Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Remedy Entertainment’s first multiplayer game is called FBC: Firebreak and it takes player back to the world of Control, the critically-acclaimed 2019 paranormal metroidvania. The co-op PVE shooter looks like a horror-filled funhouse, but the Alan Wake...
Last year, Remedy released the survival horror title Alan Wake 2, a sequel effectively 13 years in the making and the next step in the studio’s universe of connected games. Among them is Control, a brilliant and utterly weird third-person shooter focus...
You might be seeing the likes of fictional horror writer Alan Wake and super-powered government agent Jesse Faden on the big and small screens sometime soon. Remedy, the developer of the Control and Alan Wake games, just announced a partnership with fi...
Back in 2012, Remedy put out Alan Wake, a pulpy third-person shooter about a troubled author literally battling the forces of darkness, as well as his own demons, with a flashlight and a gun. It didn’t light the world on fire, but over the years, it di...
How does a developer follow up a game like 2023’s Alan Wake 2? How do you follow a survival horror game steeped in meta-textual commentary on art and its own troubled road to release, with incredibly bold themes and genre-bending moments that earned it...
Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian ac...
We’ve all bought a second or maybe even third copy of a game we really, really love. Longtime Kotaku readers know of my obsession with re-buying Resident Evil 4. But I’m not sure there’s a game I love so much that I would buy thousands of copies of it....
Qualcomm previously stated that its Snapdragon X Elite can run most games but did not dive into the image quality and framerate details. We recently reported that the SoC could maintain a solid 30FPS when running Baldur’s Gate 3 at low settings. This is an impressive feat, considering that the AAA title was running at the 1080p resolution and that the Snapdragon X Elite comes armed with nothing more than an integrated GPU. We now learn that the silicon can run Control, a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Remedy, at just under 40FPS, but again, at low settings. Bear in mind […]
New details on the Control multiplayer spin-off game Condor were shared by developer Remedy Entertainment with a new infographic. The infographic, which was shared in the studio's latest investor report, provides some additional information on the game's lore, revealing how the Oldest House is under lockdown, and trapped within it is the last vestige of the Federal Bureau of Control, who will attempt to take back control of the Oldest House from the supernatural forces dwelling within. Not much else is revealed about the game in the infographic, other than that the game was in the production readiness state at […]
Microsoft has revealed the titles they’ll be adding to Xbox Game Pass on PC and consoles in early-to-mid March, and there’s a decent array of stuff to choose from. The headliner is Sony’s own MLB The Show 24, and as in the past couple years, Xbox owners actually get a better deal on the game (it won’t be on PS Plus on Day 1). Those who buy the Digital Deluxe Add-on can even get in on the MLB The Show 24 early access period via Game Pass. Subscribers can also look forward to a few more solid options, includng Control […]
Today, Remedy announced the acquisition of the full rights to the Control franchise from publisher 505 Games for €17 million, which is basically what the publisher had paid for the development of Control 2 and codename Condor to date. 505 Games will remain the publisher of the original Control through a transition period that will end on December 31, 2024. Remedy decided to proceed with this operation to ensure better deals for future installments in the franchise. CEO Tero Virtala said: Having complete ownership over the franchise gives us the freedom to decide the best path forward. We will consider […]
Alan Wake II’s 1.15 update is now live on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. It fixes a ton of bugs, improves some visual issues, and also adds an option to make the game a little less scary. Importantly, it may also render the game more playable for those with...
Vampire Survivors draws tons of inspiration from Castlevania, so it is no surprise that the new Ode To Castlevania DLC is fantastic. I’m here to guide you through unlocking each Hero and evolving each weapon, because that’s how you’ll end up accessing ...
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more...
Remedy Entertainment’s first multiplayer game is called FBC: Firebreak and it takes player back to the world of Control, the critically-acclaimed 2019 paranormal metroidvania. The co-op PVE shooter looks like a horror-filled funhouse, but the Alan Wake...
Last year, Remedy released the survival horror title Alan Wake 2, a sequel effectively 13 years in the making and the next step in the studio’s universe of connected games. Among them is Control, a brilliant and utterly weird third-person shooter focus...
You might be seeing the likes of fictional horror writer Alan Wake and super-powered government agent Jesse Faden on the big and small screens sometime soon. Remedy, the developer of the Control and Alan Wake games, just announced a partnership with fi...
Back in 2012, Remedy put out Alan Wake, a pulpy third-person shooter about a troubled author literally battling the forces of darkness, as well as his own demons, with a flashlight and a gun. It didn’t light the world on fire, but over the years, it di...
How does a developer follow up a game like 2023’s Alan Wake 2? How do you follow a survival horror game steeped in meta-textual commentary on art and its own troubled road to release, with incredibly bold themes and genre-bending moments that earned it...
Late Sunday evening, I logged onto Fortnite to enjoy all the newly added Star Wars content, solo-queuing up for a No Build quads match right away. As I waited for the battle bus to pick me up, I could hear one of my teammates loudly playing Canadian ac...
We’ve all bought a second or maybe even third copy of a game we really, really love. Longtime Kotaku readers know of my obsession with re-buying Resident Evil 4. But I’m not sure there’s a game I love so much that I would buy thousands of copies of it....
Qualcomm previously stated that its Snapdragon X Elite can run most games but did not dive into the image quality and framerate details. We recently reported that the SoC could maintain a solid 30FPS when running Baldur’s Gate 3 at low settings. This is an impressive feat, considering that the AAA title was running at the 1080p resolution and that the Snapdragon X Elite comes armed with nothing more than an integrated GPU. We now learn that the silicon can run Control, a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Remedy, at just under 40FPS, but again, at low settings. Bear in mind […]
New details on the Control multiplayer spin-off game Condor were shared by developer Remedy Entertainment with a new infographic. The infographic, which was shared in the studio's latest investor report, provides some additional information on the game's lore, revealing how the Oldest House is under lockdown, and trapped within it is the last vestige of the Federal Bureau of Control, who will attempt to take back control of the Oldest House from the supernatural forces dwelling within. Not much else is revealed about the game in the infographic, other than that the game was in the production readiness state at […]
Microsoft has revealed the titles they’ll be adding to Xbox Game Pass on PC and consoles in early-to-mid March, and there’s a decent array of stuff to choose from. The headliner is Sony’s own MLB The Show 24, and as in the past couple years, Xbox owners actually get a better deal on the game (it won’t be on PS Plus on Day 1). Those who buy the Digital Deluxe Add-on can even get in on the MLB The Show 24 early access period via Game Pass. Subscribers can also look forward to a few more solid options, includng Control […]
Today, Remedy announced the acquisition of the full rights to the Control franchise from publisher 505 Games for €17 million, which is basically what the publisher had paid for the development of Control 2 and codename Condor to date. 505 Games will remain the publisher of the original Control through a transition period that will end on December 31, 2024. Remedy decided to proceed with this operation to ensure better deals for future installments in the franchise. CEO Tero Virtala said: Having complete ownership over the franchise gives us the freedom to decide the best path forward. We will consider […]
Alan Wake II’s 1.15 update is now live on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. It fixes a ton of bugs, improves some visual issues, and also adds an option to make the game a little less scary. Importantly, it may also render the game more playable for those with...