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The First Descendant Is A Fun But Forgettable Mash-up Of Better Games
8.7.2024
The First Descendant, Nexon’s new third-person sci-fi free-to-play online looter shooter is a lot like a bowl of so-so mac and cheese. I promise that opening sentence will make some sense by the end of this article, okay? Read more
Hamster Kombat: Viral Telegram Game’s Pre-Market Debut Announced by Bybit
8.7.2024
Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has announced the listing of Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) on its pre-market trading platform. This development marks a major milestone for the viral Telegram-based game. From Telegram Sensation to Crypto Exchange Listing Hamster Kombat is a tap-to-earn game that...
Astra Nova: The Tier 1 Web3 Game Booming With 170,000+ Active Users Pre-Token Launch
8.7.2024
PRESS RELEASE. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – July 8, 2024 – Astra Nova, the revolutionary action RPG, is making significant strides as the 1st Web3 game to emerge from Saudi Arabia’s vibrant gaming landscape. Built on Unreal Engine 5, Astra Nova is captivating the gaming community with...
Game Delayed For 22 Years Is Finally Out
5.7.2024
In 2002 a group of friends in Italy started developing an action-platformer with RPG elements for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld. Then 22 years passed and now, in 2024, Kien is finally launching on GBA, ending one of the longest delays in video game history. Read more
Plus: The First Descendant debuts (notably!) strong on Steam
5.7.2024
Also: Once Human and Anger Foot loom on the 'new game' horizon
After Just A Year, Capcom's Live-Service Dino Game Is Going Extinct
5.7.2024
Capcom announced today that after just a year of updates, its live-service dino killin’ game—Exoprimal—will be going on life support as it has no further plans to add new seasonal content to the game after its last update. Read more
Helldivers 2 Players Fear They’ve Been Tricked Into Unlocking A Weapon They Don’t Want
5.7.2024
Arrowhead, the developers behind the hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2, have recently been struggling to get a bit of weaponry into the hands of its community. Helldivers 2 players have consistently failed to unlock a new stratagem—deployable weapons and tools to use mid-match—for months on end....
It's Time To Jump Into One Of The Longest-Running Japanese RPG Series Out There
5.7.2024
Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the latest game in...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games We’re Kicking Off July With
5.7.2024
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism isn’t always...
One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made Almost Had A PS2 Tie-In Game
5.7.2024
Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, almost got a tie-in PS2-era video game. And while the tie-in game was never finished, largely because the movie lingered in development hell, we now have access to assets from the Foodfight! game and have a more...
Escape From Tarkov Puts Bounties On Cheaters, Rewards Players For Reporting Them
5.7.2024
What better way to incentivize players to help keep the community clean than by offering up a reward? Plenty of online video games have a cheater problem, but sometimes developers need players’ help to track them down. That’s what Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games is doing, offering...
Switch Gets 7 More Random NES Games, Including One Programmed By Nintendo's Former President
5.7.2024
Nearly six years after it launched, Nintendo Switch Online is still getting new NES classics added to its on-demand subscription service. Nintendo announced seven more games are now available to play. The esoteric bunch, which includes Mach Rider and The Mystery of Atlantis, means almost every...
Summer Games Done Quick Gives Us The Best Video Game Moment Of 2024
5.7.2024
Summer Games Done Quick is typically a beacon for good things. Every year, players break good games and perform wild acts of digital acrobatics as they do speedruns for a good cause. And the best good thing was the goodest of good boys Peanut Butter, a four-year-old Shiba Inu, hitting a home run...
Nintendo Will No Longer Fix That Console You Never Used
5.7.2024
The poor Wii U. That inexplicable console that was simultaneously too confusing to be useful, but too unexceptional to be inspiring. Meaninglessly carrying the weight of the name of the phenomenal success of the Nintendo Wii, it was—by most metrics—a rare miss and a colossal flop. And now you can’t...
Hamster Kombat hits 239M users in 81 days — Telegram’s Durov
4.7.2024
Telegram founder Pavel Durov says Hamster Kombat’s viral success could onboard over 200 million people to blockchain technology
Taurus enhances Zand Bank’s crypto, tokenization services in UAE
4.7.2024
The Swiss crypto platform is expanding its stable of large financial institutions
Telegram and Helika Gaming unveil $50M gaming accelerator with Notcoin
4.7.2024
The accelerator program aims to foster innovation among game developers, leveraging the Ton blockchain to enhance Telegram’s gaming ecosystem
Nintendo will not use generative AI to build game titles
4.7.2024
Nintendo’s president addresses the risks of intellectual property breaches with generative AI at a shareholder meeting
How this solo-dev parkour game sold >70k in a few weeks!
3.7.2024
Also: lots of surveys & and tonnes more
Report: More Activision Games Coming To Game Pass Soon
3.7.2024
Thus far, only one Activision Blizzard-published game has made its way to Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service, almost a year after Microsoft finalized its deal to purchase the massive Call of Duty publisher. But a new report claims more Activision games will (slowly) start coming to the service...