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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...
11 Baldur’s Gate 3 Mods To Give You New Ways To Play
9.10.2024
Fans have been modding Larian Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 for over a year now, but the developer added official mod support in the game’s seventh big patch. This means the BG3 mod scene should be able to alter the game more easily and with reliable tools, and players can install...
Baldur’s Gate 3’s New Evil Endings Are Finally Coming To PS5, Xbox, And Mac
1.10.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 console players, rejoice. As of today, you’re patch current. Larian Studios has finally brought Patch 7, which was delayed for just under a month for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Mac players after launching on PC at the beginning of September. Now, no matter where you’re...
Control 2 Unaffected By Mysterious Annapurna Interactive Implosion, Remedy Confirms
13.9.2024
Annapurna Interactive has spent the last eight years publishing some of the most creatively bold and critically-acclaimed games from smaller studios and developers, parlaying an impressive hit rate into a seal of quality whenever its label appears in the opening credits. Now just about everyone...
Everything New In Baldur’s Gate 3’s Seventh Big Patch
5.9.2024
After months of teases, Baldur’s Gate 3’s seventh big patch is finally live. As developer Larian Studios already announced, it brings expanded endings to the evil routes, official mod support, and some tweaks to party member interactions. However, the patch is only available on PC for the moment...
Everything New In Baldur’s Gate 3’s Seventh Big Patch
5.9.2024
After months of teases, Baldur’s Gate 3’s seventh big patch is finally live. As developer Larian Studios already announced, it brings expanded endings to the evil routes, official mod support, and some tweaks to party member interactions. However, the patch is only available on PC for the moment...
Greedy Publishers Have Won And Normalized Paying To Play Early
17.7.2024
Last year, a growing trend saw AAA video game publishers offering early access to new games if you pre-ordered a pricey special edition version. I worried then that if some publishers were successful in locking games behind a ransom fee, many others would do the same in the future. And here we...
How To Install And Use Starfield’s Official And Fan-Made Mods
12.6.2024
Soon after Xbox’s big (and quite good) showcase on June 9, 2024, Starfield got a nice healthy update that finally delivered on the promise of quick and easy access to mods. While Starfield has had many mods on PC, it hasn’t been the most approachable for folks who aren’t used to installing mods...
100+ Mods Turn Starfield Into The Star Wars Mandalorian Game We'll Never Get
20.5.2024
Star Wars fans have long awaited the arrival of a truly great Mandalorian video game, just to have their hopes repeatedly dashed. First, it was the long-in-development hell (but still not technically canceled) 1313, and most recently it was Respawn’s Mandalorian game, which was canceled only...
Valve Closes Loophole Some Steam Users Were Exploiting For Refunds
24.4.2024
Steam has an oft-exploited refund policy, whereby any player is able to request their money back for a game that they bought within the last 14 days, and played for less than two hours. (Selling a game that’s shorter than two hours? Sucks to be you.) But it seems that people buying games with...
Spider-Man 2 Update Adds Debug Menu Letting Players Beat Game In Seconds
7.3.2024
Uh-oh. The latest patch for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2—Insomniac’s PS5-exclusive open-world superhero blockbuster—added more than just a new game+ option. According to a tweet from the developer and also noticed by fans online, you can now easily access a debug menu and beat the entire game in a...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Devs Working On ‘Robust’ Cross-Platform Mod Support
23.2.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios is keenly aware of the mods that exist for the Dungeons & Dragons-based role-playing game. They’re all unofficial, of course, living in the mod bank that is Nexus Mods—but not for long. The studio said that official mod support is coming to the critically...
Over 500 Studios Are Working On Live-Service Games
2.2.2024
A new game industry survey revealed that over 500 studios around the world are currently working on or maintaining live-service video games like Destiny 2, Suicide Squad, and Fortnite.Read more
Xbox Exec Says AI Can 'Take Care Of' All Sorts Of Game Dev Problems
29.11.2023
Xbox’s chief financial officer, Tim Stuart, recently shared how excited he was about AI technology being used in game development. During a November 28 summit, Stuart told audience that it can now translate and localize games, handle coding, and even test games, too, which begs the question:...
Now Is The Time For Universal Video Game Accessibility Guidelines
2.11.2023
As Kotaku’s resident Soulsbud, I was stoked to check out the action-Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen when it debuted back in mid-October, so I booted it up and immediately navigated to the settings menu. This is always my first stop when starting any game, to ensure I can actually play the thing....
Capcom: PC Game Mods Are ‘No Different’ Than Cheating
31.10.2023
For as long as PC games have been around, people have been modding them. And while players love being able to modify their games, adding new features or fixes, recent comments reveal that Capcom isn’t totally on board with such digital shenanigans, with the publisher suggesting that all PC game...
El Paso, Elsewhere Creator On The Future Of Video Game Development
23.10.2023
This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.Read more
Leaked Xbox Boss Email Perfectly Explains Why Game Publishers Are Eating Themselves Alive
22.9.2023
You probably saw a ton of headlines about Xbox leaks this week: new hardware, upcoming games, Game Pass costs, acquisition strategies. A trove of unredacted documents accidentally uploaded to a federal court’s case server gave the world an unprecedented look into the secret machinations of...
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...
The 9 Least Essential Starfield Mods You Can Install Right Now
4.9.2023
As is all-too-often the case, Bethesda releases its games with half-baked UIs, dodgy animations, and painfully slow menus, knowing that its community will clean it all up for them via mods. So as expected, over the weekend all manner of essential mods for Starfield have appeared that will clear...