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The Week In Games: Heroes In A Half-Shell!
11.6.2022
????Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—Shredder’s Revenge is—OUT THIS WEEK!????Read more
49 Under-The-Radar Games That Belong On Your Radar
11.6.2022
Video game marketing season is an exercise in duality. For every Sony State of Play or Geoff Keigh3, there’s a lower key event—a Day of the Devs, say, or a Devolver Digital showcase. Today’s big one is the annual Guerrilla Collective livestream.Read more
Let's All Exploit The Exploitative Games
10.6.2022
There is, and should be, a huge amount of discussion and debate regarding the exploitative nature of so many practices in modern video games. From gacha and lootboxes to in-app purchases and meaningless cosmetics, right up to the recent idiocy regarding NFTs, both game players and the gaming press...
Once Again, A Quiet Indie Games Show Upstages A Bombastic ‘AAA’ Event
10.6.2022
Earlier today, Geoff Keighley kicked off this year’s Not-E3 season with Summer Game Fest, a loud, two-hour showcase of all the ways you’ll be able to murder people in video games over the next year or so. It was, to be quite honest, a lot. Thankfully, the folks at Day of the Devs showed...
Extremely Stylish Shooter Neon White Comes Out Next Week
9.6.2022
Neon White, an extremely stylish shooter about exterminating demons as fast as possible, finally has a release date. It’s out June 16 for PC and Switch.Read more
Everything Shown At Summer Game Fest’s Big Kickoff Event
9.6.2022
Summer Game Fest. Hot Geoff Summer. The Geoffening. Keigh3. Call it what you will, but despite a notable absence of E3 this year, the de facto high video game marketing season is nonetheless underway. Over the course of a streamed event that ran for two hours but felt like 2o, host Geoff Keighley...
PlayStation Accidentally Reveals The Last Of Us PS5 Remake Coming September 2
9.6.2022
PlayStation Direct was recently (and inadvertently, it seems) updated with information on The Last of Us Part 1, a remake of the original Naughty Dog adventure game coming to PlayStation 5 on September 2 and PC at a later date. Everything is gone now, but the internet never forgets.Read more
E3 Says It's Coming Back In 2023
8.6.2022
The Electronic Entertainment Expo used to be the cornerstone of the video game industry, the week that every publisher, developer and fan had circled in their calendars because it was where the biggest news, reveals and interviews of the year could be had.Read more
Battlefield 2042’s First Season, Out June 9, Might Be Too Little Too Late
7.6.2022
Does the saying “better late than never” apply to live service games? Today, developer DICE unveiled “Zero Hour,” the delayed first season of Battlefield 2042, its troubled futuristic military shooter. It’s available on Thursday, June 9. Here’s a trailer:Read more
The Week In Games: Bend It Like Bowser
4.6.2022
It’s time once again to answer the age-old question: Who is the best soccer player among all the Mario characters? And thankfully on June 10 Mario Strikers: Battle League will provide us with yet another opportunity to solve one of life’s great mysteries.Read more
Great Queer Games Bundle Nets You 500+ Games For $60
3.6.2022
Huge bundles of games on the itch.io store are frequently used as a means of raising money for charitable causes. Typically, they let you set your own price (above an extremely reasonable minimum), and the proceeds go to various charities and organizations. The new Queer Games Bundle is a little...
Rollerdrome Is Like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater But With Guns
3.6.2022
Last night’s State of Play presentation from Sony was actually pretty good. We got a July 19 release date for the adorable cat game Stray, Resident Evil 4 Remake turned out to be a real thing that’s coming next year, and Final Fantasy XVI showed off some sumptuous gameplay. There was some really...
The First 11 Minutes Of Silt: What If Limbo But Underwater
3.6.2022
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Final Fantasy XVI Finally Shows Off Gameplay, Coming Next Year
3.6.2022
As a part of the PlayStation State of Play 2022, Square Enix showed off a gameplay trailer for the upcoming PS5 roleplaying game, Final Fantasy XVI. While the exact release date isn’t set, the game is currently slated to come out sometime in the summer of 2023.Read more
Resident Evil Village Is Getting A VR Port For PS5
3.6.2022
Who needs a real haunted house when you can put a fake haunted house on your face? If you own a PlayStation 5, stepping into a digital realm will be a lot easier soon. At today’s State of Play showcase, Capcom revealed that its 2021 horror game Resident Evil Village will be available...
Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Shaken Up By Its Own Wave-Dashing Moment
2.6.2022
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans are obsessed with ranking the game’s extensive, crossover cast of video game characters in tier lists. Tier lists constantly change to reflect alterations to the game’s meta, caused by balance updates released by Nintendo, but also players finding new techniques....
Junichi Masuda Leaves Game Freak To Join The Pokémon Company
1.6.2022
Junichi Masuda, Game Freak’s former managing director and one of the company’s founding members, has stepped down from the role, to take up a new position as The Pokémon Company’s “Chief Creative Fellow.”Read more
Respawn Boss Vince Zampella Speaks Out On Trans Rights, Even As EA Refuses
1.6.2022
Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment general manager and head of some of Electronic Arts’s biggest franchises, spoke out on Twitter in defense of transgender rights ahead of the start of Pride Month on June 1. Kotaku has learned that this rare display comes after an internal roundtable discussion...
The Latest Sims 4 Update Tries To Reckon With Its History Of Whitewashing
31.5.2022
A popular Sims 4 NPC family is at the center of a minor fan debate after getting an unexpected makeover, raising questions about The Sims’ complicated history of Eurocentric character design.Read more
Cursed Mario Kart Clone Starring Peter Griffin Is Actually Pretty Good
27.5.2022
I was horrified by the trailer for Warped Kart Racers, a new kart-racing game that blends together several popular animated shows. But like a terrible car wreck, I couldn’t look away from the waking nightmare of Peter Griffin and Hank Hill racing each other in a Mario Kart clone. It was cursed....