picture: EA Tolkien’s influence on video games goes back decades. Fans have played games based on Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) for almost as long as video games have existed, and for every misguided flop there has been a game that was surprisingly good for a licensed product. And in some cases much ...
screenshot: TT Games / Lucasfilm / Kotaku Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did something very few games have done in recent years: it topped the NPD Switch sales chart in April, becoming the first non-Nintendo released game in over a year. and Skywalker saga not only topped the Switch sales charts last month, but ...
screenshot: Rockstar Games When Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition launched last year, it was a disaster. Three of the most popular video games of all time have been officially re-released on modern hardware, and not only did they look crap, but that’s how it went. things were so Bad indeed, this rock ...
picture: Duke Nukem forever You know how we wrote about this 2001 build of the infamous yesterday Duke Nukem foreverand how it should be made available to the public in June? Yes, until “June,” they meant “the day after” because it’s now available to download and try. All present in the 4chan leak has now ...
screenshot: Duke4.net (Getty Images) Duke Nukem forever began development in 1997 and was scheduled for release in 1998. It wasn’t released until 2011, and when it came it sucked. But what if the game came out in 2001 as it was supposed to be at some point? When Duke4.net report, a major leak surfaced recently ...
That Metroid series took a little nap during the N64 era as Nintendo was unable/unwilling to release a single home console game between the success of the SNES Super Metroid in 1994 and the GameCubes Metroid Prime in 2002. So a fan steps in – and back in time – to make one for themselves. ...
gif: KOMAZAWA ISOLATION / Kotaku Life emulates art, and nowhere is this more evident than in these YouTube videos of a man walking the streets of Tokyo, Japan as if he were a character from Japan Grand Theft Auto 3. While the movement is strange to a human, it will look familiar to anyone who ...
screenshot: Ubisoft Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an absolute classic, and while the original, which was first released in 2003, is still very entertaining, the modern remake currently in development will hopefully be an improvement. Assuming that thing ever finds a way out of development hell. When we reported on it last ...
Star Wars: Forces of Darkness cover artpicture: Lucasfilm/Disney Tomorrow is May 4th, aka war of stars Day. You know, May 4th kind of sounds like “May the force be,” which is part of the franchise’s famous “May the force be with you” phrase. Yes, it’s a bit silly, but as it’s somewhat of an annual ...
picture: Square Enix The Embracer Group, a planet-eating mass of video game publishers that already includes Gearbox and THQ Nordicannounced tonight a deal to purchase a number of studios and properties from Square Enix. Although the purchase isn’t final — this is just an “agreement to acquire her” until everything is signed later in the ...
