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Do You Feel Comfortable Attending PAX Or Another Gaming Event Yet?
30.6.2021
It’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus Deserves To Be Replayed Dozens of Times
30.6.2021
Playing through the original Doki Doki Literature Club is a singular experience, unfolding with a dark and twisted magic that cannot be recaptured once set loose. It can be expanded upon, however, enhanced with new stories, structure, and secrets that make this week’s Doki Doki Literature Club Plus...
The Great Ace Attorney Is Worth The Four Year Wait
30.6.2021
Yes! I was so stoked to see Capcom finally releasing English versions of The Great Ace Attorney games. The Ace Attorney series is one of my absolute favorites, and I know English-speaking fans have been desperate for a new entry to the series ever since we were left with Android and iOS releases...
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...
Binding of Isaac Kickstarter Offers Edmund McMillen’s Bathwater
30.6.2021
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls tabletop game is back on Kickstarter raising millions more dollars for a new expansion called Requiem. The latest crowdfunding campaign has become a metagame of its own, with social media stretch goals egging fans on to do Binding of Isaac stand up and even send...
Hideaki Anno Told Evangelion Voice Actor Secrets She'll Take To Her Grave
30.6.2021
Thought we know everything about Evangelion? We don’t, it seems! During a recent press conference for the Blu-ray release of Evangelion 3.333, voice actor Maaya Sakamoto said that creator Hideaki Anno told her secrets, about the character she plays, Mari Illustrious Makinami.Read more
Konami Digital Entertainment Partners With Bloober Team, Developers Of The Medium
30.6.2021
Today, Konami and Bloober Team have announced that they are joining forces for a strategetic partnership.Read more
Someone Has To Draw The Skies In Video Games
30.6.2021
The stuff that exists outside the bits you actually play in is usually taken for granted, but the skybox—the part of a level that constitutes not just the sky but background environments around it that the player can’t access—can also be one of the most beautiful parts of a video game.Read more
Mars First Logistics Looks Very Cool
30.6.2021
Mars First Logistics is an upcoming game by Australian developer Ian MacLarty. The first thing you’ll probably notice is how nice it looks with that crisp, clean art style.Read more
TV-Style Commercials Are Coming To Console Games
30.6.2021
There are ads on YouTube, ads on Twitch and ads when you’re playing mobile games, but you know where there aren’t ads? Console games. And that’s something capitalism would like to change.Read more
Top Smash Bros. Competitors Want Special Treatment
30.6.2021
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor Tyler “Marss” Martins set off a firestorm in the fighting game community over the weekend when he suggested top players should be able to register for open-bracket tournaments ahead of those he deemed less important.Read more
Bidoof Is Taking Over The World (Of Pokémon Go)
30.6.2021
My personal life motto is to live every Thursday like it’s Bidoof Day, but especially this Thursday, because it actually is Bidoof Day. Why? Much like Bidoof itself, the answer is unknowable.Read more
Chivalry 2 Player Only Needs Bread To Kill
29.6.2021
Despite its serious medieval trappings, Chivalry 2 matches can get pretty slapstick-y thanks to the game allowing players to use anything at their disposal to take down opponents. Case in point, this recent Reddit post showing a creative Chivalry 2 player scoring two kills in a row with a weapon...
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...
Oof: That Magic Diablo Clone Didn't Even Survive Its Beta
29.6.2021
Magic: Legends, the ARPG that combined Diablo-style aesthetics with the card game mechanics of Magic: The Gathering, will shut down October 31. Read more
Surprise: Two More Control Games Are In The Works
29.6.2021
Today, Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games announced plans for a multiplayer spin-off to Control, the mind-bending third-person shooter released in 2019. The project, codenamed Condor, is being developed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.Read more
Final Fantasy V And VI Disappear From Steam Next Month
29.6.2021
Heads up: Next month, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI will no longer be available via Steam. Square Enix will replace those games with the recently announced “Pixel Remaster” versions. Eventually.Read more
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...