Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 animator Mike York shares his thoughts on the recent GTA 6 trailer and hypes up Rockstar Games in the process. It's not so often that we see actual game ...

Pre-rendered graphics weren’t only used in complex cinematic cutscenes back in the day when a game’s own 3D engine couldn’t do the job. Developers also used them as in-game backgrounds to bypass ...

In today’s episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage laments the general lack of pre-rendered cutscenes in today’s video games, a feature many were glad to see die out. Which side of the ...

Game developers have traditionally used pre-rendered video sequences (i.e., passive cutscenes) to help tell the story and enhance the visual presentation of games. However, technology is now making it ...

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Microsoft kicked off E3 yesterday with its game-heavy press conference, and let me say I'm broadly in agreement with my colleague, Sebastian: There were lots of game unveils, including some very ...

Few gaming franchises have a history as weird and convoluted as Duke Nukem. The original side-scrolling games in the series led to the industry-shifting launch of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996. It took more ...

Microsoft kicked off E3 yesterday with its game-heavy press conference, and let me say I'm broadly in agreement with my colleague, Sebastian: There were lots of game unveils, including some very ...