Image: Remedy Entertainment / Rockstar Games Film noir sad sack Max Payne is getting his due with a full remake of the first two games, developer Remedy Entertainment announced today. The new compilation will include both Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max and be exclusive to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and …
Be glad they didn’t go with Funchyroll or Crunchimation. Screenshot: Crunchyroll Dubs/YouTube/Kotaku If you’ve been looking for Funimation’s YouTube channel, you won’t find it. The channel has been rebranded as Crunchyroll Dubs. While the name has changed, what it’s offering, so far, hasn’t. Anime News Network reports that it will still stream trailers, clips, and …
Photo: Kotaku / Spencer Platt (Getty Images) People have been waiting for the GameStop bubble to pop for over a year now. Instead, the ailing brick and mortar video game retailer just posted another record week on Wall Street. Earnings are down. Employee morale is in the pits. But the company’s stock went from $78 …
Photo: Charly Triballeau (Getty Images) Sony is cutting up to 90 jobs from its “merchandiser” and retail marketing teams as part of a “global transformation,” according to a new report by Axios. The layoffs come despite the continued growth of PlayStation thanks to the success of the PS5, and some employees were caught off guard …
Image: Microsoft / Kotaku According to a new report, it might get a lot easier—and cheaper—to provide the entire family with Xbox Game Pass as Microsoft plans to launch a five-person option later this year. Windows Central reported earlier Thursday that, after spending nearly a year planning and figuring out the details, Microsoft is ready …
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Sony’s as-of-yet unannounced plan to compete with Xbox Game Pass could be revealed as early as next week, according to a new report by Bloomberg. However, the subscription service code-named Spartacus is apparently unlikely to feature big first-party blockbusters like 2022’s God of War Ragnarök on launch day. The rival …
Photo: Gizmodo / it8bit A large, privately-owned, and operated museum dedicated to retro computers and video games was destroyed earlier this week in Ukraine as a result of the ongoing and horrific invasion of the country by Russia. While a museum being destroyed doesn’t compare at all to the thousands dead and injured, it’s still …
Image: Sony / Ubisoft / Sega/ Bethesda / Kotaku If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ve most likely noticed that there are a lot of video game TV shows in the works. In fact, it can sometimes feel like we can’t go more than a week or two without another story or …
Image: Housemarque When Returnal landed with a splash on PlayStation 5 last year, all I wanted was the chance to play it cooperatively with a friend. Now that such a mode is here? Meh. Returnal, a third-person roguelike about the seventh-greatest classic rock song of all time, is a relentlessly difficult game. You play as …
Aloy gazes on a future that sure sounds like Horizon 3 will blissfully be a single-player game.Screenshot: Sony / Kotaku PlayStation has grown increasingly vocal about its live-service auspices. But the firm’s oeuvre of top-flight single-player games isn’t getting sidelined as a result, at least according to statements made by two PlayStation execs in a …