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Big Publishers And Studios Are Scrambling To Avoid GTA 6's Launch
25.3.2025
Grand Theft Auto 6 is officially launching later this fall on Xbox Series X/S and PS5. It will likely be one of the biggest game releases in history. Millions of players are planning to buy the Rockstar’s open-world crime sim while inevitably ignoring other games. That’s bad news for publishers...
Space Marines 2 Boss Predicts The End Of $400 Million Triple-A Games
6.2.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 received multiple 2024 Game Awards nominations and sold over five million copies. But its makers say the visually impressive old-school-feeling sci-fi shooter cost only a quarter of what’s needed to make most big-budget AAA blockbusters. Developed by Saber...
Ubisoft Shutting Down Call Of Duty Competitor After Executive Producer Swore It Wasn't Dying
4.12.2024
Ubisoft has announced that XDefiant, its multiplatform free-to-play Call of Duty-like FPS, is shutting down in June despite the game’s executive producer saying that it wasn’t dying and was “doing well” in September. Read more
Is Black Myth: Wukong Coming To Xbox? Phil Spencer Knows, But Won't Say
13.11.2024
Mega hit action-adventure game Black Myth: Wukong is one of the biggest games of 2024. However, it’s only been available on PlayStation 5 and PC since launching earlier this year. Now, Microsoft CEO of gaming Phil Spencer says he knows whether or not Black Myth: Wukong is coming to Xbox...he just...
Netflix Shutters AAA Game Studio It Built With Former Blizzard, Bungie Devs
22.10.2024
From the moment it was announced that Netflix had hired a team of former Blizzard, Bungie and Sony developers to create a AAA game, it felt too likely that little or nothing would come of it. Non-gaming companies deciding to try to grab a slice of the giant pie by spending money to recruit...
Palworld And Sony Team Up To Make The Next Pokémon Company
10.7.2024
Palworld feels like gaming’s ultimate troll. It’s a troll on the concepts of IP and copyright as it so brazenly mimics Pokémon with its creature design. And it’s a troll on Pokémon fans, given it’s really just yet another tree-bashing survival game. But oh boy, has it been a success, and...
Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5
16.5.2024
The PlayStation 5 has sold just over 59 million units since it launched in 2020, which is slightly less than PS4’s sales in the same timeframe, as it sold roughly 60 million consoles four years into its lifecycle. And from the sound of it, those PlayStation 5s only account for roughly half...
$400,000 Worth Of Playdate Gaming Handhelds Have Gone Missing
27.3.2024
Cabel Sasser, co-founder of the company behind whimsical yellow gaming handheld the Playdate, was giving a talk on the crank-sporting device at the Games Developer Conference when he provided a noteworthy factoid and anecdote. Apparently, $400,000 worth of Playdates curiously went missing at...
Monopoly Go Spent Almost $500 Million On Marketing, More Than Spider-Man 2's Dev Budget
19.3.2024
Monopoly Go, a single-player mobile board game, launched on April 11, 2023. Since then it has made over 2 billion dollars, been downloaded 100+ million times, and become one of the most popular digital games on the planet. But to reach this point, Scopely, the studio behind the hit game, has spent...
AAA Game Dev To Frustrated Fans: 'We're Human Beings'
5.3.2024
In recent years, developers have faced more and more harassment and toxic behavior from people who say they love games but seem more interested in yelling about how studios are lazy or how everything is “woke” in 2024. And one Sony studio developer has a message to all the gamers out there, telling...
Sony Explains Why The PS Portal Ain’t The Vita 2
27.2.2024
In a new interview, Sony explained that the PlayStation Portal—a portable gaming device that lets players remotely play PS5 games without needing to be in front of their TV or console—was never intended to be a Vita or PSP successor. It also revealed some other details on the oddly popular handheld...
The Elder Scrolls VI Definitely Isn’t Coming To PlayStation
18.9.2023
Elder Scrolls VI won’t be coming to PS5 whenever it finally debuts. Though you might’ve already filed this news under “well, duh,” it’s now clear as day courtesy of official documentation from Microsoft. Read more
Unity Apologizes For ‘Confusion And Angst’ Caused By New Runtime Fee
18.9.2023
Unity, the game engine used in popular titles like Cuphead, Fall Guys, and Among Us, has apologized for the “confusion and angst” caused by a newly announced fee. On September 12, the company released a lengthy post announcing its Runtime Fee, which would charge developers for each game...
Canceled Ubisoft Sequel Was Inspired By Wind Waker, Elden Ring
21.8.2023
The sequel to Immortals: Fenyx Rising (2020's open-world, Greek-inspired adventure game) was cancelled in July 2023, and we’re just now learning exactly what that game was meant to entail—and how much of a break from tradition it was planned to be for Ubisoft.Read more
Canceled Ubisoft Sequel Was Inspired By Wind Waker, Elden Ring
21.8.2023
The sequel to Immortals: Fenyx Rising (2020's open-world, Greek-inspired adventure game) was cancelled in July 2023, and we’re just now learning exactly what that game was meant to entail—and how much of a break from tradition it was planned to be for Ubisoft.Read more
You're Solid Gold, I'll See You In Hell
14.7.2023
It feels weird to be writing one of these. Lord knows I’ve read enough of them over the last 17 years. But it’s finally my turn: today is my last day at Kotaku.Read more
You're Solid Gold, I'll See You In Hell
14.7.2023
It feels weird to be writing one of these. Lord knows I’ve read enough of them over the last 17 years. But it’s finally my turn: today is my last day at Kotaku.Read more
Sony Won’t Share PS6 Info With Call Of Duty Devs If Owned By Microsoft
22.6.2023
If the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft for $69 billion goes through, it could have big consequences for the future of Call of Duty on PlayStation. At least that’s what Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan keeps saying. In a new deposition for the current lawsuit by the Federal Trade...
Activision Blizzard’s Diversity Tool Has A Long, Even More Embarrassing History
17.5.2022
Activision Blizzard touted its Diversity Space Tool in a blog post on May 12, in which it claimed that both the Call of Duty: Vanguard and Overwatch 2 development teams beta tested the tool with much enthusiasm, then quickly walked this statement back on May 13 and said the tool “is not being used...
Farmville Creator Zynga to Launch NFT Games, Says Gaming Firm’s Blockchain Lead
11.2.2022
American social game developer Zynga has plans to launch non-fungible token (NFT) games in the near future. Zynga’s vice president of blockchain, ​​Matt Wolf, told the press that the company is looking at the cycle right now and “figuring out where we want to jump...