The video game industry has a COVID hangover
The video game industry is suffering from a COVID hangover even a bottle of Pedialyte and a bacon, egg, and cheese can’t fix. After explosive growth throughout the pandemic, game…
Steam’s New Rules Change How Games Stand Out
Image: Valve / Kotaku Yesterday, Valve issued an update for devs who sell on their storefront. Starting September 1 of this year, “banner images,” referred to as “Capsules” in Steamworks,…
Analogue releases video game from 1962 on the Pocket
The world’s first video game is coming to an Analogue Pocket near you. Today, Analogue announced that it’s launching Spacewar!, a game originally designed for the PDP-1 minicomputer that predates…
Fixating on player counts and ‘dead games’ is making gaming worse
There was a time not so long ago that we knew definitively which games had sold the most copies. If you wanted to know how many people bought Splinter Cell…
Meet the gaymers: why queer representation is exploding in video games | Games
Fresh from a drag performance featuring a gender-swapped Mario and Princess Peach chasing each other around on stage, after watching a burlesque performer disrobe to the Tetris theme, I am…
Pushing Buttons: do games have to be a neverending story? | Game
Reading our games correspondent Keith Stuart’s feature about the joy of game compilations, it struck me that playing five games over a weekend has become almost unthinkable. My friends who…
New City-Building Game Urbek Is All About The Voxels And Biomes
Screenshot: Urbek City Builder / Kotaku Urbek City Builder was released on Steam recently, and being a fan of just about any attempt at a city-building game, I was keen…
5 PC games that should be way more popular than they are
In the vast sea of games (opens in new tab) out there, it’s hard to stick out. Everyone wants your time and if a game isn’t part of an established…
We played ‘Stray,’ everyone’s favorite new cat-centric video game. It’s purrfection
We had to know: Was it really the cat’s meow? So we tried it out for ourselves, paying $30 to download it for a PlayStation 5. It was quickly apparent…
Indie studio Tender Claws unionizes under CODE-CWA
Another video game studio is unionizing. Workers at Los Angeles-based indie studio Tender Claws will unionize with the Communications Workers of America’s Campaign to Organize Digital Employees, workers told Polygon…