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Battle Royale Wrestling Game Looks Like A Cool Take On The Crowded Genre
10.12.2021
Whether you’re a gym rat, a lifeguard, or a music performer, the premise of Rumbleverse is simple: everyone’s out to beat the shit out of everyone else. Tonight, Iron Galaxy Studios revealed the battle royale at The Game Awards.Read more
Surprise: The Matrix Unreal Demo Is A Simple, Weirdly Fun Open-World Game
10.12.2021
Later this month, the next movie in The Matrix franchise hits theaters and streaming via HBO Max. But before that lands, WB and Epic Games have teamed up to bring fans something they’re calling “The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience.” So, what exactly is that? Well, it turns out it’s...
Here's The First Trailer For The Upcoming Halo TV Series
10.12.2021
Geoff’s Big Show gave us our first full trailer for the upcoming Halo TV series, streaming on Paramount+. It looks...fine. Its really hard to make Doom Guy armor look good in a real human setting.Read more
Sega Reveals Sonic Frontiers, The First Open-World Sonic Game
10.12.2021
We’ve seen Sonic the Hedgehog games with free-roaming hub areas, but a fully open-world Sonic? That’s an entirely new animal. Ready or not, here comes Sonic Frontiers, which Sega is calling Sonic’s first “open-zone-inspired gaming experience.” Check out the first trailer, as well as a...
New Game Nightingale Is Probably Your Next Time Traveling Co-op Fixation
10.12.2021
Time travel. A fae realm. A shared world with all manner of gameplay elements. Yes, Nightingale, the next game helmed by former BioWare vet Aaryn Flynn, is essentially Cool Game Yahtzee!, and I am here for it. Here’s an initial trailer:Read more
Sonic The Hedgehog 2's First Trailer, And Knuckles, Debuts At The Game Awards
10.12.2021
Tonight at The Game Awards Jim “Dr. Robotnik” Carrey and Ben “The Hedgehog” Schwartz took the stage to introduce the world premiere trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Somehow the First One Worked. Who’s ready for some hot Sonic and Tails action?Read more
Sonic The Hedgehog 2's First Trailer, And Knuckles, Debuts At The Game Awards
10.12.2021
Tonight at The Game Awards Jim “Dr. Robotnik” Carrey and Ben “The Hedgehog” Schwartz took the stage to introduce the world premiere trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Somehow the First One Worked. Who’s ready for some hot Sonic and Tails action?Read more
A Decade Later, Alan Wake II Finally Announced
10.12.2021
After a brutal 11 years, there is finally an Alan Wake sequel and it’s a survival horror game. I, for one, am beyond excited.Read more
It's A Flashy Turn-Based RPG With Scott Pilgrim Vibes
10.12.2021
During the preshow for tonight’s Game Awards, indie mega-publisher Annapurna Interactive pulled back the curtain on the next big game in its portfolio. It’s a turn-based RPG called Thirsty Suitors, made by the folks behind Falcon Age. There’s some sweet-looking skateboarding. And it all smacks...
Inside The Revolt That Led To Activision Blizzard Workers' Historic Unionization Push
9.12.2021
Several Call of Duty developers have revealed to Kotaku that Activision Blizzard’s internal unwillingness to directly respond to the recently announced Raven Software layoffs was what ultimately sparked the just-revealed, broader labor organizing effort at the troubled publisher. Read more
One Of The Best Cowboy Games Ever Made Is Now Free On Steam
9.12.2021
Don’t get me wrong, Red Dead Redemption II and Gun are fun and all. I certainly enjoyed my time with them, and I even still play Red Dead Online. But Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger, perhaps a better cowboy game than both of them (and most others), is now free on Steam for a limited time. And if...
How To Quickly Level-Up Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass
9.12.2021
Halo Infinite, out in its entirety this week for Xbox and PC, has officially flooded the tubes. Surely you’ve heard of friends playing it. They may have sung its praises as a top-flight arena shooter, or a return to form for a dormant series. They may have also lambasted its battle pass as...
Halo Infinite's Campaign Opening Is Awful
9.12.2021
For a game sold on its wide open spaces, player freedom, and great big sticky-up hexagons, Halo Infinite’s opening couple of hours couldn’t be much less representative. The approximately 700 miles of the same blue-gray corridors and chambers that gate access to the open-world game, feel as though...
Don’t Use Quick Resume With Halo Infinite, Devs Warn
9.12.2021
343 Industries is telling Halo Infinite players not to use Quick Resume, a key feature of the Xbox Series X/S, for fear of missing out on special multiplayer cosmetics.Read more
Login Hassles Aside, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Is Off To A Fantastic Start
9.12.2021
One of the first areas you visit in Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion is the tropical island of Thavnair. The locals of Thavnair paint their buildings in bright colors, combinations of blues, reds, yellows, and purples. It’s some of the prettiest scenery I’ve encountered in a video game.Read...
Activision Blizzard Devs Announce Work Stoppage And Strike Fund
9.12.2021
Employees at publishing giant Activision Blizzard, who formed the ABK Worker Alliance, have called on supporters today to donate to a strike fund. They have announced their intention to stop working, in protest of their management’s ongoing response to months of lawsuits and reports about...
Windows 11 usnadní práci s videem. DirectX 12 zavádí GPU akceleraci
9.12.2021
Microsoft včera oznámil, že do DirectX 12 přidal Video Encoding API. Nové programové rozhraní má jednodušeji propojit hardwarové enkodéry videa se softwarovými střižnami a nástroji pro převod formátů. Podobné API už ve Windows je dlouhé roky pro dekódování (přehrávání) videa.
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Sandbox Game Removed From Steam After Allegations Of Code Theft
9.12.2021
Myth of Empires, a game that has only just been released, has now been delisted from Steam after the team behind Ark: Survival Evolved accused its creators of stealing source code.Read more
Ubisoft's NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
9.12.2021
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company know their feelings.Read more
Hilarious Halo Infinite Glitch Turns Warthogs Into Go-Karts
8.12.2021
Despite its trappings as a jingoistic space opera, the Halo franchise often finds itself straddling the line between serious and humorous. The latest example of this phenomenon is a glitch that sees the series’ ubiquitous Warthog jeeps shrunk down to comical proportions during multiplayer...