If you spend time online, you probably know or have used the live streaming platform Twitch. That doesn’t apply to everyone, however, as popular TV chef Gordon Ramsay had no idea what Twitch is when commenting on a recent episode of his new show Next level cook are to be believed Continue reading: Twitch uses ...
image: Slovak design center As part of a project by the Slovak Game Developers Association, a collection of early communist-era video games received their first English translation and digital publication that offers a unique glimpse into Eastern Europe in the early 1980s. The development of video games in the early 1980s was a really exciting ...
Screenshot: ATLUS Sony has officially announced that the games will be added to PS Now and PS Plus starting tomorrow. The former adds Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age and Mortal Kombat 11, while the latter includes Persona 5 striker. PS Now, Sony’s game streaming subscription service, is adding six new games tomorrow. You are: ...
On January 1, Yosuke Matsuda, CEO of Square Enix (pictured) decided to call the new year with the company’s plans for things like blockchain and NFTs. You may have read what people thought of the Square Enix announcement on the English language internet, but now let’s take a look at what people thought on the ...
Screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku We don’t even have a week in 2022 and already another major video game publisher – this time it’s Square Enix – is praising the Metaverse and blockchain gaming and planning to invest more resources in this terrifying version of the future. And according to Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda, ...
photo: Renata Price / Kotaku This is an oversimplification, but Karl Marx argues that factory workers are alienated from the machine they are working on because they do not own it. The mass-produced tool will alienate you from your craft as well. That’s what it’s designed for. Like you, it is supposed to generate the ...
The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the first and grossest smartphones hit the market. Back then, the internet was fairly new and the idea of carrying around a single device that could send email, search the internet, send photos, and stream live video was years and years away. But ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Last year, esteemed video game historian and occasional Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson uncovered the story of the Work Boy, an unreleased accessory that had the potential to turn the humble Game Boy into a powerful productivity tool. Now, a year later, Robertson is back with another investigation – ...
illustration: Angelica Alzona In 1991 in my first year class, I pulled a chair up to an Apple II and inserted a disk with a faded, frayed label: The Oregon Trail. I didn’t know how to play. I didn’t even know what one Oregon Trail was. Even so, I was instantly hooked – and I ...
image: Microsoft / Kotaku Congratulations, you have a next generation console. It’s hard to believe that over a year after the Xbox Series X / S launched, it’s still so damn hard to find one. But you made it. Or someone who really loves you gave it to you for the holidays. How kind of ...
