Screenshot: Squanch Games Wacky shooter High On Life, only a week after its initial release on PC and Xbox Game Pass, is currently the most popular game on the service, beating out big-name Xbox titles and long-running games like Minecraft. It’s a sign the shooter has a lot of fans, but also an indication of […]
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Fortnite maker Epic Games will pay a combined $520 million, in both fines and refunds, under an agreement reached with the Federal Trade Commission announced Monday. The settlement concerns violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), and the refunds, of $245 million, are the largest the FTC has ever secured in
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Dead Space returns in 2023 after a decade-long hiatus. But the remake will arrive to a landscape very different from the one it left; terror has become a big business, and once-niche survival horror games are now booming. Resident Evil has recaptured its glory, Silent Hill is returning from the grave, and numerous terrifying indies
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Image: Second Dinner / Kotaku Marvel Snap may only be two months old, but it has started with a bang. The card-based battler from the mind behind Hearthstone has very quickly become part of the zeitgeist, gathered and enormous army of players, and with it, all the feedback in the universe. In response to all
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Growing up, nothing matched the high of seeing all my favorite Disney characters come together at the end of Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse to sing “The Best Christmas of All” together around a beautifully lit Christmas tree. This was, of course, before I knew that fanfiction was a thing,
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Blizzard has announced that Chris Metzen, a veteran Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo designer, has returned to the company as a creative advisor after several years away. In a post on the World of Warcraft website, Warcraft general manager John Hight said “It is with great joy that I announce Chris Metzen has joined the Warcraft
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Screenshot: Cosmo Gatto / Kotaku Every year there’s at least one game that’ll get me emotional enough to the point that I start tearing up. For me, this year, it’s Aka, a game about recovering from past violence and trauma. It plays out in a lite farming sim featuring cute characters, each of whom have
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Avatar: The Way of Water takes audiences back to the splendorous alien world of Pandora, and spends even more time than the original 2009 Avatar on exploration and characters just hanging out. But this time, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his family leave the jungles and take to the seas. It’s no secret at this
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The Dead Space remake is a faithful recreation of the 2008 sci-fi horror classic. Well, mostly faithful. EA Motive has seized the opportunity to improve on the original, and so some sequences play out differently than you remember. An early example is the moment in which protagonist Isaac Clarke watches a corpse transform into a
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Image: HoYoverse / Kotaku 2022 was the year that Genshin Impact’s developer rebranded to HoYoverse to convey its ambitions for expanding its offerings to global audiences. It was also the year when players left the Japan-inspired region behind in order to explore Sumeru—a nation based on Southwest Asia, South Asia, and North Africa (SWANA). Not
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