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2023 Is The Best Year For Games In A While (And Maybe Ever?)
30.10.2023
When Hi-Fi Rush shadow-dropped on January 25, it was a shockingly pleasant surprise. Beautiful, vibrant, playful, the rhythm action platformer quickly won players over. A day later, Hitman World of Assassination appeared, deploying clever roguelike mechanics to reinvent the best stealth game...
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals: The Kotaku Review
12.7.2023
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals plays something like a thematic flip of its excellent 2016 predecessor. Where the original game followed a teen named Alex and a group of her friends on a coming-of-age adventure that had the group confronting a nebulous future, Lost Signals finds 30-something Riley...
Everything We Saw At Nintendo's World Showcase 2023
19.4.2023
The latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase presentation arrived today, April 19. For a solid 20 minutes we were treated to new looks at charming, exciting, hopefully must-play upcoming games for Nintendo’s hybrid console. As you’ll see, Nintendo packed a lot of games into today’s event. Read on...
Everything We Saw At Nintendo’s Latest Switch World Showcase
19.4.2023
The latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase presentation arrived today, April 19. For a solid 20 minutes we were treated to new looks at charming, exciting, hopefully must-play upcoming games for Nintendo’s hybrid console. As you’ll see, Nintendo packed a lot of games into today’s event. Read on...
The Biggest Game Delays Of 2022
1.12.2022
Games get delayed all the time, but this year had more than its fair share of companies posting wall-of-text screenshots telling fans they’ll have to wait a little bit longer to play their most anticipated release or review bomb it on Steam. 2022 was supposed to be the year we got Starfield, Breath...
Report: Netflix Doubles Down On Games As Stock Plummets
22.4.2022
Netflix built its foundation on streamlined DVD rentals and, eventually, on tepid “prestige” TV series that people talk about for a week before forgetting they ever existed in the first place. Now, amid a rare financial stagnation, Netflix plans to commit hard to games, per a new report in...
One Of The Best Games Of 2020 Comes To Switch Today
10.2.2022
There exists within the indie gaming world a vocabulary that few can capture faithfully. It’s that bespoke patois that can be found in A Night In The Woods, in Oxenfree, in A Short Hike. None sounds the same as the other, and yet all have that same cadence, a truthfulness about their dialogue that...
29 Games Coming Out In 2022 That We're Excited To Play
31.12.2021
2021 is basically done. Old news! Now all people care about is this hot new thing called 2022, and its many, many release dates. Have you heard about our upcoming stacked February? Even taking into account that the pandemic and supply issues will likely shift some things around and cause some...
Netflix Launches Mobile Games Lineup With Stranger Things And Not Much Else
2.11.2021
Beginning Tuesday, Netflix’s movie and television streaming app adds video games to the mix with a lineup that includes previously released action-adventure spin-offs Stranger Things: 1984 (formerly known as Stranger Things: The Game) and Stranger Things 3: The Game.Read more
Netflix Acquires Oxenfree Dev As Its First Game Studio
29.9.2021
Streaming giant Netflix has acquired Night School Studio, a developer founded by former Telltale Games employees that released Oxenfree, an intriguing supernatural mystery game, and Afterparty, a barhopping comedy journey through Hell. Though now a Netflix subsidiary, Night School Studio confirmed...
Mysterious New Radio Signals Infiltrate 2016's Oxenfree
13.9.2021
As Night School Studio builds up toward next year’s release of Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, it’s added some new spooky goings-on to 2016's Oxenfree. Returning to the Steam version of that game today (when patched) will allow you to discover some new radio broadcasts that hint at the storyline...
All Those Cool Games You Thought Were Already On PS4 Are Coming To PS4
6.8.2021
Typically, big companies batch their announcements. Maybe that’s by way of a digital showcase, or issuing a press release. In those long-ago, very precedented times, it could even involve shuffling hundreds of folks into an auditorium where they might catch a glimpse of Keanu Reeves. Today, Sony...
Everything Announced During Today's Nintendo Indie World
14.4.2021
Another Nintendo Indie World presentation, another batch of cool little games coming to the Switch between today and months from now. From Fez, The Longing and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension out later today to next year’s GetsuFumaDen: Undying World, here’s the indies Nintendo showed...