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Minecraft Still The Best-Selling Video Game Of All Time (It's Not Even Close)
16.10.2023
Announced during Minecraft Live 2023, Mojang’s massively popular survival crafting game has now sold over 300 million copies worldwide since its initial release in 2009. Read more
New Microsoft Flight Simulator DLC Adds Dune Buggies????
16.10.2023
Sure, Microsoft Flight Simulator is a robust and impressively realistic video game dedicated to recreating the feel of flying an airplane around the world. But what if you flew by some sick-looking hills or ramps and wanted to hit them in a dune buggy? Well, now a new DLC from a third-party...
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Says The Game Was A Lesson In Avoiding Crunch
16.10.2023
Callous, crunch-heavy work culture keeps shaking the games industry, but it seems like some developers are at least trying to safeguard against it. Colin Walder, a CD Projekt Red engineering director with over a decade of AAA audio programming experience, discussed game industry leadership during...
Like A Dragon Gaiden Won’t Include a Key Feature At Launch
16.10.2023
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, the upcoming spinoff in Sega’s Yakuza series, is set to release on November 9. But unlike several recent games in the franchise, it will not launch with an English dub version. Instead, English audio will come to the game in a post-launch update....
Bethesda Exec Pete Hines Leaving Company After 24 Years
16.10.2023
Bethesda publishing head Pete Hines is retiring from the Starfield developer after 24 years, he announced on Twitter (or X) on October 16. Hines’ decision comes only a few days after Microsoft, which owns Bethesda Game Studios, was rubber-stamped to complete its $69 billion Activision Blizzard...
How GTA Online’s Halloween Update Made A GTA V Urban Legend Real
13.10.2023
Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest update unleashes ghosts across the world of Los Santos, letting players track down and photograph them for rewards. And one of these ghosts might look kinda familiar if you’ve played GTA IV’s Lost and the Damned DLC…Read more
Starfield Planet Schrodinger III Is The XP Farm You’ve Been Dreaming Of
13.10.2023
A Starfield player on Reddit noticed recently that the temperate, agreeable planet Schrodinger III is “made of XP,” something the sci-fi role playing game’s players are increasingly stumbling upon on their own. The planet—and the entire Schrodinger system it belongs to—is heavy with resources...
Sonic Superstars’ Early Reviews Wish It Would Pick Up The Pace
13.10.2023
Sonic Superstars has developer Sega journeying all the way back to the beginning of the Sonic franchise, remembering when it was born in 1991 in the 2D tropics. Like nostalgic platformer Sonic Mania did in 2017, Superstars devoutly walks the same path as Sonic the Hedgehog and its early ‘90s...
Hands On With Halo Infinite’s New Forge AI Toolkit (It’s Awesome)
13.10.2023
Forge, Halo’s in-game map creator, has appeared in every mainline Halo game since Halo 3, allowing fans to bring back beloved older maps, fashion creations of their own, or just create unique, quirky experiences within Halo’s timeless and tweakable sandbox. Once season five of Halo Infinite...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Escape From Reality With
13.10.2023
Another weekend draws near, this time preceded by a Friday the 13th, in October of all months. Spooky vibes for sure, but if you’re looking to ward off some bad luck, might I suggest playing some video games? Read more
Microsoft Closes Activision Blizzard Acquisition, Making Call Of Duty Officially Part Of Xbox Now
13.10.2023
The video game industry just got a lot smaller. The long and winding saga of Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard has finally come to a close with the companies announcing the completed merger today following one last greenlight from regulators in the UK. Call of Duty is now part...
Take A Tour Through Halo Infinite's Newest Arena Maps
12.10.2023
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Diablo IV’s Season 2 Patch Notes Are Over 10,000 Words Long
12.10.2023
Diablo IV’s second season, the “Season of Blood,” is set to go live next week, bringing with it some big changes that Blizzard hopes will improve the action-RPG and bring back players. And while we’ll have to wait to see if Patch 1.2.0 can pull that off, I can at least tell you that, yes, update...
Bayonetta Creator 'Over' PlatinumGames, Starts YouTube Channel Instead
12.10.2023
After announcing that he would do so late last month, Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya left his job as vice president at PlatinumGames on October 12. And the very same day he became free of the studio he’d co-founded, he also hard-launched a new YouTube channel, “Hideki Kamiya Channel.” Its first...
Mortal Kombat 1 Switch Patch Attempts To Fix The Disastrous Port
12.10.2023
The Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 released in an absolute state. It’s one of the widest gaps in quality we’ve seen between Nintendo’s device and its console contemporaries. But for better or worse, NetherRealm Studios and the port teams at Shiver Entertainment and Saber Interactive are still...
Lords Of The Fallen Sounds Like 2023’s Most Divisive Soulsborne
12.10.2023
Lords of the Fallen sounds like the best and worst parts of the Soulsborne genre all rolled into one. Hexworks’ grim action-RPG arrives in a year full of homages to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, and so far critical assessments run the gamut from high praise to exhausted disappointment.Read more
This ‘Playable Documentary’ About A 1984 Classic Is One Of The Year’s Best Games
12.10.2023
When you first fire up The Making of Karateka, Digital Eclipse’s excellent interactive retrospective about Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s 1984 masterpiece, you’re greeted with this quote from his journals, written when he was just 18 years old:Read more
PS Plus October Lineup Includes Disco Elysium And Gotham Knights
11.10.2023
Halloween is fast approaching, and with it comes a new medley of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers that’ll become available Tuesday, October 17. Read more
New Shooter Is The Duke Nukem Sequel We Deserve
11.10.2023
The Last Exterminator might not be an official Duke Nukem 3D sequel, but its crunchy combat, interactive environments, and retro visuals provide a much better alternative to the actual Duke Nukem sequel we got back in 2011. Read more
Let’s Fix Starfield’s Terrible Temples With Mods
11.10.2023
Early on in Starfield you start becoming a galactic superhero, unlocking stellar abilities like suspending gravity, slowing down time, and peering into the future (though there isn’t one to make Chunks tastier, sadly). Less cool, unfortunately, is that the repetitive process of gathering all your...