The future of PlayStation is officially digital as Sony will end physical game sales in 2028. In one of the biggest announcements in the company's history, Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that it will stop producing physical game discs for all new...
Street Fighter II and Monster Strike developer Yoshiki Okamoto addressed the backlash against Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game has received significant backlash both in the West and Japan. Recently, a petition from Japanese gamers accuses the game of...
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa recently addressed whether the company would use generative AI technology to create games. If you are unfamiliar with Generative AI, Google explains on their Google AI website that "generative AI can also help us create new...
Microsoft executives have rolled out another round of layoffs at Xbox as multiple employees have reported they no longer are employed by the company. X user Jessabirdy announced she had been laid off writing, "Sad to announce that my role with Microsoft has been...
Surgent Studios, the video game development company that developed Tales of Kenzera: ZAU with the help of consultancy Sweet Baby Inc., is now laying off employees. As initially reported by Minimal Effort, numerous Surgent Studios employees announced they had been laid...
Santa Monica Studio writer and former IGN Editor Alanah Pearce recently claimed in a video discussing Elden Ring's DLC Shadow of the Erdtree that having a 2-year old is a situational disability. Pearce stated, "I'm not actually asking for an easy mode. That isn't the...
Alyssa Mercante, the Senior Editor of Kotaku, recently attempted to passive aggressively get YouTuber Smash JT cancelled from San Diego Comic-Con. Smash JT revealed on X he would be attending San Diego Comic-Con and shared two press passes in a photo. He wrote, "Let...
Japanese gamers have launched a petition to have Ubisoft cancel their upcoming Assassin's Creed Shadows game. As translated via Google's machine translation, the petition created by Shimizu Toru states, "Recently, lack of historical accuracy and cultural respect has...
CD Projekt Red Associate Game Director Paweł Sasko recently revealed that the company's first foray into the world of Cyberpunk 2077 was not dystopian enough after he visited multiple cities in California. During a recent appearance on CD Projekt Red's AnsweRED...
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 developer Saber Interactive and publisher Focus Entertainment cancelled their public beta test claiming they will be focusing on optimization and polishing ahead of the game's September release. Focus Entertainment had previously...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that the company will be remaking a number of its older Assassin's Creed titles. Not only will they be remaking them, but they will be modernizing them too. In an interview posted to Ubisoft's website, Guillemot was asked, "On the...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated that he's dismayed by alleged "malicious and personal online attacks" that have been directed at Ubisoft team members and partners. In an interview with Lucy O'Brien, Ubisoft's Director of Editorial Communications, that was published...
Firewalk Studios appeared to confirm rumors that the company was shrugging off the massive backlash the game received after character designs were revealed during a PlayStation State of Play. In the PlayStation State of Play, Firewalk Studios' Kim Kreines, who is the...