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Report: Rare's Huge Xbox Exclusive, Everwild, Pushed To 2024
14.6.2021
Few developments are more indicative of a project’s rockiness than a game of musical chairs at the top. Exhibit A: Everwild, which VGC reports is now spearheaded by a new creative lead. What’s more, citing anonymous sources, VGC says that the game has been pushed back a bit, and is now targeting...
Elden Ring Director Finally Opens Up About His Latest Epic
14.6.2021
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest kicked off E3 2021 with an incredible look at Elden Ring, the next major action-RPG adventure from Dark Souls developer From Software. And while it was fantastic to see more of the upcoming game two years after its initial announcement, the dense trailer provoked...
Ubisoft at E3: Everything You Need To Know, In 3 Minutes
13.6.2021
Ubisoft Forward, the E3 2021 showcase for the French video game company, unfolded on Saturday afternoon with plenty of reveals, gameplay footage, and teasers. But rather than sitting through an hour of news, why not enjoy a reel of the biggest and best announcements? Read more
Beautiful Hand-Written Walkthrough Found In Old PC Game Box
11.6.2021
Younger readers will just take things like YouTube walkthroughs, or even sites like GameFAQs, for granted, but old heads will remember days when finding their way through a video game was hard work. Which could, in rare instances like this, also be beautiful work.Read more
PSA: Control Is Free On The Epic Store
10.6.2021
Control is the latest free game on the Epic Games Store. You can grab it for no charge from now until June 17.Read more
The Nintendo Download: Coding With Nodons
10.6.2021
While this week only brings a relatively modest 26 games to the Switch eShop, it also brings Game Builder Garage, an app that can be used to make infinite games. Technically, this might be the biggest Nintendo Download yet. Oh wait nevermind, they counted Ninja Gaiden twice. Read more
Ninja Gaiden's New PC Port Is One Of The Laziest I Have Ever Seen
10.6.2021
I’ve seen some ill-equipped PC ports in my time, but Koei Tecmo’s efforts on the Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection are something else.Read more
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Devs Say It Was Created Without Crunch
9.6.2021
Welcome to Good News Corner. As spotted by VG247, a couple of Insomniac Games staff took to Twitter to report that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was created without any crunch. While it’s certainly terrible that this is an industry where such a thing merits remark, it remains good news that...
Lost Judgment Producer Says Worldwide Release Tripled His Team’s ‘Struggles’
8.6.2021
When Lost Judgment, the latest entry in Sega’s Yakuza spin-off series, launches later this year, it will be available on the same day worldwide, a feat no game in the overall franchise has managed up to this point. But achieving a simultaneous global release comes with a cost.Read more
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: The Kotaku Review
8.6.2021
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is an enormous, breathtakingly beautiful third-person action platformer for PS5. It has hours of exquisitely crafted worlds, world-leading platforming, and a bold, engaging story told by a superb cast. It’s just… so did 2016’s Ratchet & Clank. And, well, 2002’s...
Report: Quantic Dream Executives Cry, Ask If They Can Lie During Recent Court Appearance
4.6.2021
Quantic Dream executives recently appeared in a Paris court as part of its ongoing defamation lawsuit against French publications Le Monde and Mediapart. But according to a May 31 report, things didn’t go smoothly for the studio behind games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human.Read more
Report: Balan Wonderworld Creator Yuji Naka Is No Longer With Square Enix
4.6.2021
Yuji Naka, former Sonic Team head and recent creator of the platformer Balan Wonderworld, is no longer with Square Enix, according to reports in Sonic Stadium and IGN. He apparently departed the company in the twilight of April.Read more
God Of War Sequel Pushed To 2022
2.6.2021
The next God of War game will miss its original 2021 release window and instead come out sometime next year, Sony’s Santa Monica Studio announced today.Read more
Why Did No One Tell Me About Uncharted 4's Climbing?
31.5.2021
I am, after extensive research, willing to concede that I might not be the first person to bring the Uncharted series to your attention. However, it seems everyone else has failed me by not letting me know just how utterly wonderful the fourth game’s climbing is.Read more
Benoît Sokal, Creator Of The Syberia Series, Has Died
30.5.2021
Belgian comic book artist Benoît Sokal, the creator of the adventure game series Syberia, died on May 28 after battling a long-term illness. He was 66 years old. The news of his passing was confirmed via a statement from game publisher Microids.Read more
Ubisoft Insists Latest Game, [INSERT NAME], Isn’t Political
28.5.2021
Today, Ubisoft showed off some new gameplay from the upcoming [INSERT GENRE] game [INSERT NAME]. The footage shows that the game’s setting and story seem to be politically charged and potentially filled with commentary about [INSERT CURRENT EVENT]. However, as usual, Ubisoft has been quick...
Graven Looks Great, But Right Now It’s A Bit Boring
28.5.2021
Graven is the latest game from resurrected publisher 3D Realms. Like its recent releases Ion Fury and Wrath, Graven is a throwback to 1990s PC first-person shooters, this time being a spiritual successor to Hexen and Heretic. It’s a visual delight to run around the world of Graven, kicking bad guys...
Mass Effect Is Back, But It Seems Like Morality Meters Are Gone For Good
28.5.2021
Will you save the orphans or eat them? Will you blow up the planet or give it renewable energy and free healthcare? Will you hug Leonardo Da Vinci or let his outstretched arms wither? For a minute there, it felt like games were characterized by binary choices like these—even if their prevalence...
Charlie Guillemot, Son of Ubisoft’s CEO, Is Leaving The Company
27.5.2021
Charlie Guillemot, co-head of Ubisoft mobile studio Owlient, is stepping down based on a new report from Axios. Back in August of last year, his studio faced controversy when a Tom Clancy branded mobile game used Black Lives Matter imagery in relation to a fictional in-game terrorist group. Charlie...
You Still Don't Need A PlayStation 5
27.5.2021
It’s been six months since the PlayStation 5 came out, and yet the Seto Kaiba action figure that can also run high-end video games remains comically hard to come by. For a while, this irked me. I wanted to be part of the new console generation—the zeitgeist. So I obsessively watched a Twitch...