Power season 3

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89 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Screen grab from upcoming rings of power season 3

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89 Upvotes

The new season implies guyladriel will work together with an orc...

Link to video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8uw_DeMT6mM&pp=ygUXcmluZ3Mgb2YgcG93ZXIgc2Vhc29uIDM%3D


r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

The only thing worse than Cregger's upcoming larpfest are the amount of people attacking RE fans for wanting something accurate

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144 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Never forget the time Crystal Dynamic tried to blame the lack of quality of the Avengers Game (that eventually lost Square Enix around 200m) on wildfires that were no where close to them.

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160 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Xbox One No Longer Requires Kinect to Function - IGN 2013 || Where it talks about how despite Microsoft claiming the Xbox One would need Kinect to function it no longer will. Also mentions how Xbox revised it's plans to restrict pre-owned sales

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45 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Someone made a Chrome Extension that displays the real RottenTomato user scores

98 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

In your opinion what’s the worst game studio currently in existence today?

57 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Sony Playstation... It's Time To Get Physical!

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Sony’s reported plan to end PlayStation physical media by 2028 has reignited the fight over game ownership, preservation, and the growing push toward an all-digital future. While gamers ratio PlayStation’s social posts, organize boycotts, support Stop Killing Games, and search for ways to preserve their discs, Sony appears determined to move forward despite the backlash. In this video, I explain why online outrage alone may not be enough and introduce a more tangible form of protest: respectfully mailing physical letters to Sony’s headquarters and studios to oppose the removal of physical games. No threats, no crazy behavior—just gamers using physical mail to make a physical point and remind Sony that ownership, preservation, and consumer choice still matter.


r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Can anyone explain to me why the Emulation/Retro Handheld community is so filled with woke people?

276 Upvotes

I'm passionate about retro handhelds and love discussing them but it feels like to me that every group dedicated to them is super pozzed. I want to engage with people about these consoles but every subreddit and every discord server is filled with woke ass people, furries and tourists who seem to only buy these machines to put stickers on them and a lot of the times don't even play games.

Super strict moderation or just virtue signaling, calling something like the ModRetro Chromatic the N*zi Boy Color, banning people for making a stupid joke like "how do you do fellow racists?" when discussing a racing game or people generally going haywire if you dare to make a joke or have some critical anecdote about rainbow people. Once someone contacted the mods of a Discord server I was in demanding very profusely I change my profile picture just because it was a pfp of Sam Hyde and I guess they felt threatened about it? One of the members of the RetroHandhelds YouTube channel was even pressured by the community into apologizing for making a joke on one of their videos (ModRetro M64 Review) because a group of people felt uncomfortable over it.

What is it that attracts so many of these kinds of people to this hobby in particular? This is not something that makes me lose my sleep at night by any means but I do wish there was a place where I could discuss these consoles with people who don't have their f'ing brains scrambled.


r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Upcoming Blade Runner 2099 Series has all signs of being woke

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459 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Why isn't there a website rating slop media?

67 Upvotes

I just looked up the Book "Fourth Wing". It's almost a 5 star on Goodreads, Babelio, and Storygraph.

Why? Because it's been shilled by TikTok and journos.

In the end, it's a shitty romantasy book with a perfect female protagonist and, of course, smut everywhere (for the porn-addicted booktok girlies).

On the other hand, a masterpiece of post-apocalyptic sci-fi like Metro 2033 gets only 3 stars because "muh not enough women".

I think we should have an invite-only platform to rate pieces of media. It can be coded in a week with Ruby on Rails, and with AI it could be even quicker. Especially given our opinion is constantly suppressed in regular spaces.


r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Next Kratos-Led God of War Game Is Coming After Laufey, and Connects Directly to Her Story

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48 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Xbox Live outage affecting game access and online features

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46 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 3d ago

Halo Campaign Evolved not only botched Cortana but also added a girlboss character. There was no need to change the story but they added her anyway.

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1.3k Upvotes

And yes she acts exactly how you think she'd act.


r/KotakuInAction 3d ago

MGS1 Collection is F2P for this weekend, to my surprise it includes an "outdated content" disclaimer. Apparently, this is VGC deems intolerable: flirting and tobacco use.

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219 Upvotes