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Fable, Pragmata and more big games missing from Not-E3 2022

Fable, Pragmata and more big games missing from Not-E3 2022

screenshot: Microsoft / Kotaku Microsoft’s other major revival was announced two years ago and hasn’t seen since: Perfectly dark, the series of pioneering spy shooters, is back. But Rare, the original developer, is not leading the project. The next entry is being developed by The Initiative, a new studio. Games are taking longer to develop ...

The Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund now owns 5% of Nintendo

The Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund now owns 5% of Nintendo

picture: Nintendo The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, a never-ending cash mine tasked with diversifying the country’s economy (and glossing over its human rights record), earned a 5.01% stake in Nintendo. The news was announced in a filing filed with the Japanese Ministry of Finance. Bloomberg reports. It follows similar investments were made in ...

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This is how much money video game CEOs made in 2020

This is how much money video game CEOs made in 2020

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, seen here in a luxe cashmere turtleneck in 2017.photo: Stuart C Wilson (Getty Images) In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a global pandemic, the CEOs of the largest gaming companies collectively brought home almost $1 billion. This is acc a new ...

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Rockstar Games suddenly remembers the Midnight Club series

Rockstar Games suddenly remembers the Midnight Club series

image: Rockstar Games Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive (the parent company of Rockstar Games) listed some of the publisher’s most popular and successful franchises in an investor call today. And during that meeting, Take-Two and Rockstar Games apparently remembered that the Midnight bar franchise exists. It has been over a decade since the last ...

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13 major video game companies bought in 2021

13 major video game companies bought in 2021

image: Mediatonic / Housemarque / Turtle Rock / Money photo by Ozan Kose (Getty Images) The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. During the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a shipload of smaller companies at a rate that announced a new acquisition every few weeks. All of ...

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GTA Trilogy Remaster is not worth the lost mods and classic games

GTA Trilogy Remaster is not worth the lost mods and classic games

Screenshot: Rockstar Games After months of rumors, speculation, leaks and teasers, Rockstar finally released the remastered Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Final edition Pick up yesterday. It landed with a thud as players met and documents countless visual errors, Game bugs and strange changes to models and textures. Even viewed in a vacuum, this ...

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Take Two and Rockstar used DMCA claims to remove more GTA mods

Take Two and Rockstar used DMCA claims to remove more GTA mods

Screenshot: Rockstar Games / Take-Two / Kotaku While players continue to criticize the recently released GTA trilogy remastered collection, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive has decided that this will be the Perfect Time to use DMCA opt-out notices to remove more GTA Mods and fan projects. On November 11th, so the people from the ...

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GTA 3, Vice City & San Andreas Remastered for Switch, PS5, Xbox

GTA 3, Vice City & San Andreas Remastered for Switch, PS5, Xbox

picture: Rockstar Games / Kotaku After months of rumors and speculations Kotaku learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classics Grand Theft Auto Games. Right now, it seems that these games will be released later this fall for a variety of platforms, including the portable Nintendo Switch. Over the past year, rumors ...