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Fallout And Starfield Maker Bethesda Game Studios Is Unionizing
22.7.2024
Bethesda Game Studios is known for making some of the biggest open-world RPGs in gaming like Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Now it will also be known for being the first major studio in the U.S. to unionize across all of its teams. Read more
No Man's Sky's Huge Overhaul, The Software Update That Stopped The World, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
20.7.2024
This week saw No Man’s Sky, a game that has repeatedly reinvented itself in the years since its release, get one of its biggest overhauls ever. Not to be outdone, Baldur’s Gate 3 also got a patch that rounds out the game nicely. Also, the FTC responded to Microsoft’s latest Xbox Live price hike...
FTC Calls Xbox Game Pass Price Hike 'Exactly The Sort Of Consumer Harm' It Tried To Stop
19.7.2024
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission pointed to Microsoft’s recent pricing overhaul of Xbox Game Pass as evidence of the harm its merger with Activision Blizzard has had on consumers. The agency filed a new letter in its ongoing appeal of last year’s deal, calling the changes “exactly...
Almost The Entire Call Of Duty Series Is On Sale On Xbox
18.7.2024
On July 17, Xbox kicked off its massive Summer Sale which includes nearly 1,000 discounted games. And as part of this large sale, nearly every mainline Call of Duty game is currently marked down on Xbox’s digital store.Read more
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6's First Beta Weekend Is Closer Than You Think
15.7.2024
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the first game in the series that won’t be giving PlayStation players exclusive entry into its early access beta. Instead, the Gulf War-era shooter will arrive simultaneously on all platforms, including Xbox and PC, starting in August. Read more
28 Xbox 360 Games To Buy Before The Store Closes This Month
11.7.2024
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console’s storefront will permanently go offline...
The Best Deal In Gaming Keeps Getting Worse
10.7.2024
Xbox Game Pass started out feeling like a frivolous boondoggle aimed at distracting from the Xbox One’s lack of hit exclusives. Then, it became the best deal in gaming thanks to a steady expansion of the Netflix-like subscription library with major third-party releases and critically acclaimed...
Report: More Activision Games Coming To Game Pass Soon
3.7.2024
Thus far, only one Activision Blizzard-published game has made its way to Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service, almost a year after Microsoft finalized its deal to purchase the massive Call of Duty publisher. But a new report claims more Activision games will (slowly) start coming to the service...
Controversial Streamer Nickmercs Banned By Twitch After Dropping Transphobic Slur
28.6.2024
Former pro Gears of War playerNick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff received his first ever ban from Twitch after using a transphobic slur during a recent stream, commemorating another Pride Month with his annual anti-LGBTQ+ bullshit. Read more
Nine Things We Learned From The Big Phil Spencer Xbox Interview
10.6.2024
Xbox just had one of its best showcases in years and hot off the heels of that big event, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer sat down with IGN to chat more about some of the games the company revealed, as well as the current health of Xbox, Game Pass, and the closure of studios like Tango...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Single-Player Campaign Demands Permanent Internet Connection On Consoles
10.6.2024
Apparently it’s 2012 all over again, and publishers are once more attempting the move of requiring always-on internet connections to play single-player games. That’s been revealed to be the case for Call of Duty: Black Op 6's single-player campaign, not just on PC as it has been for years, but...
This Was The Best Xbox Showcase In Years (And The Hardest To Root For)
10.6.2024
A Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign that looks like Mission: Impossible by way of an Adam Curtis documentary, a Gearsof War prequel that shows fans E-Day and the birth of the series’ iconic “Lancer” chainsaw gun, and a trailer that showed Perfect Dark isn’t just still alive, it’s potentially...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Goes Full Mission Impossible In First Action-Packed Trailer
9.6.2024
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the first in the best-selling military shooter since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, looks like a cross between a 90s political documentary and a Mission Impossible movie in its new trailer. The game will launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC...
The Next Doom Game Just Got Announced And It Looks Different (And Rad)
9.6.2024
Today during the Xbox Summer Showcase, Bethesda and id Software announced Doom: The Dark Ages, coming in 2025. It’s the next entry in the long-running and super popular Doom series and looks to be something rather different than previous installments.Read more
Geoff Keighley: Big Companies Have To Treat Their Developers Right
7.6.2024
The host of E3 replacement Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley, kicked off the showcase’s fourth year by doing wat many have called on the veteran industry insider to do for months: acknowledge the current state of mass layoffs, cuts, and cancellations at some of gaming’s biggest publishers...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games To Play In Between Summer Game Fest News
7.6.2024
It’s officially summer season! Well, at least as far as gaming is concerned, because Summer Game Fest is here. Also, the weather is much warmer and the actual summer solstice is just a few weeks away. So yeah, I’m callin’ it summer. Read more
Call Of Duty's 'Trans Bullets' Are The Latest Right Wing Conspiracy Rage Bait
5.6.2024
A possible Call of Duty bug is causing a new Pride-themed cosmetic to paint the bullets in one version of one of the game’s guns the colors of the transgender flag. Now, right wing rage jockeys are seizing this to peddle transphobic conspiracy theories so idiotic they would be laughable, if not...
Call of Duty's Crossover With Fallout Leaks Early
29.5.2024
The latest season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone is now live. Unsurprisingly, some players have already started datamining it, and in so doing, have found what appears to be the first in-game look at an upcoming, still-unannounced Fallout crossover. Read more
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Brings Back 'Dude Sitting With Guns' Cover
28.5.2024
Finally, our lengthy national nightmare is over. After years of waiting and suffering, I can confirm that the next Call of Duty: Black Ops game will bring back the franchise’s iconic “Dude with guns sitting on the cover” iconography. Truly, a time for celebration. Read more
The Final Shape Will Be Destiny 2's Big Moment Of Truth
28.5.2024
Destiny 2 players have conquered a planet-sized computer simulating the multiverse, earned wishes from space dragons, and slayed alien gods. But one of the loot shooter’s most enduring fictions is that its creators had a decade-long master plan to deliver a transformative story and re-shape...