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GTA Has A Weird History On Nintendo Consoles
24.10.2021
Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest, most popular video game franchises in history. It has sold millions of games across nearly every platform released since the PS1 and courted more controversy than perhaps any other video game series ever created. And it’s done all this while mostly avoiding...
Destroy All Humans! 2 Remake Skipping Old Consoles So Devs Can Create Bigger, More Detailed Maps
23.10.2021
The devs behind THQ Nordic’s Destroy All Humans! 2 remake, out sometime next year, explained recently in an interview why the remake of the cult classic game is avoiding PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. The team decided to go for bigger, more detailed open world levels on next-gen consoles instead...
Someone Put OLED Switch’s Durability To The Test
23.10.2021
Nintendo’s new, updated Switch is selling well and looks great. But if you are lucky enough to find one this year, you might want to buy a screen protector for it as one YouTuber has discovered the Switch OLED screen is very soft and easily damaged by objects like coins or keys.Read more
Every Far Cry Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
23.10.2021
Way back in 2004 a then-unknown developer called Crytek released the first game in what would become the Far Cry series, wowing players with its impressive visuals and sprawling, outdoor maps. Crytek moved on to creating the Crysis series, Ubisoft bought up Far Cry and continues to make new entries...
Flipnote Studio Creations Find New Life On Crank-y Playdate Handheld
23.10.2021
Although it won’t officially be in our hands until later this year (if you got in on the first wave of pre-orders, that is), Panic’s unique Playdate handheld is already being poked and prodded by folks lucky enough to score a dev unit. One such developer recently shared a neat little project that...
The GTA Trilogy Remasters Look Great, But Shouldn’t Replace The Originals
23.10.2021
Today Rockstar finally showed footage of the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy remasters and they look surprisingly good, but also very different from the original games. This has raised concerns about erasing the series’ past, and also called to mind the fragmented state of game preservation.Read more
Square Enix Is Removing The Hated Denuvo DRM From A Bunch Of Games
22.10.2021
Square Enix patched the controversial digital rights management and anti-cheat software Denuvo out of Nier Replicant, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider earlier this week. Read more
Epic Games Faces Backlash After Ending Popular Time-Off Policy
22.10.2021
Epic Games, creator of the massively popular and lucrative battle royale Fortnite, decided to end a popular policy of allowing staff every other Friday off earlier this week. According to a new report by Bloomberg, which a source corroborated for Kotaku, the move angered staff who were caught...
What Happens When AI Tries To Review A Video Game
22.10.2021
It’s a comment I’ve seen hundreds of times, or variations of throughout my time here at Kotaku: internet complaints about the quality of reviews. “A bot can do better than this,” some would cry. So let’s put that to the test.Read more
Nintendo Delays Advance Wars Switch Remakes Until 2022
22.10.2021
The hottest Nintendo Switch game of the season is the latest to get hit with a delay. Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp won’t be out until spring 2022, Nintendo revealed this morning, completely upending my holiday plans in the process.Read more
Ubisoft Brings Back Might and Magic Game They Shut Down In July
22.10.2021
In June, Ubisoft took down some DRM servers that accidentally broke Might & Magic X - Legacy, to the point where the game had to be removed from shopfronts. A few months later, and probably after some folks had long assumed the game was simply dead, it’s back.Read more
Your Next Game Pass Pick Is An RPG That Combines Stranger Things and EarthBound
21.10.2021
I’m not normally a fan of turn-based RPGs, but Echo Generation’s voxel-based visuals caught my attention, so I decided to give it a shot. I’m very glad I did. While it’s a sometimes frustrating game, it has enough charm and style that I enjoyed it even when I got stuck. It also doesn’t overstay...
Stardew Valley Dev Returns With A Cozy RPG About Haunted Chocolate
21.10.2021
Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the developer behind the popular farming simulator RPG Stardew Valley, has announced his next game. It’s called ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier, and though it looks like his previous hit, this action RPG is more concerned with confections than the garden.Read more
Among Us Is Finally Coming To PlayStation And Game Pass
21.10.2021
Better late than never, right? A year after Among Us blew up during the pandemic, and three years after it first released on Steam, Innersloth’s murder spree sim is finally coming to PlayStation and Xbox consoles on December 14.Read more
After Backlash, Mass Effect 3 Devs Say Team Crunched To Deliver New Ending
21.10.2021
Almost a decade ago the internet blew up over Mass Effect 3’s controversial ending, resulting in death threats and online harassment of BioWare developers and helping to set a new, terrible tone for the video game fan/developer relationship in the years since. It also reportedly resulted in more...
7 Uncharted Game References You May Have Missed In The Movie Trailer
21.10.2021
This morning, Sony released the first official trailer for the Uncharted movie, starring Tom Holland as the terminally henley-wearing rogue Nathan Drake. Movies based on video games don’t have the best track record, of course, but it nonetheless looks pretty fun..Read more
Attn Bane: Razer’s High-Tech RGB Covid Mask Is Finally Out
21.10.2021
During this year’s all-digital CES in January, hardware maker Razer revealed Project Hazel, a futuristic filtration mask meant to keep gamers covid-free while looking like Mad Max extras. That conceptual project is now the Razer Zephyr, a real product you can buy for $100. And while it might...
New Larger Xbox Storage Expansion Costs More Than An Xbox Series S
21.10.2021
Microsoft has just announced two new SSD storage expansion cards, made by its official storage partner, Seagate, to boost space on your Xbox Series S or X. Joining the already released 1TB card will be a 512GB card for $139.99, and a hefty 2TB for $399.99, released in November and December...
Scrapped Tomb Raider Survival Horror Game Looks Legit Creepy
21.10.2021
It’s kind of serendipitous that Square Enix is celebrating Tomb Raider’s 25th anniversary in October. Just in time for Halloween, likely unintentionally honoring the spooky season, the publisher has unveiled early development footage of a canceled Lara Croft adventure that saw the British explorer...
Here's What All Those Pumpkins Do In Pokémon Unite's Big Halloween Patch
21.10.2021
Pokémon Unite looks a lot spookier this week, but the Halloween update isn’t purely cosmetic. In addition to new skins and customization options, daily quests and challenges now dole out pumpkins. But the ultimate prize of the event might be a license for the Normal-type Pokémon Greedent.Read more