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Sports Game Delayed Over Cover Star's Dick Pic Scandal
Video Game Faces Might Finally Start Bridging The Uncanny Valley
Arknights Tells A Compelling War Story With, Err, Catgirls
Cloud Strife Voice Actor Fired From Soap Opera For Refusing Covid-19 Vaccination
Roblox Sues YouTuber For $1.6 Million Over Terrorizing Kids Platform
Bobby Kotick Has Always Been A Slimy Douchebag
Fortnite Chapter Two Ends On December 4 With 'The End'
13 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Death’s Door
Poyo? Kirby Has Been Nominated For A Grammy
Halo Infinite Devs Respond To Samurai Armor Event Backlash
The Recent EVE Online Riots Where Thousands of Fans Burned Their In-Game Money, Explained
Halo Infinite Cheaters Are Insta-Clicking Heads With Aimbots
The Dragon Ball Z Horror Game Is Getting A Beta Soon, Here’s A Closer Look
This Sci-Fi Game Might Have The Best Movement Of The Year
Battlefield 2042 Details Upcoming ‘We’re Sorry’ Patches
Report: North Korean Man Sentenced To Death For Smuggling Copies Of Squid Game
Arcades In Japan Keep Closing, Which Sucks
Dragon Age's Senior Creative Director Has Left BioWare
Report: Amazon Wants To Make A Mass Effect TV Series
Microsoft Publishes 1999 Letter From Failed Attempt To Buy Nintendo
The New Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Are Barebones, But I'm Still Having A Blast
Xbox Celebrates 20th Anniversary With A Museum That Might Drag You
How To Get Halo Infinite’s Sick Samurai Armor
Rare Zelda Demo From 1997 Recreated By Fans

Sports Game Delayed Over Cover Star's Dick Pic Scandal

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 06:05 PM PST

Sometimes, sports video games need to change their covers just before they're released. It's happened with FIFA and PES, it's happened with Madden, it's happened to NBA 2K. It's now also happening with Cricket 22, but for slightly more scandalous reasons.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 05:25 PM PST

Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they've still been a long way from what you'd call realistic, as while we've got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 01:00 PM PST

For a long time, I ignorantly assumed that anthro art was...unserious. Anime catgirls and dog boys generally seem pretty upbeat, drawn with bright colors and cheerful expressions. I'd never encountered a furry story with riveting character arcs, having only ever accidentally stumbled upon decontextualized furry porn…

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 12:40 PM PST

Steve Burton, who previously voiced brooding Final Fantasy hero Cloud Strife, was recently fired from his long-standing role on General Hospital after refusing to comply with the soap opera's vaccine mandate, the actor announced via Instagram (h/t Variety).

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 11:25 AM PST

Roblox is finally taking notorious YouTuber Benjamin "Ruben Sim" Simon to court over his alleged attacks on the gaming social media platform and its young fans. A lawsuit filed in California court on Tuesday wants the longtime banned player to pay $1.6 million in damages and stop harassing Roblox employees and players.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 10:30 AM PST

Bobby Kotick is a weasel of the highest order. And while he may finally be facing a reckoning for some of his actions as CEO of Activision Blizzard, it's been a long time coming.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 10:15 AM PST

After eight seasons of cubic drama, Fortnite's second chapter comes to a close in a special event aptly titled "The End." The one-time-only in-game event, which starts December 4, will have players rallying against the Cube Queen in a battle for The Island.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 10:00 AM PST

Haven't you heard? Death's Door is one of the best games of the year. It's also one of the toughest. Acid Nerve's isometric dungeon-crawler, which came out to great acclaim in July on Xbox and PC, landed on PlayStation and Switch this week—just in time for GotY season. How convenient.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 09:45 AM PST

Kirby, Kirby, Kirby. We already know he's the star of the show, but now Nintendo's pink mascot that's shaped like a friend is being acknowledged as a star on the grand stage of the 64th annual Grammy Awards.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 09:30 AM PST

