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Spider-Verse Snuck In Some Unseen Game Footage Of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
5.6.2023
Sony Picture’s hotly-anticipated animated film, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, includes never-before-seen gameplay footage of the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 game.Read more
The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Diablo IV
5.6.2023
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Microsoft Promises No Completely Fake Trailers At Xbox Showcase
5.6.2023
We’re a week away from the big not-E3 Xbox summer showcase for 2023 and the ball’s in Microsoft’s court to win back fans after a quiet 12 months punctuated by the disastrous launch of Redfall. In a subtle shot at the recently underwhelming PS5 showcase, Xbox marketing VP Aaron Greenberg promised...
Nintendo Announces First-Party Switch Game With Zero Fanfare
2.6.2023
Almost a full calendar year after the report of its existence went live at Fanbyte, Nintendo has announced a sequel to the unusual mini-game party compilation 1-2 Switch, and it’s launching later this month.Read more
Here’s The Fix For Diablo IV Couch Co-Op
2.6.2023
Snatching up Diablo IV’s $90 Deluxe or $100 Ultimate editions is supposed to give you four days of early access to the loot-grinding RPG ahead of its June 5 global release. While this early entry into the gates of Hell is welcomed, some folks, myself included, have run into an issue unrelated...
Street Fighter 6 Is Already Steam’s Most Played Fighting Game Of All Time
2.6.2023
The latest entry in Capcom’s fighting game franchise, Street Fighter 6, broke the all-time concurrent players record on Steam making it the most-played fighting game at launch on PC. I guess it’s safe to say that “CapGod” is so back.Read more
Meet The Psychologist Determined To Prove Video Games Are Good, Actually
2.6.2023
Dr. Rachel Kowert is a busy woman. The video game research psychologist is currently in London, where she’s set to give a talk on the fostering of terrorist cells and extremist beliefs in digital game spaces, a project she’s working on with the Department of Homeland Security (no, she can’t really...
The Brilliant Scholar Who’s Challenging Racism In Game Design
2.6.2023
During her keynote speech at last year’s ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in New Orleans, Dr. Kishonna Gray shared a story about the game Pokémon Go.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Devs Almost Cut Moogles Due To The Game's Mature Tone
1.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is out in mere weeks, arriving on PlayStation 5 on June 22. And while the game looks like it’ll be quite a bit of fun to play, questions over the radical shift in tone for the series remain. And in a recent blog, the developers shared some of the thoughts, considerations,...
Celebrate Pride With A Queer Games Bundle That Costs Less Than A Single AAA Game
1.6.2023
June 1 is here, which means it’s Pride Month, baby, and the Queer Games Bundle is back with another massive collection of games, zines, and more for less than the price of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Now that’s a good way to celebrate Pride, ain’t it?Read more
Report: Xbox Exclusive Redfall Suffered From Few Resources, Poor Direction
1.6.2023
While Redfall’s rough launch and poor reviews scores caught many Xbox fans off-guard, Bloomberg now reports that developers at the studio behind it, Arkane Austin, were aware of the issues for years. The online vampire shooter was pitched as a live service game with microtransactions,...
Web3 gaming gets competitive: QORPO Game Studio joins Cointelegraph Accelerator
31.5.2023
Web3 game developer QORPO Game Studio aims to introduce competitive esports to the Web3 gaming ecosystem
Game Gets Wrongfully Banned On Switch After A Child Gambling Joke
31.5.2023
Last week, Nintendo mistakenly blocked and rejected the release of a cutesy animal game, after it took a jokey TikTok from the developer at face value and pulled its release in North America. Read more
Male Video Game Characters Talk Way More Than Women, Research Shows
31.5.2023
A new study has uncovered a not-so-surprising truth about gender bias in video games: Across 50 role-playing games, male characters have about twice as much dialogue as female characters. Shocking, I know.Read more
Superb Game Pass Action RPG Has More Original Ideas Than Diablo
31.5.2023
I cannot imagine how daunting it must be to begin making a Diablo-like action-RPG. Not only are there so very few of them, but those that are known are behemoths. Diablo, obviously, then Titan Quest, Torchlight, Grim Dawn… Who’d want to deliberately step into their shadows, especially with Diablo...
Dan Nissanoff, CEO of Game of Silks, on The Intersection of Gambling x Fantasy x Blockchain | Ep. 234
31.5.2023
In an exclusive interview with cryptonews.com, Dan Nissanoff, Founder and CEO of Game of Silks, talks about the intersection of gambling x fantasy x blockchain, the current pro horse racing landscape, and the future of play-to-earn gaming. ...
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Studio Denies Laying Off Artists For AI After Fans Spot Character With Six Fingers
31.5.2023
Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that some of the company’s artists had been laid off and replaced with, you guessed it, machine-generated imagery.Read more
Tetris (But With Sand) Is Incredibly Satisfying
31.5.2023
Odds are high that, you a Kotaku reader, have played Tetris before. In fact, you’ve likely played a lot of Tetris or one of its many clones and knock-offs. But you’ve probably never played a Tetris-inspired game quite like Setris, a new take on the popular puzzler that adds physics and satisfying...
The Week In Games: System Shock, Street Fighter 6, And More
31.5.2023
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Game Developers Open Up About The ‘Worst’ Games They Worked On
30.5.2023
Last week, Daedalic Entertainment, the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The Lord of The Rings: Gollum, posted an apology for the game failing to “meet the expectations” of players and devs alike. Although Gollum being one of the worst-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic...