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Video Game Voice Actors Are Ready To Strike Over AI. Here’s Why

26.9.2023
Sarah Elmaleh didn’t expect to find herself on the frontlines of a medium-defining fight over the use of AI in game development when she entered the video game industry over a decade ago. The voice of Katie in 2012’s seminal indie hit Gone Home, Elmaleh arrived in California just in time for...

Five Riveting Gaming & Anime YouTubers You Should Check Out

5.9.2023
Whenever I’m not sitting in front of my laptop writing or reviewing video games and anime, I’m sitting in front of my laptop watching YouTube video essays. My eye doctor is worried, but we’re not here to talk about how terminally online I am. Instead, I’m gonna put you on five YouTube video...

Five Riveting Gaming & Anime YouTubers You Should Check Out

Sonic Superstars Works Surprisingly Well In Co-Op

29.8.2023
Sonic Superstars is bringing proper cooperative play to a series that has often, as far back as Sonic the Hedgehog 2, let a second player pick up a controller and play as Tails while the camera followed the blue blur. Playing the 2D platformer series alongside your friends isn’t a new concept,...

Sonic Team Doesn’t Think Pixel Art Will Be A ‘Viable’ Style In The Future

29.8.2023
Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer from Sega coming out later this year, looks a lot like a fresh take on the famous blue blur. It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that looks pretty good. But if you were hoping for a future Sonic game to return to its classic pixel-art...

There Are Officially Too Many Video Games Launching In October 2023

24.8.2023
Oh no! I just looked at a calendar after all these video game showcases and realized that later this year has become really, really packed, with Alan Wake II, Spider-Man 2, and more all launching in a 10-day span of time later this fall (and that’s after Remedy announced it was delaying the Alan...

New Like A Dragon Trailer Turns Kiryu Into A Stylish Super-Spy

18.8.2023
On Friday, Sega revealed the second trailer for its latest upcoming Yakuza game, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which sees longtime series protag Kazuma Kiryu take on the role of a gangster super spy with Spider-Man gadgets and explosive cigarettes at his disposal. Read more

Every Street Fighter Game, Ranked From Worst To Best

21.7.2023
1987 saw the start of something huge, though no one knew it at the time. Capcom’s Street Fighter seemed like just another arcade game. Nice graphics, sure, but no one could have guessed that just four years later its sequel would spark a revolution that transformed arcades as we knew them. Suddenly...

Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games To Chill With

14.7.2023
Another weekend awaits, but what to play? In case you’re feeling indecisive, we thought we’d share a few video games (and a tabletop card game!) that have us enthralled as we head into the weekend. Read more

Tears Of The Kingdom Players Keep Doing Things You Didn't Know Were Possible

12.7.2023
On reflection, it’s bizarre how much Nintendo underplayed Tears of the Kingdom’s fusing abilities. Completely hidden in the earlier trailers, and really only vaguely hinted at before release, this addition of crafting to the Breath of the Wild sequel has been fundamentally game-changing. It’s also...

Autor ježka Sonica nakonec do vězení nepůjde, zaplatí však mastnou pokutu

10.7.2023
Japonský vývojář Judži Naka, který pomohl na svět mimo jiné ikonickému modrému ježkovi Sonicovi, byl shledán vinným ze zneužití informací v obchodním styku. Pokud však zaplatí v přepočtu více než dva miliony korun a po čtyři roky se bude vyhýbat problémům se zákonem, bude mu vše odpuštěno

Nifty News: Sega exec calls P2E games ‘boring,’ Tom Brady’s NFT firm switches it up and more

7.7.2023
Sega is still reportedly licensing its lesser-known properties out for NFTs and blockchain games, but its best ones are being kept close

Sega Bins Blockchain Plans, Calls F2P Games 'Boring'

7.7.2023
In April 2021, at the height of Web 3 Mania, Sega was one of the biggest companies to pledge its future to the scam that was “play to earn”. Now, just two years later and after the ass has completely fallen out of that market, Sega has had a change of heart.Read more

The 10 Best Dragon Ball Z Episodes, Ever

5.7.2023
It’s hard to overstate the impact, popularity and appeal of Dragon Ball Z. Across every manga chapter, every episode, every character trait, battle trope, etc., you’ll find something that has influenced the Shonen series that came after it, all the way up to modern day manga and anime. Dragon Ball...

Huge (Sometimes Tragic) Collection Of Sega Documents From The 90's Have Leaked

5.7.2023
While Microsoft’s FTC case has let the world catch a glimpse behind the scenes at a modern platform holder’s emails, at the same time an enormous treasure trove of old Sega documents from the 90's have leaked, and they go a long way to explaining...well, why Sega isn’t a platform holder...

New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie

27.6.2023
Microsoft is currently in court trying to move forward with its massive deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. But new emails, which surfaced during the ongoing court hearing, reveal that Xbox was discussing plans to buy up other video game studios and publishers, including Sega, Bungie, Niantic,...

Everything Sega Announced For Sonic The Hedgehog’s 32nd Anniversary

23.6.2023
Today is Sonic the Hedgehog’s 32nd anniversary, and Sega released a 20-minute Sonic Central showcase to talk about upcoming projects, and alongside talking about upcoming 2D throwback Sonic Superstars, there were a lot of non-game announcements during the show. If you want to watch the whole...

30 Minutes With The New Sonic 2D Game: Modernizing Everything Good And Bad From The Classics

13.6.2023
Sonic Superstars feels like what the Sonic series has been working toward for years but hasn’t quite had the courage to do until now. The series has been leaning hard into nostalgia surrounding its speedy, 2D platforming roots with games like Sonic Mania reimagining old levels and Sonic Origins...

Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Wrote Idris Elba’s Phantom Liberty Role Just For Him

12.6.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 is no stranger to celebrity talent, from obvious ones like Keanu Reeves as the rocker-turned-terrorist Johnny SIlverhand, to some more sequestered ones like Grimes playing the android popstar Lizzy Wizzy in a side-quest. Phantom Liberty, the game’s upcoming expansion, stars Luther...

Hands-On: Phantom Liberty Is What Cyberpunk 2077 Wished It Could've Been

11.6.2023
After spending an hour in Cyberpunk 2077’s one and only expansion Phantom Liberty, it feels like the spy thriller side story is the actualization of a narrative everyone hasbeen touting in the years since the game’s disastrous launch. Many, including Kotaku’s own Luke Plunkett, have argued that...