Play it on: Android Current goal: Stop myself Google Play Pass is really good, as it turns out. Apple may fund developers to make games only for its horrid closed system, but Google seems to have gotten into the habit of noticing what’s popular and just sticking it into their …
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Here’s What You Can Expect From Google In 2025: 10 Points
In the mail, Sundar Pichai said the company launched its latest AI model Gemini 2.0 late last year as well as its quantum computing chip Willow, ending 2024 on a high. There was also innovation, he said, across Search, YouTube and more. “As we start the year, I have been …
Read More »January’s Can’t-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week’s Top Stories
Image: Nintendo / Jump Over the Age / Yellow Brick Games / Kotaku, Apple / Kotaku, Arrowhead Game Studios, Rocksteady Studios, Nintendo / Kotaku, Game Science, Screenshot: AIHASTO, TES Renewal Project, TrampolineTales, Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, …
Read More »Google Tries To Ban Game That Inspired Balatro Over Nonexistent Gambling Gameplay
Screenshot: TrampolineTales Before Balatro there was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real or virtual. …
Read More »Every Official ‘Kotaku Review’ Of 2024
Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re …
Read More »Google CEO Pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: ‘The stakes are high’
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last week that “the stakes are high” for 2025, as the company faces increased competition …
Read More »Google Slashes 10% Of Managerial Staff In Hunt For ‘Googleyness’: Report
New Delhi: Google has laid off 10 per cent of its managerial staff as part of a long-running campaign to increase efficiency by double that number. Multiple news reports said CEO Sundar Pichai, in an all-hands meeting Wednesday, indicated the cuts will come at the manager, director, and vice president …
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