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9-Year-Old Visual Novel Runs Just Fine But Apple Is Booting It From The App Store Anyway
15.7.2025
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s...
Apple To Finally Get A Dedicated Gaming Platform For iPhones And iPads
10.6.2025
The world turns to WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) each year to see the latest innovations from the world of Apple (yes, the name is much like the MLB, one country’s baseball league, holding a “World Series”), and boy oh boy, did they come out swinging this year! Apple is introducing a...
Fortnite Is Back On The US App Store After Nearly Five Years Away
21.5.2025
Epic’s super popular free-to-play battle royale game, Fortnite, is finally available to download and play on the iOS App Store in the United States after being removed from it in 2020. This return to the store follows recent pressure from a federal judge for Apple to allow Fortnite back on the...
Epic Is Promising Bonus V-Bucks To Fortnite Players Who Buy Directly From Its Store
9.5.2025
Epic Games is taking a victory lap after its recent court win by asking Apple to put Fortnite back in the App Store and giving players bonus V-bucks if they bypass the iPhone maker’s fees and buy directly from the Epic Games Store. It’s the start of a potential revolution on the App Store,...
Judge Says Apple Exec Lied In Big Fortnite Case And Just Blew The App Store Wide Open
1.5.2025
Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that, effective immediately, Apple can no longer take a cut from purchases made outside apps and has blocked the tech giant from restricting how developers can point people to third-party payment options. The judge was also not happy that...
Apple Originally Didn't Want Adam Scott In Severance
10.1.2025
Every Severance fan has Ben Stiller to thank for saving Apple from themselves by preventing them from ruining our favorite show. In the second episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, the co-hosts reveal the story of how Apple didn’t want Scott to play the lead role of Mark...
Report: Apple Has Halted Production Of Its Colossally Expensive Vision Pro VR
2.1.2025
Apple has certainly carved itself a market for selling extremely well-made products at ludicrously high prices. Given an audience willing to fork out eye-watering amounts for its laptops and phones, it’s perhaps not surprising that the company assumed it could do the same in the cursed world of...
Devs Say Working With Apple Arcade Is Frustrating, 'Like An Abusive Relationship'
31.7.2024
A new report featuring quotes from anonymous developers who have worked with Apple Arcade claims the subscription gaming service has no real goals, barely communicates with studios, and treats teams poorly, making them jump through hoops and wait for months to get paid. One developer even claimed...
Apple Could Be Fined A Billion Dollars A Day
19.6.2024
Back in March, the European Union brought in new rules that were designed to stop companies like Apple and Google from blocking third-party companies running their own in-app item stores. This was supposed to carve a path for games like Fortnite to be able to return to mobile, now they could...
Popular Emulator Changes Logo After Adobe Sends Legal Threat
17.5.2024
The people behind the immensely popular iOS retro game emulator, Delta, have been forced to quickly change the app’s logo after receiving legal threats from Adobe and warnings from Apple. Read more
Samsung Dunks On Apple's Crushing iPad Commercial Fiasco
16.5.2024
Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple’s recent crushing PR disaster.Read more
Apple’s New iPad Ad Sparks Loud, Immediate Backlash
8.5.2024
Sometimes, you get blatant reminders of how much disregard big tech has for, well, everything. Whether that’s exorbitant spending on acquisitions, layoffs of hundreds to thousands of people, and refusing to release or delist its employees’ hard work for a tax write-off. But now and then, you...
Apple Vision Pro Not The ‘New Frontier For Masturbatory Technology’ After All
5.2.2024
Apple Vision Pro, the massive tech company’s foray into the VR headset space that hit stores just a few days ago, is very expensive. It’s an impressive piece of tech (hence the price tag), that you can use for working from home (by virtually pinning windows all over your house, take that...
Thanks To New EU Rules, Fortnite Is Coming Back To iPhones
25.1.2024
Following new European Union rules, Epic announced that it is launching the Epic Games Store on iPhone later this year and will also be bringing Fortnite back to iOS, too. Read more
Epic Games Wins Shocking Upset In Google Monopoly Trial
12.12.2023
Epic Games sued Google over anti-competitive practices and won. A jury in the in the Epic v. Google case delivered a swift verdict, concluding that the giant tech firm was operating an illegal monopoly on Android devices in the form of the Google Play storefront. Read more
Kotaku Goes Hands-On At The Apple Developer Showcase
10.11.2023
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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable
7.11.2023
On Monday, during the first day of the Epic v. Google legal showdown over app store fees, both companies gave their opening statements and began poking at each other’s witnesses. And during the day, Epic admitted that its digital PC game store still isn’t profitable. Read more
Resident Evil Village On iPhone Is Impressive, But Not A Great Way To Play
30.10.2023
The fact that you can, today, play Capcom’s Resident Evil Village natively on an Apple iPhone is undeniably impressive. But actually trying to play this popular horror game on Apple’s latest pocketable device doesn’t make for a great experience. Read more
Apple Wants Its New iPhone To Be Your Next Gaming Device
13.9.2023
On September 12, Apple held an event showing off its entire line of iPhone 15 devices, including the iPhone 15 Pro, which features a USB-C port (thanks, Europe) and the ability to run modern AAA games like Death Stranding and the remake of Resident Evil 4. Apple predictably touted the news as...
Someone Bought A 16-Year-Old iPhone For Over $190,000
18.7.2023
Hey, quick question: If you had a spare $200,000 laying around in your bank account, what would you spend it on? You’d probably spend it on a house, or maybe a new car (several new cars?). What you probably wouldn’t do is drop that kind of cash on a 16-year-old iPhone. But that’s what happened over...