GameStop's New Billionaire Boss Calls For 'Extreme Frugality' In Email To Staff
29.9.2023
After years of pulling the strings from behind the scenes, GameStop chairman and billionaire Chewy founder Ryan Cohen appointed himself CEO of the ailing video game store on Thursday. His first email to staff, obtained by Kotaku, called for “extreme frugality” and said “time wasters” would not...
Nového Painkillera tu nehledejte. První dojmy z hraní Witchfire
29.9.2023
Do předběžného přístupu vstupuje dlouho očekávaný polský projekt Witchfire. Na svého duchovního předchůdce ovšem moc nenavazuje. Připravte se na divokou směsici žánrů, která nemusejí každému sednout
Roky potlačovaná nenávist k doktorovi v Cyberpunku se díky updatu uvolnila
29.9.2023
Obrovský update hry Cyberpunk 2077 na verzi 2.0 přinesl hráčům bezpočet vylepšení, virtuálnímu lékaři Prsťákovi však značně zkomplikoval život. Hráči už nejsou nadále trestáni za to, že vůči němu použijí násilí, a ti se mu teď ve velkém mstí kvůli tomu, že způsobil smrt oblíbené postavy
Someone Turned Starfield’s Lockpicking Into Its Own Game
28.9.2023
Released earlier this month, Starfield is Bethesda’s long-in-development and much-hyped open-world space RPG. And while the hundreds of planets and spaceship building are cool and all, I particularly enjoy Starfield’s fantastic lockpicking minigame. Apparently I’m not alone, because someone...
Beloved Battle Royale Fall Guys Among Those Hit By Epic Games Layoffs
28.9.2023
Epic Games acquired Mediatonic in 2021 after its colorful battle royale, Fall Guys, became a multiplayer sensation early in the covid-19 pandemic. Now, it’s laying off tons of developers at the UK-based studio as part massive cost cutting at the Fortnite maker. Read more
Revisiting Konami’s Messy, Misguided Saw Games On The Eve Of Saw X
28.9.2023
I’m seeing Saw X tonight. The ever-wearier death game horror movie franchise has been toying with soft reboots since 2017’s Jigsaw and 2021’s Chris Rock-led Spiral, but neither really got the series back off the ground. Saw X is a prequel injected between the 2004 original and its 2005 sequel,...
Starfield: The Kotaku Review
28.9.2023
As my spaceship emerges from interstellar travel to orbit a once-distant alien world, I know that once I’m down on its surface, it won’t feel like a world at all. Instead, what Starfield will give me is a series of zones, awkwardly stitched together in a way that makes it hard to pretend they make...
Check Out This Ridiculous 89-hit Mortal Kombat 1 Combo
28.9.2023
Pro Mortal Kombat player Jarrad Gooden, or NinjaKilla212, demonstrated how absurd Mortal Kombat 1 combos can get by throwing demon warrior Baraka for nearly a full minute. Though the game was only just globally released on September 19, Gooden represents a committed number of players already trying...
Cocoon: The Kotaku Review
28.9.2023
There was a moment near the end of Cocoon when my brain could not keep up with the game. Like being curled up in a wave and then flipped head over heels against the surf, my mind sluggishly tried to work backwards what precisely had just occurred. Where did I just come from? How did I get here?...
Collectible Maker Claims Sony Suddenly Ordered Destruction Of Playstation Merchandise
28.9.2023
A video game-themed collectible storefront claims Sony ordered it to destroy all of its licensed PlayStation-themed merchandise, chief among them being statues based on The Last Of Us Part II, God of War, and Bloodborne.Read more
Sega Cancels Hyenas And Other Unannounced Games, Creative Assembly Facing Layoffs
28.9.2023
Sega has canceled the yet-to-be-released Hyenas, an extraction shooter set in space that was in development at Total War and Alien Isolation studio Creative Assembly. The publisher also canceled several other, unannounced games as part of “structural reforms” across its European operations. Read...
Watch A Billionaire Try To Play D&D With AI Snoop Dogg
28.9.2023
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a suite of AI-based chatbots, including one that portrays rapper Snoop Dogg as a role-playing game Dungeon Master, during the Meta Connect 2023 Keynote on September 27. Each of Meta’s 28 new bots (which are not yet available to the public) is a curated character represented...