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Kotakuby Ethan Gach5d ago
Undead Labs has successfully disentangled itself from Xbox amid a messy reset of Microsoft’s gaming division.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard5d ago
Sometimes I feel like I underestimate the internet. When Sega announced it was creating an official Discord server where Sonic the Hedgehog fans could gather to talk about the blue blur and all his...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen5d ago
It’s getting more expensive and annoying to play and enjoy video games in 2026. Case in point, GameStop is now selling used PlayStation 5 Pro consoles for $1400 as the sought-after machines become...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach5d ago
I played the entire Gears of War: E-Day campaign and its multiplayer modes on the Xbox Series S, and it’s impressive what developer The Coalition was able to get running on the weaker of the two...
Kotakuby John Walker5d ago
In potentially refreshing news, another big gaming company joins Capcom in (like we said, potentially) not being all-in on generative AI.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen6d ago
Shorts created with generative AI tools have been flooding social media and vertical video platforms for a bit now.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach6d ago
Supermassive Games is downsizing after releasing Directive 8020 earlier this year. The horror studio shed 70 people today, according to the head of IT, who was also laid off.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine6d ago
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is out next month, and that’s giving us lots of excuses to think about all the weird, funny, and unique quirks of the nearly 30-year-old original.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen6d ago
I really enjoyed Gears of War: E-Day‘s campaign. It’s a lengthy experience that looks amazing and does a fantastic job of showing the fall of humanity in the early days of the surprise Locust...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine6d ago
Magic: The Gathering is making a number of major, major changes to its various booster packs in 2027.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard6d ago
Overwatch getting China-exclusive skins and crossovers isn’t new thanks to the deal Blizzard struck with NetEase to publish the hero shooter in the territory after a brief separation in 2022, but...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen6d ago
Halloween: The Game is a solid asymmetrical horror game that has gotten better with recent patches and balance changes.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard6d ago
Avengers: Endgame is officially the highest-grossing movie of all-time again after its Encore re-release, meant to bridge the gap between the 2019 crossover film and the MCU’s next big crossover...
Kotakuby Lewis Parker6d ago
It seems that Hideo Kojima’s opinion on AI is ever-evolving. In 2025, the Metal Gear Solid director compared the tech’s importance to the leap from 2D to 3D in video games, and then, in a separate...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine6d ago
RuneScape studio Jagex has taken down a new RuneScape 3 trailer and says it will “investigate urgently” after fans raised concerns that the trailer appeared to use generative AI.
Kotakuby John Walker6d ago
In this strangest of times, we are at a point in the genAI farce when the leading players are all competing with one another to explain just how dangerous their own tech is, and how close it is to...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen6d ago
Rockstar Games has been working on Grand Theft Auto 6 in some capacity since 2014. And while we know that a lot of people work on these games and spend many years building them, exactly how they...
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick6d ago
On October 2, Capcom held an open conference event for engineers and the games industry where it divulged information on the direction it wishes to take the RE Engine moving forward, including...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine6d ago
Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, appears to be starting a process of letting its employees go after two deals to save the studio fell...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach6d ago
We’ve seen a bunch of unofficial PC ports of Nintendo 64 classics over the last few years thanks to the fan-made N64: Recompiled tool which helps enthusiasts reverse-engineer the code base of...
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