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Geoff Keighley: Big Companies Have To Treat Their Developers Right
7.6.2024
The host of E3 replacement Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley, kicked off the showcase’s fourth year by doing wat many have called on the veteran industry insider to do for months: acknowledge the current state of mass layoffs, cuts, and cancellations at some of gaming’s biggest publishers...
Lego Horizon Adventures Is Real And Coming Out Next Year On PS5 And Nintendo Switch
7.6.2024
Announced today during Summer Game Fest’s kick-off event, Lego Horizon Adventures combines the colorful bricks of Lego with the robot dinosaurs and open-world action of Horizon. It’s an odd combo but looks cool. And wildly, its coming to Switch as well as PS5 and PC later this year.Read more
Nintendo And Sega Raid Longstanding ROM Sanctuary To Remove Tons Of Classic Games
7.6.2024
Vimm’s Lair, one of the oldest places on the web to find and download classic video game ROMs and emulators, recently announced the removal of many titles due to requests from Sega, Nintendo, Sony, the Entertainment Software Association, and Lego. Read more
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Wants To Give You The Best Summer Vacation Ever
7.6.2024
AFinal Fantasy XIV concluded a massive saga when Endwalker released at the tail end of 2021, and has spent the patches since planting seeds about where it’s headed next. Dawntrail, the long-running MMO’s fifth expansion, is the product of those seeds, and it’s taking players to Tural,...
Billboard Outside Summer Game Fest Pays Tribute To Everyone Who’s Lost Their Industry Jobs
7.6.2024
Hundreds of the biggest names in the video game industry are gathered in Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest this week. Most of the week will be made up of ads and spotlights for upcoming games. Historically, Geoff Keighley’s showcases and events have unfortunately not been a place to talk about...
Report: Original Halo Is Getting Another Remaster And It Could Come To PS5
6.6.2024
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusives. New reporting at The Verge offers a few more...
A 1-Minute Trailer At Summer Game Fest Costs $250K
6.6.2024
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest begins later this week and people around the world are excited to see all the trailers and teasers. And a new report, corroborated by Kotaku, reveals the high price it costs publishers and devs to show their games at the event.Read more
Indie Dev's Reply After Cloning Someone's Game: 'Happens Every Day Homie'
5.6.2024
Here’s a weird one. A video game developer was contacted by another developer and the two shared some tips and advice with each other. Then a year later, one of those devs turned around and cloned the other’s game and, when questioned about it, replied that this kind of thing happens “every...
New Jak And Daxter PC Mod Finally Lets You Play Multiplayer
5.6.2024
Jak and Daxter, Naughty Dog’s pre-Uncharted mascot platformer on the PlayStation 2, may have been forgotten by Sony, but not by fans. Sure, you can play the original trilogy and the kart racing spin-off Jak X on your PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility with the PS4 bundle, but it’s highly...
Long-Rumored Final Fantasy IX Remake Is ‘Very Far Along’ According To Latest Leaks
5.6.2024
Reliable leaker Midori is back with some new information, but this time it isn’t about the Persona series. Midori, who has a track record of revealing announcements like the Persona 3 Reload’s Episode Aigis, has an update on the long-rumored remake of Final Fantasy IX. According to the leaker,...
Destiny 2 Players Spent The Final Shape's First Night Erroring Out Of Major Cutscenes
5.6.2024
Destiny 2's long-awaited finale for 10 years of cosmic storytelling is finally here, and players spent the first day struggling to get through pivotal cutscenes without the servers crashing and booting them back into outer space. Bungie’s overnight fixes have fortunately brought some much needed...
Beloved Square Enix RPG Series Could Finally Sort Out Its Messy Exclusivity
5.6.2024
Square Enix’s pledge to end all its console exclusivity nonsense is already bearing fruit. As spotted by the eagle eyes at Gematsu, beloved RPG Octopath Traveler has been rated in Taiwan for PlayStation, and Octopath Traveler II—previously announced for Xbox—could appear as soon as this month.Read...
The Star Wars Hotel Failure Was Just A Real-Life Bad Video Game Launch
4.6.2024
Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Exegol for the last month, you’ve probably heard of YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s viral, four-hour-long video reviewing the Star Wars hotel, officially known as Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Titled “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel,” it goes...
Geoff Keighley Wants You To Lower Your Expectations For Summer Game Fest
3.6.2024
If you are hoping to see an endless parade of “World Premiere!” announcements at this year’s Summer Game Fest, maybe don’t. The show’s host, Geoff Keighley, is getting out ahead of this year’s iteration of the annual June showcase to set expectations for fans about what exactly will be at the show....
How To Start Elden Ring’s New Game+ In Preparation For Shadow Of The Erdtree
3.6.2024
Shadow of the Erdtree, the hotly anticipated DLC for FromSoftware’s award-winning action RPG Elden Ring, is dropping on June 21. So if it’s a while since you’ve picked up 2022’s open world soulslike you might want to dive back in ahead of Shadow of the Erdtree to get reacclimated to the world...
Baldur's Gate 3 Will Be Officially Moddable This Fall
3.6.2024
“Hey everyone,” says Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian in a breezy update on Steam, “We come bringing news of Patch 7!” But it’s more than a pile of bug-fixes: the headline here is the forthcoming official release of what they call “an officially sanctioned toolkit” that’ll allow fully supported...
Kotaku’s Best Game Tips For The Week June 01, 2024
1.6.2024
If you’re stuck on a tricky boss fight or a challenging puzzle, or just want to make the most of your time with a new release, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of the tips we found most helpful this week.Read more
Leaks Show Assassin's Creed And Rabbids Coming To Ubisoft's CoD-Like Shooter
31.5.2024
XDefiant, Ubisoft’s recently released free-to-play Call of Duty-like shooter, is set to get new factions and maps based on other Ubisoft games. That’s not a surprise. But now, thanks to a dataminer, we know that content from Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry: New Dawn, The Crew, and even the uh...Rabbids...
GTA Publisher Take-Two Reportedly Looking To Get Rid of Indie Label Private Division
31.5.2024
It looks like Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two is trying to get rid of its indie label, Private Division. This is according to a new IGN report that details how the company’s recent studio closures and mismanagement have been “quietly killing” the indie publisher. Read more
Every PlayStation Reference We Could Find In The Astro Bot Trailer
31.5.2024
PlayStation revealed a new Astro Bot game at the end of its May State of Play showcase, and it looks just as delightful as its predecessor. Astro’s Playroom was a wonderful platformer pack-in for the PS5, but it also was full of references to PlayStation’s history. It features robot versions...