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R.I.P. Julian LeFay, The Father Of The Elder Scrolls
23.7.2025
Julian LeFay, known as the Father of The Elder Scrolls, died yesterday at 59. The developer best known for his early work on Bethesda’s seminal fantasy series was most recently part OnceLost Games, a studio he co-founded to develop open-world action RPG The Wayward Realms. It was announced last...
New Awesome-Looking Fallout Shooter Is Actually A Fan-Made Doom Mod
22.7.2025
The big new reveal trailer for Fallout: Bakersfield makes it look so awesome, you might come away thinking it’s an official new boomer shooter from Bethesda set in its popular post-apocalyptic universe. But nope, this upcoming standalone game, built in a modern version of the classic Doom engine...
Pokémon is Updating Its Iconic 'It's Super Effective' Line For The First Time Ever
22.7.2025
If you’ve ever played a Pokémon game, you’ve probably heard the phrase “It’s Super Effective!” at least once in your life. It’s used to communicate to the player that an attack has struck an opponent’s elemental weakness. So if my Raichu brings down the Thunder on a water-type Pokemon, the text...
Somebody Give Charlie Cox A PS5
22.7.2025
Charlie Cox, the man behind the Daredevil mask and the voice of Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has admitted he doesn’t know much about the RPG. He spent about four hours recording his lines, and that was that. He even said he feels like a “total fraud” being asked about Sandfall...
Everything We Saw At Today's Pokémon Presents Showcase
22.7.2025
It’s time for another Pokémon Presents, the twice-a-year presentation The Pokémon Company puts on to tell the world about some of the projects it has in the works. This is usually where we get a bunch of updates on live-service games like Pokémon Unite, TCG Pocket, and Go, as well as a more...
Ori Developer Not Prioritizing Xbox For Its New Action-RPG Soulslike's Console Launch
21.7.2025
No Rest for the Wicked came to Early Access last year and some fans are patiently waiting for it to finally hit console. The head of developer Moon Studios recently told fans the action-RPG Soulslike will likely come to PlayStation 5 first. Xbox, where the studio’s critically-acclaimed Ori games...
Duchovní otec slavné RPG série kvůli rakovině končí s herním vývojem
21.7.2025
Stál za vznikem série The Elder Scrolls a už nějakou dobu připravuje svůj návrat na herní scénu s novým titulem. Bývalý vývojář z Bethesdy však nyní musí zanechat řemesla, jelikož zřejmě prohrává boj s rakovinou
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Great Games We Can't Wait To Get Back To
18.7.2025
Hey ya’ll! Here we are at the end of yet another weekend on this little blue ball circling a vast fiery orb of death. I’m particularly sensitive to that orb because I chose not to buy a new air conditioner this summer. Brilliant, I know. Read more
The New RoboCop Game Is A Fun But Shallow Spin-Off
17.7.2025
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business is a newly released standalone expansion to 2023's surprisingly excellent and charming RoboCop: Rogue City. And while this new RoboCop game is built on the foundation of Rogue City, it lacks a lot of what made the first game so compelling. Still, it is...
This Short And Sweet RPG Spins Up A Beautiful Deckbuilding Melody
17.7.2025
Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson is the kind of genre-blending mismatch that’s just crazy enough to work. A turn-based deck-building rhythm game clearly made by musicians with a care for the craft scratches an itch for me that a lot of more straightforward rhythm games don’t. Like Hi-Fi Rush before...
Some Of The New Mega Evolution Pokémon Cards May Have Leaked And Look Incredible
17.7.2025
The Pokémon Company announced back in February that Mega Evolutions, the super-powered form changes introduced in Pokémon X and Y, are coming to the Trading Card Game this year. Now, we know these Pokémon are the stars of one of the next card sets launching in September, simply titled Mega...
Avowed Is The Latest Big Game To Stretch The Definition Of 'Verified' On Steam Deck
17.7.2025
Obsidian’s gorgeous fantasy RPG Avowed just got a new patch, promising the usual list of bug fixes and some new features. The game is also now “Verified” for Steam Deck. What’s it like in a portable form factor? Well, it certainly boots up. It’s certainly playable, hitting a semi-decent 30 FPS that...
The Second-Best Deus Ex Is Stupid Cheap (And DRM-Free), But Hurry
15.7.2025
We may never get another Deus Ex game featuring Elias Toufexis’ lovely voice as Adam Jensen again, but right now you can snag Human Revolution, the debut of our sunglass-wearing badass cyborg, for less than five bucks and, since it’s on GOG, there’s no DRM, meaning you can back up copies of...
Cyberpunk 2077's New Patch May Fix One Of The Game's Biggest Annoyances Five Years Later
15.7.2025
CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m...
Two Years Later, Starfield Still Hasn't Given Me A Reason To Care
15.7.2025
Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I’ve heard of the game’s singular expansion since its 2023 release–from...
After Two Decades, One Of The Stars Of Kingdom Hearts Is Finally Playing The Games
15.7.2025
The original Kingdom Hearts came to the PlayStation 2 in 2002 when David Gallagher was 17 years old. The actor, now 40, has played deuteragonist and noted “sexy guy” who “the gamer girls” go crazy for, Riku, for more than half his lifetime, but somehow hasn’t ever played the Disney RPGs. Gallagher...
A Creepy, Lore-Breaking Door In The Oblivion Remaster Has Finally Been Fixed
15.7.2025
The latest Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch makes a lot of changes and tweaks, but one very interesting and important change involving a lore-breaking door wasn’t listed in the lengthy patch notes published earlier this month. Read more
PS Plus Is Losing One Of The All-Time Best RPGs, And A Damned Great Action-Adventure
15.7.2025
Like a subscription service for werewolves, PS Plus has begun its monthly changes, with new games arriving from today, July 15, and others flagged as leaving from next month. Heading for the exit in August, among others, is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but already having stepped in to replace it is...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Sweet Games We’re Beating Back The Summer Heat With
11.7.2025
After yet another week of just the most ridiculous temperatures and humidity levels (particularly here in New York City), we arrive at, well, probably another two days of ridiculous temperatures. But who knows? Right now there’s a nice breeze drifting in; it says 80 on my phone, a full 15 degrees...
One Of 2025's Best Games May Have Saved Its Company From Going Under
11.7.2025
Before Too Kyo Games released The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, the tactical RPG/visual novel hybrid that is, in my opinion, secretly one of the dark horses for 2025 Game of the Year, co-creative director Kazutaka Kodaka had been pretty candid in saying that the studio needed the game to...