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A New Mainline Spyro Game Is Reportedly In Development
28.3.2024
Remember Spyro the Dragon, the lovable, purple-colored flying lizard that collected gems and spat fire? It’s been a minute since he’s had a brand-new game of his own, huh? Well, it seems that’s going to change, as developer Toys for Bob appears to be working on a new, mainline entry in...
Spyro/Crash Bandicoot Developer Ditches Activision, Goes Indie
29.2.2024
This year has been filled with bad video game industry news. Layoffs every week. Thousands of jobs cut. Studios closing. It’s awful stuff. So I’m here to share some good news. Toys For Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4 and the remastered Spyro collection, is leaving Activision and becoming...
Kotaku Readers Share Their Favorite Holiday Gaming Gifts
28.12.2023
Earlier this week, I shared a story about my favorite Christmas gift. It was an Xbox 360 I had begged my late grandma for, which she bought alongside a copy of Gears of War and a second controller for my bestie and I. This gift would set the course for my life’s current trajectory, one neither...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 8 Games To Devour Between Feasts
17.11.2023
November is flying by. Just yesterday it was Halloween, and now we’re already less than a week away from Thanksgiving. What are you feeling thankful for these days? I’m feeling pretty thankful that 2023 still has so many good games left for me to check out. The only downside is they’re...
Tears Of The Kingdom Fans Are Fighting With Beyblades Now
16.6.2023
This wont come as a huge surprise, not after learning that you can build a working computer in Nintendo’s open-world adventure, but it’s still neat: turns out the new Zelda’s construction abilities let you build your own Beyblade match.Read more
New Rubik's Cube World Record Gets Set At An Absurd Three Seconds
13.6.2023
Rubik’s Cubes are perplexing puzzles, especially if you don’t know the rotations required to solve them. Doing so has become a speedrun of sorts, as folks the world over compete to finish one as fast as possible. Well, someone recently set a brand-new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube...
Stop shoving crypto ‘down people’s throats’ — Pudgy Penguins CEO on NFTs
1.6.2023
Luca Netz suggested that Pudgy Penguins is pushing for Web3/blockchain as a “back end not front end” approach, as it makes its IP as accessible as possible
The Hardest Resident Evil 4 Remake Puzzles Have Easy Solutions
5.4.2023
When you’re not getting lost in Resident Evil 4 remake protagonist Leon’s dreamy abs, you might find yourself trapped in an uncomfortable reality filled with puzzles—some difficult, and some simply annoying. I don’t know why RE4’s imposing castle and outskirts are packed with elaborate, burdensome...
Controversial Marvel Snap Card Getting Nerfed, With More Tweaks Coming Later
5.1.2023
Marvel Snap’s latest round of balance changes hasn’t officially been released yet, but following a last-minute delay and leak, the info is out there. And players have begun debating one nerf in particular involving the controversial Leader card. For many, the leaked nerf details aren’t enough....
18 Cozy Games That Feel Like A Warm Blanket
23.12.2022
For some of us, games have always been a source of comfort in challenging times, offering a respite from harsh realities in our own lives that we couldn’t escape, or providing a place where we can focus on manageable challenges while the real world feels unmanageable. But in recent years, more...
Ashley Bardhan's Top 5 Games Of 2022
19.12.2022
I only consider myself a “gamer” in a literal sense—I play video games every year, but only a modest handful of those already familiar to me, like my darling Bloodborne or Super Smash Bros. I started working at Kotaku this year, though, and by demand, 2022 became my most “gamer” year ever, with...
I Played The 2022 Bratz Game, And It's As Bad As You Think
15.12.2022
When I got an email that Bratz: Flaunt Your Fashion, the first official Bratz dolls video game since 2012, was coming out in November across most platforms, including, remarkably, the PS5, I was intrigued and a little amused. When I booted it up, I got that familiar hit of nostalgia, as each of...
New Transformers Series Introduces Its First Nonbinary Robot
14.11.2022
The Transformers franchise, which has always been more than meets the eye, just introduced its first officially nonbinary character, Nightshade. They make their debut toward the end of the first season of the franchise’s latest TV series, Transformers: EarthSpark, which premiered on the Paramount...
Bloodborne Will Always Be My Game Of The Year
14.10.2022
“Hello, good hunter,” The Doll said to me after I accidentally visited Bloodborne’s first optional boss, the howling Cleric Beast, and obtained some of the game’s metaphysical currency, Insight. “I am a doll, here in this dream to look after you.” Read more
McDonalds Workers Are Begging People To Stop Ordering Adult Happy Meals
5.10.2022
The news of Happy Meals for adults seemed like a neat little publicity stunt for McDonald’s, and fun story for everyone to chortle along with. Cactus Plant Flea Market-style four-eyed toys of the old McDonald’s characters, in a box for the grown ups, seems a certainty for viral success. However...
Retail Giant Walmart Enters the Metaverse With Walmart Land and Universe of Play on Roblox
26.9.2022
Walmart has entered the metaverse with the launch of Walmart Land and Walmart’s Universe of Play on Roblox. The metaverse gaming platform has 52.2 million daily active users and 11.3 billion engagement hours. “Our customers are spending loads of time there,” said a Walmart...
Cult Of The Lamb, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.8.2022
Cult of the Lamb, the roguelite adventure game Kotaku’s very own Ari Notis called “dizzyingly original” in his review, is developing its followers’ unwavering faith. But I haven’t yet played the game, released on August 11, and so, like an unshorn California girl in the ‘60s, I need someone to show...
Activision Has The Population Of A Small Town Working On Call Of Duty Games
6.5.2022
The Call of Duty machine can never stop. It must endlessly push forward, through lawsuits, controversies, and layoffs. To stop would mean…well, we don’t know, because it never has. And to help keep the machine going, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s...
Projects are collecting Toys for Tots crypto donations this holiday season
6.12.2021
“The cryptocurrency bull market has been good to all of us in this industry and this holiday season is the perfect time to pay it forward,” said Unbanked co-CEO Ian Kane
EA Plans Battlefield ‘Universe’ Following Awful Battlefield 2042 Launch
2.12.2021
A tectonic shift is coming to the Battlefield franchise, GameSpot reports, with Electronic Arts restructuring various studios and committing to a “connected universe” of projects in the long-running first-person shooter series.Read more