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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 8 Intriguing Games To Greet October With
6.10.2023
Happy October. We’re in spooky month territory at long last, even if it has felt a little warm for Fall. Many of us are also looking forward to a three-day weekend here in the States, so that means a nice long chunk of time to get some gaming in—and you can pair it with a pumpkin spice latte! Read...
The 9 Least Essential Starfield Mods You Can Install Right Now
4.9.2023
As is all-too-often the case, Bethesda releases its games with half-baked UIs, dodgy animations, and painfully slow menus, knowing that its community will clean it all up for them via mods. So as expected, over the weekend all manner of essential mods for Starfield have appeared that will clear...
The 9 Least Essential Starfield Mods You Can Install Right Now
4.9.2023
As is all-too-often the case, Bethesda releases its games with half-baked UIs, dodgy animations, and painfully slow menus, knowing that its community will clean it all up for them via mods. So as expected, over the weekend all manner of essential mods for Starfield have appeared that will clear...
Nicolas Cage’s Dead By Daylight Voice Lines Have Zero Chill
7.7.2023
Zany and prolific actor Nicolas “Nic” Cage is coming to the asymmetrical survival-horror game Dead By Daylight on July 25. If you know anything about him, you’d expect his voice lines to be unhinged as hell. Well, they’re so unhinged that people on TikTok are marveling at Cage’s dedication to...
Hell Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 Makes It Easy To Do Fatalities
29.6.2023
This past weekend I played a beta version of Mortal Kombat 1. I was part of an “online stress test” organized by NetherRealm Studios so the team could prepare the servers ahead of the game’s official launch. To quickly sum things up: So far, so good.Read more
Mortal Kombat 1: Seven Deadly Fatalities From The New Trailer
9.6.2023
After the surprising news that the next Mortal Kombat would be a reboot of sorts, bearing a 1 instead of a 12, fans have been eager to feast their eyes on what the new vision for the franchise will mean for its gameplay. Well, the first official gameplay trailer revealed during the June 8 Summer...
WWE Superstar The Miz Should Play Johnny Cage In Mortal Kombat II, And You Know It
5.5.2022
WWE superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin is so pumped to play Johnny Cage in the next Mortal Kombat movie, all that’s left is for him to actually get cast. Read more
The Original God Of War Could Have Been In First-Person
4.10.2021
I don’t think it would be controversial to say that as well as its brutal and satisfying combat, God of War fandom loves the series for how that combat is shown in its cinematic third-person perspective. It now seems impossible to imagine the game’s cinematic camera altered in any way, but David...
Detroit Dev Quantic Dreams Wins Lawsuit Without Actually Disproving Misconduct Allegations
21.9.2021
Quantic Dream, creators of “so bad, they’re bad” games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human, recently brought libel action against two French newspapers which had jointly published allegations of misconduct against individuals at the company back in 2018. Now the court has ruled both for...
Leaked Script From David Cage's Star Wars Game
21.9.2021
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Report: Quantic Dream Executives Cry, Ask If They Can Lie During Recent Court Appearance
4.6.2021
Quantic Dream executives recently appeared in a Paris court as part of its ongoing defamation lawsuit against French publications Le Monde and Mediapart. But according to a May 31 report, things didn’t go smoothly for the studio behind games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human.Read more
Hey, What The Hell?
25.3.2021
Today, during the Future Games Show: Spring Showcase, we got a look at Of Bird and Cage, a playable metal album that forces you to make narrative choices at various points throughout what can only be described as a Mudvayne-themed lucid dream. One of the choices shown today certainly raised...
WandaVision's Finale Was What You Made of It
5.3.2021
There were as many ways that Marvel’s WandaVision series finale could have ended as there are different ways to process grief. Each of the season’s nine episodes teased this out—new plot twists that threw audiences for loops all meant to obscure, but not erase, the reality that despite all...
The Lightning and the Storm: How an Imperfect Past Shaped the Rise of the Black Superhero
22.2.2021
Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 1. Read more
Ross Ulbricht Letter Questions the Wisdom of Imprisoning Non-Violent Offenders
29.6.2019
Forced to spend the rest of his days in a cage, Ross Ulbricht has recounted his situation in a letter, which explains how he’s spent more than 2,096 days in a U.S. federal penitentiary for running a website. Also Read: Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access...