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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...
Layoffs At EA Austin Following Split With FIFA
18.5.2022
Electronic Arts is laying off a ton of customer service staff at its Austin office, according to internal emails viewed by Kotaku. One source familiar with the decision told Kotaku that as many as 100 employees could be affected, many of whom supported live operations on FIFA 22. Going forward,...
By The Way, Take-Two’s CEO Profits From All Your GTA Online, NBA 2K Microtransactions
7.5.2022
Microtransactions in games like Grand Theft Auto Online have become big business for video game publishers. And it’s likely this won’t be changing anytime soon. New details spotted in a recent contract extension for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick explain that the CEO will earn a big bonus if more...
Gran Turismo 7 Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits, Big Changes Coming
25.3.2022
A live-service game is once again apologizing for its microtransactions, and promising to do better. In a new blog post, Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged frustrations with the state of the game and announced developer Polyphony Digital will issue 1 million credits to every...
Babylon’s Fall, As Told By Steam Reviews
22.3.2022
Babylon’s Fall doesn’t have far to fall. The loot game, developed by the makers of such hall-of-fame action games as Nier: Automata and Astral Chain, is getting widely panned, referred to by some as the “worst” game currently out on PS5. But it’s also playable on PC. Let’s check in and see...
Gran Turismo 7 Players Use AFK Exploit To Farm Millions Like Capitalism Intended
22.3.2022
Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing sim bogged down by microtransactions. Yet, instead of dialing back on that bit of the game, a recent update sees developer Polyphony Digital make progression even more grindy. Now, some players are turning to a new remote play exploit to farm millions...
Gran Turismo 7 Is Now Sony’s Lowest-Rated Game On Metacritic
21.3.2022
Despite its high sales, Gran Turismo 7 is not having a good launch month. On Friday, developers Polyphony Digital took the game offline for almost two days of maintenance. This meant that even much of the game’s single player mode was also unplayable since that also requires an internet connection....
Jim Sterling: From 'Pathetic Edgelord' To YouTube's 'Princess Of Pansexual Pandemonium'
9.2.2022
As a child, James Stephanie Sterling often found themselves picking apart what made games good or bad, what entertained and what left them cold. Silent Hill 2 would prove their favorite game. They adored its evocatively bleak atmosphere, and years later, that mirrors how they feel about the video...
GTA Publisher To Buy Farmville Maker Zynga For $12.7 Billion
10.1.2022
Take-Two, the publisher behind some of the biggest names in gaming like Grand Theft Auto and NBA 2K, today announced a deal to buy mobile game company Zynga for $12.7 billion. If the acquisition of the FarmVille creator goes through, it will mark the biggest sale in video game history.Read more
Among Us Just Added Scientist, Shapeshifter Roles
9.11.2021
Among Us, once regarded as a simplistic take on the Mafia and Werewolf party games, is finally expanding on the basic Crewmates vs. Impostors format.Read more
Fortnite Is Shutting Down Its Service In China
1.11.2021
The official site for Fortnite China has announced that on November 15 of this year, the game’s service will end for the country. Read more
Genshin Impact Made $2 Billion In A Year
30.9.2021
Free-to-play game Genshin Impact made $2 billion on the Google Play and Apple App stores in its first year. That makes Genshin Impact the third most financially successful mobile game in the world, sitting comfortably behind Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile. Excluding sales figures from China...
UK Cracks Down On In-Game Ads And Microtransactions
25.9.2021
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has released new, updated guidance on how game developers and publishers should and shouldn’t advertise in-game premium currencies and other purchases. The ASA is pushing back against in-game timers, labels such as “Best Value!” and more. Read more
Renaissance Faire: The Kotaku Review
22.9.2021
Life doesn’t often let you know when your brain will flip. If you ever do receive such a heads-up, you’d be wise to heed it. I learned so while playing Renaissance Faire, a massively multiplayer real-world role-playing game that is only nominally about the Renaissance.Read more
Bethesda Un-Delays Fallout 76 Expansion After Refund Debacle
9.9.2021
First, Fallout 76 season 6 was set to go live yesterday. And then it wasn’t. And then finally it was, but not before a bunch of players scrambled to buy last-minute rewards, and then hit a bug as they tried to get refunds when they saw that plans had changed. It was chaotic in the way that only...
Democrats Are Already Bungling New Call For Laws To Protect Kids From Loot Boxes
10.8.2021
A group of Democrats have sent out letters to some of the biggest names in games publishing, asking them to voluntarily adopt rules soon to be implemented in the UK, designed, they say, to protect children from exploitative practices in video games. Except, that’s not what the UK code is about...
Report: Hackers Steal FIFA 21 And Frostbite Source Code From EA
10.6.2021
Vice Gaming reports that hackers have broken into EA servers and made off with hundreds of gigabytes worth of proprietary data, including the source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite game engine. Electronic Arts has confirmed the breach while assuring no player data is at risk. Read more
NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition Is NBA 2K21 Without Obnoxious Microtransactions
2.4.2021
One of the most annoying aspects of modern sports games, including the console and PC versions of NBA 2K21, are the obtrusive microtransactions. NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition, released today for the Apple Arcade service, has no microtransactions whatsoever. What a breath of fresh air. Read more
Players Aren't Happy About Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Transmog Tax
17.3.2021
A couple months after release, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla finally has transmog, but not as some players had originally envisioned it. The feature falls short of how it’s been implemented in past games, and comes with a 50 silver tax on each transaction to boot, leaving a lot of us, myself included...
Destruction AllStars, Originally Planned As A $70 Game, Will Sell For $20
25.2.2021
Destruction AllStars, the PlayStation 5-exclusive derby game, will soon sell for $20, developer Lucid Games announced today—a $50 price drop from the game’s original sticker price of $70.Read more