The residents of English town Walsall have levied complaints at their local council over the implementation of 15 enormous plant pots, which bear more than a striking resemblance to the "warp pipes" of the Super Mario series. While this is ...

Matters are about to get a hell of a lot more political in Bandai Namco's Tekken 7 today, as brand new character Lidia Sobieska, who just so happens to be the Prime Minister of Poland, joins the 3D fighter's huge roster of stylish sluggers....

Bandai Namco has released the debut gameplay trailer for Lidia Sobieska, the mysterious Polish prime minister getting set to take down the Mishima Zaibatsu in Tekken 7. This all-new DLC fighter will be available to purchase on March 23, the...

Delisted horror title Devotion is back on the market, some two years following its initial release, after Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games opened its own store in order to sell the creepy adventure game directly to anybody who wishes to...

Fans of Bandai Namco fighter Tekken 7 had their curiosity piqued by the reveal of an all-new DLC character last week, whose appearance was teased during the Japan Fighting Game Roundtable presentation. Little was revealed about this new war...

It looks like Tekken 7 is about to get political, in the most proactive sense of the word. During this weekend's Japan Fighting Game Roundtable presentation, Bandai Namco teased the next DLC character for its 3D fighter, who is non-other th...

The Indie Collective has announced a release date for the video game adaptation of George Orwell's seminal novel Animal Farm. The strategy-based adventure title will launch on PC via Steam, as well as iOS and Android platforms, on December ...

George Orwell's fundamental classic, Animal Farm, is to receive a video game adaptation. Developed by indie outfit Nerial (of Reigns fame) and published by The Dairymen, Orwell's Animal Farm will launch on PC and mobile platforms this fall....

A new campaign, backed by some of the biggest publishers in the industry, is encouraging UK video game fans to get out to the polls this week for the General Election, and is offering prizes for some lucky voters who do so.The "Gamechangers...

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to make future hardware as eco-friendly as possible. Speaking in a post on the official PlayStation Blog, SIE President Jim Ryan explains how PlayStation will be working with United Nations...

In what seems to be a recurring trend with modern triple-A games, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward has insisted that its upcoming reboot/sequel is not a political game. You know, the title where you play as American tro...

The setting for Obsidian's upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds is one wrought with political turmoil, but the studio is asserting that the game is more humorous than politically-charged. In a recent interview with Video Games Chronicle, the game'...

Despite my rant several months ago about my dislike Dragalia Lost’s overly grindy events, I recently hooked myself on it again. Even in that piece, I admit there’s a lot I like about Dragalia in particular, and I still main...

Josh Hawley, the junior senator from Missouri and currently the youngest member serving in the Senate, has made a name for himself from going after the tech giants of Silicon Valley. He has butted heads with Facebook. He wants to make it mo...

Unlike any other medium outside of visiting a historical recreation, games afford us the unique ability to not only see but feel what it would be like to live during a pivotal moment in history. Most historical games would put you in the sh...

We first heard back in June that tongue-in-cheek dictator simulator Tropico was headed to iOS platforms, but then things went a little bit quiet. Quite out of nowhere, developer Feral Interactive has sprung the news on us that Tropico will ...

Watching Adam McKay, one of the men behind Funny or Die, Anchorman, and Step Brothers transition to more politically charged films has been fascinating. You can see the early stages in the end credits of the infographic-heavy end credits o...

Around the time that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was released worldwide (27 October 2017), I remember visiting my local hardware store, Saturn. There were banners advertising the game running the entire length of the escalators that le...

Germany is relaxing its stance on video games with Nazi imagery. In a new regulatory change from the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK), any game that tackles "unconstitutional organizations" can be assessed by the classifica...

If you ever leave work dreaming about being the boss, ruling over your place of employment with an iron fist, dealing with the troublemakers and managing the finances way better than that chump Robert, with his fancy shoes and store-bought ...

Do you like Wes Anderson? Then you'll like Isle of Dogs. It's got everything we've come to expect from the director, who has basically created a genre named after himself. The film is full of his signature symmetrical shots; his stunning&nb...

This week, a piece written by Alfie Bown, author of The PlayStation Dreamworld, was published in The Guardian. The core argument of the piece was that video games inherently, and particularly recently, project far-right tendencies onto play...

The highly publicized meeting between President Trump and the video games industry is set to take place on March 8, according to a White House news briefing. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) will be participating in this meeting...

[Update: It seems this meeting is being sprung on the video game community. According to a statement sent to Kotaku, the ESA and its member companies have received no invitation to meet with the President.] When Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin...

Robert Nardolillo III, a member of the Rhode Island State House, has proposed a new bill that would put a tax on the sale of all "violent video games." The goal of this bill is to funnel any extra funds into a separate pool to be used for p...