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Scooby-Doo! Night Of 100 Frights Is A PS2 Classic Thanks To Its Great Music And Tim Curry
31.10.2021
I don’t expect much from licensed video games. So I was shocked when I came across the soundtrack for Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, a 2002 PS2 game based on the popular ‘70s cartoon. Turns out this game’s music slaps. Read more
Alone In The Dark Scared The Crap Out Of Me
29.10.2021
I am scared of many things in video games. Sharks mostly, but there’s other stuff. Nothing has ever scared me, though, as much as 1992's Alone in the Dark.Read more
How Halloween Became a Thing in Japan
28.10.2021
When I first came to Japan in 2001, Halloween was not a thing. At all. Well, it was if you were a foreigner, but Japanese people just didn’t really get it.Read more
Buzz Lightyear Trailer Makes No Sense, Breaks Internet's Brain
27.10.2021
When I woke up today, I expected my kitchen to be a mess because I binged The Morning Show instead of cleaning it last night. Despite it already being Wednesday, I was also prepared to be overwhelmed by the truckload of tasks I have yet to cross off my to-do list this week. What I was not ready...
House of Ashes: The Kotaku Review
26.10.2021
House of Ashes wants you to know that it’s a video game so bad that it sometimes undermines its own cinematic power with gameplay that feels obligatory rather than supportive of its storytelling. Yet it also wants the prestige associated with blockbuster American films with weighty themes, and gets...
The Real Fakery Of The Ouija Board
25.10.2021
There’s a simple explanation for how the Ouija board works: it’s not ghosts, but how you feel about them.Read more
GTA Online Is Currently Haunted By Killer Clowns And Ghost Cars
21.10.2021
Grand Theft Auto Online is dangerous enough all year round, thanks to assholes and rocket bikes. But now, it’s even more dangerous and spooky, thanks to new Halloween-themed content added to the game via the latest update. If you head into GTA Online, be on the lookout for UFOs, deadly ghost cars...
Player 67
18.10.2021
Vimal Kerketta is an artist at DNEG, a visual effects studio that has recently worked on stuff like No Time To Die and Star Trek: Discovery.Read more
The Best (Not Scary) Games To Play This Halloween Season
17.10.2021
Halloween is here and while you may enjoy this holiday, you might not be as into scary horror games as others. You aren’t alone! Horror games can be incredibly intense, even for those who love a good scary movie. But maybe you still want to enjoy some games on Halloween, just without all the jump...
The Official Guilty Gear Strive Tinder Tier List
30.9.2021
Welcome to my mind palace. I was just playing the recent-ish fighting game Guilty Gear Strive, and couldn’t stop noticing how all of the character portraits look like Tinder profiles. So, of course, I have chosen to sit down and create my own tier list, based on how successful and/or good I think...
After 10,000 Years, Rita Repulsa Joins The Power Rangers Fighting Game
15.9.2021
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, nWay’s fantastic three-on-three fighting game, is still going strong more than two years after its initial release. This year, the devs plan to add three new fighters to the ever-expanding roster, a group that includes the iconic space sorceress Rita Repulsa.Read...
New Rocky Game Is Basically A Visual Novel With Arcade Boxing Action
12.9.2021
As somebody who loves underdog stories and punching, you know I enjoy me some Rocky. I’ve watched all the movies (good and bad) and I’m a big of the recent sequel franchise, Creed. So when I got sent a code to check out a new Creed/Rocky boxing game, I was excited. When I saw it was a throwback...
April O’Neil Finally Gets To Kick Some Shell In TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
25.8.2021
Look, I’m excited about Saints Row and Marvel: Midnight Suns and all the other big announcements out of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase. But my favorite announcement of all concerns Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Yes, today Geoff Keighley revealed that, for the first time...
Straight Up Not Having A Good Time
24.8.2021
Victor Cloux is an artist based in China.Read more
Anticipated PS5 App For Horror Game Abandoned Accidentally Trolls Everyone
13.8.2021
After tons of wild fan speculation and lots of technical delays, Blue Box Game Studios’ PS5 app for hyping its upcoming horror game, Abandoned, is officially here. It’s as anticlimactic as you might have expected given everything leading up to its release.Read more
Idris Elba Teases Knuckles Role In Sonic Movie Sequel
10.8.2021
After a ton of speculation about Knuckles’ inclusion in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, we now apparently have confirmation that the red echidna will appear in the upcoming movie as well as who will be voicing him: Idris freakin’ Elba.Read more
Agent 47, Welcome To The Flower Show
6.8.2021
Hitman 3's latest event, out today, is the Dartmoor Garden Show. Doesn’t it just look serene.Read more
GTA Online's Latest Update Adds A Hard-To-Kill Terminator Knock-Off
25.7.2021
Los Santos Tuners, the latest Grand Theft Auto Online update, was released earlier this week and it added a bunch of new cars and races into the game. But the update isn’t just about cool cars, fast races and car meets. The new update also added some fun Easter eggs, including a very strong NPC...
Goodbye Nathan, Wordsmith And Internet Whisperer
24.7.2021
Senior reporter, Twitch expert, and longtime Steamed proprietor Nathan Grayson is leaving us today. We tried to get him to stay but after seven belly-achingly long years he decided it was time to finally go join Facebook Gaming as its new head of Good Community Vibes. Read more
The Messy, Stalled Reckoning At An Assassin's Creed Co-Developer
21.7.2021
Ubisoft Singapore has always been kind of known [internally] to be one of the worst Ubisoft studios in terms of culture,” said one former developer at the publisher of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. “People would visit [from other studios] and be like, ‘What the fuck is wrong here?’”Read more