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Sony’s Not Phasing Out PS4 For A Couple Years—It’s Still Raking In Money
26.5.2022
In a financial call yesterday, Sony told investors that no first-party games will be released on the PlayStation 4 in 2025, showing Sony is finally preparing to leave its legacy platform entirely and switch fully over to the PS5. But there are a few barriers to a more aggressive transition to...
Sony Bringing Horizon Show To Netflix And, Uh, A Gran Turismo Show To...Someone
26.5.2022
During a business briefing earlier today, Sony confirmed that it was working with Netflix and Amazon Prime to create TV shows based on God of War and Horizon. The company also confirmed a Gran Turismo show was in development. These shows join the growing list of video game TV shows that have been...
Sony's Bringing Even More PlayStation Games To PC Following Massive Success
26.5.2022
Sony plans to expand significantly into PC gaming, according to an investor briefing published this week. By 2025, Sony says, roughly a third of the games in PlayStation’s portfolio will come out on PC.Read more
Twitch Pledges To Make Ban Notifications More Transparent, Streamers Are Skeptical
26.5.2022
In a recent Washington Post article, Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch said it is working on making ban notification emails, an ongoing issue for content creators, more transparent and concise. One option under consideration is the inclusion of clips in enforcement emails, though the concept...
Game Pirates Trolled With Controller Errors And Endless Rain
26.5.2022
One of my favourite things to write about on this website are the creative ways developers have learned to fuck with people pirating their video games, so it’s with great pleasure I get to share another example today.Read more
Old World Is The Best New 4X Game In Years
26.5.2022
Back in April 2020 I took a look at a game called Old World, which at the time was both exclusive to the Epic Games Store and also in Early Access. Back then it was a promising if still obviously under-cooked game. Now, two years later, it’s so much more.Read more
V Rising Adds Offline Mode, Sells 1 Million Copies
26.5.2022
I wrote about V Rising yesterday, and noted that it had sold over 500,000 copies. Well, it has now sold a lot more than that, having hit the one million mark less than a week after release.Read more
EA Tells Devs It Won't Take Stand On Abortion Rights, Encourages 'Healing Circles'
25.5.2022
Electronic Arts won’t be joining some other big game studios in publicly supporting abortion and transgender rights, Kotaku has learned. Asked about it during a May 24 company-wide town hall meeting, the gaming publisher told staff it couldn’t take a stance on every public issue and that “being...
Dark Souls’ Awful Basilisks Taught Me How To Play The Game
25.5.2022
It’s the color of a shrunken oily olive. Its true eyes are pinpricks of light situated on either side of its threateningly wide mouth, and its false eyes wobble like (boobs?) batteries rolling around a broken flashlight on top of its scaly head. It is FromSoftware’s loathed but consistent creature...
Belarusian Devs Delay Cyberpunk Game Due To Ongoing War In Ukraine
25.5.2022
The forthcoming cyberpunk game Replaced won’t make its planned 2022 release. Today, developer Sad Cat Studios announced the side-scrolling platformer is now planned for next, citing the ongoing war in Ukraine as the cause.Read more
Soulslike Dev Explains Nintendo World Showcase ‘Selling Out’ Joke
25.5.2022
Dozens of games were shown during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase earlier this month, but only one featured a crab heading out in search of treasure, sword in claw, and taking on the undersea world. The Switch game in question, Another Crab’s Treasure, sounded perfectly niche, but its developers...
Some Of The PS5’s Biggest Games Are On Sale ATM
25.5.2022
If you just bought Ghostwire, Deathloop, or any other big PlayStation game, I am so, so sorry. You probably could’ve picked it up a lot cheaper today, as PlayStation’s big spring sale kicks off.Read more
Bullieverse Integrates ChainLink VRF for Bear Hunt NFT Game
25.5.2022
The Bullieverse metaverse on Ethereum and Polygon have integrated the ChainLink Verifiable Random Function. The decision was made for a fair distribution of NFTs in the new Bear Hunt 3D game. Moreover, the function will help users verify the transparency of the game while also making sure everyone...
MetaKings Raises $15M to Launch Web 3 Strategy Game Blocklords
25.5.2022
The medieval strategy-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) game is expected to debut next year
Cornucopias: A Revolutionary Cardano Blockchain Project That Is Redefining the Gaming Metaverse Industry
25.5.2022
PRESS RELEASE. The metaverse is a virtual world that allows millions of players to live beyond their immediate environment. With blockchain technology, users can create, own and utilize digital assets while interacting with other people in the virtual space. Cornucopias ‘The Island’...
Activision Blizzard Devs Demand Breastfeeding Protections And Other Reforms
25.5.2022
10 months after a California lawsuit alleged widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, employees at the company don’t feel like it’s made the necessary changes and have created a worker committee to demand further reforms. Chief among them...
How To Get Halo Infinite’s Kick-Ass WW2-Inspired Armor
24.5.2022
Nope, that key art above isn’t a promo image for Wolfenstein. It’s a promotional shot for a cosmetic set of Halo Infinite armor called Eaglestrike. Pretty neat, right? Good news: The kit itself is pretty easy to get. Bad news: Your personalized version won’t look cool for months.Read more
Reggie Fils-Aime: Companies Need To ‘Embrace’ Unions If That’s What Employees Want
24.5.2022
In an interview yesterday, former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about his thoughts on unions, which currently barely exist in the video game industry. Fils-Aime’s answer was not a ringing endorsement of unions, with the former exec saying they aren’t good or bad, just...
Some PS Plus Players Are Seemingly Getting Hit With A Giant Upgrade Tax
24.5.2022
Sony’s new and improved PlayStation Plus program has already launched in some parts of the world, and players are seemingly running into all sorts of issues. But the one players are freaking out about the most right now is a potential wrinkle in how the pricing for upgrading works which could leave...
Here Are The Top 10 Most-Played Games Of The Year So Far
24.5.2022
While new titles compete for audiences, games such as Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto V, and The Sims 4 are still some of the most-played games in the U.S., with each nearly a decade or more removed from their original releases. In fact, only three of the top ten most-played games (Madden NFL 22, Call...