Welcome to the 250th edition of Indie-Penance Day! Running annually on Kotaku since 1776, each year we celebrate the emancipation of indie games from the tyrannical publishers that once ruled the land ...

“Honestly, AI slop [pull requests] are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers,” Verschelde ...

Microsoft's Xbox has canceled its deal with IO Interactive to develop the "Project Fantasy" game. Hideo Kojima’s "OD" is still in the works.

AI and vibe-coding have fueled a massive surge in mobile game releases, but the top 1% of publishers still control the vast ...

Those coming from the world of TypeScript or Java initially think of classes, interfaces, and generics when they hear “types.

It's a well-known fact that video games, especially big-budget productions, can take years of development time before they're ready for the spotlight. That is, unless we're talking about Valve's PC ...

Python’s lead narrows again, C holds the runner-up spot, C++ returns to third, and SQL climbs back above R in June’s top 10 ...

David Ellison has been moving pieces around the board in reshaping the new Paramount Skydance over the past year. But one key division remained out of play in his master media plan — until now. On ...

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck is a writer for Collider. He grew up creating lists, stories, and worlds, which led to his love of anime and video games. He attended Sheridan College where he earned an Honours ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...