Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown reinvents TV storytelling for survival strategy – Narrative Notebook #3
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Take-Two’s Boss Seemingly Takes A Subtle Shot At 2025’s Worst-Reviewed Game
Strauss Zelnick says former Rockstar employees have tried and failed to make another massive hit like GTA
Someone is trying to use lost property ‘finder’ laws to gain legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets, with just one of them being worth nearly $6,000,000,000
Sometimes someone does something that makes you think, ‘Why the hell had no one tried this before?’ That’s the question that crossed my mind when I learned about ‘Noah Doe’, a (presumably) placeholder name for a man who is trying…
That sword Geralt unsheaths in The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion artwork? We’ve seen it before
A third Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, was only announced yesterday, but it appears we’ve seen the sword Geralt unsheaths in the artwork before. Read more
Paralives received ‘over 100,000 big reports’ in less than a week, as its creator reminds us that life sims are really hard to make
There’s a reason that we’re in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they’re incredibly freakin’ hard to make. That’s not just me spouting my opinion, it’s something that the developers behind games like The Sims,…
A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025’s most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading
As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one…
Epic devs discuss the shock of mass layoffs: ‘We only had a slight hint that the company revenue wasn’t doing well’
The 1,000 developers that Epic Games laid off in March were, in the words of CEO Tim Sweeney, of “once-in-a-lifetime” quality—and a website that compiles their resumes proves it. The ex-Epic Awesome People List comprises 545 entries and shows just…
Cataclysm Arcade Kickstarter promises a TCG where player victories shape the story
When Brian David-Marshall first unveiled Cataclysm Arcade at PAX Unplugged last year, the veteran Magic: The Gathering commentator and tabletop designer pitched the upcoming trading card game as something deliberately different. Set in a bizarre, post-apocalyptic “retroverse” where gangs, mutants,…
Planet Zoo 2 Coming This Year, Featuring Flying and Aquatic Animals
Frontier Developments has announced Planet Zoo 2, which will include flying and aquatic animals in aviaries and aquariums for the first time. This zoo sim sequel will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 13, almost…
Yoshi And The Mysterious Book: The Kotaku Review
Even with cute creatures, some extremely creative ideas, and loads to do, there’s something missing at the heart of Yoshi’s latest adventure