
US President Donald Trump’s attacks on TikTok escalated wildly today, after he signed an Executive Order that not only seeks to prevent Americans from doing business with ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), but also targets Tencent, the Chinese giant that among other things owns Riot (League of Legends), along with partial…

Amidst all the news of Activision’s record results and the talk around Call of Duty, the company’s quarterly earnings had a small update on Diablo: Immortal. The Diablo mobile spin-off is still humming along, and at ChinaJoy — the one gaming convention that still went ahead as planned — Blizzard revealed where the game…

A group of developers went public today with serious accusations of overwork and theft against their former employer, the Estonian studio Limestone Games. The claims surfaced shortly after a trailer for Aeon Must Die, the game they say was stolen from them, was shown during today’s State of Play broadcast.

The core Pokémon anime series and films have all followed teams of heroes embarking on adventures across the various regions that make up the Pokémon world. But the Pokémon Company’s Twilight Wings miniseries has been a slower, more free-flowing dive into the culture of Galar, where battles between gargantuan kaiju-like…

Today the writers of Lovestruck, a popular visual novel romance game, announced a successful end to their unprecedented strike. Two weeks ago Kotaku reported on a writers strike for the mobile app, Lovestruck. Now, the writers have come to an agreement with their bosses at Voltage Entertainment whereby all of…

Byron “Reckful” Bernstein was a Twitch fixture, transforming himself into an essential part of the platform’s DNA during his eight-year streaming career. Last month, he died by suicide, leaving a whole host of gaming communities mourning in his wake. Now, Blizzard has chosen to honour him with an in-game World…

The U.S. Army’s Twitch channel has not streamed in almost a month. After finding itself in the crosshairs of Twitch users and U.S. Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for banning viewers who asked about war crimes and hosting sketchy giveaways, the channel went radio silent. Soon, however, it will return, and…

It seems like only yesterday that Billy Kaplan, the Scarlet Witch’s reality warping/magic wielding son and former member of the Young Avengers, was worrying himself sick over the idea that his longtime boyfriend, the Kree/Skrull hybrid Teddy Altman, was actually a subconscious manifestation of his vast powers and not an…

After the collapse of Microsoft’s Mixer streaming service, the question was where Mixer’s biggest stars would go. And while it’s not completely certain whether Tyler “Ninja” Blevins will stay on Twitch, the reality is he’s back on the platform where the Fortnite player made his fame. At the time of writing,…

As announced in July, Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service is becoming part of the $20-a-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service on September 15, allowing users in select regions to stream more than 100 Xbox games to their Android phones and tablets. In a pair of posts on Xbox…

Ghost of Tsushima almost has it all. It’s freakin’ beautiful. The quests and characters are endlessly entertaining. The combat’s a blast — a deft blend of skill mastery and power fantasy. You can even pet foxes (aww). But there’s one big quality-of-life feature missing from this action-packed, samurai-themed masterpiece: loadouts.

Ever since announcing itself to the world as the premier car porn simulator, Project CARS has always tried to walk a tricky balance between simulation racing and accessibility. Project CARS 3 is much clearer about where its success lies. The game still has that suite of laser-scanned tracks, cars and…