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Chinese Gaming Giants Lose Eight Bethesdas In Value Amid Government Crackdown
9.9.2021
Bloomberg reports that the value of China’s largest gaming companies, Tencent and NetEase, plummeted dramatically during an overnight stock selloff, resulting in losses totaling more than $60 billion between the two. To put that in perspective, that’s about eight times what Microsoft spent...
God of War Dev Who Helped Design Iconic Axe Passes
7.9.2021
With its thick, meaty impact and the satisfying smack of it returning after being thrown, the Leviathan Axe from 2018’s God of War is one of the most memorable weapons in all of gaming. This week, members of Sony’s Santa Monico Studio and gamers everywhere mourn the passing of George Mawle,...
Tripwire CEO 'Steps Down' After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law
7.9.2021
John Gibson, the CEO of Tripwire Interactive—the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor—has “stepped down” following enormous public and internal backlash over his support of Texas’ recent decision to strip women of a basic human right.Read more
Creating Interactive Product Pages With React and Cloudinary
6.9.2021
With Cloudinary and React, create low-bandwidth, interactive product pages for e-commerce on which shoppers can specify sizes, colors, and custom text.
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Killing Floor Boss Pleased Texas Women Losing Basic Human Rights
5.9.2021
According to a tweet posted yesterday by John Gibson, the president of Tripwire Interactive—the studio behind Maneater and Killing Floor—he is “proud” that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a new Texas anti-abortion law to stand earlier this week.Read more
Sony Will No Longer Offer Free Next-Gen Upgrades For Its First-Party Games
5.9.2021
Good news: You won’t have to pay Sony extra money to upgrade your PS4 copy of Horizon Forbidden West to a PS5 version. Bad news: Sony ain’t offering free upgrades any more after this. Read more
Ambitious GTA Underground Mod Shutdown After Six Years Due To 'Increasing Hostility' From Take-Two
4.9.2021
After months of Take-Two Interactive attacking and fighting GTA modders, the folks behind the long-in-development San Andreas mod, GTA Underground, have killed the project and removed it from the web over “increasing hostility” from Take-Two and fears of further legal problems.Read more
Dev's Game Finally Works After Fixing 40-Year-Old Typo
3.9.2021
Back in the early ’80s, when computer games were often distributed as lines of code you had to type in yourself, teenage TRS-80 hobbyist and future Fast Company tech editor Harry McCracken had a text adventure called Arctic Adventure published in The Captain ‘80 Book of Basic Adventures....
Take-Two Sues GTA Reverse Engineering Project
3.9.2021
Take-Two Interactive is pulling a Nintendo. Yesterday, the Grand Theft Auto publisher filed suit in California’s Northern District against 14 programmers behind re3 project, a fan-driven effort that offers reverse-engineered source code for Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.Read...
XCOM Marvel Game Sees Avengers and X-Men Go Full Yu-Gi-Oh!
1.9.2021
We knew almost nothing about Marvel: Midnight Suns when it was revealed at Gamescom last week other than the fact that it was a strategy game being developed by XCOM-makers Firaxis Games. Today the studio showed off actual gameplay, and it turns out the tactics game’s combat will be card-based.Read...
Between Hitman 2 And Overcooked!, September's PS Plus Is Pretty Solid
1.9.2021
Between the bone-rattling screams of “How is it already September!?” and “Wow, 2020 Part II is going by so fast and it still sucks,” a multinational mega-corporation whispered the clarion call of “free* games.” Yes, earlier today, Sony unveiled September’s PS Plus games. Compared to the offerings...
Millions Of Players Later, Outriders Devs Still Waiting For Money
17.8.2021
By the numbers, Outriders is one of the year’s big success stories. And yet, developer People Can Fly apparently hasn’t received any royalties from Square Enix, the loot-shooter’s publisher. As reported by VGC, People Can Fly wrote in an investor note that “this probably means that, in Square...
The GTA Remastered Trilogy Appears To Be Real, And Coming To Switch
12.8.2021
After months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classic Grand Theft Auto games. Currently, it appears these games will be released later this fall for a multitude of platforms, including the portable Nintendo Switch. Read more
Using Web Components in WordPress is Easier Than You Think
12.8.2021
Now that we’ve seen that web components and interactive web components are both easier than you think, let’s take a look at adding them to a content management system, namely WordPress.
There are three major ways we can add them. …
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Take-Two Goes On Another Grand Theft Auto Mod-Killing Spree
11.8.2021
A wave of Grand Theft Auto modifications have been hit with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes from publisher Take-Two Interactive, according to a statement posted to popular mod repository LibertyCity yesterday.Read more
Superhero Animation Effect with SVG Filters
9.8.2021
Learn how to create an interactive superhero-like illustration effect for the web using SVG filters and masks.
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Report: Horizon Forbidden West Delayed To 2022
30.7.2021
Sony has delayed Horizon Forbidden West until next year, Bloomberg reports. Originally scheduled to arrive this holiday season, the big PlayStation console exclusive will now come out sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Read more
PS2 Game Boxes Almost Looked A Lot Cooler
30.7.2021
PS2 game boxes were entirely unremarkable, because they looked like every other plastic case available at the time, from Xbox games to DVDs. But an earlier design for them that Sony ended up ditching was a lot more interesting.Read more
Vydavatelství Annapurna předvedlo svou vyumělkovanou sestavu her
30.7.2021
Pokud hledáte zajímavé a neobvyklé hry, vyplatí se sledovat produkci vydavatelství Annapurna Interactive. Jeho vůbec první herní konference přinesla spoustu informací o chystaných titulech a také několik novinek. Seznam partnerství s herními vývojáři se navíc značně rozrůstá
Big 2019 GOTY Contender Outer Wilds Is Getting DLC
29.7.2021
Outer Wilds, the first-person space exploration game beloved by everyone at or no longer at Kotaku—and also every other sentient being on this planet—is getting an expansion. It’s called Echoes of the Eye, and is slated for a September 28 release. Developer Mobius Digital announced the news...