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Xbox’s Biggest Surprise Hit Of 2023 Is Coming To Switch 2: Report
Xbox recently announced that four of its older titles would be going multiplatform, and finally detailed which games would be making the leap earlier this week. Among the games is Hi-Fi Rush, Bethesda and Tango Gameworks’ surprising rhythm-action game that came out of nowhere early last year. However, when Hi-Fi Rush…
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Nintendo Is Bringing Mother 3 to Switch, But Only In Japan
Nintendo Directs are often different across different regions. The order of games presented may be a bit rearranged, or there may even be wholly different titles announced in one region than another. Today’s Partner Showcase may have featured the single biggest such discrepancy of all time. Why? Because we did it,…
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Legendary Industry Veterans Get Candid On Ageism In Gaming
Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has been embroiled in controversy within the last few years, from allegations that a culture of sexual harassment was allowed to thrive to reports of union-busting by management. But in January 2024, when a new lawsuit was filed against the Call of Duty and Overwatch publisher,…
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NFL’s Kelce Bros Want To Reboot Backyard Football & Baseball
Omnipresent brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce (who are NFL players, commercial stars, SNL hosts, podcasters, and members of Taylor Swift’s inner circle) are looking to add a game development feather to their caps—specifically, they want to reboot ‘90s classics Backyard Football and Backyard Baseball. Whether or not…
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SMOK VC’s second fund is another signal that Poland’s tech scene is hitting its stride
In 2007 I was running late for my speech at the Polish Stock Exchange, but the cool reception I received there suggested I should perhaps not have bothered. […]
30 Years Ago, A Gory Gaming Triumph Changed Pop Culture Forever
There’s a certain rarified echelon of video games that have birthed entire genres based on their innovation, and their fingerprints can still be spotted all over many games today. Super Mario Bros. defined the concept of a side-scrolling platformer, DOTA made the MOBA mainstream, and Doom is the benchmark for…
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23 Years Later, We’ve Discovered An Amazing GameCube Easter Egg
Have you ever heard of GameCube’s squeaks? Perhaps we’re revealing some embarrassing gap in our collective knowledge at Kotaku in admitting we hadn’t, but we have now. And we’ve scientifically tested it. There’s a bizarre start-up Easter egg on the 2001 Nintendo console, and it makes it get all cute.
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‘Boy Swallows Universe’ review: The stuff TV adaptation dreams are made of
In an extraordinary adaptation, Netflix series “Boy Swallows Universe” spectacularly visualises Trent Dalton’s novel. TV review.
Hellblade 2 Gets A May Release Date And Revamped Combat
Xbox dropped a new Developer Direct presentation on January 18 that gave us updates on many of the company’s upcoming first-party games, including Obsidian Entertainment’s fantasy RPG Avowed and Bethesda Softworks’ Indiana Jones. Among the news was a new trailer and release date for Ninja Theory’s tense, cerebral…
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