Former Overwatch director and longtime Blizzard developer Jeff Kaplan is facing backlash after telling gamers to “shut the f**k up” if they criticize games they haven’t played. Kaplan, who spent nearly two decades at Blizzard and became one of the most recognizable...
Sandbox VR has announced an ambitious collaboration with Netflix to bring Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon series into the virtual reality space. The project, described as an “interactive VR game,” aims to expand the universe of Snyder’s sci-fi epic into a fully immersive adventure for fans.
The problem? There aren’t many fans left to care.
Sony has announced that Helldivers 2, the cooperative tactical shooter game, is being adapted into a movie.
While fans of the game might cheer for its expansion into cinema, the move raises significant questions about whether the movie will stay true to the gritty, satirical tone of the franchise—or become another vehicle for virtue signaling and DEI-driven Hollywood storytelling.
Remedy Games is pressing forward in its controversial partnership with Sweet Baby Inc. (SBI), even as the fallout from Alan Wake 2 continues to mount.
The gaming industry has become a battleground for cultural and political ideologies, with a stark divide forming between the virtue signaling “woke” crowd and everyday gamers exhausted by constant political messaging and finger-wagging. The community’s response to two recent events—the crowd-funding campaign of Gaming While Black, a documentary featuring former Kotaku editor Alyssa Mercante, and Mercante’s contentious lawsuit against YouTuber SmashJT—illustrates the widening chasm between these groups in what’s become known as the gaming culture war.
This morning, the previously banned Donald Trump Captain America mod for Marvel Rivals reappeared on Nexus Mods. However, as of this writing, it has been banned yet again, marking Trump’s second removal from the platform.
The recently released Indiana Jones and The Great Circle came out amidst a ton of doubt and scrutiny. However, after playing the game, I have to say that it was actually pretty darn good!
Johan Pilestedt, the creative director behind Helldivers 2, has taken a firm stance against incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into games when they detract from the player experience.
Ubisoft’s troubles have mounted into 2025, with the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Origins becoming the latest casualty of the company’s ongoing woes. Steam users have flooded the game with negative reviews, dropping its recent review rating to “Mixed.”
A recent leak from a Chinese app suggests that NetEase’s free-to-play third-person hero shooter Marvel Rivals will soon expand its roster with the iconic Fantastic Four.
Once a titan in the gaming industry, Ubisoft has experienced a dramatic and concerning decline in value over the past four years. From a market capitalization of $12.17 billion in January 2021, the company’s value plummeted to a mere $1.78 billion by January 2025.
Another game has been revealed by the Gothic Therapy YouTube channel to be a recent client project of Sweet Baby Inc., the controversial narrative design firm co-founded by Kim Belair.
The Witcher 4 directors claim that using Ciri as the main protagonist in their game will allow the team to explore the nature of sexism in The Witcher world. But is that something anyone was asking for in a fantasy RPG game heading into 2025?