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Photo: Jesse Kumin/Permission of Hock Wah Yeo With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box pr...

Mother/Android Hulu has acquired the streaming rights to Mother/Android, an upcoming sci-fi film starring Chloe Grace Moretz as a woman named Georgia who, “with her boyfriend Sam (Algee Smith), goes on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land— a stronghold of the android uprising, in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.” [...

Roblox launched in 2006 but has reined in a captive pandemic base, as of December, reaching 37.1 million developers up from 19.1 million in 2019. (Roblox wants to be very clear that stockholders shouldn’t expect continued explosive growth, writing in its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, “we do not expect these activity levels to be sustained.”) Like Second Life, Roblox partially entices its users to generate reams of content with the promise of in-game currency, wh...

Advertisement How idle does a video game have to be before we label it an “idle game”? Can a game be a perfect mobile game if it’s not available on mobile? Is it still “tower defense” if you’re rooting for the little dude to make it through? Will these goddamn vampires get off my back for a second so I can drop my food orbs back off at camp? These are the kinds of questions that race through my mind while playing Loop Hero, the new small-dose strategy game out this week on Steam fr...

Image: Valve Artifact has now failed twice. After a messy launch and a failed attempt to reboot it last year, Valve announced today it’s calling it quits on the beleaguered Dota 2 card game. “It’s now been about a year and a half since the current Artifact team began work on a reboot in earnest,” the game’s development team wrote in a new blog post. “While we’re reasonably satisfied we accomplished most of our game-side goals, we haven’t managed to get the active player number...

Image: Hasbro We love a found family story around these parts—especially if the family also happens to be giant robots that can turn into trucks. Advertisement Hasbro has announced a new partnership between its Entertainment One studio and Nickelodeon to release a brand new Transformers animated series. Unlike the recent fare like Netflix’s War for Cybertron trilogy—which has presented a darker, G1-inspired take on the canon for older fans—this new show seems much more in line with se...

West Linn police accused of racial harassment during arrest Alex Juarez alleges officers harassed and humiliated him during December DUI arrest. West Linn police have hired Portland attorney Michael Tom to look into allegations from a West Linn man who says he was racially harassed by police in December, according to Acting WLPD Chief Peter Mahuna. The man, Alex Juarez, posted about the ordeal on Nextdoor in January and received a wide array of responses from neighbors. WLPD contacted...

PC Developer Issues Takedown Notice Against Its Own Game, Claims Publisher Pirated It Illustration: Frogware The Sinking City developer Frogwares has publicly accused former publisher Nacon of pirating the Lovecraftian adventure game for its recent re-release on Steam, the arrival of which put the Ukrainian studio in the weird position of asking potential customers not to purchase its own game last week. Advertisement that the game was removed from Steam earlier today at the request of develop...

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s pick comes from the dawn of the 32-bit era, when makin’ “ Virtua Fighter, but with robots” just seemed like a natural thing to do. Advertisement Upon its September 1995 American launch the PlayStation had no shortage of flashy 3D fighters, polygonal fisticuffs having quickly become the hardware demo format de rigueur. I personally ended up with Tekken, and man...

Minari star Alan Kim went viral because when Kim was asked who his favorite actor is, he replied saying “I like Sonic the Hedgehog.” Kim is a top contender for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, so who are we to argue with the wunderkind? Sonic rules. Screenshots of the Q&A quickly made the rounds on Twitter, with Minari distributor A24 sharing it, too. Soon enough, it caught the attention of Sonic voice actor, Ben Schwartz, who tweeted at A24, saying, “Sonic would love to send Al...