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Xbox to enhance game dialogues with generative AI through new partnership
7.11.2023
The company will provide an AI toolset for game developers to improve scripts, dialogue trees and quests inside games
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable
7.11.2023
On Monday, during the first day of the Epic v. Google legal showdown over app store fees, both companies gave their opening statements and began poking at each other’s witnesses. And during the day, Epic admitted that its digital PC game store still isn’t profitable. Read more
New Burnout Game On Switch Eshop Is Just A Shameless Knockoff
6.11.2023
Oh wow! Look, a new Burnout game is out now! Awesome, I love those super-fast racing games filled with vehicular carnage and big jumps. What a surprise! Oh weird, this new entry is only on the Switch eShop. And wait…oh no…Read more
Laid-Off Dragon Age Testers Will Picket BioWare
6.11.2023
Former quality assurance testers who worked on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf are preparing to picket outside Bioware’s Edmonton offices after being laid off earlier this year. Electronic Arts tried to block the protest but the developers prevailed in a ruling by the Alberta Labour Relations Board...
A Year Ago, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Ending Proved The Series Potential
6.11.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are all about finding freedom in their open world. This is as true mechanically as it is thematically, as the pair of Switch RPGs let you freely explore the Paldea region in search of your own “treasure.” They posit that the Pokémon world is full of possibilities and that...
PlayStation Is Losing The Reason Its Share Button Exists
6.11.2023
PlayStation 5 is ditching its integration with Twitter, the social media platform recently rebranded as “X” after Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion and then promptly crashed it into a brick wall like a dad coming home from a mid-life crisis bender in his brand-new Ferrari. Nintendo Switch will...
Roblox Players Say Pro-Palestinian Games Are Being Taken Down
6.11.2023
Two weeks ago, hundreds of Roblox players jumped into a custom game that let them take part in a pro-Palestine march. The game, which appeared to have been organized by Malaysian Roblox players, was made in response to the escalating violence in the Middle East. On October 7, the Islamic political...
Xbox Getting AI-Generated Content And It Sounds Like Hell
6.11.2023
Microsoft is betting everything on AI, Wired reported earlier this year. And now we know those bets includes gaming. On November 6, the company announced a new business deal to bring AI-generated non-player characters and more to the platform. The tools will be optional for developers. I’m sure...
Silent Hill 2 Remake Fans Losing It Over Possible Gameplay Change
6.11.2023
Fans will go searching underneath their couch cushions to find more information about Silent Hill 2, the highly anticipated but, as of now, secretive remake of the beloved survival horror game by Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team. The game does not yet have a release date (though fans have...
Alan Wake 2: The Kotaku Review
6.11.2023
I put off writing this Alan Wake 2 review because I was scared. Scared that I’d look into myself and find I wasn’t up to the task, that I lacked the right words, with nothing to offer but emptiness and failure. It’s not at all uncommon, though, for writers to be wracked with doubt. Many years...
The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
6.11.2023
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Venture Is Overwatch 2’s First Non-Binary Hero
6.11.2023
While the new tank hero Mauga was the headliner of Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 showing at Blizzcon this weekend, the dev team also highlighted two more playable characters coming to the hero shooter next year: a DPS character named Venture and a support hero code named Space Ranger. If you only watched...
Nintendo's New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate OLED Switch Bundle Is A Great Holiday Deal
6.11.2023
Just in time for Black Friday budgeting, Nintendo announced a Switch bundle launching on November 19 that’ll package the OLED model of the handheld-console hybrid with the crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.Read more
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Kotaku Review
6.11.2023
Kazuma Kiryu has been hitting the cigs pretty hard.Read more
The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Franchise, Explained
6.11.2023
The Call of Duty franchise has continually set sales records and delivered rock-solid multiplayer experiences, almost single handedly carrying the first-person shooter genre into the modern era. It remains a crucial pillar in the gaming industry, so much so that Sony and Microsoft were fighting...
Spot Bitcoin ETF hype reignited zest for blockchain games: Yat Siu
6.11.2023
The Animoca Brands founder and CEO says spot Bitcoin ETF enthusiasm has directly correlated to increased confidence and activity in GameFi
38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever
5.11.2023
At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a Time Magazine cover story in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: “GRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the World!”Read more
A Parent’s Guide to Super Mario Bros. Wonder
4.11.2023
Good parenting is a lot like being a solid player two. You want to be supportive, curious, and competent. You’re there to have a good time, and understand going with the flow is key to harmony. This can be a challenge with kids and video games when you’re actually, literally, player two, especially...
World Of Warcraft’s Next Three Expansions Announced At Blizzcon
3.11.2023
At Blizzcon 2023, Blizzard announced it’s preparing to enter what it’s calling World of Warcraft’s “Worldsoul Saga,” a multi-expansion story arc in the MMORPG that it plans to roll out over the course of the next three expansions.Read more
Plus: which recent PC games have the most 'staying power'?
3.11.2023
Also: all the regular sales analysis for the week!