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Kotakuby Alicia Haddick9 Sept 2026
Backrooms has finally been released in Japanese cinemas, many months after its initial release in the United States, and Hideo Kojima has been notably involved in the film’s rollout for its release...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen9 Sept 2026
Very few games gross me out. Frogwares’ recently released Lovecraftian survival horror game, The Sinking City 2, is one of the few things I’ve played that truly made me go “Bleh.” It’s a game...
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick9 Sept 2026
Silent Hill f, the grand return of Konami’s signature horror franchise, released to great acclaim and quickly became one of the fastest-selling titles in the series.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen9 Sept 2026
The September Nintendo Direct was a bit of a snoozefest compared to some of the past ones. It didn’t help that a lot of the trailers shown in the event were for ports of games that already came out...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen9 Sept 2026
When I woke up this morning, I didn’t expect to write about a new Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a talking Ikea shelf. And yet, here we are, folks.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard9 Sept 2026
I can’t really drag most of this morning’s underwhelming Nintendo Direct for focusing on old games without acknowledging that the thing that got me most excited is also half a remake of one of my...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach9 Sept 2026
There’s a new open-world Kirby game coming and this one is hiding some big secrets. When the pink blob sees a crack in the sky and smashes it wide open to reveal “a world beyond,” it’s a neat...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine9 Sept 2026
The Nintendo Switch 2 is over a year old, and we’re fresh off a Nintendo Direct full of games for it.
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick9 Sept 2026
In recent years, Sega has undergone an ambitious transformation seeking to broaden the appeal of its iconic series beyond gaming, and that effort isn’t limited to Sonic the Hedgehog and Angry Birds...
Kotakuby Ash Parrish9 Sept 2026
Attention Blood of the Dawnwalker players! Put down the mod that lets you bypass the game’s time constraints and get one that actually improves your experience: a goddamn minimap.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard9 Sept 2026
Nintendo has held two Direct showcases this week. Yesterday’s was all about the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, and today’s was a more general presentation about games coming to Switch 2.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine9 Sept 2026
Kirby and the World Beyond was just announced to close today’s Nintendo Direct. It’s coming in spring 2027, and it looks like a new open-world adventure for the little pink guy in which he gets a...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine9 Sept 2026
Holy crap, Level-5 is actually back in action, and bringing back one of its most popular franchises, one that hasn’t been seen in the U.S. for seven years: Yo-Kai Watch.
Kotakuby John Walker9 Sept 2026
One of the weirdest aspects of the genAI grift is this constant outpouring of doom-laden soothsaying about AI’s danger to society…coming from the companies that make the AI.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach9 Sept 2026
Steller Blade: Blood Rain‘s big reveal at Summer Game Fest has been all but overshadowed by the ongoing fallout over a genAI music video for the protagonist Evie that Shift Up put out back in July.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine9 Sept 2026
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers have just voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining, gaining new protections on issues...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine9 Sept 2026
Guys, guys, guys. The official Japanese website for the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has some bonus stuff on it that we didn’t see in the Direct this morning.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard9 Sept 2026
Exophase is a database for tracking your trophies and achievements across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, and yesterday, it started posting what seemed to be Steam achievements for unreleased games.
Kotakuby Amelia Zollner8 Sept 2026
During Tuesday’s Legend Of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, Nintendo finally fully revealed its Ocarina of Time remake, and while many fans are sharing their excitement, plenty of others just don’t...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach8 Sept 2026
Skyrim was released in 2011. Fallout 4 arrived four years later. So it’s not absurd to imagine we might have gotten The Elder Scrolls 6 by 2019. Why didn’t that happen?
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