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Let’s Talk About How One Piece Film: Red Is The Best Anime Movie We’ve Seen This Year
8.11.2022
What a world. A One Piece movie about a pop star was one of the highest-grossing anime films in Japan earlier this year. Just released here, I watched One Piece Film: Red during its debut weekend to see what all the hype was about. I was blown away by the film’s bombastic style and emotional...
Activision Unleash Dystopian Candy Crush Drone Fleet Into Skies Above New York
6.11.2022
Late last week 500 drones were dispatched into the air above New York City, lighting up the Manhattan skyline on Thursday night so the world could see...a Candy Crush advertisement.Read more
Star Ocean: The Divine Force Isn’t Terrible—And That’s Good Enough
4.11.2022
I live only a 15-minute drive from the house where I grew up. My parents moved when I was in college, at which point the physical embodiment of every memory from my formative years was turned over to strangers, only to be revisited in my dreams. On the few occasions I’ve gone back to that street...
Signalis Is A Grimy Exercise In Survival Horror, And I Love It
2.11.2022
As I have discussed on this site many, many times, I do not like horror games, and so struggle to enjoy even the genre’s finest examples. There is absolutely no way in hell, then, I should be enjoying Signalis as much as I am.Read more
Oops: Gotham Knights Briefly Ditched Its Anti-Piracy Protection
28.10.2022
Gotham Knights got its first significant post-launch patch on PC yesterday. The update was aimed at fixing online multiplayer errors and squashing some bugs. Unfortunately, it also temporarily squashed the Batman game’s Denuvo DRM protections, seemingly leaving it vulnerable to pirates. That’s...
The Games That Scared The Hell Out Of Us As Kids
27.10.2022
As Halloween draws near, more and more people are loading up their favorite scary games to enjoy some digital frights. But this isn’t a new tradition. In fact, many of us here at Kotaku have been playing spooky, creepy games since we were old enough to pick up controllers or mash keyboards....
Batman Arkham Studio Bosses Out Ahead Of Suicide Squad Release
26.10.2022
WB Games president David Haddad announced on Rocksteady’s website today that the video game developer’s co-founders, Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, are leaving the studio at the end of 2022. Rocksteady, which created the Batman: Arkham series, is set to release its anticipated pseudo-spin-off...
10 Horror Games Worse Than The Movies They're Based On
25.10.2022
I love to catalog things. I’m a scrapbooker, a flower presser, and I need to log every movie I watch on Letterboxd or I’ll cease breathing. My desire to collect could be pathological, but I often wish I could capture all the games I play in the same way. Some games I want to remember forever, long...
Halloween Stores Are Now Dominated By Fortnite
24.10.2022
This weekend, I headed to one of my favorite places on Earth: A pop-up Halloween store. It’s a tradition that my wife and I both love. This year, we had to re-locate the nearest Spirit as it had moved into a new carcass of a past store. I think it used to sell shoes and sports gear. Now it sells...
The Disney Villains Game Is Having A Horny Racism Controversy
24.10.2022
Mobile game Disney Twisted Wonderland sparked controversy when it revealed a new character this weekend. The character is based on Claude Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Fans have called him racist as Frollo was extremely racist in the original Disney movie. Here’s the complicated part:...
Silent Hill Fans Try To Decipher Hidden Message In Creepy Trailer
21.10.2022
Silent Hill: Townfall is one of four new Silent Hill games Konami announced during its flooded showcase earlier this week, and perhaps the most mysterious. Details were scarce outside of a short teaser trailer featuring a cryptic voice over and harrowing music, but fans think they may have unlocked...
After Years Of No Silent Hill, Konami Just Opened The Flood Gates
19.10.2022
Silent Hill fans can finally—finally!—rejoice. Konami has confirmed that, after accidentally leaking some details earlier today, the beloved survival horror game Silent Hill 2 will make a return as a timed PlayStation exclusive, alongside a bevy of other Silent Hill projects currently in the works....
Silent Hill Announcement Coming While Website Still Dunks On Pyramid Head
17.10.2022
Few games drive rabid fan speculation and conspiracy theorizing like Silent Hill, and after years of wild guesses, Konami revealed it’s finally ready to announce what’s next for the cult-favorite horror franchise later this week. There’s even a new Silent Hill website, because the old one still...
Disney Dreamlight Valley's First Big Update Sees Scar Dropping Next Week
13.10.2022
Let me get the easy joke out of the way. Are y’all prepared for the next Disney character making their way to the popular Animal Crossing-like Dreamlight Valley? I hope so, because the evil and wicked lion Scar, the big bad from the 90s classic The Lion King, is arriving in the life sim next week....
A Saucy Romance Game Where You Play As Dracula
8.10.2022
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11 Gruesome Horror Games, Ranked By How Much They Made Us Scream
7.10.2022
Despite being afraid of literally anything and everything on the planet, I love Halloween. Octobers mean dutifully logging a slasher a day in my Letterboxd account, or using my journal to hash out what Friday the 13th would have been if Jason were handsome under the mask (he’s a waterlogged hermit...
Disco Elysium Studio Accused Of Ousting Creators, Dev Says It's 'Bad News' For Sequel
3.10.2022
Some of the core developers behind beloved 2019 indie RPG Disco Elysium, including the author of the novel it’s based on, are no longer working at the studio that created it. The news was revealed in a blog post written by an editor on the game, Martin Luiga, who claims studio leadership at ZA/UM...
Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
20.9.2022
Kim MacAskill, a writer whose career includes work on upcoming Rocksteady game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was recently nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the nonprofit organization Women in Games. However, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she cannot in good...
There's So Much Assassin's Creed Happening Now That It's Almost Hard To Keep Up
11.9.2022
I am sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an advertisement for Ubisoft right now, but do you want to know the wildest thing about it all? That’s not even everything that the French company announced recently in the world of Assassin’s Creed during its big Ubisoft Forward event. There was...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Actually Ending, And The DLC Will Be Free
10.9.2022
It felt like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla might never end. Long after the seas had swallowed the continents and the stars had gone out, Eivor would still be finding new settlements to pillage and new cosmetics to play around with. But today Ubisoft announced the almost unthinkable: Assassin’s Creed...