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Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2021
26.12.2021
Well, 2021 was a wild, awful mess of a year. I don’t need to recap what made 2021 so bad because, if you are reading this, you already know. We all live on Earth (I assume) so no point going over it all. Just, yeah, what a shitty year, huh?Read more
Metaverse Alliance Launches Metathon for Devs and Degens With $50 Million in Prize and Seed Funding
14.12.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Metaverse Alliance has announced the launch of its online Metaverse Hackathon (Metathon) for all metaverse enthusiasts around the world. In recent months, the metaverse has generated a lot of buzz across the internet, with notable corporations like Facebook and Microsoft all racing...
The Best Fan-Made Anime Cars In Forza Horizon 5
1.12.2021
There’s only one place you’ll find a pristine 1957 BMW Isetta 300 cosplaying as a character from 1988 Miyazaki classic My Neighbor Totoro, and I don’t mean my personal garage. The Forza Horizon series has long been a place where anime fans and car enthusiasts come together, and Forza Horizon 5...
Wrestling Man Collects 2,706 Copies Of Burger King Video Game
29.11.2021
What drives a man to spend his time and money procuring a couple thousand copies of Burger King’s stealth-action advergame Sneak King? I have no idea, but wrestler and professional thumbtack enthusiast Leeroy Patterson seems to be having a great time doing it.Read more
Look At This Squeakin’ Guinea Pig Car Racing Game You Guys
23.11.2021
You can keep your Demon Slayer and your Dr. Stones, the greatest animated entertainment to come out of Japan in the past decade is Pui Pui Molcar. The hit series is a stop-motion masterpiece in which people drive around in cars that are actually adorable guinea pigs, and it’s getting its first...
Third-Generation Blockchains Will Pick Up the Defi Slack Left by Ethereum
22.11.2021
With the ETH 2.0 upgrade still months, if not years, from a full launch, third-generation blockchain protocols are quickly racing up to dethrone Ethereum as the “go-to” hub for dapps and defi. Blockchain Metamorphosis to Catalyze Future Defi Growth Although many people may only...
Forza Horizon 5 Had The Biggest Launch Week In Xbox History With Over 10 Million Players
20.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 is a very good game. It’s also a very popular game. Your Twitter feed might be currently filled with people sharing screenshots and videos from the open-world drive ‘em-up. Mine is. And now it’s been confirmed that the latest Forza title has become the biggest launch in Xbox...
Forza Horizon 5 Is Actually A Bleak Dystopia In Which Humanity Must Flee The Cars
19.11.2021
Sure, cars are cool. Yes, they go fast. But cars have also fundamentally altered our cities and civilizations in ways that we still haven’t recovered from. Large sections of our world are just permanently off-limits because cars need that space. It sucks. And in the world of Forza Horizon 5,...
The Art Of Forza Horizon 5
18.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 is fun as hell, but I think the main reason so many more people seem into it than the last entry in the series is how it looks. Not in terms of the number of polygons on the screen, but just the vibe of it. Read more
Forza Horizon 5 Players Are Making Easy Bank With AFK Exploit
15.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 has a ton of cars, and the most impressive ones all cost a ton of money, so players have been eagerly looking for the fastest ways to grind for credits and XP. The answer? A course called Goliath, which players can complete without ever touching their controller.Read more
Forza Horizon 5 Has Some Amazing And Silly Car Horns
14.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5 is fantastic. If you look up fun in the dictionary you’ll see a gif of someone hitting a massive ramp in Forza Horizon 5 in a car covered in anime at like 200 MPH while listening to the Beastie Boys. What I’m saying is, it’s really, really good. And Forza Horizon 5 also contains...
Square’s Obscure Street Racing RPG Is Finally Playable In English
12.11.2021
The last few years have been an incredible time for fan translations, but here’s a doozy: Square’s combination racing and role-playing game Racing Lagoon is now fully playable in English.Read more
Forza Horizon 5 Is Finally Stealing The Show For Microsoft
10.11.2021
The latest game in the open world spin-off series, and the 13th Forza game over all, Forza Horizon 5 is a mostly known quantity. But nearly a decade after the Horizon series started, it feels like many are encountering it for the first time. And they’re loving it, in a way that’s sucking up all...
You Should Drive The Wooden Car In Forza Horizon 5
10.11.2021
If there’s one universal truth about car culture, it’s that aficionados strive to drive vehicles that are very, very pretty. Forza Horizon 5, out now for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, is fundamentally about car culture, and about appreciating such very pretty vehicles. So naturally, I’ve...
Forza Horizon 5's Slo-Mo Option Is A Game-Changer
9.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5, the open-world racer from developer Playground Games, has a plethora of accessibility options. This includes text size adjustments and color blindness modes, as well as on-screen sign language interpreters coming soon. But did you know there’s also a setting to change reaction...
11 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Forza Horizon 5
9.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5, the latest massive open-world racer from Playground Games, is officially out now on Xbox and PC. At first glance, playing this racing game might seem fundamentally the same as playing any other racing game: press the right trigger to go fast, left trigger to slow down, tilt...
Forza Horizon 5's Sign Language Interpreters Are A Huge Step For Gaming
5.11.2021
Accessibility options are a growing concern among developers big and small, but Forza Horizon 5 is prepared to go above and beyond industry norms (and hopefully set a new standard) with on-screen sign language interpreters, a first-of-its-kind feature in the AAA gaming world.Read more
Before You Start: Five Settings To Change in Forza Horizon 5
5.11.2021
Some of you get to start playing Forza Horizon 5, a big, beautiful Xbox racing game, today. Like most big, beautiful games, there’s an impressive suite of options spread across a ton of submenus. Tweaking a handful of them makes the game more enjoyable from the jump. Just try to stifle your...
Forza Horizon 5: The Kotaku Review
4.11.2021
The implicit promise of Forza Horizon is in the name. You see something on the horizon, you can drive to it. Skyrim with cars. Far Cry with more cars and no guns. Forza Horizon 5, the latest game in the venerable Xbox racing series, is no more and no less than that promise—just bigger, brighter...
Hot Wheels Unleashed Devs On Making 2021's Most Surprising Racing Game
27.10.2021
Italian studio Milestone is known for racing sims. MotoGP, MXGP, Ride, the World Rally Championship series—that’s all Milestone. Hot Wheels Unleashed, the surprise hit arcade racer featuring Mattel’s iconic toy cars racing through physics-defying loops and making heart-stopping jumps, is about...