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Bobby Kotick Actually Wrote Fran Townsend's Deranged, Company-Wide Email
16.11.2021
Earlier this year, an email was sent to all employees of Activision Blizzard from the email account of Chief Compliance Officer, former Executive Sponsor of the ABV Employee Women’s Network and former Torture Apologist Fran Townsend. Sent in the midst of historic allegations of harassment against...
Halo Infinite’s Menus Are Surprisingly Complex
16.11.2021
Yesterday, Microsoft surprise-released Halo Infinite’s multiplayer mode on Xbox and PC—albeit in a beta state—weeks ahead of its planned December 8 target. Feedback thus far is largely in lockstep: Hot damn, this shooter is fun to play, but, um, what’s up with...
IoTeX ‘MachineFi’ rebrand backs 200%+ rally to a new all-time high
16.11.2021
IOTX price hits a new all-time high after the project shifts its focus to “MachineFi”, NFTs and decentralized finance
Kdo letos získá herního Oscara? Podívejte se na šestici nominovaných
16.11.2021
Necelý měsíc před oficiálním předáváním Game Awards byli konečně představeni největší adepti na zisk tohoto prestižního ocenění. Tentokrát to bude poměrně napínavé, jasný favorit chybí
Calls For Bobby Kotick’s Resignation Intensify As Employees Stage Walkout
16.11.2021
Social media is aflame with demands that video game industry exec Bobby Kotick resign from his position as CEO of Activision Blizzard in the wake of reporting from The Wall Street Journal about his own terrible treatment of women. Leading the charge are Activision Blizzard employees themselves,...
Blizzard's First Woman Co-Head Resigned Due To Being 'Tokenized, Marginalized, And Discriminated Against'
16.11.2021
Amongst the latest wave of troubling revelations to come out of Activision Blizzard, the Wall Street Journal reports that former exec Jennifer Oneal’s incredibly brief stint as co-head of Blizzard ended due to her being “tokenized, marginalized, and discriminated against.”Read more
New Horror Dragon Ball Game Looks Like Anime Dead By Daylight
16.11.2021
Dragon Ball villains Cell, Buu, and Frieza might not be much of a threat to Super Saiyan God Goku With Cheese, but to normal, non-fighting characters they’re downright terrifying. Bandai Namco harnesses that terror in Dragon Ball: The Breakers, an asymmetrical survival game that pits seven...
Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Sucks, Fans Say
16.11.2021
Did you just eek out a nail biting victory in a Big Team Battle Slayer match? Bash a bunch of your fellow Spartans’ heads in with a flaming skull in Oddball? Capture a ton of objectives in Total Control, putting big numbers on the board for all your PVP comrades to see? Halo Infinite’s battle pass...
Don’t Let Halo Infinite Make You Forget About The Great New Game Pass Additions
16.11.2021
It’s hard to believe, I know, but there are other games coming to Xbox that don’t start with Halo and end with Infinite. Over the next two weeks, Microsoft will add 10 more games to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s what’s struck me: I’ve been watching these rollouts like a hawk for several years. For...
Four Hours With Dying Light 2: Beyond An Open-World Zombie Game
16.11.2021
Dying Light 2 was announced all the way back at E3 2018. A lot has happened in the three years since, including multiple delays and the departure of RPG writer/designer Chris Avellone from the project following sexual harassment allegations. Now set to come out in February 2022 (alongside a bunch...
Terrifying Co-Op Puzzler Forces Duos To See A Different Version Of The Game
16.11.2021
Rusty Lake, the studio, have for years been creating some of the spookiest, most bizarre, and engrossing puzzle games. Becoming known for their incredible series of (free) short mobile games, Cube Escape, they then moved into full-length Lynchian creep-fests like Rusty Lake Hotel, Rusty Lake...
Binance Introduces NFT Game Cards Featuring Legends Like Christian Vieri, Gabriel Batistuta, and Alessandro Del Piero
16.11.2021
Binance announced that the most awaited Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Game Cards have Italian Seria A football icons such as Christian Vieri, Alessandro Del Piero, and Gabriel Batistuta will go live from 3 p.m. today until 3 p.m. on Saturday (UTC). It is vital for NFT collectors interested in...
Warena Metaverse Game Beta Draw Thousands of Players
16.11.2021
Warena‘s upcoming action-survival game will go live at the end of November. The project had been running a test period in parallel, which ended on October 21. This gave some players an exclusive chance to try out Warena weeks before the game hits the shelves. Talk about being the first...
Company Of Heroes: The Kotaku Review
16.11.2021
I’ve reviewed a lot of video game adaptations as part of my board game coverage for Kotaku. As you’d expect, since this is first and foremost a video game website. Some of those adaptations have been OK, some have been pretty good, but I haven’t played any quite like Company of Heroes before.Read...
Skate 2 Servers Killed Just As Game Makes Comeback
16.11.2021
The good news first: EA’s classic Skate 2 is one of the over 70 games coming to the Xbox Series X/S’s backwards compatibility list. The bad news? It’s going to be missing its online multiplayer shortly afterwards, because EA is turning off the game’s servers next month.Read more
Star Fox Hack Boosts Its Notoriously Choppy Framerate
16.11.2021
Earlier today, Star Fox received a patch that allows the 1993 Super Nintendo classic to perform as if it was taking advantage of an advanced accelerator chip, boosting its framerate from the single digits to something nearing a more modern game.Read more
Call Of Duty Cheaters 'May' Be Banned From Every Call Of Duty Game Ever Made
16.11.2021
In a blog post published last week innocuously titled Ricochet Anti-Cheat Progress Report, the Call of Duty team slipped in some drastic news about how their anti-cheat system is going to work going forwards.Read more
Battlefield 2042 Feels Like The Wrong Game At The Wrong Time
16.11.2021
When I nail an MV-38 Condor transport hovering in the lens flare-filled sky with my rocket launcher, Battlefield 2042 is awesome. When my squad bursts onto the climate-torn scene in a massive tank, ramming through debris and blowing up abandoned office buildings, it’s a thrill to return to DICE’s...
15 Years Later, Call of Duty Fan Gets Credit For Game-Changing Control Scheme
15.11.2021
In 2006, quadriplegic video game tester and streamer Randy Fitzgerald helped create “NOM4D,” a button layout for Call of Duty designed for disabled players. At the time, he says, he was told he’d be credited by name in the game, but that didn’t happen. All CoD titles since then have omitted...
70+ Classic Games Are Coming To Xbox, Some of Them With Performance Boosts
15.11.2021
Today during Microsoft’s 20th anniversary Xbox event, the company announced that 76 new games are being added to the Xbox backwards compatibility library, including the entire Max Payne franchise, F.E.A.R series, multiple Star Wars games, and more. Xbox also announced that some of these classics...