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Game Pass Ruled 2021, Giving Us A Glimpse Of An Xbox-Less Future
13.12.2021
Xbox’s 20th birthday was all about killing the Xbox.Read more
Analogue Pocket: The Kotaku Review
13.12.2021
The Analogue Pocket is the ultimate Game Boy. It can play nearly any Game Boy, Game Boy Color, or Game Boy Advance game, on a bright and colorful LCD with 10 times the resolution of the original Nintendo Handheld, sound piping through a pair of superb stereo speakers. That’s just for starters. Read...
Sony Finally Releasing Colorful PS5 Covers
13.12.2021
Sony revealed today that a year after launch, the PlayStation 5 is finally getting color swaps for its giant plastic covers. There are five new variants in total, and new DualSense controllers to match, set for a global launch starting in January 2022. Hopefully they don’t suffer from the same...
Xbox Game Pass PC Gets A New Name And Four More Day One Games
10.12.2021
Xbox Game Pass is a good name for a subscription games service. Xbox Game Pass for PC is not, so Microsoft got together with rappers Lil Dicky and GaTa last night during The Game Awards to announce the PC version’s new name, the much more sensible PC Game Pass. The ad spot also revealed four...
Battle Royale Wrestling Game Looks Like A Cool Take On The Crowded Genre
10.12.2021
Whether you’re a gym rat, a lifeguard, or a music performer, the premise of Rumbleverse is simple: everyone’s out to beat the shit out of everyone else. Tonight, Iron Galaxy Studios revealed the battle royale at The Game Awards.Read more
Steelrising Game Says What If Victorian Times But With Robots?
10.12.2021
Steelrising got a new trailer tonight during The Game Awards 2021, showing off its wild mix of robots and a Victorian-era world. The game is coming out next year to PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.Read more
Horizon Forbidden West's Dinosaurs Are Suitably Epic In New Footage
10.12.2021
Guerrilla Games showed off more of Horizon Forbidden West—which criminally is not titled Horizon One Dawn or Horizon Zero Dusk—at The Game Awards tonight. Take a look:Read more
Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78
9.12.2021
Masayuki Uemura was the lead architect for the Famicom (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicon (aka the SNES). The mark he left on the gaming industry and popular culture is indelible. According to Oricon News, Uemura passed away on December 6. He was 78. Read more
Xbox Game Pass Adds Another Surprise Game
7.12.2021
Xbox has started to release games on its popular Game Pass subscription service without announcing them, and it’s starting to feel like an advent calendar. Serious Sam 4 was previously only available on the PC and Stadia, but it got a surprise launch on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 today...
Scuf’s New PS5 Controllers Have Cool Features, Large Price Tags
7.12.2021
Atlanta-based Scuf gaming’s made a name for itself with outstanding third-party controllers for Xbox One, Series X/S, and PlayStation 4. Now the peripheral maker sets its sights on the PlayStation 5 with the new Scuf Reflex line, a trio of high-performance PS5 controllers with four rear paddles...
Bowser Agrees To Pay Nintendo $10 Million In Hacking Lawsuit
7.12.2021
Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser pleaded guilty to federal piracy charges in October. Now he’s agreed to pay Nintendo a massive $10 million settlement for his reported role in designing and selling devices to circumvent Switch security measures as part of Team Xecuter.Read more
Nintendo Might Have To Make Pre-Order Refunds Easier After Losing Lawsuit
6.12.2021
Last week, following a lengthy appeal process, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) successfully argued that Nintendo’s current eShop pre-order return policies are insufficiently flexible, and the console maker may now have to further loosen its heavily criticized digital...
Japan's Biggest YouTuber Bought The $10,000 Gucci Xbox
6.12.2021
With over 10 million subscribers, Hikakin is Japan’s biggest YouTuber. I’m not sure which is more amazing—that he bought the Gucci Xbox or an Xbox. Japan has long been a tough market for Microsoft, but recently this has been changing. And now, Japan’s biggest YouTuber has purchased the super...
LA Lakers Release Strange Little Halo Bundle
6.12.2021
For one day only this weekend, at one place only, the Los Angeles Lakers and Microsoft were selling a bizarre Halo Infinite bundle that was, this being 2021, snapped up by fans/resellers almost immediately.Read more
PlayStation Executive Fired After Pedophile Allegation Video Posted Online
6.12.2021
George Cacioppo, a senior vice president at Sony Interactive Entertainment who had worked in engineering and on the PlayStation Store since 2013, has been “terminated” from his position after he reportedly appeared over the weekend in a pedophile sting operation’s video.Read more
Report: PlayStation Planning Xbox Game Pass-Style Subscription Service
3.12.2021
Sony is finalizing a new PlayStation subscription meant to give the platform its own Xbox Game Pass-style service that’s tentatively scheduled to launch next spring, Bloomberg reports.Read more
The PlayStation 1 Is Now 27 Years Old
3.12.2021
On December 3, 1994, the first PlayStation was released in Japan, and video games haven’t been the same since. It’s hard to underscore the PlayStation’s impact. The graphics and sound were all cutting edge for their time. Compared to the cartridge-based games of Sony’s competitors, the PlayStation...
Paper Mario Is The Next Nintendo Switch Online N64 Game
3.12.2021
The Nintendo Switch Online’s expansion pack, which brought N64 games to the subscription service for the first time, launched with nine titles, many of which were not in great shape. The tenth, out later this month, will be the original Paper Mario.Read more
The 'Dick And Balls' GameCube Controller Is NSFW
3.12.2021
Ludwig, formerly of Twitch and now of YouTube Gaming, won a small Among Us tournament a while back, and as his prize was offered the chance to receive a one-of-a-kind, hand-made GameCube controller.Read more
Looks Like The Steam Deck Might Get Some Competition
2.12.2021
Five months after Valve announced the Steam Deck, a new challenger enters the handheld console market. The chip manufacturer Qualcomm partnered with gaming hardware company Razer to produce the Snapdragon G3x, a streamer-friendly console that can play games across PC, mobile, consoles, and...