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Dead By Daylight’s New Character Ends Game's Apparent Foot Fetish Trend
17.2.2023
The newest Dead by Daylight killer isn’t just making a killing in the tech industry, she’s also murdering the series’ track record for having its original female characters expose their toes. Read more
GameStop Employee Explains What Made Her Close A Store And Never Come Back
17.2.2023
Taylor Neubert did what so many GameStop employees have only dreamed about: quit on the spot. Fed up with working 10-hour days all by herself between piles of video games and stacks of Pokémon merchandize for less than $15 an hour, she closed her store in the middle of her shift, put a sign on...
The Last of Us’ Lamar Johnson On Learning Sign Language For The Show
17.2.2023
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Celebrate Batman's Birthday And Buy The Game He Dies In For Half Off
17.2.2023
Bruce Wayne, aka Batman (don’t tell anybody that secret, okay), is a person just like the rest of us. This means, just like you, he has a birthday, and in honor of his upcoming b-day, WB Games is advertising a big sale on…Gotham Knights. You know, the game where Batman dies in the first 20 minutes...
AI Enters Chess Battle, Cheats, Still Loses Badly
17.2.2023
A Reddit user recently pit the chess engine Stockfish, which has won the Top Chess Engine Championship eight times, against the notorious AI-powered conversation bot ChatGPT in a dismal chess match. While Stockfish, as it has been created to do, was able to hold its own, ChatGPT sadly succumbed...
15 Hours With Hogwarts Legacy: Magical Surface, Rotten Core
17.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy is here, its arrival surrounded by more brutal blasts of discourse than there are bursts of Bat-Bogey Hexes flying around the Slytherin Common Room. The conversation around the open-world action adventure game which seeks to provide players with the immersive fantasy of actually...
Giant Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Patch Tries Fixing Jank By…Spawning Fewer Monsters
17.2.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet released last November with a truly hilarious and mind-boggling amount of graphical glitches and bugs. But have no fear: Nintendo just announced a huge February update that should bring us closer to the quality we usually expect from the Pokémon series. The developers...
Shiny Hunting Is About To Get Harder In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
17.2.2023
Game Freak is rolling out another big update to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet at the end of the month, and while there’s some attention being given to the games’ notorious performance issues, the solution the studio has gone with will fundamentally change certain aspects of the open-world RPG....
RIP: New PS5 VR Horror Game Makes Things Scarier If You Blink
17.2.2023
The Dark Pictures Anthology developer Supermassive Games will release a scary, shooter spinoff for the PS VR2, Switchback VR, later this month. A new gameplay walkthrough trailer reveals a grim roller coaster ride into a series of nightmares, made even more gruesome by eye-tracking technology that...
The Best Games Of 2023 (So Far)
17.2.2023
The year of our lord 2023 has only just begun, but it’s never too early to start keeping track of what games might land on a hypothetical Game of the Year list come December. If you’ve been out of the loop for a few months and are curious about what some of the best games to come out this year...
Cyberpunk 2077 Gets One Thig Right: Cars Need Buttons
17.2.2023
The world of Cyberpunk 2077 is one where technological innovation has run wild. Its citizens are full of robot parts, can send data with their minds and can literally see other people’s dreams and memories. Yet despite all this, one aspect of everyone’s daily lives is still incredibly quaint...
Report: City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue
17.2.2023
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-builder that has a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It’s not for everyone, then, but it certainly has its fans.Read more
Call of Duty + Warzone's Game-Changing Season 2: What's Worth Knowing
17.2.2023
Season two for the duality that is Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare II arrived yesterday and with it a variety of tweaks and changes. But which are the most important? Which ones do you need to know before deploying in your mode of choice? We’re gonna cover all of that here. Read more
Breath of the Wild Fans Are Still Finding New Tricks Nearly Six Years Later
16.2.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in March 2017, instantly becoming Nintendo Switch’s most potent system seller. I mention that because despite how old Nintendo’s open-world action-adventure game now is, diehard fans of Link’s latest journey through Hyrule are still figuring out cool...
Legendary Calvin And Hobbes Creator Is Back With Story Book For Adults After 28 Years Away
16.2.2023
Bill Watterson, the man responsible for a decade of Calvin & Hobbes comics, is coming out of retirement for a new illustrated storybook, The Mysteries, that is set to release this October. Just in time for spooky season. Read more
Metroid Prime Remastered: The Kotaku Review
16.2.2023
I started growing up with games at a time when a lot of them weren’t advertised as “for girls,” and especially not for girls who couldn’t afford it. I started playing games in earnest with the Nintendo DS, which advertised plenty of “girly” games, but when I got my Xbox 360, I wasn’t used to more...
Reddit Sued Over Forum That Launched GameStop Meme Stock Mania
16.2.2023
In early 2021, the subreddit WallStreetBets became famous for jumpstarting the meme stock craze that saw companies like GameStop balloon in value despite shrinking revenues. Now its founder, Jaime Rogozinski, is suing Reddit for kicking him out of the community just prior to its explosion...
This AI Can Make Endless Super Mario Bros. Levels With Just A Few Words
16.2.2023
The technology we casually refer to as “artificial intelligence” is suddenly everywhere. It’s used to “create” art, dialogue and voice, text, even video games! It’s nigh impossible to escape as we enter a dystopian future in which generative technology seeks to threaten entire livelihoods...
Nintendo's GBA Emulation For The Switch Is Stunning
16.2.2023
In last week’s surprise-packed Nintendo Direct, alongside the leg-sweeping announcement that Metroid Prime was finally remastered for Switch, came the fantastic news that the previously paltry Nintendo Switch Online offerings were now boosted by the inclusion of Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket and Game...
Doja Cat Streams ‘Satanic’ PowerWash Simulator On Twitch
16.2.2023
Did you know that Doja Cat has a Twitch account? Well, you do now. On it, she’s been playing this “Satanic” game called PowerWash Simulator. Maybe you’ve heard of it.Read more