After more than a decade on PC and console Final Fantasy XIV comes to smartphones. Square Enix’s hit MMO unveiled a mobile version this week that has the potential to attract millions of new players to the rich RPG world of Hydaelyn. It also raises a lot of questions about how exactly a mobile version ...
It was a surprising feel-good news when Krafton, publisher of the successful Battle Royale PUBGbought Hi-Fi noise Manufacturer Tango Gameworks, after it suddenly closed by Microsoft amid budget cuts earlier this year. Although that deal is not yet fully finalized, Krafton’s CEO says the studio’s support Hi-Fi Rush 2 It’s more about inheritance than about ...
Screenshot: Tango Gameworks / Kotaku Three months after Microsoft abruptly close the studio, Hi-Fi noise Developer Tango Gameworks is revived by PUBG Publisher Krafton. The company owns both the studio and the rights to the Hi-Fi noise IP and plans to expand the rhythm-based action game as part of the acquisition. So not only is ...
Picture: Midnight Society Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm co-founded Midnight Society in 2021 to develop the kind of online shooters he made famous on Twitch. Now the game studio is moving on without him after new allegations about why the streamer was banned from Amazon’s own platform back in 2020. Meet the filmmaker behind this Legend ...
Fourteen daysThe battle royale mode is so huge and popular in 2024 that most people forget about the game Strictly speaking started without. And Fourteen daysDonald Mustard’s former boss revealed in a recent interview that the popular mode was essentially developed in the back seat of a car on the way to a meeting. The ...
photo: PHOTOKITA (Shutterstock) Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that a South Korean man must spend one year and six months in prison after refusing the country’s military service. He had argued he was a conscientious objector, but a lower court rejected that in part because he enjoys gambling PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Overwatch 2’s new story missions: ...
PUBG The publisher was Krafton Inc named in a wrongful termination and sexual assault lawsuitfiled on December 7, 2023 in Los Angeles by a 31-year-old unnamed former employee who claims she was fired shortly after reporting the incident to the company’s upper management. How Alan Wake 2 builds on the Remedy-Verse CW: This story contains ...
Today, a Chinese AAA studio announced that it would adapt a famous wuxia novel series into a martial arts game. The demo trailer featured stylish battles that involve highly exaggerated aerial movements that are a common hallmark of wuxia cinema, but which I have rarely seen recreated so gracefully in games! In most action games, ...
picture: Krafton When I saw Ana for the first time PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds After Krafton’s attempt to put a face to his artificial “virtual human” technology, I was disappointed to see that this supposed Web 3.0 innovation was really just another pretty pale girl. It’s airbrushed, but still tangible. She bites her tongue and looks at ...
Screenshot: Smilegate/Amazon Lost Ark has become one of the very few games on Steam to reach over 1 million concurrent players. Not only that, but the Diablo-like MMO has now surpassed DOTA 2 to become one of the most played games in the entire history of Steam. Originally Lost Ark, a free-to-play ARPGMMO, was released ...
