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GameStop Takes Advantage Of PS5 Scarcity With Scummy Promo
1.7.2021
Eight months after release, it’s still extremely hard to get hold of a PS5. New stock sells out almost as quickly as it gets advertised, and the scarcity has led to some weird hijinks as companies try to capitalize on the hype. The latest one? Letting paid subscribers cut in line to order...
PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say
1.7.2021
After yesterday’s industry-wide discussion of the cost of being visible on Sony’s PlayStation Store, Kotaku has heard from multiple independent developers and publishers expressing similar frustrations and fury.Read more
Why Wasn't The 'Switch Pro' Announced At E3? Nintendo Still Won't Say
1.7.2021
During Nintendo’s annual shareholder meeting this week, the firm was asked the obvious question: Why wasn’t the ‘Switch Pro’ shown at E3? It’s a question we asked here at Kotaku, and something both fans and investors want to know. Read more
Xbox Cloud Gaming Is The Future, But It’s Not There Yet
30.6.2021
When talking about the future of gaming, it’s common to hear about “teraflops” and other technical lingo. Well, how’s this for the future? Now, you don’t even need an Xbox to play Xbox games, thanks to recently beefed-up capacity for Xbox Cloud Gaming.Read more
Sony Charging Devs At Least $25,000 For PlayStation Store Visibility
30.6.2021
In a furious tirade on Twitter, independent games publisher Iain Garner of Neon Doctrine has unleashed his frustrations with trying to publish games on a major games console—one he says that isn’t made by Microsoft. During the spleen-venting, he suggests that getting prominent promotion for a game...
Doom Eternal’s Next-Gen Upgrade Screws PS5 Players
29.6.2021
Doom Eternal’s next-gen upgrades are out today for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, bringing de rigueur enhancements to last year’s well-received first-person shooter. The upgrade is free, but it also more or less tells PlayStation players to go to hell. To wit: There’s no way to carry your campaign save...
Here's Xbox Live Games With Gold For July
29.6.2021
Another month, another batch of Games With Gold. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active subscription to Xbox Live Gold. July’s Games With Gold are:Read more
Sony Snipes At Microsoft's Spending Sprees
29.6.2021
After a year of watching Microsoft throw around billions buying up game studios, Sony has returned fire with a small acquisition of its own. The purchase of Returnal developer Housemarque is only the second studio Sony has acquired over the last decade, however, marking a clear difference in...
RIP The Xbox Game Pass Joke
29.6.2021
Fact: If you cover games, someone will call you a “shill” at some point. Over the weekend, a contingent of games-focused writers and influencers pushed back on that claim by plastering Twitter with tongue-in-cheek posts about the purported value of Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription-based...
Sony Acquires Housemarque, Developer of PS5 Title Returnal
29.6.2021
Today, Sony announced that Housemarque had officially become an in-house studio.Read more
How To Change Your Switch's On-Screen Joy-Con Colors
28.6.2021
For years, Switch users have changed the color scheme of their Switch Joy-Con controllers through the use of wraps and custom paint jobs. Less common: Changing a Joy-Con’s color virtually.Read more
Dev: Cyberpunk 2077 Now Actually Ready Six Months After Release
28.6.2021
CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński declared that Cyberpunk 2077 had finally reached a “satisfying” level of performance and stability at a WSE Innovation Day conference on June 23. All it took was six months of updates after the game was released. Read more
Let's Take A Look At A PlayStation Game Pitch
28.6.2021
Some members of the Sly modding community recently got hold of a bunch of documents from the original pitch for Sly 4, giving us a rare glimpse behind the scenes at how developers are able to get approval/money from big companies like Sony to make their games. Read more
The Brilliant SNES Emulator Author Known As Near Has Died
28.6.2021
The brilliant, highly respected emulator developer Near (previously known as Byuu) appears to have taken their own life. Read more
Someone Donated A $10,000 Rare Game To Goodwill
25.6.2021
An employee at a Goodwill in Texas found an extremely rare Atari 2600 game and the company held an online auction to sell the game. After a week, on June 17, it sold for $10,590.Read more
The Nintendo Switch Gets A Train Controller In Japan
25.6.2021
Train simulators are cool. They’re cool for a number of reasons, including trains are excellent. But, perhaps most importantly, those sims don’t only allow players the chance to conduct them, but also buy rad controllers.Read more
Ubisoft's Avatar Game Will Actually Flex Your PS5 And Xbox Series X
25.6.2021
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is making use of the new PS5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware to create a more lush, organic-feeling world that you can quickly fly around in, its developers said in a new interview today. Even if the quests still turn out to still be familiar Ubisoft fare, the open world...
Halo Infinite Release Date Narrowed Down To 'A Few Weeks,' Phil Spencer Says
24.6.2021
Although a firm Halo Infinite release date has yet to be set, internal talks at Microsoft surrounding when to launch the game have narrowed from the months-long holiday 2021 release window to a handful of weeks, Xbox head Phil Spencer explained during a recent appearance on the Dropped Frames...
Nintendo Makes Revisiting Classic Metroid Games A Huge Hassle
24.6.2021
As hype builds for the next main entry in the Metroid series, people looking to play some of the previous games are dusting off old Nintendo consoles or resorting to emulators. Read more
Windows 11 Wants To Make Your PC Feel More Like An Xbox
24.6.2021
During Microsoft’s Windows 11 reveal event this morning, Xbox executive Sarah Bond took to the stream to talk about how the latest version of the operating system will bring powerful tools from the Xbox Series X/S to PC, including auto HDR and the super-speedy DirectStorage API.Read more