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Microsoft Makes Tentative Moves Toward Easier-To-Repair Xboxes
11.10.2021
Last week, Microsoft acceded to pressure from an investor group which advocates for “right-to-repair” policies which, if widely adopted, would facilitate independent repair of many technological devices by making things like spare parts and repair documentation more readily attainable. Though it’s...
Squid Game Knock-Offs Are Taking Over GTA 5 Servers
11.10.2021
Netflix’s Squid Game has taken the world by storm, and now it’s taking over Grand Theft Auto V role-playing servers. GTA fans are recreating the show’s grim children’s games across the streets of Los Santos. Winners get big cash prizes while the losers get sued into oblivion by Take-Two. Just...
Elpis Global Successfully Collected $2.15 Million to Develop the First Game on the Elpis Metaverse
11.10.2021
Elpis Battle has secured $2.15 million in a significant financing phase. They thanked all of the investment firms and venture capitalists in the Blockchain space for their confidence in the Elpis group. Elpis Battle is a Binance Smart Chain-based RPG game, and It was created by two of Southeast...
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen awarded NFT trophy after tournament win
11.10.2021
Following the competition, a replica of Carlsen's NFT trophy was auctioned off to a fan for 6.88 ETH
Classified Military Documents Leaked Again In The Same Game
11.10.2021
Hey, remember how back in July a War Thunder player got in big trouble for leaking classified military documents? Three months later the same thing has now happened, in the same game.Read more
Happy 20th Birthday, ScummVM!
11.10.2021
The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine, which we all know better as ScummVM, turns 20 this week, and anyone who has ever enjoyed a classic adventure game on a modern PC (or mobile device!) over the last two decades probably owes its creators a drink or two.Read more
Deux Ex Gender Swap Lets You Play The Whole Game As A Woman
11.10.2021
The Lay D Denton mod is a huge project that takes the original Deus Ex and lets you play through the whole thing not as a gruff cyberpunk dude, but as a gruff cyberpunk woman instead.Read more
The Week In Games: Back 4 Blood 4 You
11.10.2021
*Insert joke about how zombies are ironically one of the hardest things to kill in pop culture and keep coming back, over and over.* Anyway, Back 4 Blood is out this week for PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Read more
Intellivision Is Selling NFT Games For A Console That Ain't Even Out Yet
10.10.2021
The Intellivision Amico is a retro-inspired android-based console that was supposed to be out October 20, 2020 but has suffered numerous delays since then. And now, even before the console has shipped to backers or customers, the company is selling “physical” games for it in limited-time bundles...
The Metaverse, play-to-earn and the new economic model of gaming
10.10.2021
The gaming industry is rapidly growing, and the emerging play-to-earn model coupled with blockchain and the Metaverse is the future
Beltracchi’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ — Notorious Art Forger Banned from Selling at Galleries Steps Into the NFT Game
10.10.2021
While the world of non-fungible token (NFT) assets continues to swell, the notorious artist and art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi has joined the NFT industry with a collection of NFTs called “The Greats.” Beltracchi is well known for admitting that he forged hundreds of paintings...
Sunday Comics: Fun Game
10.10.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Metroid Dread Is Already Running Great On Switch Emulators
9.10.2021
Hey, real quick: If you are a Nintendo lawyer or employee, just like... don’t read this. It was a silly mistake. Ignore this blog. You can go now. Okay, everyone else...Read more
Hitman GOTY Edition Removed From GOG Over Online DRM
9.10.2021
Hitman - Game of the Year Edition was released on GOG.com late last month and following weeks of player complaints and review bombing due to obtrusive online DRM requirements, it has now been removed from the storefront. Read more
Damn, The Guardians Of The Galaxy Game's Soundtrack Is Great
9.10.2021
I totally forgot that the new Guardians of the Galaxy game from Square Enix is releasing later this month. The trailers released for it in the lead-up to its October launch haven’t completely convinced me this is going to be any good, but I can at least say for sure that its soundtrack is great....
Far Cry 6: The Kotaku Review
9.10.2021
Early on in Far Cry 6, a character explains that a revolution isn’t something that happens once, but rather something that will keep happening. History is destined to repeat itself over and over. The irony of Far Cry 6 using this as a theme isn’t lost on me. And yet, here I am, unable to break free...
DRepublic Launches Combinable NFT Platform, ‘MetaCore’ Using EIP-3664
9.10.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain company DRepublic has announced the launch of their innovative combinable NFT platform MetaCore, and NFT product Legoot, using the new EIP-3664 Modularity. Blockchain MMORPG game “Cradles: Origin Of Species” creators DRepublic have now developed...
Jeff Bezos Gets Plastered All Over Twitch Post Leak
9.10.2021
Just days after Twitch suffered a giant security breach leaking over 125GB of data, the face of Amazon founder and chairman, Jeff Bezos, was seen trolling several of the streaming platform’s game directory pages. How it got there, or why, remains a mystery.Read more
Turn-Based Strategy Game Alchemy Stars Needs A Smarter AI
8.10.2021
Alchemy Stars is certainly an interesting take on an RPG, combining puzzles with turn-based combat. Which is why it’s so frustrating that its autoplay AI isn’t smarter than a fifth grader.Read more
Yes, Far Cry 6 Has A Transmog Feature
8.10.2021
Far Cry 6, Ubisoft’s cockfighting game that includes a gazillion-hour open-world shooter, has a transmog feature. But you might not know so from the start. In fact, to take it from some players, it’s all too easy to glaze right over it.Read more