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All 15 Games Featured In Secret Level
21.8.2024
Even after reports of the animated series surfaced last week, one of the most surprising announcements at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live was Secret Level. This 15-episode anthological animated series focuses on different video game properties, and is coming to Amazon on December 10. Deadpool...
It Sure Looks Like Keanu Reeves Is Starring In An Armored Core Short Film For Amazon
20.8.2024
Earlier this month, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series full of shorts based on video games like Spelunky and Mega Man, called Secret Level. Now we’ve gotten our first look at the teaser trailer for the series, and it certainly looks like there’s a short based on Armored Core...
Armored Core VI Isn't The End Of The Beloved Mech Series
23.5.2024
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubiconis incredible. But despite some glowing reviews and high praise from the very dedicated and very particular fanbase, it feels like the mech shooter’s revival didn’t quite make the larger splash some had hoped for. Not to worry, though: Elden Ring director...
2023's Best Video Game Villain Isn't Who You Think
25.12.2023
Mech pilots have feelings, too. Armored Core VI is a game about blowing up everything in sight with a smorgasbord of overpowered weapons. But it’s also a game about vain, self-righteous men who think it’s their God-given right to take over a planet. While you only know them as codenames, characters...
Major Patch Nerfs Armored Core VI’s Most OP Guns
6.10.2023
It was only a matter of time, I suppose. Everyone’s favorite broken Armored Core VI build is no more. FromSoftware released a new update for the mech shooter that makes its beloved Zimmerman shotguns less godlike. 621’s days of skating around Rubicon smashing and staggering everything in sight with...
Armored Core VI’s New Game Plus Mode Is A Must-Play
6.9.2023
It can feel good to put the controller down at the end of Armored Core VI, comforted by the knowledge that you survived its most brutal skill check bosses and learned to configure your complex mech for whatever new hazard Rubicon threw your way. It would be a mistake not to pick it back up again...
Armored Core VI’s New Game Plus Mode Is A Must-Play
6.9.2023
It can feel good to put the controller down at the end of Armored Core VI, comforted by the knowledge that you survived its most brutal skill check bosses and learned to configure your complex mech for whatever new hazard Rubicon threw your way. It would be a mistake not to pick it back up again...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Welcome September
1.9.2023
It’s a new month, and it’s also officially T-minus five days until that big game everyone’s gonna be playing comes out (see what I did there?). With Bethesda’s latest mega-game looming in the very near future, why not take advantage of this weekend to get some time in with a few other games...
Armored Core VI’s Fastest Money Farm Is A Rookie Pilot Murder Spree
31.8.2023
A key aspect of Armored Core VI is earning cash to unlock new guns and mech parts. Once you complete a mission you can replay it as much as you want for extra pay, and players have now found one of the fastest money farms in the entire game: brutally murdering a rookie test pilot in under a minute...
Armored Core VI: How Does It Run On Steam Deck?
31.8.2023
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon launched on August 25, and folks have been loving it. If you haven’t yet taken it for a spin, know that satisfying, explosive combat, gorgeous visuals, and the thrill of building your very own mech to go out and earn some money for corporations is yours to have....
Armored Core VI, As Told By Steam Reviews
30.8.2023
Armored Core VI is the first game in the long-running mech action series to get a PC release, and in its first weekend became the second most-played FromSoftware game ever on Steam at launch. Critics raved about it and fans have been elated to see the series finally return, but what are the Steam...
You Should Give This Armored Core-Like Switch Game Another Look
30.8.2023
FromSoftware’s Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon might be one of the most beautiful and exhilarating mech games to have come out in years, but it’s not the only one you could be playing right now. Because a few years ago, the Nintendo Switch got Daemon X Machina, a spiritual successor to the then...
Armored Core VI Player Beats Every Boss With Just His Fists
29.8.2023
Armored Core VI is hard enough if you’re playing it the right way, but have you considered trying to beat every boss without guns, laser swords, or rocket launchers? That’s what Twitch streamer ZeroLenny just did in what he’s billed as one of his least-fun stunt runs ever: He managed to beat...
Dark Souls’ Moonlight Greatsword Returns In Armored Core VI
28.8.2023
The Sword of Moonlight has been in most FromSoftware games since 1994’s first-person fantasy RPG, King’s Field. It appeared in Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and even last year’s Elden Ring. Now it’s back in Armored Core VI, and it’s as fun and powerful to wield as ever.Read more
Armored Core Is So Back And It's Awesome
28.8.2023
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon marks the cult-favorite mech series’ long-awaited return after a 10-year hiatus, and it’s been incredible to watch so far. The community is alive and well, trading broken builds and sexy emblem designs, and new players are having their confidence checked by...
Someone Has Already Modded GTA’s CJ Into Armored Core VI
25.8.2023
It’s become tradition over the last few years for modders to import Carl Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into different video games. And with FromSoftware’s latest game, Armored Core VI, it didn’t take long for someone to add CJ. In fact, it happened in less than 24 hours. Read more
Plus: Armored Core 6 mechs its way to a big hit
25.8.2023
Now that's a Steam debut from, uh, From. Also: lots of other neat charts!
How To Beat Armored Core VI’s Super-Hard Chapter One Boss Fight
25.8.2023
Armored Core VI is tough but it’s not impossible. In some ways it’s a lot more approachable and forgiving than the Soulsborne games FromSoftware is best known for. A couple of the boss fights absolutely wrecked me though, and Balteus was one of them. Read more
13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Armored Core VI
24.8.2023
I loved Armored Core VI. I also died a ton. A couple boss battles lasted me multiple nights. But in my 45 hours with the game I’ve learned a lot and now things aren’t so brutal.Read more
Armored Core VI: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2023
IIt’s 3:30 a.m., my palms are sweaty, my heart is pounding, and a small mech riding on a tank blows me up for the 11th time. The rubber nubs on my controller’s thumbsticks had started rubbing off long ago, but now they’re completely decimated. The PS5 DualSense was not built for this. Armored Core...