GIF: Valve / Source Team VR Mod / Kotaku Since last week, a longtime dream of playing Valve’s flagship 2004 shooter Half Life 2 in virtual reality has finally come to fruition. The journey began almost 10 years ago, when a man named Nathan Andrews managed to hack a working version of the all-time classic …
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Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) “Is there anything you want to pre-order? ” Almost nobody enters and exits a GameStop without hearing those words. Employees are measured by how many pre-orders they can rack up while GameStop rakes in the cash months before a game’s actual release. But lately the strategy has been sabotaged by …
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The grind is crazy.Screenshot: Snow storm Monitor 2 is almost here, arriving like a free game on October 4 which will totally supplant the OG hero shooter. While it’s not yet playable for the general public, a handful of gaming outlets have had early access to Blizzard’s upcoming sequel, releasing previews just in time for …
Photo: Hulton/Stringer/Kotaku Archive (Getty Images) Few people thought that Google’s struggling streaming service Stadia could one day become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but hardly anyone expected it. stop so abruptly, including the company’s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, quickly becoming the reaper for new gaming initiatives, informed staff of the news …
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Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) Remember the anal beads deception controversy? Although I would like to forget it, it turns out that a lot of people still think about it. Some chess players have reported an increase in computer-assisted cheating in Chess.com matches since the Hans Niemann story broke. One gamer has dubbed the recent …
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Filtering through the North American server of Among us, users will come across a variety of lobbies with odd titles. “HornyRPOnly” or “SingleGirl”, even “Hrny Bakugo RP”. Inside these lobbies are a slew of excited gamers, looking for like-minded individuals to cyber with. As a 27-year-old looking to play his favorite guilty pleasure game, but …
Photo: My box While the steam bridge, Valve’s bloated mini PC, offers a wealth of gaming experiences in a portable form factor, the lack of a kickstand has been a sore point. Enter the cover mate: A simple plastic bracket that allows you to attach not only a handy kickstand, but also several other specialized …
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Photo: Christian Peterson (Getty Images) In a new interview with The Press, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot seemed to say that toxicity in the games industry stems from the “friction” needed in the creative process. The implication was that it was almost inevitable. Two years later a workplace for sexual harassment, misconduct and insulting the editor …
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Photo: Christian Peterson (Getty Images) In a new interview with The Press, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot seemed to say that toxicity in the games industry stems from the “friction” needed in the creative process. The implication was that it was almost inevitable. Two years later a workplace for sexual harassment, misconduct and insulting the editor …
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Images taken moments before the disaster. Image: WayForward / Bow System Functions We may have to wait a little longer before we can now now now our way in River Town Girls 2but beat ’em up fans can satiate their hunger by warping time in the reissue of a much older game from the 90s, …
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