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Prequel To Cult Japanese RPG Is Doing Very Nicely On Kickstarter
19.5.2023
While the Golden Age of video games making bank on Kickstarter is long gone, that isn’t to say there aren’t still success stories on the platform. And a big one this month is Elin, a roguelike RPG out of Japan that’s trying to deliver on dreams that fans have been harbouring for 15 years...
Cult Mech Game Hawken Is Coming Back From The Dead
16.5.2023
Back in 2011, a mech combat game was announced that blew the internet’s socks clean off. With a Maschinen Krieger-inspired aesthetic and fast-paced, stomping robot action, Hawken looked like one of the coolest video games the world had ever seen.Read more
Top 9 hacker and cybersecurity movies
3.4.2023
Movies about hacking and cybersecurity, such as WarGames, The Matrix and Mr. Robot, have helped viewers explore the potential risks of technology
We’ve Barely Seen The True, Horrifying Nature Of The Mandalorian’s Death Cult
14.3.2023
The Mandalorian season 3 is two episodes in and the religious undertones are strong with this one. Din Djarin, freshly reunited with his adopted son Grogu, is trying to get back in with his people, a clan of Mandalorians known as the Children of the Watch. But for those of us who know exactly...
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin’s Address Sells Trillions of Airdropped Tokens, Causes Illiquid Coin Prices to Plummet
8.3.2023
On March 7, onchain observers noticed that Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, had allegedly sold billions and trillions of airdropped ERC20 tokens, resulting in a gain of an estimated $700,000 in value. The market liquidity of the airdropped tokens was shallow, and the relatively unknown...
Vitalik dumps $700K worth of shitcoins that he never asked for
8.3.2023
As Vitalik Buterin’s holdings represented a large portion of the circulating supply for some of the tokens, the sales resulted in huge price drops
How Social Media Influencers Fed Bankman-Fried's Cult of Personality
18.1.2023
Creators took money that was likely stolen from FTX customers to promote a Ponzi scheme. If they truly care, they should take the money they received from FTX and either return it to the bankruptcy estate or donate it all to charity
6 Games To Play Now You've Finished Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
9.1.2023
It’s almost two months since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released, meaning there’s a fairly good chance that by now, you’ve finished everything it has to offer. So what next? How do you fill that hole? Don’t worry, it’s OK, we’ve got you. Here are six games that should scratch that same itch.Read...
The Pokémon Devs Made A Cult Hit That You Now Have Another Chance To Play
3.1.2023
2023’s first gaming surprise is here, and it’s a shockingly pleasant one: Pocket Card Jockey is coming to Apple Arcade on January 20. Game Freak’s experimental 3DS game is notable for both being really fun and one of the studio’s only non-Pokémon releases, and Apple’s ongoing exercise...
Alyssa Mercante’s Top 10 Games Of 2022
16.12.2022
2022 wasn’t just the year that I started here at Kotaku, or the year that I accidentally went viral for daring to ask rich guys to dress nice at awards shows—it was also the year that I forced myself to stretch outside of my comfort zone.Read more
FTX ex-staffer: Extravagant expenditures and cult-like worshipping of SBF
15.12.2022
A former FTX employee has revealed details regarding the lavish expenditures of the exchange as well as its intense company culture
The Most Mesmerizing Video Game Box Art Of 2022
13.12.2022
Video game box art is like a visual handshake between the game and the player. If its art is tantamount to a limp handshake, gamers will forget about it and move on to a video game that seizes their attention with a firm grasp. While many have an uninspired Marvel Cinematic Universe-esque composite...
Epic vs. Apple - will the 'walled garden' get breached?
16.11.2022
Also: growing your social media presence with Cult Of The Lamb
Other Developers Share Footage Of What Their Games Looked Like Early In Development
21.9.2022
The Grand Theft Auto VI leaks were big news for all kinds of reasons, but one of the more interesting talking points has been the revival of a discussion about how “bad” a game can look in front of the public.Read more
Cult Of The Lamb’s Take On Resurrection Is Total Nightmare Fuel
26.8.2022
A few of us at Kotaku have been obsessed recently with Cult of the Lamb, the buzzy new Devolver-published roguelike about a cult led by a lamb. Last week, Kotaku’s Sisi Jiang asked me a simple question about the game in Slack: “Are we the baddies?”Read more
Cult Of The Lamb, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.8.2022
Cult of the Lamb, the roguelite adventure game Kotaku’s very own Ari Notis called “dizzyingly original” in his review, is developing its followers’ unwavering faith. But I haven’t yet played the game, released on August 11, and so, like an unshorn California girl in the ‘60s, I need someone to show...
Plus: Thymesia & Madden duke it out in top new releases...
19.8.2022
Also: Cult Of The Lamb still blastin', as we look at lots of other charts
18 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Cult Of The Lamb
18.8.2022
Despite what Hollywood may have you think running a cult is tough work—or at least it is in Cult of the Lamb. Out now for consoles and PC, Cult of the Lamb is, depending on who you ask, an action roguelike with city-builder elements or a city-builder with action roguelike elements. Either way, it’s...
Cult Of The Lamb Is 2022’s Latest GOTY Contender
17.8.2022
And just like that, 2022’s game of the year season has begun, not with a bang but with the whimpered bleat of a cartoon sheep. Yes, action-cum-management game Cult of the Lamb is excellent—a fascinating creature from the Island of Dr. Moreau’s Video Game Boutique that turns its adorable nose up...
How To Calculate A Game's True Value From Its Price And Length
15.8.2022
As we all know, video games are judged on four criteria: The graphics, the gameplay familiarity, the price, and the length. But often times, the “video games media” conflates such objective judgements with corrupting elements of so-called artistic value and cultural impact. With games like...