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EA Buys Glu Mobile For $2.1 Billion
9.2.2021
EA adds a massive amount of mobile gaming power to its portfolio with the $2.1 billion acquisition of San Francisco-based Glu Mobile, makers of Diner Dash, Cooking Dash, Restaurant Dash with Gordan Ramsay, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood ... Dash. Read more
It's 2021, And Super Mario 64 Now Has Ray Tracing
9.2.2021
You might think that marrying mid-90s textures to 21st-century lighting tricks would look hideous, but this video of the Super Mario 64 PC port is looking very nice.Read more
Another Good Actor Has Somehow Signed Up For The Borderlands Movie
9.2.2021
Halloween and Christmas with the Kranks star Jamie Lee Curtis joins Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart as the latest actor to be cast in the upcoming Borderlands movie, Collider reports (h/t Variety).Read more
Report: Later This Week, EA Is Going To Decide If Anthem Lives Or Dies
8.2.2021
EA still isn’t sure if it’s going to invest in massively overhauling its failed loot shooter Anthem, according to a new report by Bloomberg. Read more
Epic Says A Bunch More Epic Store Exclusives Are Still On The Way
8.2.2021
Epic pissed off a lot of people when it first revealed that big games like Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3 would be Epic Games Store timed-exclusives on PC. Now it says that even more exclusivity deals are on the way.Read more
Report: E3 2021 Being Planned As An All-Digital Event
8.2.2021
Last year the Entertainment Software Association cancelled E3, the biggest trade show in gaming, due to covid-19 concerns. According to pitch documents obtained by Video Games Chronicle, this year’s E3 might be as a strictly online affair, with three-days of streaming content running from June...
Forza Horizon 4 Is Coming To Steam In March
8.2.2021
Microsoft’s gorgeous British countryside racer Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Steam on March 9, the company announced today. It marks the latest in a long line of first-party Microsoft games coming to rival platforms, and the first time a Forza game has ever appeared on Valve’s storefront.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 Sets The Stage For Endwalker On April 13
8.2.2021
There’s a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion coming later this year, but first we’ve got some loose ends to tie up. The third and final installment of the Nier-themed raid series and the first of a two-part story update leading to this fall’s Endwalker expansion arrives on April 13, alongside the open...
The Remade Demon’s Souls’ Soundtrack Is (Mostly) Good Enough For Me
8.2.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we take a trip into the Nexus to compare a classic’s iconic score with the newfangled revamp that attempts to build on it.Read more
The Week In Games: Prepare For Bowser's Fury
7.2.2021
People like Mario games, I’ve heard. So it’s good to see Nintendo releasing another one! Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury releases later this week for Switch.Read more
Cactus Props At Super Nintendo World Appear To Be Based On A Fan Game
7.2.2021
It appears someone working on the cacti props at the Super Nintendo World theme park in Universal Studios Japan might have inadvertently built them to look just like some cacti that appear in a New Super Mario Bros Wii fan mod. Whoops!Read more
GTA Online Player Pulls Off Amazing Escape
6.2.2021
In Grand Theft Auto Online, bad things can happen at any moment. And when these bad moments surprise you, rarely can you get out of them, let allow survive in style. But every now and then, someone gets very lucky.Read more
Blockchain Firm Labs Group Taps Enjin to Tokenize Real Estate Assets
6.2.2021
The year has started with a batch of announcements regarding tokenization in various sectors. On this occasion, a blockchain gaming platform announced its collaboration with Labs Group to issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of real estate assets. Global Real Estate Market Is Valued at $228 Trillion...
Final Fantasy XIV's Next Expansion Drops This Fall With A New Healing Class
6.2.2021
During tonight’s Final Fantasy XIV showcase, Square Enix announced its next expansion, Endwalker, for release this fall.Read more
Super Mario World Soundtrack Remaster Spoils Original's Lo-fi Brilliance
5.2.2021
A group of Super Mario World fans are currently remastering the SNES platformer’s soundtrack (h/t Chris Kohler) with high-quality versions of the original samples. But if you’re hoping for some grand, orchestral versions of tracks you’ve loved for decades, these really aren’t that.Read more
Nioh 2's PS5 Upgrade Is A Good Reason To Revisit One Of Last Year's Best Action Games
5.2.2021
Nioh 2’s free PS5 upgrade is out today, and with it there’s one less excuse for anyone to ignore last year’s best samurai combat game.Read more
In Mass Effect Legendary Edition, BioWare Bounces Bootylicious Butt Shots
5.2.2021
With the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the team at BioWare is working on updating graphics and textures and showing a little more love to the first game’s Female Shepard model, to bring her image in line with the rest of the trilogy. The team is also tweaking some camera angles to make things...
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
5.2.2021
The weekend is for going through all the cool indie game demos available in the Steam Game Festival. I would suggest other activities, but there are more demos than there is weekend. Read more
The Mass Effect Remaster's New Look Isn't Doing It For Me
5.2.2021
This week we got our first good look at BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy remaster, and I have to say it hasn’t immediately won me over, especially when it comes to the first game.Read more
Gaming Firm The9 Agrees Purchase of 5,000 MicroBT Bitcoin Miners
5.2.2021
The firm announced its pivot to mining in January