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Alleged Images Of The Switch 2 Appear Online, Nintendo Sues Palworld, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
21.9.2024
Rumors surrounding Nintendo’s successor to its wildly successful Switch hybrid console continue heating up, with this week bringing us images that allegedly leak the appearance of the Switch 2. In other Nintendo news, the Mario maker, along with The Pokémon Company, are suing Palworld developer...
Next Battlefield Returns To Modern Day, Wants To Be Like Battlefield 3
16.9.2024
The next Battlefield promises a return to the Call of Duty competitor’s “core” after 2021's futuristic sequel drove many longtime fans away. The man in charge, longtime Respawn head Vince Zampella, cites Battlefield 3 and 4 as the peak of the series that the currently untitled Battlefield 6 will...
A New Job Listing Has Given Me Hope For Titanfall 3 Again
24.5.2024
A job listing at Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind Titanfall and the battle-royale spin-off title Apex Legends, is calling for a senior director with “multiplayer FPS experience” to lead a team on a title that’s incredibly early in pre-production right now. It’s no confirmation, but...
Battlefield 2042 Ends, EA Lays Out Plans For Franchise Future
9.4.2024
Battlefield 2042’s seventh season, going on now, will be the game’s last. While the online shooter will continue to receive some support, EA and Dice are looking forward to what’s next. To help build that future, Motive Studio—the team behind the Dead Space remake—will join the franchise and work...
Leaked Footage Reveals The Sci-Fi Call Of Duty That Never Was
29.1.2024
Before releasing 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision studio Neversoft had been working on a sci-fi spin-off in the everlasting FPS franchise. Called either Future Warfare or NX1, footage of the unreleased shooter leaked online over the weekend—first spotted by CharlieIntel—revealing both...
Geoff Keighley’s Modest TikTok Is The Best Thing On The Internet
12.1.2024
Late last night, in one of my typical TikTok fugue state sin which my eyes and ears are bombarded by Doja Cat songs and Twitch clips and Real Housewives fancams until my crippling anxiety evaporates, I stumbled upon something curious. It looked innocent enough—just some concert footage from DJ Fred...
Surprise Titanfall 2 Update Sparks Sequel Speculation
21.9.2023
A surprise update to the mostly dormant 2016 PS4-era shooter Titanfall 2 has certain fans of the series abuzz with the idea that it portends…something…pertaining to a possible third chapter in the highly regarded mech shooter series. The update certainly contains some interesting stuff, including...
EA Roasted For Dunking On Single-Player Games After Everything It’s Done
1.7.2022
It’s been a while since Electronic Arts was the video game villain of the moment, but on Thursday the FIFA publisher sucked up all the oxygen in the room thanks to a bad joke made even worse by the company’s cutthroat history. If there’s one mega gaming company out there who shouldn’t have been...
Respawn Boss Vince Zampella Speaks Out On Trans Rights, Even As EA Refuses
1.6.2022
Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment general manager and head of some of Electronic Arts’s biggest franchises, spoke out on Twitter in defense of transgender rights ahead of the start of Pride Month on June 1. Kotaku has learned that this rare display comes after an internal roundtable discussion...
Battlefield 2042 Just Can't Catch A Break
1.2.2022
It’s been a rough few months for Battlefield 2042, and things don’t sound like they’re going to magically turn around anytime soon. EA announced today that the live service shooter won’t be getting any new content until summer, over six months after launch, with season one delayed and basic...
More Star Wars Games Are Being Developed By Jedi: Fallen Order Studio Respawn
25.1.2022
With EA’s Star Wars exclusivity deal about to expire next year, the publisher has finally announced a barrage of new games inspired by a galaxy far, far away. In addition to confirming that Respawn Entertainment has a sequel to 2019's excellent Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in the works,...
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
Bobby Kotick Has Always Been A Siimy Douchebag
24.11.2021
Bobby Kotick is a weasel of the highest order. And while he may finally be facing a reckoning for some of his actions as CEO of Activision Blizzard, it’s been a long time coming.Read more
EA Hires Call Of Duty Boss To Lead Battlefield Team
3.6.2021
Electronic Arts has appointed Byron Beede as the new SVP and general manager of the Battlefield series. Beede previously spent nearly 20 years at Activision Blizzard, where he most recently worked as the executive vice president and general manager of the Call of Duty series.Read more
A Short Film From Medal Of Honor Has Been Nominated For An Oscar
17.3.2021
It’s not quite a video game winning a film award, but a short film that was part of Respawn’s 2020 VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). It’s possibly the first time a video game studio has been nominated for...