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The Best Call of Duty Battle Royale Isn’t Warzone
29.3.2023
Six or seven days a week, MinerHoboJo fires up his PlayStation 5 and signs into Twitch or YouTube to stream a five-year-old game—Blackout, the first Call of Duty battle royale. By his own estimation, and community consensus, Miner is the game’s global leader in solo wins and kills. (There are...
PUBG's Creative Director On The Success Of Battle Royales
28.3.2023
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill...
Fortnite's Story Is Way Better Than It Gets Credit For
28.3.2023
What makes Fortnite so engaging? Ask players what they love, and there’s a number of things they might mention about the hugely popular battle royale. The gameplay loop is fun, with solid third-person shooter controls and the unique complexity of its building mechanic nicely complicating the simple...
The True Gods Of Fortnite Are The Expert Snipers
27.3.2023
I’m hiding in a small shack on a lonely hill surrounded by a deadly storm of energy that will destroy me in seconds if I touch it. There’s no escaping the situation. Around me, I can hear other players shooting and breaking walls. I know it’s now or never if I want to win this match of Fortnite....
Welcome To Kotaku Royale, Exploring The Genre That's Defining Modern Gaming
27.3.2023
It’s Aries season, Women’s History Month, the start of spring, and Kotaku Royale week. What’s that last one, you ask? Well, we’re spending all week bringing you exclusive interviews with the teams behind your favorite battle royales, pointed opinions about the state of Warzone and the genre...
Analyst Predicts Gold Prices Might Exceed $8,000 in the Next Decade as Central Banks Lose Confidence in Foreign Currency
27.3.2023
Jan Nieuwenhuijs, a gold market analyst, has predicted that gold might exceed prices of $8,000 during the next decade, as the current Ukraine-Russia war, and the worldwide battle against inflation, shift the preference of central banks for foreign currencies to gold. The proposed long-term price...
The Witcher 3 Devs Explain A Character's Surprising Death Years Later
24.3.2023
Vesemir’s death in 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt brought me to tears. Despite having very little familiarity with the games or the books before playing the third entry in this classic trilogy of RPGs, the moment my little band of misfit heroes lost an essential part of their found family was...
SEC in a Pickle: Crypto’s Tricky Trio Stirs Up Trouble in 2023
23.3.2023
2023 is shaping up to be a painful year for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as it finds itself entangled in battles with the ever-evolving and innovative cryptocurrency industry. From Ripple to Coinbase and Tron, the SEC faces fierce opposition with potentially huge consequences....
Fraud Alert: Goku Has Never Actually Beaten Vegeta
23.3.2023
Yesterday, I came across a viral post from a Dragon Ball Z fan account called Dragon Ball Perfect Shots showcasing Vegeta’s victory over Goku in the after-credit scene in the new film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. In Vegeta and Goku’s cinematic fight, which served as the B-plot of the film,...
Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, and DigiToads: The battle of memes and innovation
22.3.2023
Memecoins are quickly becoming an integral part of the future of cryptocurrency. Utilizing blockchain technology to create a global, decentralized form of payment and value transfer, meme coins have become increasingly attractive investment opportunities due to their ability to add utility...
New Star Wars Book Expands Fallen Order’s Silliest Cutscene
9.3.2023
In the recently released book, Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars, Cal Kestis and his crew are together again, completing missions and having fun fighting the Empire. But one small moment early on in the book reveals that your alien pilot, Greez, didn’t put all that salt on his food by accident. Instead...
Gold Bug Schiff Says ‘The Months of Declining Inflation Are in the Review Mirror,’ AI Crypto Assets Surge, and More — Week in Review
5.3.2023
Economist and gold enthusiast Peter Schiff has said that the U.S. Fed may have to fight a “complete economic collapse” and be faced with more to worry about than the current battle against inflation. In other news, artificial intelligence (AI) crypto assets have seen a recent surge,...
How a Price Battle Between Two Heavyweight NFT Exchanges is Pumping Prices
3.3.2023
Despite the prices of most major cryptocurrencies stagnating over the course of the last 30-days, with the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum only up a respective 1.7 and 4.0% and BNB and XRP down 3.9% and 7.0% each according to CoinMarketCap, the prices of non-fungible tokens (NFT) have been pumping....
Bitcoin Price Prediction - Why Retaking $24k Will be a Battle if Wednesday's US Data is Strong
1.3.2023
Bitcoin (BTC), the world's largest cryptocurrency, was able to recover some of its recent losses and attract modest bids above the $23,500 level as the crypto market started the month on a positive note. This was attributed to Abu Dhabi's plan to create a free zone for the crypto industry, which...
Volt Inu Releases Alpha Version of NFT-Focused Battle Royale Game
28.2.2023
Developers expect the game to be available on the game distribution service Steam in the coming weeks
Steam's (Formerly) 'Most Hyped' Zombie Game Is In The Weirdest Legal Battle
27.2.2023
For a while now—or at least until last month, when it was delisted—The Day Before was one of the most hotly-anticipated games on Steam. That was until the wheels started falling off the project, with a delay announced, doubts raised over whether its gameplay footage was even real and now a legal...
The Fierce Microsoft Battle That Led To One Of The Biggest Video Games Of All Time
24.2.2023
The sixth season of Boss Fight Books is currently funding on Kickstarter. Among the books in this season’s offerings is Kyle Orland’s tome on Minesweeper. A gripping read that tells the wild story of how Minesweeper became one of the most ubiquitous games in history—a tale that saw Microsoft...
15 Minutes of Suicide Squad Gameplay Just Dropped
23.2.2023
Today, during Sony’s very first State of Play of 2023, we got our a big look at one mission’s in the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League game, out later this year. Read more
Developers Propose Cross-Chain Bridge for XRPL Network to Enhance Blockchain Interoperability
23.2.2023
Software engineers and members of the development lab Ripplex want to create a cross-chain bridge for the XRPL network to bolster cross-chain transfers between different blockchain networks. According to a recent Github draft, the proposal outlines how the cross-chain bridge could function...
BIS General Manager Casts Doubt on Stablecoins, Claiming Tokens Do Not Benefit From Regulations or Central Planning
22.2.2023
According to Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), cryptocurrencies have lost the “battle” against fiat currencies issued by the world’s central banks. While speaking at the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Wednesday, Carstens stressed that...