The latest version of Unreal Engine was released on April 5, and game developers are already trying to figure out how to make their wildest dreams into photorealistic reality. Enter Volod, a video game tech artist who has created a cool Superman-style flight demo out of the assets from a The Matrix-themed asset pack Epic …
Screenshot: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077’s road to perfection continues apace. Fresh on the heels of a massive update that made the open-world snarkfest feel complete and functional, or closer to it, developer CD Projekt Red is rolling out a smaller patch purporting to fix a litany of minor issues. Before last month, Cyberpunk 2077 …
Image: CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red have today announced a new Witcher game is in development. With the current teaser, The Witcher: A New Saga Begins, the game marks a move from CDPR’s own REDengine, to Unreal 5. At this point, details are primarily focused on this deal with Epic, rather than what players …
Screenshot: GSC Game World The forthcoming first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer feature the subtitle “Heart of Chernobyl.” It’s now officially subtitled S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a representative for Ukrainian developer GSC Game World confirmed to Kotaku. GSC Game World updated the first-person shooter’s Steam listing earlier this week to reflect the revised …
Image: Sony Sony announced today that it is officially halting the sale of PlayStation products—including PS5s and Gran Turismo 7—in Russia following its war on Ukraine. This comes after similar decisions by other major gaming companies including Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and EA. “Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) joins the global community in calling for peace in …
Prominent CSGO streamer and pro esports player Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev has donated one million Ukrainian hryvnias (or a little over $33,000 USD) to the Ukrainian army, according to a post on his Instagram Stories. This comes just after s1mple gave an emotional plea for unity during the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice tournament over the weekend. …
Protestors from the Christian Ukrainian Community of Rome hold banners in support of Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.Photo: Alessandra Benedetti-Corbis (Getty Images) Earlier this week Russian troops, acting on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine and launched 200 missiles, some of which reportedly hit residential areas near the capital city of Kyiv. At least …
Screenshot: CDPR / BioWare / Kotaku In the future, if some of the most popular science-fiction games are to be believed, we’ll all be drinking in a bar called Afterlife. Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world shooter set in 2077 but released in 2020 (well, technically), is back in the zeitgeist thanks to a recent next-gen respray. …
Come on, PS4 Cyberpunk 2077, work with me here.Image: CD Projekt Red / Sony / Kotaku Cyberpunk 2077‘s next-gen version finally launched this week after months of delays. It’s pretty good if you’re on PlayStation 5, particularly because of the haptics, but the re-release also addressed myriad bugs with its massive 50 GB patch. Not …
Image: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot of sex scenes and they are all incredibly goofy. Instead of adding more of those, patch 1.5 has chosen a more subtle approach when it comes to expanding the game’s romance options. Except in Panam’s case. The Aldecaldos nomad will now send you nudes. “Got these …