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August Is An Epic Month For Game Releases
1.8.2023
If you thought August was gonna be a snoozefest for gaming, I’m here to wake you the hell up because this month looks like it’ll have something for everyone—and that’s not just BS boilerplate. Read more
The Gran Turismo Movie Actually Has A Plot
15.6.2022
Gran Turismo is a video game series entirely devoid of character. That’s not a criticism, just a fact: it wants to be a glossy car brochure, not tell a story, and it’s an approach that has served the games well over the decades. Now that Hollywood is making a Gran Turismo movie, though, that could...
Gran Turismo 7 Update Eases Up On The Grind After Fan Outrage
8.4.2022
Last month Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi apologised to fans angry at the state of the game’s microtransactions, announcing a credits handout and a promise to “dramatically change GT7’s car economy to help make amends” in the wake of some disastrous downtime. The first of those changes...
Gran Turismo 7 Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits, Big Changes Coming
25.3.2022
A live-service game is once again apologizing for its microtransactions, and promising to do better. In a new blog post, Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged frustrations with the state of the game and announced developer Polyphony Digital will issue 1 million credits to every...
Gran Turismo 7 Players Use AFK Exploit To Farm Millions Like Capitalism Intended
22.3.2022
Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing sim bogged down by microtransactions. Yet, instead of dialing back on that bit of the game, a recent update sees developer Polyphony Digital make progression even more grindy. Now, some players are turning to a new remote play exploit to farm millions...
Gran Turismo 7 Woes Highlight The Danger Of 'Always Online' Games
21.3.2022
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Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic
21.3.2022
Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection....
PlayStation’s Big New Exclusive Has Been Nearly Unplayable For Over 24 Hours
18.3.2022
PlayStation racing sim Gran Turismo 7 has been offline for maintenance for over a day. Normally, that wouldn’t be a huge deal, but because so much of the game requires an online connection, including a great deal of single-player content, fans have effectively been locked out of Sony’s latest...
Idris Elba Is On The Gran Turismo 7 Soundtrack
4.3.2022
Lending his vocals to the Gran Turismo 7 soundtrack, Idris Elba appears as a featured artist on The FaNaTiX’s song “Vroom”. The track features in the game’s new Music Rally mode, and appears early in the game. Though the song titles are displayed on-screen, it appeared during a race in...
'Ghost Of Kyiv' Fighter Pilot Blowing Up Russian Aircraft In Trending Clip Actually From Video Game
26.2.2022
A clip of a Ukrainian fighter jet blowing up a suspected Russian aircraft started trending on social media yesterday. Many believed it was proof of the exploits of a mysterious and unverified ace pilot called the “Ghost of Kyiv.” It was actually fake footage from the 2013 PC game, Digital Combat...
It Is 2021. Star Citizen Has Raised $400,000,000, And Is Still Not Out.
22.11.2021
It is 2007. I am playing a game on Xbox Live Arcade called Wing Commander Arena. It is a top-down shooter, and I hate it. This is not Wing Commander. Why has nobody made a new Wing Commander. Read more
Luigi Discovered In Sega Dreamcast Prototype
19.9.2021
Nintendo’s famous Mario has a brother named Luigi and for some reason, the taller of the bros has been found in a prototype build of the Sega Dreamcast racing game Sega GT. Luigi was found in a prototype that’s part of a massive release of over 40o Xbox and Dreamcast prototypes and unreleased...
Military Game Fan Leaks Classified Docs To Win Forum Argument
16.7.2021
A War Thunder fan leaked classified military documents during an argument on the developer’s message boards earlier this week.Read more
TIE Fighter Has Been Remade With More Modern Visuals
6.7.2021
If EA’s Squadrons wasn’t quite to the scale you were hoping for from your Star Wars flight game, never mind: you can always replay 1994 classic TIE Fighter, which now has vastly-improved visuals and some other modern tweaks instead.Read more
Let's Remember Gran Turismo 5's Intro, Which Was A Masterpiece
12.5.2021
We tend to associate video game intros with lavish, pre-rendered cinematic sequences. Something to help kickstart the story, set the tone. Which is fine, but there’s been a video game intro stuck in my head for over a decade now, and it wasn’t trying to tell me a story. It was trying to teach...
Tie Fighter: The Kotaku Review
16.4.2021
As part of Backlog month, I wanted to reach deep into the collection and talk about one of the greatest video games of all time, one that nailed everything it set out to do so well that even 27 years later it remains as fun and relevant as it was when it first dropped.Read more
Gran Turismo 7 Isn't Happening In 2021
23.2.2021
Gran Turismo 7 has been delayed until 2022.Read more