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Frostpunk: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review
12.4.2023
I’ve reviewed a lot of board game adaptations of video games on this website, and with good reason: it’s the most intimate intersection of our board game and video game coverage. In nearly every case, the key consideration has been how does the board game feel compared to the original. What kind...
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...
Deep Rock Galactic (The Board Game): The Kotaku Review
19.1.2023
Co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic was first released on the PC back in 2018. It has a dedicated following online, and tons of loyal fans, but this is not a review of the video game. This is a review of the board game with, confusingly, the exact same name.Read more
Kickstarter Suspends AI-Generated Image (Well, Porn) Project
22.12.2022
Until today, there had been an active Kickstarter campaign running for Unstable Diffusion, a project describing themselves as “a group born out of a grassroots community effort to reject the limiting rules of corporate AI companies”.Read more
Artist Turns Down $3,000 Fortnite Job Offer, Calls It 'Hilarious'
6.12.2022
While Epic Games continues to position itself as a pro-game developer company, the same can’t be said for how it treats artists and their copyrights. The Fortnite developer recently offered $3,000 to an artist for an illustration and the copyright—which meant that they wouldn’t be able to sell...
Kickstarter Cancelled In The Most Brutal Way Possible
29.11.2022
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is a fictional project by Trevor Roberts, who having started on Reddit has for the past few years has been posting stories and artwork to his website, fleshing (sorry) out the tale of a huge creature that is discovered underground in Texas and...turned into a tourist...
IKEA Asks Horror Game To Change So People Stop Comparing It To IKEA
28.10.2022
In an unexpected move, furniture giant Ikea has sent a solo indie developer a cease and desist letter reviewed by Kotaku, demanding he make changes to his unreleased survival horror game set in an Ikea-like furniture store. Lawyers representing Ikea are claiming that the game commits trademark...
Chystá se desková hra podle strategie Zoo Tycoon
27.10.2022
Zoo Tycoon Is Getting A Bright, Cheery Board Game Adaptation
27.10.2022
Zoo Tycoon has been a management gaming mainstay for over two decades now, and quite frankly I’m shocked and appalled that it has taken this long for someone to be allowed to make a board game about it.Read more
Scorn Is True To Giger’s Work, But Needs More Dicks
15.10.2022
Scorn is a rough game so far. It’s slow, send you down winding labyrinths with little guidance, offers zero narrative comforts (at least early on), and is set in a dramatically uncomfortable and grotesque world clearly inspired by the works of Swiss artist HR Giger. I’ve found it to be an unfun...
Star Citizen Has Now Raised Over Half A Billion Dollars
21.9.2022
Star Citizen, a video game that exists as a Forever Promise, was first revealed to the world back in 2012 via a Kickstarter campaign that raised $2.1 million. In the decade since, through the announcements of spin-offs, modules, in-game economies and countless other features and half-baked ideas...
Elden Ring Is Being Turned Into A Board Game
20.9.2022
Presumptive GOTY Elden Ring is, in perhaps the least surprising piece of news that I’ll write for this site today, getting a board game adaptation.Read more
Menyr Lets You Build A Whole Damn World For Your RPG Campaigns
20.9.2022
Menyr, which pitches itslef as a “story-telling engine”, is a toolbox that lets players create an entire digital world for their role-playing games, from landscapes to settlements, then play through them. Launched on Kickstarter earlier this month, it has already blown past its funding goal.Read...
Vybrali miliony, ale hru nedodají. Neúspěch svádí na pád kryptoměn
5.9.2022
Vývojáři ze studia Phat Loot vybrali loni na Kickstarteru více než 12 milionů na vznik hry Untamed Isles, ale hráči ji nejspíše nikdy neuvidí. Přestože měla vyjít již v říjnu letošního roku, byl projekt zastaven, protože údajně došly peníze. Studio samotné ovšem hodlá pokračovat dál
Path of the Planebreaker Is A Worthy Addition To Your D&D Campaign
26.8.2022
Originally announced and funded via Kickstarter last October, Path of the Planebreaker is the latest foray into the fifth edition set of rules for Dungeons & Dragons from Monte Cook Games. This time, veteran D&D designers Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds, and Mr. Cook himself treat...
This game used TikTok to get 120m views, 60k Steam wishlists!
23.8.2022
And its Kickstarter hasn't even launched yet, folks
Kickstarter Game Goes Bust Gambling On Crypto, Can't Refund Backers
19.8.2022
In 2021, at the height of the world’s collective blockchain madness, a video game called Untamed Isles—Pokemon, but with crypto stuff—made over $500,000 on Kickstarter. A year later the game is practically dead, and is so broke it can’t even refund its backers.Read more
Česká deskovka Euthia se vrací, na Kickstarteru běží nová kampaň
27.7.2022
The Story Of 2022's Biggest Video Game*
15.6.2022
In 2015 mega-publisher Electronic Soft released the blockbuster game BloodDeath: DeathBlood, a sequel to 2009's wildly successful BloodDeath. It would mark the end of both the series and its development studio, but it is not the end of their story.Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Devs Open Up About Life During The Russian Invasion
14.6.2022
Sci-fi horror shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 won’t arrive in 2022 after all. During Xbox and Bethesda’s extended showcase livestream today, developer GSC Game World shared a new story trailer and confirmed the game was delayed until 2023. It also presented a video developer diary in which staff at...