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The Games That Scared The Hell Out Of Us As Kids
27.10.2022
As Halloween draws near, more and more people are loading up their favorite scary games to enjoy some digital frights. But this isn’t a new tradition. In fact, many of us here at Kotaku have been playing spooky, creepy games since we were old enough to pick up controllers or mash keyboards....
10 Horror Games Worse Than The Movies They're Based On
25.10.2022
I love to catalog things. I’m a scrapbooker, a flower presser, and I need to log every movie I watch on Letterboxd or I’ll cease breathing. My desire to collect could be pathological, but I often wish I could capture all the games I play in the same way. Some games I want to remember forever, long...
Every U.S. PlayStation 2 Game Manual Is Now Scanned In 4K
25.10.2022
Physical game manuals are hard to come by these days, especially as the industry begins to heavily lean into cloud streaming and digital-first infrastructures. But if you remember those good ole times when game boxes came with chunky pamphlets for you to peruse before jumping into your recent...
Science Has Wrought A Lab-Grown Gamer Brain That Plays Pong
12.10.2022
No, you didn’t accidentally click on the webpage of our sister site, The Onion. A scientist really grew a brain in a lab and, unfortunately, it’s a gamer. Read more
It's Nice When A Studio Can Rebrand Into Something Prettier
11.10.2022
From 2011 to 2022, there was a video game developer in Canada known as Square Enix Montreal. A sub-division of a massive international games publisher, they had a logo that looked like a spaceship from an Atari game and a name about as unimaginative as it comes.Read more
11 Gruesome Horror Games, Ranked By How Much They Made Us Scream
7.10.2022
Despite being afraid of literally anything and everything on the planet, I love Halloween. Octobers mean dutifully logging a slasher a day in my Letterboxd account, or using my journal to hash out what Friday the 13th would have been if Jason were handsome under the mask (he’s a waterlogged hermit...
Stadia’s Exhibit Of Historic Gaming Blunders Is Now On eBay
30.9.2022
Outside of the 2019 Game Developers Conference, before anyone had ever heard the phrase “Google Stadia,” sat a small display outlining the history of gaming. Dates and bullet points marked some of the major events, and on three pedestals sat a few of the industry’s most notorious flops: Atari’s...
Týden Živě: Česká roboauta pro celý svět, Atari z Lega a dělo do vesmíru
24.9.2022
Budeme vystřelovat družice pomocí hypersonických děl? • Vyrazili jsme na veletrh Future Mobility a projeli se v roboautobusu • Filip si postavil Atari z Lega
Veve Partners With Marvel to Drop Limited Edition NFT Covers Featuring Spider-Man, Black Panther
29.8.2022
On August 29, the digital collectibles company Veve announced that the platform has launched digital variant non-fungible token (NFT) covers from three Marvel comic book artists. Veve and Marvel detailed that the NFT drops called the Marvel Artworks collection will be limited edition, 1-of-1...
Breaking Bad Creator Wanted To Make A GTA-Like Game Based On Show
11.8.2022
One of the most critically acclaimed and popular TV shows of the past few decades was Breaking Bad on AMC. Its spin-off, Better Call Saul, has also been hugely popular and successful. Now, ahead of Saul’s final episode, the creator behind both shows, Vince Gilligan, has confirmed that there were...
There It Is: Analogue Pocket Just Got Its Long-Awaited Jailbreak
30.7.2022
The Analogue Pocket’s always turned heads: first for being the most authentic-sounding Game Boy replacement ever announced, then for taking an extraordinary length of time to finally come out. But come out it did, and it was pretty good. For some, its biggest drawback was that it required...
The Lego Atari 2600 Is A Masterpiece
19.7.2022
It’s been rumored since April, but today Lego has confirmed the Lego Atari 2600, and it is beautiful. They also revealed it in the sweetest way.Read more
This Atari 2600 Remake Was 40 Years In The Making
14.7.2022
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Hideo Kojima, Gabe Newell And Other Superstar Developers Star In...A Dragon Ball Z Video
12.7.2022
Comedy group Mega64 just released a super impressive new video in which the team re-enact the entire, epic Maijin Buu story arc from Dragon Ball Z in just five (well, five-ish) minutes. To get it done, though, they needed some help.Read more
RIP Bernie Stolar, Who Helped Launch Both The PlayStation And Dreamcast
27.6.2022
Bernie Stolar, one of the most important video game executives of the 1990s, has passed away at the age of 75, GamesBeat reports.Read more
This Scottish Cycle Lane Is Harder Than Any Video Game
20.6.2022
There’s a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, that offers a real-life version of Paperboy’s zigzag cycling routes, and I’m here to celebrate it for just that. As part of the city’s £207 million ($253m) project to run trams through the famous road, a new section of cycle lane has been put in, which, as...
New One Piece Odyssey Trailer Gives Straw Hat Pirates Movie-Esque Intro
9.6.2022
One Piece’s manga might be going on a month-long hiatus, but that didn’t stop Game Pope and Muppet enthusiast Geoff Keighley from giving fans a new look at its upcoming JRPG during Summer Game Fest. Read more
Jamiroquai to Bring ‘Virtual Insanity’ to The Sandbox Blockchain Metaverse
19.5.2022
On Wednesday, the acid jazz-funk band Jamiroquai revealed it has partnered with the blockchain-based virtual world platform The Sandbox in order to “get funky in the metaverse.” According to the announcement, Jamiroquai plans to bring virtual insanity to the band’s virtual land...
NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain
4.5.2022
You know what no one could ever have predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable jpeg images might not be end-game, long-term sustainable. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flatlining,” down 92 percent from last September. Which makes it just...
Atari claims its namesake token is now 'unlicensed' as it terminates blockchain joint venture
18.4.2022
The company appears to have abruptly terminated the ATRI token partnership, but indicated that it still sees a bright future for blockchain related ventures within the company