New York Times Simulator Is A Gripping Exploration Of Modern Media Pitfalls
2.4.2024
The goal of The New York Times Simulator, a new, free game, is simple: keep readers happy and don’t get shut down. It’s a problem any modern media outlet knows well. But this new game doesn’t just make you any old journalist struggling to make a living in today’s fraught media landscape. No,...
How To Unlock Clive's Armor And Torgal From Final Fantasy 16 In FF14
2.4.2024
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest crossover event has begun and it’s with none other than last year’s action-RPG Final Fantasy XVI. That’s right, everyone’s favorite sad boy Clive Rosfield is making the jump to the MMO, which is ironically led by Final Fantasy 16’s producer Naoki Yoshida. Clive’s a...
Bloodborne Kart Returns Without The Bloodborne, Releases Soon
2.4.2024
After a brief pit stop to repair the tires Sony’s lawyers popped, the PS1-style racer Bloodborne Kart has returned with a new name and release date. While all the direct references to FromSoftware’s 2015 action RPG have been removed, the game still carries that essence through and through, proving...
Is This Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Detail An Oversight Or Incredible Foreshadowing?
2.4.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the second game in the trilogy of games reimagining the landmark 1997 RPG, and it spends a lot of its runtime setting up plotlines it will presumably wrap up in the third entry. Some of these are worldbuilding details, such as establishing the nation of Wutai as a major...
Xbox’s AI Chatbot Could Be Your Gaming Assistant
2.4.2024
Microsoft is working on an AI-powered chatbot that will provide support for Xbox and associated services, The Verge has confirmed. The news has prompted some to draw comparisons with Clippy, the talking paperclip who once helped users compose letters and perform other tasks in Microsoft Office....
Twitch Streamer Crashes Car While Streaming
2.4.2024
On April 1, Twitch streamer and content creator MeltIsLIVE, aka Melt, was involved in a car crash while driving and using his phone during an “in real life” (IRL) stream. While it appears nobody was seriously injured, Melt was seemingly banned from Twitch due to his behavior. Read more
Stardew Valley Mod Challenges Fans To Create Bagel With Nearly Every Food In The Game
2.4.2024
Between farming crops and picking up random doodads you find around the titular village in Stardew Valley, there are a lot of possible ingredients you can use to craft and cook new items. With this in mind, one modder has decided to challenge players of ConcernedApe’s farming sim RPG to create...
New Research Suggests Some Gamers' Eyes See More FPS
2.4.2024
Ever wondered how pro gamers get so, well, pro? Sure, it’s the hours of grinding and practicing, mastering a game’s systems and applying them in competitive situations. And yeah, it’s the hours of learning and studying, returning to a game’s roots and watching the players that came before....
Helldivers 2’s Robots Back With A Vengeance, Now Have Gunships And Walking Tanks
2.4.2024
War…war never changes…or at least that’s what some people say. They’d be wrong though, because in the case of the satirical co-op shooter Helldivers 2, war is frequently changing—often at the behest of the players—into a neverending nightmare. The war that players signed up for when Helldivers...
Hollow Knight Silksong’s April Fools’ Day Update Is Real
2.4.2024
This year, like every year, the gaming industry celebrated April Fools’ Day with a myriad of fake news to entertain fans. That included classic celebrations in Overwatch and the continuation of a tired trend by Palworld’s devs. But one of the most unexpected April Fools’ Day developments came from...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Is Rapidly Outpacing The Original’s Sales
2.4.2024
It sounds like the 12-year wait between Dragon’s Dogma and its sequel has worked out in Capcom’s favor. In its first two weeks, Dragon’s Dogma 2 has already sold twice as many copies as the first game did in a month.Read more
Open Roads: The Kotaku Review
2.4.2024
Playing Open Roads constantly drags up old memories from my mind. A road trip with my mother along the Pacific Coast Highway, packing boxes and trash bags while clearing out my grandfather’s house after his death–it’s a game that feels primed to make you reminisce. Like the disparate memories...