I’ve been trying to climb the side of this sheer cliff face for several hours using only my feet. The path is tricky and winding but at this point I know the footholds better than the faces of some of ...

There’s never a good way to do layoffs; even in the best of such terrible circumstances, no one ends the day feeling great. But there’s got to be a better way than PowerWash Simulator developer ...

"Can you imagine another video game getting this treatment? This level of brand recognition and obnoxious Netflix specials and Sephiroth-adjacent coin-selling hacker kids sending manifestos?" ...

Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

Layoffs once again hit games outlet GameSpot on Thursday. Owner Fandom cut the site’s entire commerce team, as well as vice president of games and entertainment Chris Grant. Also laid off today was ...

While playing Horses, I was filled with dread for a revelation that never came. “This is creepy,” I thought, “but surely there’s some big thing in the next scene that pushes the envelope too far.” Yet ...

Quality assurance workers at Blizzard Entertainment's Albany and Austin offices have ratified their first union contract with Microsoft. The group of roughly 70 workers has been in negotiations with ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

Dead By Daylight Roblox clone Forsaken is at the center of a new lawsuit, filed in late April, as developers fight over who owns the game. Originally published by Peter Innes, known in the Roblox ...

Moxie is a small blue robot with a big expressive face straight out of a Pixar movie. The robot used large language models in the cloud to answer questions, talk, and function. With Embodied out of ...