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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gosh, wasn't the big reveal trailer for EA Sport's new next-gen engine Ignite exciting? To think, that's how sports games will be on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4! Ah. Well. Not quite. As you may ...

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 ...