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The Best GameCube Games
16.9.2021
Ah, the GameCube. It might be my favourite console of all time. The tiny discs, its cute little handle, the Wavebird...yeah, we had some good times together. But the best times we had were with these games in particular.Read more
Deltarune Chapter 2 Is Coming Out This Week
16.9.2021
With fans having waited forever for news like this, Undertale’s Toby Fox just announced that Deltarune Chapter 2 will be out...this weekRead more
Pokémon Unite Players Sure Don't Like Surrendering
15.9.2021
Picture this: You’re playing Pokémon Unite as your favorite monster (Greninja mains, sound off in the comments), whooping some ass. But as the game goes on, you find that your team is seriously STRUGGLING. What do you do, choose the surrender option or stick it out until the end? Matches may...
Tales Of Arise: The Kotaku Review
15.9.2021
Dozens of hours into Tales of Arise, a new role-playing game from Bandai Namco, one of your party members asks, “Is it over?”Read more
Ex-Ubisoft Devs Open New Studio, Immediately Diss Ubisoft
15.9.2021
Nesting Games, a newly formed development studio based in Québec, Canada, today announced its co-ownership by Italian publisher Digital Bros. Nesting, officially established in August by former Ubisoft employees, wasted no time in distancing itself from the open world style that has become...
World Flipper Is An Uneven Combination Of Gacha, Pinball, And JRPG
15.9.2021
World Flipper is a fascinating mobile game that mixes gacha with pinball and JRPG-style combat. While I was excited to play a new gacha game in a new gameplay format, it doesn’t entirely succeed as one.Read more
Deathloop’s Save System Is Pissing Some Players Off
15.9.2021
Kinda feels like déjà vu, doesn’t it? In the spring, Returnal, a PlayStation 5 time loop game about killing your way to salvation, vexed players with its lack of manual saves. This week, Deathloop, a PS5 and PC time loop game about killing your way to salvation, is doing the same.Read more
Deathloop's PS5 Loading Screens Are Making Some Horrible Sounds
15.9.2021
Deathloop is a good video game and it makes my brain go “brrrrrrrrr.” Sadly, it also makes PS5s go “SCREEEEEEEEE,” whenever the game is loading. This is not ideal.Read more
Seven Years With Destiny
15.9.2021
It’s 3 a.m., and I’m searching for a gun. Not just any gun but a primary sidearm that shoots rounds vibrating with a dark crystal energy that only drops from Destiny 2’s seasonal competitive slog known as Iron Banner. The gun is called Peacebond, an early contender for best new sidearm in the game...
Even Beefy Rigs Aren't Saving Deathloop From PC Issues
14.9.2021
Deathloop is, by all accounts, a damn good game. That said, its reception on Steam is sitting shakily in “Mixed” territory due to the various performance-related issues currently plaguing PC players.Read more
Pokémon Go Gets 'Form Changes' For Fashion Week
14.9.2021
You probably know that fashion week happens eight times per year, twice annually in Paris, Milan, London, and New York. But soon, the so-called “Big Four” will face some serious competition for the limelight when Pokémon Go kicks off its own fashion week event next Tuesday.Read more
Workers Accuse Activision Blizzard Of Union Busting
14.9.2021
Activision Blizzard employees represented by the ABetterABK worker group filed a lawsuit against the Call of Duty publisher with the National Labor Review Board yesterday accusing it of union busting. It comes in the wake of a bombshell California lawsuit alleging widespread sexual harassment...
Nobody Wants A Driver TV Show, Ubisoft
14.9.2021
Ubisoft plans to revive the Driver franchise, the company announced today...with a live-action streaming series. Those sounds you just heard were millions of excited fans collectively scooting forward in their seats and then immediately slumping back in disappointment.Read more
Splitgate’s Getting Bigger And Better, Thanks To A Cool $100M
14.9.2021
Developer 1047 Games has raised $100 million from a bunch of venture capital investors, the studio announced via press release today. The eye-popping fundraising haul will allow the outfit to remain independent and beef up work on its enormously popular free-to-play arena shooter, Splitgate.Read...
Ren And Stimpy Are Coming To The Nick Fighting Game As A Duo
14.9.2021
Hailing from the darkly humorous animated show, Ren and Stimpy are the newest additions to the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl roster, developer Ludosity announced on Tuesday.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Makes Its Roads Wet Again
14.9.2021
For a minute there, Cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t wet enough. Today, it is, thanks to an update that restores missing water effects in the troubled open-world shooter.Read more
Game Pass Is Really Blowing Up In September
14.9.2021
As a cynical, bitter, battle-worn games critic, I would like nothing better than to declare what a disastrous mess Microsoft is making of Game Pass. But damn them, they’re not, and the line-up of new additions coming in the second half of September is pleasingly strong. Another 13 games are getting...
Dying Light 2 Delayed To 2022
14.9.2021
Dying Light 2: Stay Human, the first-person zombie parkour game slated for a December 7 release, has been delayed, developer Techland announced in a tweet today. It’ll now come out on February 4, 2022, for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, contributing to what’s shaping up to be the most stacked release...
The Nintendo GameCube Is Now Twenty Years Old
14.9.2021
On September 14, 2001, the GameCube first went on sale for the first time in Japan. Two months later, on November 18, the console was released in North America. Can you believe it’s been twenty years? Facing off against the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, the GameCube was the first Nintendo console...
Everyone Who Worked On A Game Should Be In The Credits
14.9.2021
Deathloop is out, and by all accounts it’s pretty good! It’s a shame, then, that it’s also the reason we’re revisiting the topic of “video games people being weirdly shitty about who makes it into the credits and who doesn’t”.Read more