New Twitter Trend Highlights Incredible Indie Games And Their Inspirations
8.5.2024
The first step to a video game becoming a success is finding the right audience. And while that’s easier for AAA games backed by big companies with equally big marketing budgets, indie games have a harder time getting the word out to the right players. This is why a new trend on X (formerly...
Apple’s New iPad Ad Sparks Loud, Immediate Backlash
8.5.2024
Sometimes, you get blatant reminders of how much disregard big tech has for, well, everything. Whether that’s exorbitant spending on acquisitions, layoffs of hundreds to thousands of people, and refusing to release or delist its employees’ hard work for a tax write-off. But now and then, you...
The Best Tarot Arcana Cards To Unlock First In Hades 2
8.5.2024
Hades 2 has an array of additions to discover, from incantations to new bosses to take down. Tarot Arcana cards are part of this wave of features, basically repurposing the Mirror of Night from the first game into an entirely new system.Read more
Dishonored Developer Shares The Personal Pain Of Microsoft's Studio Closures
8.5.2024
Harvey Smith, the now-former studio director at Arkane Austin, has taken to X/Twitter to express his feelings about Microsoft’s sudden and shocking closure of the beloved developer, alongside three other Bethesda-adjacent studios, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games. The team...
A Rare Piece Of Nintendo History Is Currently On Auction For Over $3 Million
8.5.2024
An original prototype of Nintendo’s Super Famicom, Japan’s (superior) version of the SNES, is currently up for auction and recent bids have already pushed the grey piece of gaming history north of $3.2 million. The “god-tier” nostalgia bait shows the market for retro collectibles can still be...
A Rare Piece Of Batman: Arkham History Is Back On Streaming
8.5.2024
In 2011, Warner Bros. and WaterTower Music put together a compilation album for Rocksteady’s open-world superhero game Batman: Arkham City. The album featured some pretty big names like Panic! at the Disco, Blaqk Audio, and Serj Tankian, all contributing original songs meant to pay tribute to...
18 Hades 2 Character Portraits That Are Hot As Hell
8.5.2024
Hades 2 is now available in Early Access on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store and let me tell you folks, it’s great to be back in Hell. The highly anticipated title is just as fun as the first game—maybe even more so—and it has an intriguing story that I can’t wait to unravel during its Early...
Crow Country: The Kotaku Review
8.5.2024
Playing retro-inspired games is like returning to a beloved theme park as an adult. Instinctively knowing where to go first, remembering what it was like to be there as a child —it plays to a very specific kind of nostalgia. Retro-inspired games often include familiar mechanics, recognizable...
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown
8.5.2024
Things in the world of Helldivers 2 are going back to normal after Sony reversed course on a controversial PSN login requirement for the popular sci-fi shooter on PC. But not everyone appears to have made it out of the public relations fiasco in one piece. Arrowhead Studios community manager Spitz...
Report: Devs Were Working On Redfall's Offline Mode Up Until They Were Fired
8.5.2024
Earlier today, Redfall development studio Arkane Austin was closed by Xbox alongside Tango Gameworks and Alpha Dog Games. And it sounds like, before the shutdown, the team was working on new content and updates for the vampire-hunting shooter that, now, won’t ever be released.Read more
Svítící respirátory pro hráče byly průšvih, výrobce platí tučné odškodné
8.5.2024
Společnost Razer dostala pokutu ve výši pětadvaceti milionů korun za to, že v době pandemie covidu prodávala vlastní futuristicky vypadající respirátory. Sice disponovaly efektním LED podsvícením, ovšem zároveň jim chyběla potřebná certifikace ze strany státních úřadů
Microsoft Tried To 'Steal' Little Big Planet From Sony
7.5.2024
According to Media Molecule’s co-founder Mark Healey—the creative director on Little Big Planet, its sequel, and Dreams—early on in LBP’s creation, Microsoft was “on the prowl” and trying to “steal” the game from Sony. Read more