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We Rounded Up The Worst Parts Of The Very Best Games
24.5.2023
It echoes around the globe, ringing out from self-help books, elementary school bulletin boards, and proclaimed by Hannah Montana herself: “Nobody’s perfect,” not even your most favorite video games. Read more
15 Things We Wish We Knew Before Playing The Resident Evil 4 Remake
30.3.2023
While some of Capcom’s newly released Resident Evil 4 remake is different than it was in 2005, including core and not-so-core (sorry, perverts!) gameplay mechanics, the horror game is still prepared to kick your ass. Read more
Ashley Bardhan's Top 5 Games Of 2022
19.12.2022
I only consider myself a “gamer” in a literal sense—I play video games every year, but only a modest handful of those already familiar to me, like my darling Bloodborne or Super Smash Bros. I started working at Kotaku this year, though, and by demand, 2022 became my most “gamer” year ever, with...
EA Made A LotR Game With A Tiger Woods Engine
6.12.2022
Making video games is very hard. It can take years of work to ship even a small game. One aspect that can take up a particularly large amount of time and resources is building a custom engine, which is why many devs utilize Unreal, Unity, or another pre-existing engine to help speed up development....
Callisto Protocol Devs Rush Out Patches For Busted PC And Xbox Versions, Promise More Updates
5.12.2022
Space survival horror shooter Callisto Protocol has now received two big patches after some versions of it were panned for performance issues at launch, and more fixes are on the way. After releasing the latest update to address frame rate drops and other problems with the Xbox Series X/S edition...
5 Beginner Vampire Survivors Tips To Easily Slay The Gothic Roguelite
31.10.2022
Indie darling roguelite Vampire Survivors, a flaming arrow of pixel monsters and treasure chests, is a little more than a week into its official release, coming out from early access. The game received some tweaks in its final transformation, like balance changes and new achievements. But...
13 Frightening Moments In Games That Live In Our Heads Rent Free
21.10.2022
We’re about a week and some days away from Halloween, my fave holiday, but the spooky season is already in full swing here at Kotaku. While I’ve recently blogged about FromSoftware games—and Bloodborne’s Amygdala—giving me the creeps, I figured I’d expand the scope and round up some of the most...
From Demon’s Souls To Elden Ring: The 9 Scariest FromSoftware Bosses
13.10.2022
FromSoftware has a penchant for creating horrifying enemies in its games. Usually either bloodied, deformed, or both, the developer’s grotesque monsters from Demon’s Souls to Elden Ring perfectly lend themselves to nightmare fuel, designs that almost always scare the shit outta me. They’re also...
Pokemon Scarlet, Violet's Legendaries Are Goddamn Motorcycles, Here's The Open World You'll Explore
3.8.2022
Pokémon fans didn’t have to spend long scouring blurry leaked images for details about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet versions. Today, during a Pokémon Presents livestream, Nintendo showed off a ton of footage for November’s Switch-exclusive tent poles.Read more