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Superhot Game Gets Review-Bombed After Removing 'Depictions Of Self-Harm'
23.7.2021
Earlier this week, Superhot VR received an update that removed all scenes that involved the player-character hurting or killing themselves. The devs explained that these scenes had “no place” in the game and apologized for taking so long to remove them. In response, hundreds of gamers yelled...
Epic Games Briefly Suspends Fortnite Creator Over Homophobic Comments
22.7.2021
Fortnite’s latest event, Rainbow Royale, is supposed to be a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. But elsewhere, developer Epic Games chose not to suspend a popular creator for more than a few hours after discovering a history of homophobia. While the influencer has been reinstated, the situation...
John McAfee’s Widow Is Still Extremely Skeptical of Her Husband’s Alleged Suicide
22.7.2021
Following a report from John McAfee’s biographer, the former antivirus tycoon’s widow Janice McAfee has taken to social media to disclose a number of findings. During the first week of July, McAfee published a note that said there was “no sense of urgency” toward...
Hashnode: A Blogging Platform for Developers
22.7.2021
Hashnode is a free platform for developer blogging. Say you’ve just finished an ambitious project and want to write about 10 important lessons you’ve learned as a developer during it. You should definitely blog it—I love that kind of blog post, myself. Making a jump into the technical debt...
Zoom Adds Multiplayer Games, But Not The Ones You Want
21.7.2021
Chances are that before March 2020, you’d never heard of Zoom, the video conferencing software. By July 2021, it’s pretty much become the generic noun for such technology. And as of today, it’s offering games.Read more
PC Game Removes Denuvo DRM Before It Even Launches
21.7.2021
Humankind, one of my most anticipated games of 2021, was going to have Denuvo acting as its digital rights management (DRM). But after its developers found that it was impacting performance, they took it straight out.Read more
Netflix's Video Game Service Is Saying All The Right Things
21.7.2021
As part of the company’s latest earnings report, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters jumped on an investor phone call to talk about loads of things related to the future of the company. While discussing one of those things, their impending detour into video games, things...
A Bunch Of Great Indie Games Are Coming To Game Pass
20.7.2021
Pour one out for my backlog and maybe yours, too. Arguably too many promising indie games are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Also, Microsoft Flight Sim will finally lift off on console, at least for those with next-gen Xboxes. Here’s everything coming to Game Pass over the next few weeks.Read more
Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Gamer Chair Apologizes For Bad Tweets, Promises To Do Better
19.7.2021
Vertagear, a self-proclaimed “top gamer chair brand trusted by many esports teams,” is now under fire by everyone else for trying to turn a sexist joke into an edgy meme.Read more
Call of Duty: Warzone Players Are Going Invisible Again Using Red Doors
19.7.2021
Glitches cycle in and out of Call of Duty: Warzone like stray cats through an abandoned house, but invisibility has caused players more headaches than most. And despite past fixes, Call of Duty’s battle royale players once again appear to be getting shot by opponents they can’t see, this time...
Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $1.3 Billion
19.7.2021
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $1.3 billion, Reuters report.Read more
From $100 Million to Nothing — Biographer Claims John McAfee Was Broke When He Died
19.7.2021
Just before the antivirus tycoon John McAfee was found dead in Spain, he told the public from prison that U.S. federal authorities seized all of his assets and he had “nothing.” Now a biographer who is writing a McAfee-based biography has corroborated McAfee’s story. The author...
Valve Hopes To Avoid Thumbstick Drift On The Steam Deck
17.7.2021
Thumbstick drift is a nasty and frustrating problem that seems to have become more common on some consoles and devices. Valve is aware of these issues and says it has done a bunch of tests and picked high-quality and reliable parts to avoid the “risk” of stick drift becoming a problem with Steam...
50,000 More Call Of Duty: Warzone Players Have Been Banned
17.7.2021
Call of Duty Warzone devs Raven Software confirmed yesterday afternoon that more than 50,000 players were banned in the last week across two waves of bans hitting the popular online shooter. Read more
eBay Is Already Filled With Steam Deck Scalpers Asking For Way Too Much Money
17.7.2021
Valve’s recently announced handheld PC, the Switch-like Steam Deck, isn’t out yet. But folks can preregister for an opportunity to buy it at a later date and some scalpers are already trying to flip these registrations for hundreds of dollars. Read more
Steam Deck Pre-Orders Start Off Shaky
16.7.2021
Today, Valve began taking paid reservations for its recently announced Steam Deck, a powerful portable PC that’s invited comparisons to the Nintendo Switch. But right after pre-orders went live, Steam collapsed into server errors and other frustrating hiccups. Read more
Steam Deck Might Not Play Some Of Steam's Most Popular Games
16.7.2021
The way Valve describes it, the new Steam Deck sounds like a tiny—but still alarmingly heavy—marvel, capable of running Steam’s vast library of games despite the beefy specs required to play many of them. However, it is at its core a Linux machine, and that may lead to some complications.Read more
Elgato Picked A Very Bad Day To Announce A New "Stream Deck"
16.7.2021
Awww, guys. Oh no.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Steam Deck
16.7.2021
Two hours before preorders opened up for this fall’s Nintendo Switch OLED model, Valve took a break from not announcing Half-Life 3 to unveil a handheld of its own. The Steam Deck, named after Valve’s everyone-uses-it digital games storefront, allows you to play your entire Steam library on...