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New Report Suggests The Games Industry Is Failing LGBTQ Players
13.2.2024
I’ve known that representation in games mattered ever since that day in 1987 when I finished Metroid and discovered that intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran was that rarest of things (for the time): a cool female video-game protagonist. I loved playing as Mario, or Link, or any intrepid hero...
Someone's Playing Doom On Sound Waves
13.2.2024
Welcome to another installment of “What Weird Thing Has Someone Ported Doom To This Week?” This time, it’s a user on Reddit who has translated the game into an audio signal that can be displayed by a spectrogram.Read more
Upcoming Game Delays Release To Avoid 'Busy' February
12.2.2024
The Thaumaturge, an upcoming narrative-focused, turn-based RPG, was planned to launch in just a few days on February 20. However, the game has now been delayed until March as the developers and publishers hope to avoid a “busy” February and give the game more “breathing room.” Read more
Xbox Will Share Big News On Thursday…Via Its Podcast
12.2.2024
After over a week of swirling rumors that have sent the Xbox community into meltdown over the future of the console and its exclusive games, the company is ready to clear the air on what’s to come. The Xbox Twitter account posted today that it will be releasing a special edition of the Official...
Report: Xbox Boss Tells Staff It Will Continue To Make Consoles
12.2.2024
A new report claims Xbox boss Phil Spencer told employees that Microsoft has no plans to exit the console business. This comes during a large online firestorm around Xbox and its future following rumors that some big exclusives might land on PlayStation 5. Read more
Two Great, Bloody Action Games Are Hitting Game Pass This Week
12.2.2024
This week love is in the air, but so are monstrous demons, brain-dead zombies, sword-swinging heroes, and plenty of gunfire. If you’re a Game Pass subscriber, you’ll be able to download 2020’s remake of Resident Evil 3 on February 13, and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on February 14. Read more
Valkyrae On The Family Plan, Working Retail, And How To Stream Authentically
12.2.2024
Rachell Hofstetter always wants to do more. With four million subscribers on YouTube, the streamer known as Valkyrae has become one of the top women creators in gaming since she started back in 2015. Viewers can’t get enough of her bubbly personality and quirky antics, devouring her streams as...
New Data Seems To Show PS5 Is Outselling Xbox 2:1
9.2.2024
We all sort of know that Sony’s PS5 is outselling Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S. Sony gives us sales data, Microsoft hasn’t in years. You generally don’t stay quiet about that stuff when the news is great. And new data seems to indicate what we all suspected: The Xbox Series X/S is getting shellacked...
All The Xbox Games Rumored To Come To PS5 & Switch
8.2.2024
Recently, the games industry has been shaken by news that could change the dynamic between console giants Xbox and PlayStation. A number of recent leaks suggested that Microsoft may be planning to put aside exclusivity and bring its catalog of titles like Halo to rival platforms…even to the...
Disney Invests $1.5 Billion in Epic Games to Create New Virtual World tied to Fortnite
8.2.2024
Entertainment giant Disney and video game developer Epic Games have joined forces to build a new immersive virtual universe tied to Fortnite. In a recent press release, Disney said it also plans to invest $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games alongside the multiyear project. While...
Disney Will Develop A 'New Persistent Universe' With Epic Games
7.2.2024
Disney is making its biggest push yet into video games. On February 7, the Mouse House and Fortnite creator Epic Games announced plans to create new games and an entertainment universe where consumers can “play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel...
GameStop Ad Promoting 'Microsoft' Game Pass Leads To More Xbox Chaos
7.2.2024
A GameStop tweet promoting a demo day when folks can come in and play some games on Xbox consoles using “Microsoft Game Pass” has injected more chaos and controversy into the ongoing, apocalyptic Xbox drama—set off by reports of exclusive games like Starfield coming to PS5—currently affecting...
2000s Video Game Launch Parties Are A Wild Millennial Time Capsule
6.2.2024
In that strange time period nestled between 9/11 and the Obama administration, the video game industry—specifically the console market—thrived in previously unimaginable ways. With Microsoft and Sony raking in numbers worthy of massive Hollywood production companies and global theater chains,...
Remastered Tomb Raider Collection On PS4 Has Something The PS5 Version Doesn't
6.2.2024
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is set to arrive on most platforms, including Xbox and Switch, later this month. However, the PlayStation 5 version of the collection won’t include a platinum trophy for collecting all the other trophies. Weirdly, the PlayStation 4 port will. Read more
The Church Of Xbox Is Going Through Its Own Armageddon
6.2.2024
Over the February 3 weekend, reports from different outlets and insiders claimed that a number of big, Xbox exclusives—like Starfield and Gears of War—could possibly end up on PlayStation 5 in the near future. Once the news spread around the internet, the most Xbox-pilled users and creators began...
Kotaku Readers React To The Possibility Of Xbox Games On PS5
6.2.2024
Xbox has been the talk of the town these past few days after reports claimed first-party games like Starfield and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle might be coming to PlayStation. In a response to the reports, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said the company would have more to say in a “business update...
Elden Ring Mobile Version In Development, Reports Say
6.2.2024
With games like the Resident Evil 4 remake and Death Stranding becoming playable on iPhones, it seems like just about anything can be a mobile game these days. Even Elden Ring, developer FromSoftware’s 2022 open-world RPG, could be coming to phones. At least that’s according to a recent report from...
Ace Attorney Dev Talks Apollo Justice, Japanifornia, and the Series’ Future
6.2.2024
In the fall of 2001, an unprecedented incident shook the world—the first Gyakuten Saiban (or Ace Attorney) game launched in Japan for Game Boy Advance. You played as greenhorn attorney Ryūichi Naruhodō (later translated to Phoenix Wright) as he bluffed through legal cases by exploiting testimonial...
Sonic Fans Are Stoked To Probably Watch A Child Die In The New Movie
5.2.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the third movie in the live-action adaptations, recently announced a slew of casting updates from confirming Jim Carrey’s return as villain Dr. Robotnik, to Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter joining the cast. I simply cannot die before seeing the blue blur’s angsty rival...
Making a successful video game Kickstarter in 2024
5.2.2024
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