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Harold Halibut: The Kotaku Review
15.4.2024
As I play through the sci-fi adventure that is Harold Halibut, I am often reminded of walking through an aquarium. It’s partially because the game’s gorgeous environments are submerged in, but it’s also because I feel a childlike frustration at the events unfolding in front of me. Like a...
Get Five Of 2023's Best Indie Games At Nearly 50 Percent Off
18.3.2024
This year’s Steam Spring sale only has a few days left until it ends on March 21. We’ve already done a roundup highlighting 12 of the best games you can get for cheap during the annual sale, ranging from 2023’s big AAA tentpoles, to some older hidden gems that are worth grabbing. But one of...
The New Division Game Has A Feature Every Game Should Steal
20.11.2023
Ubisoft’s new The Division game isn’t even out yet, as it’s still in beta testing and won’t launch officially until 2024. But after trying the beta, I already want one feature from the upcoming game to become standard in every video game I play in the future. Read more
Sony Patent Could Make Reliving Your Fave Gaming Moments Easier
13.11.2023
Often, games have all sorts of memorable moments scattered throughout that we may want to replay for whatever reason, be they thrilling cutscenes or spectacular gameplay setpieces. However, depending on a game’s save system, accessing these moments again can be a massive chore. However, Sony...
Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics
22.8.2023
Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, with the studio having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And Remedy seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer for the horror game...
Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics
22.8.2023
Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, with the studio having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And Remedy seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer for the horror game...
The Last Of Us Part I Reviews Praise The Visuals, But The Misery Porn Remains
1.9.2022
Well, here we are. The Last of Us Part I, the re-remake of 2013’s legendary PS3 title of the same name (minus the “Part” bit) has arrived after plenty of skepticism and a chorus of gamers and critics alike asking: Do we need this (again)?Read more
Someone Spent Six Years Remastering An Unreleased Warcraft Game
5.8.2022
Years ago, a never-officially-released Warcraft point-and-click adventure game developed by Blizzard in the late ‘90s was leaked online. While the game was completely playable back then, its cutscenes were low-quality, highly compressed, not perfectly synced to the audio, and a few were even just...
KOTOR 2 Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
1.7.2022
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish. Read more
A Cyberpunk Game That's Blade Runner Meets Groundhog Day
13.5.2022
Loopmancer is what would happen if a cyberpunk Sleeping Dogs was made into a Groundhog Day-esque roguelite. Read more
The Stranger of Paradise Demo Is Unapologetically Cringe, And I Love It
12.3.2022
Since its announcement during E3 2021, Team Ninja’s Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin has been a hotbed for shitposts and memes. These memes primarily involve out-of-context scenes of protagonist Jack Garland’s music tastes and his unbridled obsession with killing “Chaos”. Read more
Clipping Out Of Halo Infinite’s First Level Requires Luck, A Grapple, And One Plasma Coil
11.1.2022
Players have already discovered a bunch of unintentional, wacky, and physics-breaking antics since the launch of Halo Infinite, and a new vid shows that with the help of a fusion coil, the grapple hook, and some good old-fashioned no-clipping, you can launch yourself right out of the massive...
Final Fantasy XVI Delayed By Almost Six Months Due To Covid-19
27.12.2021
The original plan was for Square Enix to make a big year-end announcement regarding Final Fantasy XVI. That’s not going to happen, and the game has been delayed by at least half a year. “When we last spoke, I promised I would have more information on Final Fantasy XVI sometime later in 2021,” wrote...
This Lightning-Fast Action Game Is Like A Cyberpunk Tomb Raider With Warframe's Swordplay
22.11.2021
Bright Memory Infinite is an ambitious first-person shooter action game that fuses the futuristic samurai combat of something like Warframe with the epic adventure and platforming of games like Tomb Raider. But while FYQD-Studio’s game is an improvement upon its 2020 build, Bright Memory, there...
Age Of Empires IV's Fancy Cutscenes Are A Wonder
2.11.2021
I’ve been playing the new Age of Empires IV this week, and for all the good work that has been done in bringing a classic game into a modern era, the best thing about it are the bits that happen while you’re not even playing.Read more
Halo: Reach Fans Spent Decade Trying To Save Doomed Character
1.7.2021
A group of Halo glitch hunters have figured out a way to save one of the doomed members of Halo: Reach’s Noble Team.Read more
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
11.6.2021
This weekend is about watching press conferences from the likes of Ubisoft, Microsoft, Bethesda Softworks, and other soft companies. Between the cracks we game like the mighty ninja, swift and silent-ish. Read more
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
No One Warned Me About Hitman 2’s Cutscenes
10.4.2021
Over the past few months, I, late to the party, have fallen head over heels for the new Hitman trilogy. Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to, including several Kotaku colleagues, have said Hitman 2 is the best of the three, or at least the one I should play first. They did not mention how jarring...
How To Skip Monster Hunter Rise’s Pesky ‘Quest Complete’ Cutscenes
6.4.2021
Once you get comfortable with the basics of Monster Hunter Rise, the real game of grinding out rare materials for high-level equipment can finally begin. While one would normally need to wait through a cutscene every time they finish a mission, a simple trick allows players to skip this brief...