Assassin's Creed Shadows is gorgeous, but does it succeed in the narrative it’s trying to tell? And how does it balance historical accuracy with having a good time? On the latest episode of Aftermath Hours, we talk about it.
In Assassin's Creed Shadows nature is, for lack of a better word, dense. This is not just a problem that games set in Japan have; it’s a problem that open world games set in nature have on the whole. Forests do not feel like forests, they feel like video game forests.
We wrote about Valnet’s low pay rates in a previous article about how underpaid freelancers are propping up games journalism. Today, new reporting by The Wrap shines more light
Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Communications Workers of America (CWA) – the union that represents over 2,000 workers across companies like Microsoft, Activision, Bethesda, and Zenimax
Having bounced off the last two games in what's now a fairly long-running series--Two Point Hospital (2018) and Two Point Campus (2022)--I wasn't super pumped
I’ll let y’all in on a little secret: I do not watch every seasonal anime. As someone who was once tasked with writing up long-ass slideshows breaking down
Remember when Chris wrote that blog about shitty Yeti mics? That was inspired by me and my refusal to heed his advice by buying a garbage mic he warned me
In July 2024 we bid farewell to Kotaku Australia, a very good website that suffered a long and undeserved demise at the hands of inept ownership. Now, in March 2025,
For the past five years, I was under the impression that the live-action Monster Hunter movie never came out. I merely laughed after watching its trailer, thinking it was another
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has filed a defamation suit against G/O Media over a pair of 2024 articles.
A record of a March 11 defamation filing titled “Robert
Few series continue to influence entire industries three decades down the line – fewer still if we’re talking about relatively obscure Japanese role-playing games. Suikoden, however, fits that bill. The
