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The Giant Destiny 2 Leak Everyone Can’t Stop Talking About
23.8.2021
Speculation over a notorious batch of supposed Destiny 2 leaks has reached a fever pitch ahead of the Season 15 and Witch Queen expansion reveals. Bungie’s live-service loot shooter is no stranger to data mining deep dives from players and theorizing based on those findings, but what makes...
When Your Fallout Mod Is So Good Bethesda Hires You Before It Comes Out
23.8.2021
Stephanie Zachariadis, head writer of the highly anticipated Fallout: London mod, is leaving the development team after being hired as an associate quest designer at Bethesda Game Studios, project lead Dean Carter announced recently.Read more
Crypto exchange Bybit signs esports deals with Astralis and Alliance
23.8.2021
Cryptocurrency exchanges have identified esports as a potential growth driver. The industry has experienced significant growth in recent years as leagues look to monetize the competitive nature of video games
Battlefield 2042 Cheats Advertised Months Before Release
23.8.2021
Officially announced on June 9 and slated for release on October 22, Battlefield 2042 left a very narrow window for the international cheat machine to spring into action, but spring they have with at least one website already advertising aimbots and ESP-style player location sensing to ruin Dice’s...
Aliens: Fireteam Elite Isn’t A Great Aliens Game
23.8.2021
I’ve had many friends wish they were in my position—or offer their assistance—when it comes to reviewing video games. Much rarer is the opposite reaction, where friends demanded beers as compensation for forcing them to play a video game.Read more
First Look At Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, Which Might Not Suck
23.8.2021
We haven’t seen the actual show yet. It could still suck! But if we’re going to be superficial, it sure looks like Netflix is getting the look of its Cowboy Bebop adaptation sorta, well, right.Read more
Stardew Valley Creator Holding $40,000 Tournament To Separate Wheat From Chaff
23.8.2021
Every game gets at least 15 minutes of esport fame. Stardew Valley’s competitive time to shine just happens to be coming five years after it was initially released. In a tribute to the game’s biggest speedrunners and content creators, and the passionate farming sim community they’ve helped create...
Psychonauts 2: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2021
People are complicated. Nobody is simply selfish or sad. No one is born bad or heroic. We are a collection of memories and experiences, some good and some…not so good. These messes of thoughts and emotions can be hard to handle sometimes, but they’re also what makes us unique. It’s what makes...
Avalaunch Announces Community Participation in YAY Games
23.8.2021
Avalaunch and YAY Games have announced a collaborative project and IDO. The gaming space has started becoming even more exciting with the introduction of play-to-earn models and Avalauch wants to tap into this growing market. YAY games is a 100% decentralized marketplace for gaming with systems...
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom Of Night
23.8.2021
Alia Zhang is an artist based in China.Read more
Cyberpunk, The Witcher Look Fantastic Tilt-Shifted
23.8.2021
Flurdeh is a YouTube channel that takes video games and applies a “tilt-shift” effect to them, turning their bristling 3D worlds into cute little dioramas.Read more
Curt Schilling's Former Employees Are Now Getting 14-20% Of Their Final Paychecks From 2012
23.8.2021
Former baseball player and current piece of shit Curt Schilling ran a video game studio for a while, called 38 Studios, and when it was abruptly shut down in 2012 he owed a lot of people a lot of money.Read more
The Week In Games: Psychonauts 2 Is (Almost) Here
23.8.2021
After 15 years, Psychonauts 2 is finally out this week on basically every platform but the Switch. Read more
Sonic Amateur Games Expo Features 150+ Free Fan Games
22.8.2021
Yesterday, the Sonic Amateur Games Expo started, continuing a 21-year tradition of fans coming together to share new community-developed games, demos, mods, and engines. And while the name implies it’s all about Sonic, SAGE is more than just ROM-hacks and fan games based on Sega’s popular mascot....
James McAvoy Was Playing Too Much Oblivion, So He Destroyed The Disc
22.8.2021
I think we all have had at least one game in our life that consumes your every waking hour. A game that you stay up late playing, then wake up early and play some more. For James McAvoy in 2006 that game was The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Things got so bad that the actor had to burn the disc...
Activision Name Conspicuously Absent From Call Of Duty: Vanguard Marketing
21.8.2021
Call of Duty: Vanguard was officially announced yesterday, the first major Activision Blizzard reveal since the corporation came under public scrutiny for its abhorrent treatment of female employees. A minor detail in the reveal video has some speculating that Activision is keen to avoid reminding...
Halo Infinite Won't Have Campaign Co-Op At Launch
20.8.2021
Microsoft and 343 Industries announced today that campaign co-op and Forge mode won’t be available in Halo Infinite at launch. Instead, they’ll be added to the game next year. They also promised more and bigger flights to test out modes like Big Team Battle. And no, we still don’t have a release...
Plus: Next week in Hype? Aliens, kings... & psychonauts
20.8.2021
It's getting pretty busy for great games, again
Last Stop: The Kotaku Review
20.8.2021
For its 50th anniversary in 2017, New York magazine published a special issue called “My New York.” The intention, spelled out over 200 pages, was to point out the surprisingly intricate ways New Yorkers are connected to each other. On page 86, you’d see a reference to a musical written by Sting....
Seriously, There’s A Frogger Game Show Now?
20.8.2021
Frogger, the 1981 arcade game about one amphibian’s quest to shed light on the insidious evils of the automotive industry, is getting an obstacle-course game show adaptation. NBCUniversal will start airing episodes on its Peacock streaming platform next month, and just released an initial trailer...