The kiss between Ellie and Riley during The Left Behind episode was edited out for OSN+ | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Facebook's Metaverse Is Apparently Filled with Mostly Empty 'Sad' Worlds

Zuckerberg's big VR investment is less popular than Second Life | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Facebook's Legs Video Was a Lie

A subsequent statement from Meta says 'the segment featured animations created from motion capture' | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Google Kills Cloud Gaming Service, Announces Cloud Gaming Laptops

When it comes to launching and shutting down products, nobody does it better | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

What Microsoft and Sony Paid for Ark II

Microsoft and Xbox spent a lot to bring Ark: Survival Evolved to Game Pass and PS Plus subscribers | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Even Facebook Isn't Using Its Own Metaverse, Begs Employees to Spend Time in It

The VR project needs some internal love, according to leaked memos | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Overwatch 2 Chat Bug Is Randomly Buying Skins from the Shop

Pending further clarity from Blizzard, it might be best to limit your text chat use while in menus | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Retro Studios Rejected Legend of Zelda Pitch

Metroid Prime maker Retro Studios pitched a tactics RPG in 2004 that was unfortunately shot down by Nintendo | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Disco Elysium Studio Accused of Ousting Creators

Three of the leads behind 2019’s indie game of the year are no longer at ZA/UM | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Game Devs and Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided by the Sudden Shutdown

Everyone from Destiny 2 designers to Google’s own staff were caught off guard | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC in Real Life’ Trend

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/tiktok-npc-in-real-life-trend-twitter-gen-z-video-games-1849575169 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32964433 Points: 63 # Comments: 75 | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Rockstar Responds to 'Illegal' GTA 6 Leak as the Messy Aftermath Continues

Teapotuberhacker impersonators, along with continued DMCA takedowns, have continued in the wake of the Grand Theft Auto hack | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Mark Zuckerberg's Soulless Metaverse Avatar Keeps Getting Worse

If the future involves avatars that look like the Facebook CEO’s own, then we are all screwed | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Netflix Has Some Great Games but Nobody's Playing Them

According to new data, less than one percent of subscribers are playing Netflix's games | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

EA’s Bad Tweet Last Week Has Led to Roundtable Meetings with Angry Staff

It turns out that the people running EA’s Twitter account aren’t even a part of the company | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Hilarious 'Web 3 Console' Will Never, Ever Happen

The Polium One will (not) finally allow you to fall for NFT scams via a console | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds of Staffers

Management at the company behind the free game development engine has been a ‘shit show’ recently, sources say | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Crypto Miners Are Dumping Tons of GPUs, So Maybe You Can Finally Get One

I’m getting so much schadenfreude from the collapse of the crypto economy | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers of Cool Video Games

The team behind games like Eliza are closing shop on their own terms | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Witcher 3 Fans Build a New Quest with Perfect Geralt Voice Acting

A Night to Remember is a brand new, fan-made quest for The Witcher 3, set after the events of Blood & Wine, and while I’m keen to check out new writing and new battles, I’m also interested in the AI tech being used here to simulate the trademark sounds of Doug Cockle, Geralt’s vo … | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Original Tomb Raider Ported to Gameboy Advance

This isn't magic, it's the power of "OpenLara"-- an open-source Tomb Raider project | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

The Decade-Long Struggle to Fund Oakland’s Scrappy Video Game Museum

The MADE is finally moving into a new building, and wants the video game industry to help ensure its prosperous future | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

The Human Toll of Fallout 76’s Disastrous Launch

Former ZeniMax developers claim that Fallout 76 was severely mismanaged | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is a Sad Story

There's a human element to these stories that is rarely seen by the public | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Retro Game Collector Accused of Selling $100k Worth of Intricate Forgeries

The man has allegedly been selling fake, expensive games since at least 2015 | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

New Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Trailer Features Hot Profs, 4-Player Co-Op

The latest mainline entry in the monster-catching RPG series is slated for a November 18th release on the Nintendo Switch | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Elon Musk Gets into Embarrassing Fight with Video Game Site, Loses

The video game satire site Hard Drive just wanted credit, but Musk wanted to make it difficult | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

EA Looking to Sell or Merge

The Madden and Apex Legends publisher is apparently looking for a way out | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Is the Smartest, Silliest Game of the Year

The fourth wall is demolished by a narrator and a bucket | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

NFT Market Collapses as Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider to Bet Big on Blockchain

Square Enix got rid of big properties like Avengers and Tomb Raider at fire sale prices at the worst time | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

A Very Long Look at a Cancelled Half-Life Game

A Half-Life game made by the people behind Dishonored? Ah, what could have been | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Bobby Kotick Reporting

Sandberg, a top Facebook executive, dated the Activision Blizzard CEO from 2016–19 | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 1 year ago

Chrono Cross and Other Classics Suddenly ‘Expiring’ on PS3, Vita

As if it wasn’t already hard enough to play old PlayStation games like Final Fantasy VI | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Among Us Servers Have Been Down for over 48 Hours Due to DDoS Attack

Attacks started on March 24 and since then the popular indie game has suffered online connectivity issues | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Elden Ring's Minimal UI and HUD Elements Have Started Maximum Dev Debates

There's even a meme showing what the game might look like if Ubisoft had designed it | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

EA Executives Blame Halo, Covid for Battlefield 2042's Failures

Along with the Frostbite Engine, bugs, early testing... | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

2021 Saw a 31% Increase in VR-Related Insurance Claims

Since 2016 there has been a 68% overall increase in VR-related claims and injuries | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Nintendo Thanks Feds for Sending Hacker to Prison for 3 Years

The house that Mario built continues to show zero mercy toward folks who facilitate piracy | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Google Quietly Ditching Stadia

The service has been demoted within Google and will instead power experiences for other companies | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

MI6 and GCHQ UK Spy Agencies Troll Each Other over Wordle

You could say MI6 and GCHQ are Bonding over this, but no one would be impressed | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Guitar Hero Player Was a Cheat

Schmooey, once thought the best in the world, has now deleted all his videos | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Notorious YouTube Streamer Stole $500k from Fans in Crypto Scheme

Ice Poseidon said returning the money is within his power, but he still won't give most of it back | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

The NYT Crossword Puzzle Community's Surprising Culture Wars

While the crossword remains a word game mainstay, what's appropriate has changed with the times | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

New YouTube rule allows for flexibility among international copyright laws

The Toei and Totally Not Mark fight sparked a new fair use rule on the video platform | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Shameless unpacking clone (was) the App Store’s top download

It remains absolutely wild what these platform holders will allow on their shopfronts | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150k Stolen from Users in NFT Scam

If only somebody, anybody could have seen this coming | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

Kickstarter Doubles Down on Blockchain Move Despite Blowback

The latest example of a company pulling this stuff just because | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago

CDPR Settles Cyberpunk 2077 Lawsuit, Will Pay $1.85M

Investors had sought damages due to the game being 'virtually unplayable'. | Continue reading


@kotaku.com | 2 years ago