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Welcome Back To Wrestling’s Great Video Game Sign War
13.8.2021
Wrestling fans have been away from international arenas for more than a year, but following high vaccination rates in the United States, they’re back. You know what that means. Hot takes about RPGs are also back.Read more
The Absolute Girth Of This Very Wide Game Boy
13.8.2021
Last year, The Retro Future made a very long Game Boy, and honestly where else do you go from there other than making a very wide Game Boy Advance.Read more
What Is Even Happening In These Video Game Ads, Help
12.8.2021
We’ve all been there, waiting to collect something free in a mobile game in exchange for watching an advertisement for another mobile game. This is usually a chance to stretch or take a drink, but some ads are just so batshit crazy that you can’t help but watch them whenever they come up in...
Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
12.8.2021
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.Read more
Frostpunk Is Getting A Sequel Called...Frostpunk 2
12.8.2021
Frostpunk, the city-builder game about trying to survive in a landscape almost as cold as mid-February Chicago, is getting a sequel, developer 11 Bit Studios announced in a press release today. It’s called—brace yourself, you’ll never believe this—Frostpunk 2.Read more
No, Halo Infinite’s Bots Aren’t Actually Teabagging Anyone
12.8.2021
Maybe you’ve seen the clips: A Halo multiplayer avatar crouching, then standing, then crouching, then standing again, either directly over or somewhere adjacent to a defeated enemy. You might think there’s a human behind the Spartan. There’s not. It’s a Halo Infinite bot, seemingly performing...
The GTA Remastered Trilogy Appears To Be Real, And Coming To Switch
12.8.2021
After months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classic Grand Theft Auto games. Currently, it appears these games will be released later this fall for a multitude of platforms, including the portable Nintendo Switch. Read more
Overwatch League Casters Stop Saying McCree’s Name
12.8.2021
McCree is Overwatch’s iconic gunslinger, but some casters commentating over official competitions are now avoiding saying his name. The shift comes after Jesse McCree, the real-life Blizzard developer who the character is named after, was pictured in a now infamous “Cosby Suite” that took place...
Twitch's Response To #TwitchDoBetter Could Do A Lot Better
12.8.2021
Over the last few days, Twitch streamers from marginalized groups have taken to Twitter to appeal to the Amazon-owned company to start doing something meaningful about the serious issues of harassment on the platform. In response, Twitch put up a Twitter thread saying it will engage in “open...
Activision Blizzard’s QA Department Seems Like A Hellhole
12.8.2021
Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters. Yet for QA testers at Activision Blizzard, a company that has come under fire in recent...
Ex-Far Cry Dev's New Game Studio Is 4.7 Percent Women, Ready For More
12.8.2021
Assassin’s Creed III director and former Stadia developer Alex Hutchinson is back with a new studio called Raccoon Logic, as well as some old excuses about its lack of diversity. A picture included in a press release showed the new studio’s staff standing on an outdoor staircase. Of the 20 people...
Studio Dunks On Cyberpunk 2077 While Explaining Open-World Game Delay
12.8.2021
If players are going to dunk on Cyberpunk 2077, it was only a matter of time before other game studios did it too. Black Desert Online creator, South Korea’s Pearl Abyss, has announced a delay of their forthcoming open-world game Crimson Desert, throwing shade on CDPR’s disastrous 2020 launch...
Goombas Topple Over At Super Nintendo World's Yoshi Ride
12.8.2021
Earlier this week, a moving stack Goombas toppled over at Super Nintendo World’s Yoshi’s Adventure attraction in Universal Studios Japan. You can glimpse the Goombas in the above image. Livedoor News reports that the Goomba statue, which measures several meters tall, did fell in an area where park...
Jesse Mcree, Diablo 4 Director No Longer At Activision Blizzard
11.8.2021
Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga, Blizzard lead level designer Jesse McCree, and World of Warcraft designer Jonathan LeCraft were let go from Blizzard on Wednesday, two sources with knowledge of the move told Kotaku. Read more
Apex Legends Dev Fired Over Past Sexist, Racist Comments
11.8.2021
Daniel Klein, a lead game designer on Apex Legends, was recently fired from his job at Respawn Entertainment after screenshots of old blog posts and public conversations surfaced showing the developer making both sexist and racist comments.Read more
Take-Two Goes On Another Grand Theft Auto Mod-Killing Spree
11.8.2021
A wave of Grand Theft Auto modifications have been hit with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes from publisher Take-Two Interactive, according to a statement posted to popular mod repository LibertyCity yesterday.Read more
Will the Real Polygon Please Stand Up — Spammers Wrongly Post Coin Drops on Video Game-Related Feed
11.8.2021
In a strange twist of fate, two companies named Polygon are the source of a storm of confusion on Twitter as a video game community gets a unique introduction to Polygon’s blockchain technology. Crypto Scammers Hit Game-Related Feed Polygon, the rebranded layer 2 blockchain solution...
The Best Video Games Of 2021 So Far
11.8.2021
Let’s get this out of the way: Given all the ~everything~, simply releasing a game in 2021 is nothing short of a miracle. Every single one deserves a round of applause. But some, let’s face it, are better than others. As summer wraps, we thought it’d be fun to shine a light on the games that have...
Dead By Daylight Patch Fixes Pyramid Head’s Ass
11.8.2021
The latest update to multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight fixed a lot of bugs, but the most important change has to do with Pyramid Head and his luscious booty.Read more
The Biggest Shiny Pokémon Collector Needs One $30,000 Card To Complete Set
11.8.2021
Shiny Pokémon hype has jumped out of the games and into real life with one trading card game fan who’s trying to collect one of every monster color variant that currently exists. Good news: he only needs one more card. Bad news: some people are selling it for as much as $30,000.Read more