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Star Wars Galaxies Was 'No Man's Sky In 2003,' Says MMO Legend
5.3.2024
As we stare vacantly at our smartphones and watch global atrocities unfold over “X,” it’s easy to forget that the internet once offered a vision for hope. In the early ‘90s, the infinite possibilities of an interconnected web felt exhilarating. Knowledge and data could be seamlessly shared across...
Skull and Bones: The Kotaku Review
26.2.2024
There are too many Dutch. Six warships are actively engaged with me, lobbing mortars, zipping torpedos, and peppering my vessel with all manner of cannon shot. Along the horizon I count 13 more ships, all hostile. I’ve already plundered a cache of documents from this innocuous seaside lumber camp...
Tekken 8 Is Getting Some Seriously High Praise
23.1.2024
Tekken 8 comes out on January 26 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and reviews are popping up ahead of the game’s release date. It’ll be the eighth mainline entry in Bandai Namco Entertainment’s long-running franchise, and it seems critics are enjoying the game, with Tekken 8 currently...
Horror Game Studio Shuts Down Due To Cyberattacks, Poor Sales
3.1.2024
Just two months after the third-person action-horror game Stray Souls came out, developer Jukai Studio abruptly shuttered its doors, citing myriad issues including poor game sales and multiple cyberattacks from an unknown perpetrator.The developer took to X/Twitter on December 22 to announce...
Hit Pirate Game Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting A Single-Player Mode
22.9.2023
Over 25 million people have played Sea of Thieves. The pirate ship fantasy sim has some of the most beautiful water you’ve ever seen in a video game. And now Rare’s live-service multiplayer game is finally getting a way for people to play solo. A new mode called Safer Seas will let players explore...
Destiny 2 Promises New Map Pack And Free Eververse Armor To Win Back Players
15.8.2023
The Destiny 2 community has been spiraling ever since a disappointing State of the Game update earlier this month failed to address what some fans see as core issues with the modern version of Bungie’s sci-fi MMO. Now game director Joe Blackburn has taken the unusual step of addressing...
New Elden Ring Patch Makes Backstabs More Powerful
27.7.2023
Elden Ring developer FromSoftware issued an update for the open-world role-playing game on July 27, making a few important adjustments to its PvP meta, along with some more general balance changes. On Twitter, FromSoftware noted that players should “apply this patch to continue playing Elden Ring...
Goldman Sachs Ranks Bitcoin Best Performing Asset so Far This Year
28.1.2023
Goldman Sachs has ranked bitcoin the best-performing asset so far this year. The cryptocurrency also tops the global investment bank’s list as the asset with the highest risk-adjusted return — above gold, real estate, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq 100. Bitcoin Outshines Other...
PlayStation Plus Expands With Deathloop, Assassin’s Creed, And Watch Dogs 2
1.9.2022
Sony just announced its September lineup of games for its subscription service yesterday, and it’s pretty loaded. PS Plus members will be able to download Arkane’s stylish immersive sim Deathloop, as well as older crowd-pleasers such as Assassin’s Creed Origins and Watch Dogs 2. At the other end...
Final Fantasy XIV's Director Is Asking You Not To Be Jerks
28.4.2022
Final Fantasy XIV recently introduced a new 5v5 player-vs-player mode called Crystalline Conflict. And while for the most part it seems to be going just fine, and folks are happy with it, the team behind the game aren’t as happy with some people’s behaviour in the mode, and so have taken the time...
Goldman Sachs Predicts Bitcoin Could Reach $100K as BTC Continues to Take Gold’s Market Share as Store of Value
7.1.2022
Goldman Sachs has predicted that the price of bitcoin could reach $100,000. The global investment bank believes that bitcoin will continue to take market share away from gold as cryptocurrency adoption grows. Goldman Sachs’ Bitcoin vs Gold Prediction Goldman Sachs analyst Zach Pandl, co-head...
Star Citizen Players Are Overdosing Each Other Unconscious In 'Safe' Areas
21.10.2021
Perpetual work-in-progress Star Citizen might never be a real game you can just nip down to the shop and buy, but watching developer Cloud Imperium try is endlessly entertaining. In the latest update on the game’s test server, players have figured out how to use newly-added healing guns to deliver...
The Japanese Internet Reacts To Netflix's Kate
13.9.2021
Have you seen Kate yet? Folks in Japan have, and they have opinions. Let’s have a look!The Netflix original debuted last Friday. Set in Japan and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, it tells the story of a deadly assassin out for revenge. Internationally, the reviews for Kate have been not great!...
New Site Teaches You How To Play EVE Online
28.5.2021
EVE Online is a tough game to learn without a lot of effort and assistance. The good news is that there’s now an easier path to getting started: the EVE Academy, a new companion website to the 18 year old MMO, was created specifically to show new players the ropes, and potentially teach a few...