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Microsoft Exec Praises Preservation and Emulation, But Xbox Isn't Getting More
18.11.2021
Phil Spencer, vice president of gaming at Microsoft, wants the industry to sell more of its older games through legal emulation. There are steep legal barriers to making widespread industry emulation a reality, but it would be a boon to making older games more accessible to players.Read more
Capcom Delays Cool-Looking Sci-Fi Game Pragmata To 2023
18.11.2021
One of the most interesting-looking games announced in 2021 was Pragmata. The debut trailer was so baffling that some mistook it for a Hideo Kojima production. That is not a bad thing! Pragmata was supposed to be out in 2022, but today, Capcom announced that the game has been pushed back...
The Art Of Forza Horizon 5
18.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 is fun as hell, but I think the main reason so many more people seem into it than the last entry in the series is how it looks. Not in terms of the number of polygons on the screen, but just the vibe of it. Read more
PlayStation Boss Calls Out Activision Following Dire Kotick Revelations
17.11.2021
As the wider gaming world reacts to yesterday’s latest wave of allegations against senior figures at Activision, including the reigning world champion of hubris-before-a-fall, CEO Bobby Kotick, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan expressed his disappointment at Activision’s response. In an email sent...
Modders Fight GTA Lawsuit As ‘Definitive’ Bundle Crashes And Burns
17.11.2021
Attorneys representing the four defendants in Take-Two Interactive Software’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a group of Grand Theft Auto modders recently responded to the video game conglomerate’s complaint, flatly denying several allegations of wrongdoing. They also argue that their...
Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations
17.11.2021
Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modeled on its own, other companies began to corroborate with...
Atari’s New Collectible Game Cartridges Off To A Rocky Start
17.11.2021
Yesterday the folks at whatever counts as Atari these days launched Atari XP, a series of collectible and playable Atari 2600 cartridges featuring homebrew and prototype games never officially physically released. The cartridge collection’s debut was a bit messy, however, incorrectly attributing...
Saints Row Delayed To August 2022
17.11.2021
Volition’s Chief Creative Officer Jim Boone has announced that the release of the long-rumored Saints Row reboot has been pushed back over quality concerns. The less-silly Saints Row was scheduled for release on February 25, 2022—a month already packed with games. It will now be released on August...
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Talks About 'Exploitive' NFTs
17.11.2021
NFTs, otherwise known as An Enormous Fucking Scam, are taking root everywhere that someone smells a fast buck and someone else is dumb enough to join them. Which in 2021 is, sadly, a lot of places! So it’s a slight relief, even if it’s only temporary, to see Xbox boss Phil Spencer speak publicly...
What Phil Spencer Can’t Tell You About Elder Scrolls VI Exclusivity
16.11.2021
When the hotly-anticipated open world sci-fi RPG Starfield comes out next year it won’t be coming to PS4 or PS5. That’s a fact that seemed obvious the second Microsoft announced it was buying publisher Bethesda over a year ago in a groundbreaking $7.5 billion deal, but it took the Xbox team until...
Bobby Kotick Actually Wrote Fran Townsend's Deranged, Company-Wide Email
16.11.2021
Earlier this year, an email was sent to all employees of Activision Blizzard from the email account of Chief Compliance Officer, former Executive Sponsor of the ABV Employee Women’s Network and former Torture Apologist Fran Townsend. Sent in the midst of historic allegations of harassment against...
Halo Infinite’s Menus Are Surprisingly Complex
16.11.2021
Yesterday, Microsoft surprise-released Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode on Xbox and PC—albeit in a beta state—weeks ahead of its planned December 8 target. Feedback thus far is largely in lockstep: Hot damn, this shooter is fun to play, but, um, what’s up with...
Calls For Bobby Kotick’s Resignation Intensify As Employees Stage Walkout
16.11.2021
Social media is aflame with demands that video game industry exec Bobby Kotick resign from his position as CEO of Activision Blizzard in the wake of reporting from The Wall Street Journal about his own terrible treatment of women. Leading the charge are Activision Blizzard employees themselves,...
Blizzard's First Woman Co-Head Resigned Due To Being 'Tokenized, Marginalized, And Discriminated Against'
16.11.2021
Amongst the latest wave of troubling revelations to come out of Activision Blizzard, the Wall Street Journal reports that former exec Jennifer Oneal’s incredibly brief stint as co-head of Blizzard ended due to her being “tokenized, marginalized, and discriminated against.”Read more
Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Sucks, Fans Say
16.11.2021
Did you just eek out a nail biting victory in a Big Team Battle Slayer match? Bash a bunch of your fellow Spartans’ heads in with a flaming skull in Oddball? Capture a ton of objectives in Total Control, putting big numbers on the board for all your PVP comrades to see? Halo Infinite’s battle pass...
Don’t Let Halo Infinite Make You Forget About The Great New Game Pass Additions
16.11.2021
It’s hard to believe, I know, but there are other games coming to Xbox that don’t start with Halo and end with Infinite. Over the next two weeks, Microsoft will add 10 more games to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s what’s struck me: I’ve been watching these rollouts like a hawk for several years. For...
Company Of Heroes: The Kotaku Review
16.11.2021
I’ve reviewed a lot of video game adaptations as part of my board game coverage for Kotaku. As you’d expect, since this is first and foremost a video game website. Some of those adaptations have been OK, some have been pretty good, but I haven’t played any quite like Company of Heroes before.Read...
Star Fox Hack Boosts Its Notoriously Choppy Framerate
16.11.2021
Earlier today, Star Fox received a patch that allows the 1993 Super Nintendo classic to perform as if it was taking advantage of an advanced accelerator chip, boosting its framerate from the single digits to something nearing a more modern game.Read more
Battlefield 2042 Feels Like The Wrong Game At The Wrong Time
16.11.2021
When I nail an MV-38 Condor transport hovering in the lens flare-filled sky with my rocket launcher, Battlefield 2042 is awesome. When my squad bursts onto the climate-torn scene in a massive tank, ramming through debris and blowing up abandoned office buildings, it’s a thrill to return to DICE’s...
70+ Classic Games Are Coming To Xbox, Some of Them With Performance Boosts
15.11.2021
Today during Microsoft’s 20th anniversary Xbox event, the company announced that 76 new games are being added to the Xbox backwards compatibility library, including the entire Max Payne franchise, F.E.A.R series, multiple Star Wars games, and more. Xbox also announced that some of these classics...