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Ubisoft Returning To Day-One Steam Releases With Assassin's Creed Shadows
25.9.2024
Today, Ubisoft announced that the recently delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be arriving on Steam on day one when it finally launches in February 2025 and confirmed that future Ubisoft games will do the same, ending a years-long strategy of keeping its biggest games off Steam for months...
13 Games Guaranteed To Look Better On PS5 Pro At Launch
10.9.2024
The PS5 Pro boasts more powerful components and a new AI-upscaling method for better visuals, but games will needed to be updated in order to take advantage of all the bells and whistles on the pricey new hardware. So far, Sony has confirmed at least 13 games that will feature better resolutions...
Legendary Anime Studio Behind Neon Genesis Evangelion Files for Bankruptcy
7.6.2024
It’s not every day that you wake up to find a company with a legacy like anime studio Gainax is shutting its doors. The prolific studio behind works like FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and the legendary Neon Genesis Evangelion has been struggling financially for several years. On June 7, the company...
7 Things We Just Learned About Sony’s Big PlayStation 5 Plans
30.5.2024
Sony recently held a business briefing for investors where it painted an incredibly rosy picture around the PlayStation 5 and its future outlook. Despite recent layoffs and failing to reach its sales goals for 2023, the company seems confident that the console’s best days are still ahead. Read more
Sony Announces Smaller PlayStation Showcase Featuring 14 Games
29.5.2024
Sony’s big summer PlayStation showcase has turned out to be a smaller State of Play event scheduled for May 30. The company announced it will include updates on new first-party games coming to PlayStation 5 as well as PS VR2.Read more
PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
14.5.2024
Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never...
Sony Names PlayStation's New Bosses
14.5.2024
Sony has named existing company veterans Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new heads of PlayStation. Hulst will take over and run a new Studio Business Group while Nishino is in charge of the Platform Business Group. The division of roles replaces former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Makes You Take Your Time, And That’s Great
27.3.2024
One of the first quests you undertake in Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s new action RPG, has you traveling from the town of Melve to the capital city of Vernworth. It’s a slow journey that starts and stops several times along the winding roads leading to your final destination. You need to dispatch...
Dragon's Dogma 2: The Kotaku Review
20.3.2024
I can’t believe Dragon’s Dogma 2 exists.Read more
Dragon's Dogma 2 Has The Best-Looking Video Game Food Ever
7.3.2024
You ever look at video game food and immediately start salivating because it looks so delicious? Yeah, me neither. Or at least I hadn’t, until I saw some steaks getting chef’d up on an open flame in Dragon’s Dogma 2, the meat glistening and marbling in such a lifelike way that I was sure it...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Is Heavily Inspired By GTA V, Says Director
6.3.2024
Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s upcoming open-world fantasy RPG, is looking like it’s gonna be something special. And while you might expect a game with swords, mages, dragons, and other high-fantasy concepts to be inspired by something like Dungeons and Dragons or Lord of the Rings, the game’s director...
Dragon's Dogma 2 Could Be 2024's Breakout RPG
5.3.2024
As my fearsome archer walks across a bustling sand-coated bazaar, my coin purse must be jingling, because countless town folk are vying for my attention. Nestled on a mountain top, this dust-coated medieval market city is abuzz with activity. A fully clothed, purring cat-man beckons me towards...
Dragon's Dogma 2 Devs Say Fast Travel Use Is A Sign Of Boring Worlds
23.1.2024
Navigating massive, open-world games like Bethesda Game Studios’ Starfield or CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 usually requires a shortcut to span their sprawling maps. Though you can hop in a car in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto or travel by horse in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, players...
Kaiju No. 8 Anime Comes To Crunchyroll Spring 2024
13.10.2023
At New York Comic Con on October 13, Crunchyroll announced Kaiju No. 8, a popular Shonen Jump sci-fi monster fighter series, will come to the anime streaming service exclusively next spring.Read more
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Hands-On: We’re So Back
3.10.2023
Dragon’s Dogma 2, like its beloved but compromised predecessor, can look like a conventional and unimpressive fantasy action-RPG on the surface. Knights, archers, and mages journey between medieval towns plagued by monsters, completing quests, crafting new gear, and getting stronger....
Final Fantasy XVI Has A Neat Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime Nod
23.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI, a more action-focused take on the RPG franchise, clearly pulls inspiration from a lot of other popular media. As Game Informer reported back in May, Square Enix was inspired by blockbuster films and hit series like Game of Thrones, Godzilla, and Neon Genesis Evangelion during...
Evangelion Creator Can Finally Take A Damn Vacation
11.4.2023
Hideaki Anno, the auteur behind the mid-‘90s smash-hit mecha anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, recently revealed that his work schedule is clear for the first time in 30 years.Read more
Lewd Ghibli Posters Now Very Sorry For Causing 'Distress'
28.3.2023
Earlier this month we reported that a small number of people had been taking and appearing in “lewd” photos with statues at Studio Ghibli’s new theme park, and that the act of posting those images on social media had reportedly “disturbed many people”.Read more
Please Stop Taking Lewd Photos At Studio Ghibli's Theme Park, Authorities Ask
14.3.2023
Ghibli Park, a large theme park dedicated wholly to the works of Japanese animation giants Studio Ghibli, opened late last year. And it hasn’t taken long for people to start being weirdos with some of the statues found at the park, prompting calls from local authorities to please stop.Read more
Confirmed: Dragon's Dogma Is Getting A Sequel
17.6.2022
It’s official: Dragon’s Dogma, the cult-classic fantasy RPG, is getting a sequel a decade after its release. Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno confirmed as much during a livestream tonight, but didn’t share any details besides its name, Dragon’s Dogma II, and a logo.Read more