Halo Infinite, despite its impeccable game feel, has been heavily under fire for its mediocre cosmetic offerings and utterly dreadful progression system—luckily, 343 Industries claim to be on the case after a short (and very well deserved) break.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 09:15 AM PST

EVE Online's latest slate of updates, "New Dawn", promised to bring with it a return to an age of prosperity to the game's universe. Alongside the first patch of the new quadrant came a Nov. 12th Developer Blog detailing how CCP, the developer behind the game, planned on delivering that new age. However, rather than…

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST

Though its campaign isn't out yet, 343 Industries' Halo Infinite is already seeing massive success on account of its free-to-play multiplayer that launched just last week. Unfortunately for those playing with dignity and respect, it seems cheaters are out in full force, resorting to dubious tactics like aimbots and…

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 08:45 AM PST

Bandai Namco posted a more in-depth gameplay video of its anime take on Dead By Daylight where one Dragon Ball Z villain is pitted against a handful of survivors on Wednesday. The company also included information about their closed beta test, which you can register for if you have a Steam account.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 08:30 AM PST

Controlling Exo One's strange spherical spacecraft, as it rolls over hills, soars through the skies, or skips across ocean waves, is an extraordinary feeling. It's a rollercoaster ride. It's making a perfect ski jump in a round of Tribes. It's skimming the clouds in Tiny Wings. It's all the good things about movement…

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 08:10 AM PST

EA laid out its post-launch plans for Battlefield 2042 through the rest of the year, and while new content isn't in the cards until 2022, there will be three waves of ongoing fixes between now and the end of December. Welcome to the season of the never-ending beta.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 03:30 AM PST

Last week, Radio Free Asia reported that copies of Squid Game had been smuggled into North Korea on USB drives and SD cards. Now, according to RFA, a man who is said to have smuggled in the show has been sentenced to death by a firing squad.

Posted: 24 Nov 2021 02:30 AM PST

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Japanese arcade industry hard. With the country closed off to tourism, it might only seem like big city arcades are the ones that are hurting the most. That's simply not the case.

Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that things were horrible for Japanese arcades. "The government is…

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 06:40 PM PST

Matt Goldman, the senior creative director of the Dragon Age series—including the long-in-development Dragon Age 4—has left the company after "mutually [agreeing] to part ways."

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 04:00 PM PST

It was first announced all the way back in 2010 that beloved sci-fi series Mass Effect was being turned into a movie. Fast forward 11 years and, uh, no movie.

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 03:30 PM PST

Over 20 years ago, as Microsoft was gearing up to release the original Xbox, some at the company were concerned that they wouldn't have enough games to accompany the console at launch. So someone had the bright idea to try to buy Nintendo. Problem solved.

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 02:20 PM PST

Some of the initial reviews described Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl as incredibly workmanlike, and they were correct. These games are serviceable recreations that seem to do the bare minimum when it comes to adding anything new, let alone surprising. And yet for all of their mediocrity I can't stop…

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 01:45 PM PST

Today, as part of Xbox's ongoing 20th anniversary celebration, Microsoft released a virtual museum covering the history of the consoles themselves, as well as our own personal, individual history with them. In the browser-centric museum, you can walk the halls, taking in 3D timelines of each of Microsoft's consoles…

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 01:25 PM PST

See that kick-ass suit of armor at the top of the post? That's a prize available for knocking out objectives in Halo Infinite's first timed event, dubbed "Fracture: Tenrai," which went live on Xbox and PC this afternoon and runs through November 30. For no other reason than "Ahhhh, look at it," here's another angle:

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 12:35 PM PST

Want to party like it's 1997? Well, you're in luck, as a dedicated group of Zelda fans recently wrapped on a project that's all about recreating what it felt like to play Ocarina of Time at a Nintendo event in the late 90s before it was officially released.

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