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Fans Upset At Magic: The Gathering Arena's Special New Digital Cards
27.7.2021
Coming to Magic: The Gathering Arena on August 12, the Jumpstart: Historic Horizons expansion adds a trio of new game mechanics that only work in the digital version of the popular trading card game, along with 31 new digital only cards. The move away from traditional paper is rubbing some fans...
Activision Blizzard's Social Media Empire Has Been Silent For Days Now
24.7.2021
Social media accounts related to Activision Blizzard and its various properties have stopped posting following California’s lawsuit against the major video game conglomerate going public.Read more
The Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Fallout Is What Women Have Been Saying All Along
23.7.2021
A bombshell lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard by California regulators has once again forced the gaming world to publicly reckon with longstanding issues around its exploitation and mistreatment of women. It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last. But developers, advocates,...
New Dead Space Remake Will Be Next-Gen Only
22.7.2021
This is not a drill: Dead Space is no longer dead in space. EA’s famous sci-fi horror series is getting resurrected, kind of. The new game will indeed be a total remake of the first game, as recent rumors have suggested. EA announced the news at its EA Play showcase today. It’s coming...
Leak: Battlefield 2042 Sandbox Mode To Include Bad Company 2 Maps
22.7.2021
Last month, EA pulled back the curtain on climate-change shooter Battlefield 2042 and detailed two of its four modes. The other two remained couched as future announcements—one mentioned only by name (Hazard Zone), and one shrouded entirely in mystery. A since-deleted GameRant article (that...
Warframe Will Get Cross-Play And Cross-Save Support Later This Year
17.7.2021
Today, Digital Extremes announced during TennoCon 2021 that its popular online shooter Warframe will get full cross-play and cross-save support later this year, letting space ninjas take their characters across PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One seamlessly. Read more
First Look At Netflix's Monster Hunter CG Film
16.7.2021
Next month, Netflix will stream a CG animated movie based on a Capcom video game. This time, it’s a Monster Hunter film called Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild. Here’s the official plot description:Read more
Gabe Newell Describes Steam Deck's Price As 'Painful' For Valve
15.7.2021
If you want to play Steam games on the go and don’t feel like waiting the requisite 0-100 days for beloved indies to get ported to the Nintendo Switch, Valve’s now offering an answer to your cries: The Steam Deck, a handheld with PC-ish specs and a surprisingly reasonable price tag. Valve president...
Some Big, Ugly DOOM Guys
15.7.2021
Emanuel Palalic is an artist at Wizards of the Coast.Read more
Call of Duty Dev: Visiting Europe To Shoot Old Guns Was Hard Work, Y'know
15.7.2021
A profile in the latest issue of Edge magazine saw Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield tell the venerable UK publication that fans don’t fully appreciate what it takes for a studio to get a Call of Duty game out the door.Read more
Dark Souls Scrolling Texture Mod Chooses Violence
13.7.2021
Dark Souls is challenging, but have you ever tried playing it drunk, on psychedelics, about to vomit, or any combination of the three? A new, totally unnecessary mod simulates that experience by making almost every texture in the hardcore action role-playing game scroll endlessly, making it seem...
WoW Disappointment, Plus Twitch, Start Mass Exodus Into Final Fantasy XIV
13.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV is having its best month ever.Read more
'Undetectable’ Console Cheat YouTube Ad Taken Down By Activision
9.7.2021
Earlier this week we reported on an insidious new cheating system for competitive shooters that works on consoles and PC alike and promises to be completely undetectable. Looks like Call of Duty maker Activision already has the cheat makers in their sights, striking down their YouTube ad for...
Bethesda Stops 'Selling' Sad and Unfinished Fallout 76 Emote A Month Later
7.7.2021
For the past month or so, Fallout 76 players have been scratching their heads over “romancandlecelebration,” an icon-free emote in the Atomic Shop that one might think would shoot some sort of celebratory fireworks into the sky but does not. Today’s Steel Reign update ended any lingering confusion...
EVE Online Facing Second 'Summer of Rage' Fan Outcry
7.7.2021
In the early days of June 2011, the playerbase of EVE Online joined together in revolution and war. The enemy was not a diablocial space-tyrant, or an army of NPC spaceships waiting to give battle, but the company that created EVE, CCP Games. A recent expansion, Incarca, had launched with a slew...
Indie-Penance Day: Resurgence
5.7.2021
Iiiiiii Deeeeeee Fiiiiiiiive. That’s what the cool kids are already calling the first annual* Kotaku Indie-Penance Day. They’re all wishlisting amazing-looking indie games, and then high fiving and having all sorts of interesting sex with each other. Don’t miss out.Read more
Dead By Daylight Just Hit Over 105k Concurrent Players On Steam
3.7.2021
Dead By Daylight is an online asymmetrical multiplayer game released back in 2016. Yet, the game is more popular than ever in 2021. And for the first time, Dead By Daylight just hit over 100k concurrent players on Steam, setting a new record for the online horror game.Read more
Hell Yes! Doom Eternal Is Getting A Horde Mode
2.7.2021
If you, like every other person who played Doom Eternal, thought, “Man, this game could really use a horde mode,” have I got some news for you. The first-person shooter will in fact receive a mode in which you do nothing but pulverize waves of increasingly challenging demons, developer Id Software...
Report: Dead Space Reboot Is Actually A Remake
1.7.2021
Star Wars: Squadrons developer EA Motive is working on a reboot of the hit sci-fi survival horror series Dead Space, according to a new report by GamesBeat.Read more
Chivalry 2 Player Only Needs Bread To Kill
29.6.2021
Despite its serious medieval trappings, Chivalry 2 matches can get pretty slapstick-y thanks to the game allowing players to use anything at their disposal to take down opponents. Case in point, this recent Reddit post showing a creative Chivalry 2 player scoring two kills in a row with a weapon...