Image: Blizzard Entertainment Back in November, Blizzard and NetEase ended their 14-year partnership to bring the Warcraft developer’s games to China. Now, it sounds like the NetEase team that handled the company’s games has been dissolved completely. South China Morning Post reports that the NetEase affiliated Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology has laid off or reassigned
Screenshot: Naughty Dog If you’ve been wondering why the critically acclaimed Sony studio Naughty Dog has been so mum about its current projects of late, the reason appears to be that it wants to focus more on maintaining a manageable work-life balance for its employees. Co-president Neil Druckmann, in an interview with ComicBook.com, said that
Photo: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock) Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where they could exist in
You tell him, Tifa.Image: Square Enix / Tsunamods / PngWing / Kotaku Someone has created a mod for the original Final Fantasy VII that adds full voice acting to Square Enix’s megapopular ‘97 RPG. The FFVII voice mod, called Echo-S 7, was created by Tsunamods, a team of modders who specialize in re-textures and 3D
The Hot Buttered Rum is a warm and comforting winter cocktail that’s perfect for a cold evening. It’s made with rum, butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and hot water, and is typically served in a heatproof glass or mug. The butter and sugar create a rich and creamy texture, while the cinnamon and nutmeg add a
Screenshot: Kotaku Marvel Snap is just shy of three months old, and it’s fair to say it’s been a success. While the exact number of users hasn’t been shared, Google Play reports over five million downloads, even before you include iOS numbers. And with such popularity comes great scrutiny. Why are the store prices so
Screenshot: HoYoverse / Kotaku HoYoverse just put out a new story trailer for Genshin Impact, and one burning question is consuming the entirety of the fandom: How did a small child carry one of Genshin’s strongest DPS characters on her back? As of the time of writing, “SHE WHAT???” is currently the most upvoted topic
The Atlus team just waiting for a content creator to mess up.Image: Atlus Atlus is back with some peculiarly limiting stipulations for folks looking to livestream Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, the upcoming HD remasters of two pretty old RPGs slated to launch on January 19. You should be careful lest the developer-publisher
Omaha, Nebraska may not be the first place you think of when you think of prohibition, but this Midwestern city has a rich and storied history when it comes to the “Noble Experiment.” Prohibition in Omaha began in 1916, two years before the national prohibition law, the 18th Amendment, went into effect. The city’s anti-alcohol
Image: Ubisoft / Kotaku Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing. And just yesterday, Skull