It’s October 4. That means the Persona fandom is crying and everyone else is going about a regular Friday. You’re planning your weekend activities. Some of us might hang out with friends we couldn’t see during the work week. Others might be looking to rot in their bed for two days to recover from the unending… Read more... View the full article
I shared the image above with some co-workers at Kotaku and asked them what game they thought it was. The most popular answer was Call of Duty. And that’s totally fair. It looks like a new Call of Duty game, maybe a mobile port of one. But nope. The screenshot above is from Fortnite. Read more... View the full article
I finished Overwatch 2’s season 12 battle pass last night. There are only 11 days left in this season and it’s easily the longest it’s taken me to work my way through the hero shooter’s daily challenges to unlock all the skins, emotes, and voice lines Blizzard offered in these past nine weeks. As I finished the battle… Read more... View the full article
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdomfinally makes the titular princess the playable star of the show. After a short prologue as Link, players leave the Hero of Time behind for a completely new type of Zelda adventure. However, one player recently discovered there’s a way to keep playing as Link, and the glitch… Read more... View the full article
This month’s offerings for Xbox Game Pass subscribers is a veritable feast of good games. Baseball fans can ***** into MLB The Show 24 just in time for playoff season, action fans can revisit 2022’s martial arts game Sifu, or you could enjoy some spooky vibes in card-based roguelike Inscryption. One title that might… Read more... View the full article
For the last few years, the video game industry has seemed obsessed with building always-online live-service multiplayer experiences. And many of those live games, like Concord, have ******* to find much success. Now a new survey reveals that might be because most folks prefer playing single-player games. Read more... View the full article
Throne and Liberty is a feature-rich MMO with potentially hundreds of hours of content and character progression to enjoy. So if you’re the type of person who gets a kick out of running dungeons, farming for loot, and beating down other folks in PVP, this massive Steam hit may just be right up your alley. But since it… Read more... View the full article
Writer and game designer Yuji Horii is largely considered the father of Dragon Quest, the long-time Final Fantasy rival up until Square Soft and Enix merged in 2003. So when he says something about the franchise, fans take note. And that’s what happened recently when he weighed in on a very small but very charged… Read more... View the full article
***** Rising, at its core, is a game about chopping up hordes of the undead. If you’ve made your way through the main story of the recent remake—***** Rising Deluxe Remaster—and now need to slay more armies of grisly enemies, we’ve got you covered. Read more... View the full article
I’ll admit that when it was first confirmed that Bloober Team was remaking Silent Hill 2, I laughed and shook my head. Bloober has a spotty track record with scary games, Silent Hill 2 is one of the most beloved horror games ever made, and Konami has done a horrible job supporting the franchise over the last decade.… Read more... View the full article
October is here and with it brings the sudden urge to revel in all things spooky. Thankfully, 2023’s deck-building visual novel The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood exists. The indie is an exceptional story about a coven of witches on the precipice of their own demise and is filled with beautiful character designs and… Read more... View the full article
It’s been five years since Todd Phillips’ Joker gave us a bleak, ultra-realistic take on the iconic comic book villain. Set in a seedy 1980s version of Gotham, Joker’s nihilism touched on contemporary issues such as political divides, wealth disparity, and social isolation, which only intensified after the covid… Read more... View the full article
Shooter/hack-and-slash game Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is popping off right now, and if you’re only just now getting into the franchise, it has a lot of history and games to sift through. It’s easy to get overwhelmed jumping into something that already has dozens of entries by the time you’ve arrived, but… Read more... View the full article
Let’s not even pretend: Frostpunk 2 is an extremely challenging game, one that will test even the most veteran strategy and city-building fans. But if you really consider yourself a masochist, you can always up the challenge by playing the game on ‘Captain’ difficulty—something the studio recommends you do if you’ve… Read more... View the full article
Director Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker seemingly hit the box office at just the right time, weaving between the late Trump years and the breakout of the global pandemic and cashing in on post-Avengers: Endgame MCU exhaustion. This time around, nothing seems to be going Joker: Folie à Deux’s way. Also, based on early… Read more... View the full article
After multiple delays and name changes, Throne and Liberty has finally been released, offering us a new MMO in a time of drought. The genre has waned in popularity, and can often seem overshadowed by more standard live service titles, but Throne and Liberty aims to shake things up with creative class design, gorgeous… Read more... View the full article
Star Wars Outlaws is in a bit of a pickle. Ubisoft’s model of making games that are too big to fail means the severe flaws in its seemingly guaranteed hit combining the open-world scope and mechanics the developer has made its bread and butter in recent years with Star Wars have left the publisher in trouble.… Read more... View the full article
I think I’m realizing that I’m a jacket guy. I’ve always loved layers, and love when it gets cooler in NYC so I can unearth my outerwear, but the spate of cool video game jackets recently has solidified that I’m a ***** for some good ol’ fashioned outerwear. I really want the Disco Elysium jacket, for example, and one… Read more... View the full article
Magic: The Gathering has come under a lot of ***** from long-time fans in recent years following the ********** in licensed sets featuring everything from Transformers to The Lord of the Rings. Contrary to those critics, the card game’s head designer says “a quick buck” is not the driving principle behind decisions like… Read more... View the full article
The release of a new Final Fantasy is always a massive event. Last year, PS5 owners were treated to the latest mainline entry in the iconic series of role-playing games from Square Enix, Final Fantasy XVI, and now PC players are finally getting in on the action. FF16—and its two expansions—finally released on Steam on… Read more... View the full article
It felt like Shattered Space might finally bring space RPG Starfield closer to the original promise of its sprawling NASA-punk space adventure. Instead, the new expansion is getting slammed even ******* than the base game by early players, and seems set to potentially end up being one of the worst-reviewed Bethesda… Read more... View the full article
Long-time fans of the Kingdom Hearts franchise eat up any glimpse of information or drip of merch about the game, salivating at the opportunity to spend just a little more money on the series. But who can blame them when you have exclusive skateboard decks from Amiami that are as gorgeous as these two? Read more... View the full article
McDonald’s Chicken Big Mac has been a well-liked menu item around the globe for a few years now. And, later this month, the large chicken sandwich will finally be available in the ******* States. Read more... View the full article
I’ve never played ***** Cells, but I’ve heard about it from ***** near every corner of the internet over the years. The revered roguelike and Metroidvania platformer is one of the runaway success stories of the late 2010s indie space, and it’s only continued to grow in status over the years thanks to the support that Mot… Read more... View the full article
Jumping into Space Marine 2 multiplayer can be a bit of a shock. You’re no longer the unstoppable ******** machine that you play as in the main campaign! Instead, you’re thrown into lobbies with people of all skills, and half the battle is finding the best loadout and class that works for you. To make it all a far… Read more... View the full article
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It’s October 4. That means the Persona fandom is crying and everyone else is going about a regular Friday. You’re planning your weekend activities. Some of us might hang out with friends we couldn’t see during the work week. Others might be looking to rot in their bed for two days to recover from the unending… Read more... View the full article