You might not have to wait long to see what’s going on with the much-pilloried Borderlands movie starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart for yourself from the comfort of your own couch. The box office bomb is reportedly coming to streaming as early as late August, after less than a month in theaters.
San Diego Comic-Con is always one of the best events when it comes to cosplay, with the vicinity to Hollywood giving us impressively detailed builds, stunning craftsmanship, and, quite frankly, gorgeous people. SDCC 2024 was no exception, with the three-day event that ran the last weekend in July at the San Diego…
Thousands of video game actors went on strike on July 26 for the first time since 2017. The fight is over AI protections and other issues in contract negotiations with some of the biggest studios and publishers, and will halt work from SAG-AFTRA members on future projects, as well as possibly keep them from promotion…
Perrikaryal (or Perri) is already known and celebrated for streaming games like Elden Ring and Halo using a hands-free “mind control” setup, involving motion sensors to track her head and eye movements, as well as an electroencephalogram (EEG) device to record her brain’s electrical activity to use for inputs. Now,…
Oops! Ubisoft seemingly jumped the gun earlier today when it announced the release date and full title for a new remaster of Beyond Good & Evil via Twitter. The publisher has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets.
The “one more thing” at the Xbox showcase during Summer Game Fest was a reveal trailer for Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel to the original Gears trilogy starring everyone’s favorite bros, Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago. Naturally, Gears fans (myself included) were very excited at the reveal, though it’s not clear…
If you’re three or older, you might remember a brief window of happiness in the annus horribilis that was 2021: Wordle. It was such a lovely time, not just because of Josh Wardle’s splendid little daily puzzle game that provided light in an era of lockdowns, but also because of the multiple variants that sprang up…
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is taking a lot of heat online for recent decisions to close beloved studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. Last night the long-time gaming exec was apparently exploring the wasteland in Fallout 76 when another player nuked his entire campsite.
Players were excited at the prospect that Redfall might combine the fun co-op loot mechanics of a Borderlands with the bespoke environmental storytelling of a Dishonored. Ultimately, though, the day-one Game Pass blockbuster didn’t quite accomplish either of these things, and it was burdened at launch by bugs,…
Tom Curtin had just secured the video game of his dreams: a factory sealed first run copy of Konami’s original 1986 Castlevania for NES with a rare hang tab on the back of the box. There are only six currently known to exist and Curtin, together with his childhood friend, paid just over $90,000 for this one. Now he…
Puppies are curious creatures. And sometimes that curiosity leads to them getting destructive, as one unlucky Steam Deck owner learned recently.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s in-universe card game Queen’s Blood has taken players by storm. Whether it’s the thrill of the hunt for a new card, or besting your opponent with a broken deck, the Final Fantasy series has another standout card game to go alongside Final Fantasy VIII’s revered Triple Triad and Final…
This is a follow-up editorial to my Sweet Baby Inc editorial. A lot has happened in the days since I dropped it, and there hasn’t been a lot of new Switch games that caught my interest so I’ll write a follow up. Essentially, the Sweet Baby meltdown over the steam group exposing it has blown up into something bigger. And the friends of Sweet Baby Inc, namely Kotaku Writer Alyssa Mercante, decided to fire back with a fluff piece where she reveals she “infiltrated” the SBI detected discord, where she wondered why people weren’t using their real names and pictures so she could dox them:
But here’s the thing, while her tweet about the Kotaku article blew up, the article itself is largely irrelevant. It hasn’t dampened the backlash against sweet baby. If anything, it inflamed it. This is in stark contrast to the “Gamers are over” article slew that appeared after Gamergate in 2014(like this one). That slew had a major cultural impact, shifting that narrative away from what the backlash was really about(corruption in games journalism) to being about harassment. But now, it will have no effect because proper games journalism websites are dying, the focus shifting to actual gamers discussing games on Youtube and Twitch.
In the beginning, gaming websites were run by nerds for nerds. Then these websites were taken over by woke game journalists. We saw the early murmuring of the shift with Gone Home, where woke journalists propped a woke game made for them(read that review for a more in-depth discussion). Then gamergate proper hit in 2014, which was kind of a loss for gamers as things became much worse in the industry, as the wokeness seeped into the games themselves. But here’s what’s different: Kotaku and it’s ilk don’t have the power they once did. They are dying.
There are recent massive layoffs of games journalists, as sites fold and are sold. They just aren’t profitable and never really were. They were propped up with venture capitalist money, and that money has dried up. And when these sites have to be profitable they can’t survive(Full disclosure: This site is not profitable either, but this is a hobby for me, not my actual job). Kotaku has largely shifted away from wokeness(for the most part), because they have to. Nobody goes on websites looking for reviews or gaming opinions much anymore. I only get traffic because I’m in a particular niche where a gaming review of obscure games stand out in a google search.
Kotaku will probably fold sooner or later. They get traffic by using clickbait, but even that’s probably wearing thin. I give them another year or two, and they’ll be kaput. They’re running on fumes.
I don’t know where the flare-up over Sweet Baby will end up, but one thing is for certain: that Sweet Baby’s friends like Kotaku won’t have much effect. However, the rot goes deep. People need to speak with their wallets, otherwise this flare-up will have no effect. Don’t buy woke games. Put the companies who use consultants like Sweet Baby out of business. That is the only way change will happen. As Kotaku and the games media are no longer relevant, that message can be sent loud and clear. You know what to do. Do it!
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The PlayStation Portal has been out of stock virtually everywhere else as of late, electronics retailer Best Buy recently had PS Portals in stock. They’re now sold out again online, but it might be worth checking your local stores just in case.
Embracer bought Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.3 billion back in early 2021 amid an unprecedented acquisition spree that’s since turned into a financial disaster. Now, just three years later, Kotaku has learned that Gearbox is closer than ever to being sold out from under what is arguably the most…
Respawn’s unnamed Star Wars first-person shooter, first confirmed by EA in January 2022, has reportedly been canceled as the publisher pulls back on licensed games amid a large round of layoffs.
Within the last few years, video game industry layoffs have unfortunately become more commonplace. In 2023, we saw near-weekly layoffs across the entire industry. When the dust had settled, at least 6,000 jobs across publishers, developers, and other video game-related companies had been terminated. Sadly, it appears…
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