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Celeste Developers Reunited With Game Awards Trophy Four Years After It Went Missing
28.2.2022
Streamer Prestige Is Key was looking for a cool gaming souvenir the other day, but when he tried to buy a Game Awards trophy online he got a lot more than he was originally expecting.Read more
What We Know About Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's Starters
27.2.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Gen 9 starters have been revealed and they include a cat, a baby croc, and a duck. Do you have a favorite? I certainly do and it’s not my usual type. Read more
Pokémon Presents: All The Big News You Need To Know
27.2.2022
It’s exactly 26 years since the first Pokémon games released in Japan and the developers of the series lived up to the hype of this year’s international Pokémon Day by offering up a ton of updates on current games and one major surprise reveal: new mainline entries Pokémon Scarlet and Violet...
Call Of Duty Execs Accused Of Using Microsoft Deal To Line Their Own Pockets
26.2.2022
Two Activision Blizzard shareholders have filed lawsuits against the Call of Duty publisher for making allegedly inadequate disclosures in its recent filings with the SEC about its deal to sell to Microsoft for $68.7 billion. The investors further alleged that big payouts for CEO Bobby Kotick...
A Ton Of Xbox Players Can't Play Elden Ring Online
26.2.2022
Elden Ring is currently one of the most highly praised games in recent memory and also having its fair share of troubles on PC and PS5. Most recently, tons of Xbox players have reported being unable to play the open world RPG online since it launched yesterday. Read more
'Ghost Of Kyiv' Fighter Pilot Blowing Up Russian Aircraft In Trending Clip Actually From Video Game
26.2.2022
A clip of a Ukrainian fighter jet blowing up a suspected Russian aircraft started trending on social media yesterday. Many believed it was proof of the exploits of a mysterious and unverified ace pilot called the “Ghost of Kyiv.” It was actually fake footage from the 2013 PC game, Digital Combat...
Incredibly Rare Pokémon Card Auctioned Off For Record-Breaking $900,000
26.2.2022
The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $900,000. No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered...
The Can’t-Miss Side-Quests Of Horizon Forbidden West
25.2.2022
If there’s one regard wherein Horizon Forbidden West should be deemed Horizon Forbidden Best, it’s the optional stuff. Every side-quest in the game culminates with a meaningful reward. In some cases, you get a cool weapon or set of armor. In others, you’ll catch a narrative denouement richer than...
Gaming Awards Show Host Gets On Stage, Says ‘F*ck Bobby Kotick’
25.2.2022
So the DICE Awards, the video game industry’s Oscar equivalent, was held last night. A bunch of games took home trophies, including Hazelight Studios’ It Takes Two, which won its second Game of the Year award–but arguably, that wasn’t the night’s biggest news. No, what folks were waiting for was...
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev CDPR And Others Condemn Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
25.2.2022
Earlier this week Russian troops, acting on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine and launched 200 missiles, some of which reportedly hit residential areas near the capital city of Kyiv. At least 50,000 Ukrainian citizens have been displaced and are fleeing the country, according...
Forget Wordle And Quordle, You Should Be Playing Octordle
25.2.2022
As I continue to delight in the deranged conspiracy theories surrounding Wordle, following its purchase by the New York Times, I’m equally thrilled to discover those making increasingly difficult versions of the game. Quordle, a version where you solve four Wordles at once, has become pretty...
Bandai Namco To PS5 Elden Ring Players: Don’t Trust Rest Mode ATM
25.2.2022
The moment has come. After years of anticipation, Elden Ring finally leaps from the wispy plane of imagination to the very real plane of today’s gaming consoles and PCs. Like any massive modern game, however, it has some issues. And its publisher has an unusual solution for those playing...
Elden Ring Looks Brutal As A PS1 Game
25.2.2022
We’ve featured London-based 3D artist and VFX supervisor Hoolopee a number of times on Kotaku, from his terrifying Zelda work to a Nintendo 64 rendition of Halo Infinite to a DragonBall fight made with...sheep. Tonight, we’re taking a look at his latest work, a PS1-looking take on Elden Ring’s...
Some Of The Most Popular 'Ukraine Footage' Is Actually A Video Game
25.2.2022
ArmA III, a video game that in the right circumstances can look pretty realistic, has a long history of turning up on news broadcasts and being either confused with or intentionally used in place of actual camera footage of real-world events. That trend is continuing in the current crisis...
Valorant Twitch Streamer Accused Of Dodging, Muting Women
24.2.2022
Jason “JasonR” Ruchelski, a former CS:GO player and full-time Twitch streamer, is under fire for reputedly dodging Valorant games in which women are present. He’s also defending himself in the worst way possible, saying he can’t disrespect women if he never interacts with them. It’s not a good...
Elden Ring Isn’t Running So Great On PC
24.2.2022
Elden Ring finally comes out tomorrow amid high expectations, having been lauded by critics as “the best game of all time,” “the greatest game of all time,” and “not Horizon Forbidden West, which by the way is also pretty good.” There’s just one problem: Apparently, the game isn’t running so great...
March's PlayStation Plus Lineup Is Surprisingly Stacked
24.2.2022
While many of you are no doubt champing at the bit for the release of this totally unknown game called Elden Ring that’s coming out this week, PlayStation Plus members who don’t feel the irresistible urge to hurl themselves into the unforgiving gauntlet of a new Soulsborne game have some new games...
Nintendo Buys Longtime Partner And Super Mario Bros. Programmer SRD
24.2.2022
Today, Nintendo announced it’s acquiring longtime partner SRD (Systems Research and Development), a company that has helped in programming some of the company’s most iconic games, including Super Mario Bros.Nintendo acquired 100 percent of SRD’s outstanding shares for an undisclosed sum, making...
The 'Nintendo Generation' Have Weak Skeletons, US Army Weirdo Says
24.2.2022
Earlier today, a press release dropped on a Pentagon news service’s website titled Why Today’s ‘Gen Z’ is at Risk for Boot Camp Injuries. It is very funny.Read more
The Steam Deck Compatibility Test vs 810 Steam Games
24.2.2022
Valve just released a new feature that lets you sign into Steam and check to see how many of the games in your library will run on the new Steam Deck handheld. I’ve ended up with a lot of games over my time in this job, from all kinds of genres and eras, so figured running the test on them might...