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The Halo Show Isn’t Trying To Be The Game, And That’s A Good Thing
25.3.2022
It only took one Speilberg exit and one decade of development hell, but a show based on Halo is finally here. I can’t believe I’m typing this: It’s actually good. Surprisingly so, though it’s not absent any cause for concern.Read more
Report: Sony Game Pass Competitor Coming Soon, Probably Won’t Have God Of War Ragnarök
25.3.2022
Sony’s as-of-yet unannounced plan to compete with Xbox Game Pass could be revealed as early as next week, according to a new report by Bloomberg. However, the subscription service code-named Spartacus is apparently unlikely to feature big first-party blockbusters like 2022’s God of War Ragnarök...
Axie Infinity Jumps On Binance News, New Game Roll-Out Expected This Month
25.3.2022
The crypto play-to-earn game Axie Infinity’s native token AXS jumped in price today after major crypto exchange Binance announced new incentives for the token, and as the community prepares for the launch of the revamped game Axie Infinity: Origin set for later this month.
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Devil May Cry Plastered All Over Japanese Capsule Hotel Room
25.3.2022
Capsule rooms might be small, but Devil May Cry fandom is huge. Next month, Anshin Oyado Premier Nagoya Sakae in Nagoya will cover one of its capsules with the silver-haired heroes of DMC.Read more
Avid Gamers Set to Own Lands as Metagods Announces Land Sale
25.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. MetaGods, the world’s first play-to-earn 8-bit action role-playing game built on the blockchain, introduced an upcoming in-game land sale with a group of amazing backers involved, including world-famous Youtuber MrBeast. MetaGods is a game based on Greek mythology where...
Space Race: The Kotaku Review
25.3.2022
I want to get this out of the way up top: I’m someone who can forgive many of a board game’s flaws if it looks good.Read more
Nintendo Takes Down Scans Of 1996 Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide
25.3.2022
Good morning, and welcome to what feels like the 1097th episode of “Nintendo Gets Some Cool Shit Taken Off The Internet”, only this time we’re not even talking about a tribute game or piece of fan art, but a harmless old book.Read more
First Mover Asia: Taiwan GameFi Company Gets a Boost in Its Quest to Develop a More Entertaining Game; Altcoins Stand Out
24.3.2022
Red Door Digital will use the $5 million seed round from several high-profile venture firms to create games that are technologically superior but also entertaining; bitcoin rose solidly, but altcoins even more
New Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Endured By Woman For Years
24.3.2022
A new lawsuit against Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard by a current employee raises fresh allegations of sexual harassment at the publisher, this time focused on leaders in Blizzard’s IT department. According to the lawsuit, the current employee was repeatedly subjected to unwanted...
Devs Want To Challenge Your Expectations Of Who Makes Games
24.3.2022
While the video game industry is becoming more diverse every year, marginalized game developers are still often dismissed in professional settings based on their appearance. One developer started the hashtag #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after security guards at a games conference apparently stopped...
Yoshitaka Amano, One of the World’s Greatest Illustrator, Character Designer, Joins Gensokishi Online Project
24.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. GensoKishi Online, the GameFi and metaverse incarnation of the award winning Nintendo Switch/PS4 game “Elemental Knights” is proud to announce its collaboration with one of Japan’s greatest. YOSHITAKA AMANO, the legendary designer, the god of game art,...
They Just Don't Make Video Game Manuals Like Tunic's Anymore
24.3.2022
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Returnal's Co-Op Is Kind Of A Letdown
24.3.2022
When Returnal landed with a splash on PlayStation 5 last year, all I wanted was the chance to play it cooperatively with a friend. Now that such a mode is here? Meh.Read more
Jamie Lee Curtis Will Officiate Her Daughter’s Wedding In World of Warcraft Cosplay
24.3.2022
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jamie Lee Curtis announced that, not only will she officiate her youngest daughter’s wedding in the actress’s backyard, but she will do so while wearing World of Warcraft cosplay. Read more
Sony Assures It Won’t Forget Single-Player PlayStation Games Amid Online Push
24.3.2022
PlayStation has grown increasingly vocal about its live-service auspices. But the firm’s oeuvre of top-flight single-player games isn’t getting sidelined as a result, at least according to statements made by two PlayStation execs in a recent interview.Read more
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Reviews Say D&D Trappings Don’t Change The Borderlands Core
24.3.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands takes Gearbox’s loot shooter series out for a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired spin. Does it work? Critics are split. The consensus appears to be that, for better and for worse, it’s more Borderlands. Shocking, I know! But it sounds like there are also enough new tricks...
Pokémon Go Fans Upset As Dev Undoes Another Great Change
24.3.2022
Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs announced Wednesday that, from April on, the mobile game’s Community Days will revert to their pre-pandemic length of only three hours long. Following the recent enormous nerfing of in-game item Incense, players are not at all pleased at Niantic’s seeming refusal...
Report: Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft Hacked By Suspected Teenagers
24.3.2022
Over the past month a number of the world’s biggest tech companies have been hacked by a group known as Lapsus$, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft, Samsung and Okta. These haven’t been minor breaches, either; Nvidia lost sensitive GPU designs, and Microsoft gigabytes of important source code....
6 Games To Check Out If You Like XCOM
23.3.2022
Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally praised successor, XCOM 2. (The spinoff XCOM: Chimera Squad, released in 2020, is fine.)Read more
Elden Ring Mods Turn The Game Into A Surreal Fever Dream
23.3.2022
Gather ‘round, readers, as I regale you with another tale of the weird shit players are up to in Elden Ring. Don’t worry, this post won’t be about panties, murdering turtle clergy, or rolling death strats (we’ve already done those). This time around, Elden Ring has become an even wackier gameplay...