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Original Splinter Cell Being Remade By Far Cry 6 Devs
15.12.2021
After refusing to do anything meaningful with the Splinter Cell license in the years since 2013’s Blacklist: Aftermath, Ubisoft seems to haTve heard the fans’ plaintive cries because it’s decided to bring sneaky spy Sam Fisher back in a new remake of the original 2002 Xbox classic.Read more
The Switch Had An Uneven 2021 Despite Outselling The Competition All Year
14.12.2021
The Nintendo Switch had a pretty odd 2021, all things considered. This has been a bit of a slow year, and it is no wonder why. Developers were thrown into panic, as most of us were, by 2020’s covid-19 outbreak. While this did slow things down in 2020, a lot of games released that year were already...
Ripple chair's pay-off plan to convince BTC miners to adopt Proof of Stake
10.12.2021
Billionaire Chris Larsen said that miners should view the move away from PoW as “a net positive for their longevity.”
Garfield's Gonna Kick Monday's Ass In The Nickelodeon Fighting Game
8.12.2021
Internet sensation Garfield is the first post-release character being added to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the devs behind the impressive Smash-style platform fighter announced today.Read more
Australian Tax Office says it can't rely on crypto users' own records
26.11.2021
“Our main concern is that many taxpayers believe their cryptocurrency gains are tax-free or only taxable when the holdings are cashed back into Australian dollars,” said the ATO commissioner
International Authorities Seize A Butt Ton Of Fake Pokémon Cards
23.11.2021
It seems some folks wanted to be the very best, like no one ever was. An unnamed company’s plans were apparently thwarted recently, however, when officials at China’s Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport seized 7.6 tons of counterfeit Pokémon cards.Read more
It Is 2021. Star Citizen Has Raised $400,000,000, And Is Still Not Out.
22.11.2021
It is 2007. I am playing a game on Xbox Live Arcade called Wing Commander Arena. It is a top-down shooter, and I hate it. This is not Wing Commander. Why has nobody made a new Wing Commander. Read more
Six Things We Learned Today About Halo Infinite
19.11.2021
Halo Infinite has had one hell of a week. On Monday—the sci-fi franchise’s 20th birthday—series stewards 343 Industries surprise-released Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode, weeks ahead of schedule, to instant-zeitgeist reception. Today, various sites published glowing previews of the first few hours...
Four Hours With Dying Light 2: Beyond An Open-World Zombie Game
16.11.2021
Dying Light 2 was announced all the way back at E3 2018. A lot has happened in the three years since, including multiple delays and the departure of RPG writer/designer Chris Avellone from the project following sexual harassment allegations. Now set to come out in February 2022 (alongside a bunch...
Ethereum 'has to bounce' as ETH bulls pin $5K rally hopes on critical support channel
12.11.2021
Many analysts agree that the "dynamic support" could boost accumulation sentiment in the Ethereum market
Netflix Devil May Cry Producer Assures World Chris Pratt Isn't Dante
5.11.2021
Adi Shankar, producer on Netflix’s excellent Castlevania series, sat down with IGN Japan to discuss one of his next projects, an animated adaptation of Capcom’s action-heavy Devil May Cry franchise. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s any room for Chris Pratt in the voice cast.Read more
RTFKT partners with Daz 3D to advance metaverse NFT’s
4.11.2021
The digital NFT collective is expected to debut their pfp avatar collection, titled CloneX, later this month
Hooray, Oculus Quest Devices No Longer Require Facebook Accounts
29.10.2021
While the biggest news from the Facebook Connect livestream was Facebook’s rebranding to Meta (which I refuse to use), the social media company also announced that Oculus Quest VR headsets will no longer require a Facebook account.Read more
26 NFT Developers Send Very Sad Letter To Valve After Steam Ban
29.10.2021
Earlier this month Valve instituted a ban on all cryptocurrency and NFT sales on Steam, which not only laid down rules governing the future sales (or lack thereof) of titles on its platform, but also booted a few games off that had already launched and were based on the technology.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...
Halo Infinite’s Craig, Once A Laughingstock, Now Looks Better Than Ever
25.10.2021
If any single character is a visual shorthand for Halo Infinite—more than Master Chief, more than Cortana, more than...that other AI—it’s Craig the Brute. A screenshot of his character model served as evidence for the game’s supposed graphical shortcomings last year. He showed up again during this...
What Happens When AI Tries To Review A Video Game
22.10.2021
It’s a comment I’ve seen hundreds of times, or variations of throughout my time here at Kotaku: internet complaints about the quality of reviews. “A bot can do better than this,” some would cry. So let’s put that to the test.Read more
Dragon Ball Voice Actor Chris Ayres Dies Age 56
20.10.2021
Chris Ayres, perhaps best known as Frieza’s English language voice actor, has passed away. Besides the iconic Dragon Ball character, Ayres also voiced Kei Kurono in Gantz, and Shingen Takeda in Sengoku Basara. He was 56 years old. Read more
Report: EA In A Messy Fight Over FIFA License, Money
13.10.2021
Last week EA hinted that it might be renaming its massively popular FIFA series. Now we know why. According to a new report by The New York Times, the International Federation of Association Football is asking the sports publishing giant to pay $1 billion for exclusive rights to the FIFA brand...
Pantera CEO Wants a Reminder the Day Before a US Bitcoin ETF Launches — ‘I Might Want to Take Some Chips off the Table’
11.10.2021
On October 6, Pantera Capital published an investor’s note written by Dan Morehead, the company’s CEO. Unlike the myriad of crypto investors who believe that a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will send the crypto asset’s value to the moon, Morehead explains it could be...