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New Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie’s inspiration revealed by Obsession director

Curry Barker is having quite a year. His debut feature, the buzzy horror movie Obsession, hasn’t even come out yet, and he’s already lined up his next project: a highly anticipated Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot from A24. The genre-defying slasher series has had its ups and downs since the 1974 film from writer-director Tobe Hooper,…

Directive 8020 Review – A Failed Copy

When Until Dawn was released in 2015, it felt novel. Telltale had popularized a specific formula of interactive narrative, but Supermassive’s teen-slasher horror game took its ideas and applied an impressive layer of creativity and production value on top of it alongside casting choices that only look more brilliant with time. Successive entries in the…

Gamers Protest Microtransactions And Saudi Arabia Outside EA

Last week, Kotaku kept getting emails about a “raid” happening at the Electronic Arts Redwood City headquarters as part of a joint effort between concerned “gamers” and the Players Alliance, a group pushing back against corporate greed in the video game industry. We didn’t write anything ahead of time, but figured we’d see what happened…

Devil May Cry Netflix Creator Has Good Advice For Bloodborne Movie Team

Adi Shankar has had success in adapting video games into animation, having worked on multiple seasons of Castlevania alongside Konami and Netflix, as well as with Ubisoft for Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix. More recently, he has been collaborating with Capcom on Devil May Cry, the first season of which launched on Netflix in…

Aaron Paul Will Join The Cast Of Fallout Season 3 In Mystery Role

Aaron Paul, an actor known for his roles in Breaking Bad, Bojack Horseman, and Westworld, is officially joining the next season of the Fallout series on Prime Video. His role remains undisclosed. The actor recently garnered praise his performance as the lead in the video game Dispatch, a choice-driven superhero workplace comedy. Paul’s casting is…

AI Put In Charge Of Café Is About To Run It Out Of Business

Back in 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that generative AI would quickly begin reshaping the economy. “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies.” Two years later, AI agents still can’t even properly run a café. San Francisco-based startup Andon…

Crimson Desert’s latest patch is huge, includes surprise minigame

Pearl Abyss released the latest update for Crimson Desert on Monday, issuing a long list of new content, bug fixes, and quality of life changes. The 1.06 update arrives just days after Crimson Desert‘s previous patch, and includes a few surprises. One of those surprises is a new claw machine game at the Laughing Marionette,…

End of Abyss Is A Sci-Fi Horror Game With Classic Nintendo And Metal Gear Solid Inspirations | New Gameplay Today

Brothers Mattias and Marcus Ottvall and Gustaf Heinerwall worked on Little Nightmares and its sequel for Tarsier Studios, but recently branched off to create an original game with their original studio, Section 9 Interactive. End of Abyss is Section 9’s first game and it combines an impressive collection of inspirations from games like classic Zelda,…

New Ghost In The Shell Anime Gets Its Biggest Reveal Yet

Will Lies of P 2 use AI slop for concept art? Is the WWE the secret to when the new Gears comes out? And what if we get an update about Dragon Quest 12 at Summer Game Fest instead of Final Fantasy 7 Remake part three? It’s your belated Kotaku Checkpoint roundup for May 11,…

Discord Partners With Xbox, Bringing Game Pass To Nitro Subscribers

Discord launched its Nitro subscription almost 10 years ago, and it’s changed a lot over the years. While its current tiers mainly offer users more emojis, higher quality streaming, and generally more customization options, it used to include complementary games, but that perk was discontinued in 2019. Today, the company announced plans to revive that…