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League of Legends Source Code Hacked, Riot Refuses To Pay Blackmail
24.1.2023
On Tuesday, Riot Games announced that the source code for both League of Legends and Team Fight Tactics was stolen, and that it would not be paying the ransom demanded by hackers to get it back. It’s the latest in a spree of data breaches at big game companies, and means both games could...
The Week In Games: Magical Parkour And Spooky Spaceships
24.1.2023
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Top Smash Ultimate Player Throws Controller At Tournament, Sparks 'Privilege' Discourse
23.1.2023
Genesis 9, a major fighting game tournament, took place over the weekend. There were stellar combos and massive upsets as the supermajor event for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate concluded on January 22. Unfortunately, while the tournament was underway, one of Canada’s top Kazuya players...
Marvel's Avengers Is Ending Development, Giving Away Cosmetics
23.1.2023
This may come as a surprise to the players who abandoned the game long ago and assumed this time had come already, but Crystal Dynamics and publishers Square Enix have announced the impending end of online support for Marvel’s Avengers.Read more
This Akira-Like Bosh Rush Game Has Me Hooked
20.1.2023
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Popular Steam Game Raises Price After Seven Years Without A Sale
20.1.2023
Critically-acclaimed base-building hit Factorio is an odd duck. Since its 2016 Steam release, the game has never gone on sale. And now, the developer behind Factorio is changing the price of its popular game, but it ain’t getting a discount. Instead, the price is jumping up $5 next week. The devs...
Warzone 2.0 Is Ditching 2v2 Gulags For Boring 1v1 Showdowns
20.1.2023
First came the much-requested changes to loadout drops, now Warzone 2.0 is messing with the gulag. With season two’s arrival on February 15, the gulag will no longer make players team up in pairs of two after suffering defeat on the battle royale map. Instead, as in the original Warzone, it will...
Battlefield's Classes Are Finally Coming Back To 2042
20.1.2023
While Battlefield 2042 is getting better with each update (or at least closer to the game it could and should have been at launch), there’s one thing that has annoyed a lot of long-time players ever since its release and continues to do so: Specialists, a bunch of “hero” characters designed...
I'm Begging Marvel Snap To Stop With All The Annoying Featured Zones
19.1.2023
Another week, another new Marvel Snap location. And sadly, it’s becoming a trend that a lot of these new locations are just really annoying and bad. The latest awful Snap location is Rickety Bridge, a frustrating spot that destroys cards faster than an angry kid who didn’t pull anything good from...
Pro Overwatch Teams Reportedly Want Legal Fight Against Activision Over Money
19.1.2023
The Overwatch League, an officially funded esports event, has been dealing with declining viewership and issues with sponsors following Activision Blizzard’s ongoing workplace culture scandal. Now, based on a report from Jacob Wolf, it seems the teams Activision Blizzard employs to play the game...
Deep Rock Galactic (The Board Game): The Kotaku Review
19.1.2023
Co-op shooter Deep Rock Galactic was first released on the PC back in 2018. It has a dedicated following online, and tons of loyal fans, but this is not a review of the video game. This is a review of the board game with, confusingly, the exact same name.Read more
Fortnite’s New Weekly Quest System Sucks, Even With Changes
18.1.2023
Last month, Fortnite’s newest season, Chapter 4 Season 1, started. With it came some big changes, fresh content, and a new island to explore. Most of the new stuff this season has been great! But one change to how quests work has frustrated some players, myself included, and while Epic’s recent...
Overwatch 2’s Year Of The Rabbit Event Is Already Disappointing Fans
18.1.2023
Yesterday, Blizzard announced the latest event for Overwatch 2. In celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit seasonal event brings some holiday-themed stylings across maps, and some returning game modes. But a lack of compelling and earnable skins and cosmetics has fans...
The Week In Games: Engaging Persona-lities
17.1.2023
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Bored Ape Flexes That $450M It Raised For Its Metaverse Empire With Poop Game
17.1.2023
I was forced to learn about the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s monkey poop game, so now you do, too. Dookey Dash is an upcoming game where you traverse a sewer system in pursuit of a treasure box key that a monkey shat out of his ass. I wish I was making this up. I really do.Read more
Amazon Bans Lost Ark Bots, Humans Caught In Crossfire
16.1.2023
Amazon’s Diablo-like RPG, Lost Ark, had over 1.3 million people playing it at launch. It’s cooled off since then, but there are still tens of thousands of people who log on every week to enjoy it. Or they would, if they hadn’t been banned for no reason.Read more
Released Today, The Last Google Stadia Game Is A Piece Of History
13.1.2023
If you haven’t heard, Google Stadia is shutting down and closing shop next week. But before the never-quite-successful game streaming service dies, it has provided one neat (and free) little gift you can only play for a few days before it all goes offline. Read more
Halo Infinite Devs Use Fan's Pokémon Map To Help With Game's Aiming Issues
13.1.2023
Halo has a long tradition of community-made maps and game modes that range everywhere from serious to silly. Recently, one map and mode combo that’s more on the playful and fun side of things caught the attention of 343 Industries as an opportunity to fix long-standing shooting issues. Named after...
The 12 Best Games For Android
13.1.2023
Android: not just another word for “robot.” It’s also a good option for anyone who wants a mobile device unshackled by the closed operating systems used by certain other smartphone manufacturers. Or, most importantly for our purposes, a library of games that’s nearly bottomless.Read more
Destiny 2 Finally Unlocks One Of The Most Confusing Parts Of The Game
12.1.2023
Destiny 2 is fixing a bunch of stuff for the month and change ahead of February’s massive Lightfall expansion. Players won’t have to grind so much to get into Grandmaster Nightfall missions. Iron Banner will be much more generous with armor drops in the weeks ahead. And armor mods, one of the most...