It was teased back in March, but today YouTube made it official: the platform will be removing the dislike counter. This means you’ll no longer be able to look at a video and think, gee, this isn’t a very popular video, I’m sure it’s just bad and not a…
Metal Gear Solid Games Are Being Removed Over Historical Footage
Konami just announced that both Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 are being taken down from online shopfronts after issues emerged with “licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game”.Read more…
BioWare’s Classic Star Wars Trailers Are Being Re-Released In 4K
Star Wars: The Old Republic is 10 this year, and as part of the birthday celebrations BioWare have decided to do something I can’t remember ever seeing before; they’re re-releasing the game’s old trailers in an elegant resolution for a less civilized a…
Next Mass Effect Teased Again With New Poster
Though it’s not news that there’s a new Mass Effect game in development—it was first shown off in a trailer late last year—this poster BioWare released for the game today is new, and if you’re the type of fan to speculate wildly at the tiniest hints an…
Freeze!
François Leroy, aka Friendly Robot, is a concept artist, designer and creative director.Read more…
Unpacking: The Kotaku Review
I studied archaeology at university, and on our very first day of classes our professor walked in carrying all these bags of trash. He dumped them on our tables and said, “Here, pick through all this then tell me everything about the person they belon…
Alone In The Dark Scared The Crap Out Of Me
I am scared of many things in video games. Sharks mostly, but there’s other stuff. Nothing has ever scared me, though, as much as 1992’s Alone in the Dark.
26 NFT Developers Send Very Sad Letter To Valve After Steam Ban
Earlier this month Valve instituted a ban on all cryptocurrency and NFT sales on Steam, which not only laid down rules governing the future sales (or lack thereof) of titles on its platform, but also booted a few games off that had already launched and…
Skyrim IRL TikTok Star Arrested, Charged With Murdering His Wife & Her Friend
Ali Nassar Abulaban, aka JinnKid, is the actor behind Skyrim In Real Life, a series of incredibly popular TikTok videos. He was arrested last week and charged with murdering two people, including his wife.Read more…
Nintendo Releases Surprise Metroid Dread Demo
Most people who have played Metroid Dread say the game is very good, but what if you are not one of those people, and for whatever reason do not trust those people? Well, now you can simply download part of the game for free and try it for yourself.Rea…