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Play This Excellent Cyberpunk Action-RPG Before It Leaves Game Pass
27.7.2023
Game Pass is losing a big one this month. 2021’s The Ascent, a gritty top-down action-RPG about investigating the mysterious disappearance of a megacorporation in a futuristic dystopia, is finally leaving Microsoft’s Netflix-like subscription service at the end of July. You should give it a...
40+ Weird Vintage Video Game Ads We Can’t Stop Thinking About
16.6.2023
For a long time, perhaps due to the infancy of the medium, there was no “right” way to advertise home video games. As a result, some of the earliest video game companies—including some we now recognize as major industry players, like Nintendo—ended up creating some of the most bizarre...
Nifty News: Chinese firms to offer World Cup metaverse viewings, X2Y2 backtracks on royalties, and more
21.11.2022
In early November the Chinese government made an ambitious plan to boost the nation’s VR industry, now it seems local tech companies are using the World Cup to test-run their products
Teenage Mad Lad Immediately Leaves After Crushing Street Fighter V Tourney
18.11.2022
One of Europe’s biggest fighting game tournaments, the Ultimate Fighting Arena (UFA), wrapped up on November 13. The three-day event in France was populated by big-name competitors like Goichi “GO1" Kishida and Victor “Punk” Woodley, but it was teenage mad lad EndingWalker who ended up making...
Myst Sequel Riven, GOAT Or Worst Puzzle Game Of All Time, Gets Remake
31.10.2022
Due to an ancient witch’s curse, Myst, officially the worst game ever made, will never go away. Further proof of this affliction is that original creator Cyan Worlds has just announced it’s remaking Myst’s almost-as-awful sequel, Riven. So if you love randomly flipping levers between sitting...
Report: US Central Bank Loses Billions From Rate Hikes, ‘Losses Pile up Into an IOU’
25.10.2022
While the U.S. Federal Reserve ramped up the benchmark bank rate with a barrage of rate hikes, U.S. Treasury markets and global bond markets, in general, have seen one of the worst selloffs in over a decade. The Fed’s actions has fueled criticism toward the U.S. central bank as some strategists...
Analysts Say an Onslaught of Fed Rate Hikes Could Spur a ‘Bond Market Flash Crash’ or ‘Blow up the Treasury’
23.10.2022
The U.S. economy has been struggling with inflation running rampant and investors are eagerly waiting for the U.S. Federal Reserve to announce the next federal funds rate hike next month. Harris Kupperman, the founder of the hedge fund Praetorian Capital, believes the onslaught of Fed rate hikes...
One Of The Year’s Best Games Finally Gets A Final Boss
8.7.2022
Up until now, reverse bullet-hell shooter Vampire Survivors, one of the year’s must-play indie hits, did not have a final boss. That’s no longer the case in the wake of a recent update, which adds a new version of the game’s final stage.Read more
Diablo Immortal Is Far Too Good To Be Free
8.6.2022
Last week Blizzard launched Diablo Immortal, the next entry in its long-running, loot-driven action-RPG franchise. However, unlike previous games, this one is free-to-play, and was built from the ground up to be a mobile game first. While it did also come out on PC last week, the reality is this...
Game Pirates Trolled With Controller Errors And Endless Rain
26.5.2022
One of my favourite things to write about on this website are the creative ways developers have learned to fuck with people pirating their video games, so it’s with great pleasure I get to share another example today.Read more
As Apple Threatens Pulling Games, Devs Explain Why Forced Updates Are A Preservation Nightmare
25.4.2022
Although the mobile gaming ecosystem is known for hosting live-service games that monetize more aggressively than standalone console games, there’s no shortage of creators making mobile games that don’t call for constant updates. Now, some indie developers are finding out what can happen when...
Funimation's YouTube Channel Is Now Crunchyroll Dubs
6.4.2022
If you’ve been looking for Funimation’s YouTube channel, you won’t find it. The channel has been rebranded as Crunchyroll Dubs. While the name has changed, what it’s offering, so far, hasn’t. Anime News Network reports that it will still stream trailers, clips, and episodes of English-dubbed anime....
The Best (And Worst) April Fools’ Jokes In Gaming For 2022
1.4.2022
April Fools’ is finally upon us, or as our UK editor John Walker likes to call it: “International Lying Day.” Never fear, readers. We Kotaku bloggers are vigilantly keeping alert for any announcements that seem a little bit too good or too weird to be true. Not me, though. Some April Fools’ jokes...
Big Horizon Forbidden West Patch Makes The Game Less Shimmery
30.3.2022
Developer Guerrilla Games has rolled out a massive patch for Horizon Forbidden West, purporting to fix more than a dozen quests, plus a litany of minor hiccups. It also aims to make the game less shimmery. Those who made it through the era of puddlegate unscathed should rejoice.Read more
Oops: Elden Ring Players Keep Missing The Combat Tutorial
7.3.2022
The call to adventure issued by Elden Ring proved irresistible to many players when it launched on February 25. Perhaps a little too irresistible, as many players’ eagerness to dive headfirst into the game’s breathtaking and brutal landscape, coupled with the game’s own tendency to obfuscate things...
Bandai Namco To PS5 Elden Ring Players: Don’t Trust Rest Mode ATM
25.2.2022
The moment has come. After years of anticipation, Elden Ring finally leaps from the wispy plane of imagination to the very real plane of today’s gaming consoles and PCs. Like any massive modern game, however, it has some issues. And its publisher has an unusual solution for those playing...
As Billions Fly, Ubisoft Analyst Just Wondering Why Nobody Wants To Buy It
17.2.2022
With three massive game industry acquisitions this year already, everyone’s wondering what will happen to the few big publishers and studios left. Chief among those question marks is Ubisoft, the Assassin’s Creed maker currently struggling to make new hits. Amidst delays and employee frustration...
The Feared NYT Wordle Divergence Has Begun
15.2.2022
Millions woke up today and played Wordle just like they always do, but not all of them were chasing the same right answer. Contrary to earlier statements by new owner The New York Times, the internet puzzle sensation has undergone a few changes, leading to a split between those playing the...
Xbox Game Pass Is Losing Some Of Its Best Games
1.2.2022
The Xbox hard drives of the world needed a break eventually. For February 2022, Xbox Game Pass isn’t cluttering the most jam-packed release slate in recent memory. Not only is the upcoming lineup fairly slight, but some of the best and biggest on Microsoft’s games-on-demand service will soon...
Hitler Sex Game Riles Up Steam Users Over Extra Testicle
25.1.2022
History’s face-punchiest man, Adolf Hitler, is the star of a new sex game, fittingly titled Sex with Hitler. (Heads up, that link is very NSFW.) It’s currently riding high on Steam’s “New Releases” charts, but as Vice reports, some players are upset about a minor feature: The genocidal dictator...