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You may pay the same as your neighbor for slower internet

You may pay the same as your neighbor for slower internet

photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) It’s not just your imagination: Depending on where you live in America, major ISPs could charge you the same price as your neighbors for fewer megabits per second. The service discrepancy is reportedly most severe in low-income and less-white neighborhoods. According to a report by The markup, ISPs like AT&T, ...

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The Sims 4 update makes babies real people, not objects

The Sims 4 update makes babies real people, not objects

screenshot: EA/Kotaku During today’s Sims Summit, EA gave a glimpse of an upcoming update that appears to give toddlers far more autonomy. During the event’s “One More Thing” moment, a few brief seconds were devoted to showing a crawling baby being quickly picked up by its mother. Family life just got a little hectic. While ...

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Blizzard Tester’s Union Vote May Go On, NLRB Rules

Blizzard Tester’s Union Vote May Go On, NLRB Rules

picture: blizzard Already in July A group of 21 quality assurance staff at Activision’s Albany studio – formerly known as Vicarious Visions – announced their intention to unionise. Today the National Labor Relations Board confirmed that their vote can go ahead. The verdict came about because –and interrupt me if you’ve heard this before– Publisher ...

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Removed Red Dead Redemption from all PlayStation Stores

Removed Red Dead Redemption from all PlayStation Stores

picture: Rock Star / Kotaku If you’ve hesitated before building a digital games library, the original is Red Dead Redemption is here to remind you that you might not miss anything after all. Rockstar’s 2010 open-world western has just been removed from PS Now/Plus after six years. And as the industry moves to include more ...

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Xbox Game Pass is a big treat for horror fans this Halloween

Xbox Game Pass is a big treat for horror fans this Halloween

Look, that’s a terrifying screenshot if you’re as scared of crustaceans as I am.screenshot: Worm Club Just a few weeks ago we updated ours Guide to the best Halloween games on Game Pass, so naturally Xbox has made everything obsolete by announcing a bunch of spoopy titles it’s adding to the subscription service. With names ...

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EA shuts down servers for Mirror’s Edge, Command & Conquer

EA shuts down servers for Mirror’s Edge, Command & Conquer

screenshot: youtube Electronic Arts has quietly started shutting down the online servers for a few old games. SSome of them are absolute classics, some of which one would have forgotten. First discovered by true successescontains the list favorites like mirror edge, 2010s NBA jam reboot, and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (the Tim Curry ...

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Amouranth Returns To Twitch Saying “I’m Happy I’m Free”

Amouranth Returns To Twitch Saying “I’m Happy I’m Free”

screenshot: Pull out Streamer and content creator Kaitlyn Siragusa, aka Amouranth, has recorded video for the first time since Sunday night’s events –when she first revealed she was in an abusive relationship with her husband— to update fans on what’s happened and say she’s “happy it’s me free”. Content Warning: Misuse “I want to talk ...

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Cosplay Universe is a great documentary about the craft

Cosplay Universe is a great documentary about the craft

picture: cosplay universe I was has been covering cosplay for well over a decadeand in that time i have seen tons of books, posts, youtube videos and even tv series on the subject. What I hadn’t seen until now was that someone actually went and made one Documentary as smooth and comprehensive as cosplay universe. ...