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Redfall’s Single-Player Is No Prey Or Dishonored
9.5.2023
At this point, saying Redfall ain’t that great of a time is hardly a new or hot take. But, to be fair, it kind of felt like the stakes were out for developer Arkane’s co-op infected immersive sim even before its release. So is our collective disappointment just a self-fulfilling prophecy? Are...
Fortnite Is Adding Cyborgs To The Rocky Universe
28.2.2023
The first Rocky film was released way back in 1976. It was a gritty, well-written, and heartfelt movie about a down-on-his-luck boxer given one last chance to make a name for himself. Decades later, Creed was released as a spin-off for that franchise, and it kept the same gritty tone...
Studio Behind Megan And The Purge Also Making Horror Games Now
21.2.2023
Announced earlier today, Blumhouse—the Hollywood production company behind hit horror films like Megan and Get Out—is launching its own video game studio led by some game dev vets. The new studio, like its parent company, will focus on scary games with smaller budgets.Read more
Genshin Impact Characters As Valentine Dates, Ranked
7.2.2023
As the local Genshin Impact scholar at Kotaku, it is my solemn responsibility to compile a list of most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes on this most sacred Feast of Saint Valentine. Read more
Season: A Letter To The Future - The Kotaku Review
3.2.2023
Season: A Letter to the Future is the disappointing evidence that beauty is only skin and texture deep. This slow-paced explore ‘em up, in which you must chronicle and journal the end of an era, is rigid-jawed with sincerity, though lacking in anything meaningful to say.Read more
Vampire Survivors Gets Surprise Mobile Release
9.12.2022
Vampire Survivors—which was technically released at the very end of 2021—is on a lot of people’s GOTY shortlists, partly because most people only got around to playing it in 2022, but mostly because it’s very good.Read more
Amouranth Can't Be Your Girlfriend, She's Building An Empire Beyond Twitch
1.9.2022
“This video may be inappropriate for some users,” YouTube warns me after I select a video posted by 28-year-old Texan Kaitlyn Siragusa, who is better known online as the hot tub tsarina of Twitch, Amouranth. Read more
She Beat Elden Ring At Level One With A Single Hand (Yes, Even Malenia)
26.8.2022
Most of us are lucky to say that we survived Elden Ring’s toughest optional bosses, especially the non-stop torrent of them that awaits us at the end of the game. MissMikkaa is built different, though. The Twitch streamer recently blew up on social media because she is the only person who can...
This Steam Chart Topper Is A Perfect Twist On GOTY Contender Vampire Survivors
3.8.2022
Vampire Survivors is a very simple gothic roguelike that snuck onto Steam Early Access at the end of 2021. By the start of this year it had begun blowing up, and the game that lets you “be the bullet hell” has since racked up over 100,000 positive reviews. Now it has a spiritual sibling out called...
So Far, The Dungeons And Dragons Movie Chooses Marvel Over Everything That Makes D&D Great
29.7.2022
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the new Dungeons & Dragons movie looks a lot like a Marvel film. Though I’d argue it has a much more alluring color palette than your standard, often dry, modern comic book adaptation, the latest trailer for the tabletop-based movie otherwise reveals...