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EA Explains Why Fans Aren’t Getting The Sims 5
4.8.2025
Also Nintendo warns users to avoid melting their Switch 2 in the summer heat, and a Dynasty Warriors remaster is on the way
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Five Essential Tips For Tackling Dynasty Warriors: Origins' Ultimate Difficulty
24.6.2025
The Ultimate Warrior difficulty is the very core of Dynasty Warriors: Origins’s post game, and conquering it requires revamping the way you approach virtually every battle. No longer can you systematically take down every enemy base before you totally overwhelm the map’s boss with your massive...
Five Tips To Level Up Fast In Dynasty Warriors: Origins
14.4.2025
Dynasty Warriors: Origins is nothing if not a power fantasy. Fighting thousands of grunts at once is fun in and of itself, but soaking up loads of skill points and experience points to unlock consistently stronger abilities makes the game hard to put down. That said, while Origins isn’t necessarily...
5 Secrets You Don't Want To Miss In Dynasty Warriors: Origins
12.3.2025
Dynasty Warriors: Origins is, all told, a pretty straightforward game. Talk to some guys on the overworld map, get into a battle, fight all the soldiers and capture all the bases, rinse and repeat until the game is done. Even the postgame lays a clear path forward for those who want to see and...
What To Snag In Steam's Big Sale, How To Get Started In Dynasty Warriors: Origins, And More Of The Week's Tips
25.1.2025
This week’s hodgepodge of gaming tips, helpful info, and other stuff kicks off with a look at the best deals in Steam’s first big sale of the year. We also have a look at Xbox Game Pass’s strong assortment of new additions to close out the month, a recommendation for the best way to learn Disney...
5 Essential Tips To Start Your Dynasty Warriors: Origins Campaign
21.1.2025
Dynasty Warriors: Origins is a classic Musou game through and through, featuring high-energy rock music, and legions of grunts to cut down as easily as blades of grass. That said, Origins is far from a by-the-books Dynasty Warriors game. The shift to a central main character in lieu of a huge...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Dynasty Warriors: Origins' Length, Branching Story Paths, And Postgame Content
21.1.2025
If there’s one thing the Dynasty Warriors series is known for, it’s watching one person battle literally thousands of soldiers and somehow come out the victor. But if there’s a second thing the series is known for, it’s the insane amount of challenges to overcome in order to achieve 100-percent...
December's Cant-Miss Game Releases, Amazon's Free Games For Prime Members, And More Holiday Season Tips
8.12.2024
This week, holiday sales and giveaways are in full swing, and we’ve got the lowdown on all the games Amazon is giving away to Prime subscribers, the best games to pick up in PlayStation’s 30th Anniversary sale, and more.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About The Dynasty Warriors Origins Demo
3.12.2024
Ahead of the January 16 release of Dynasty Warriors Origins, Koei Tecmo has launched a demo of the upcoming Musou on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The enormously prolific Dynasty Warriors series has entered a somewhat experimental phase since 2013’s Dynasty Warriors 8, as Dynasty...
‘Warriors’ Games Rule, And That’s A Hill I’ll Totally Die On
31.8.2023
Musou games—the large-scale hack-and-slash games typified by series like Dynasty Warriors—often get a bad wrap, with detractors arguing that they’re just monotonous power fantasies lacking in depth. While there’s some truth to that, such a reductive reading misses the point behind games in this...
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Reviews Say It’s Not For Everyone
21.6.2022
The embargo just lifted on Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, the musou-based follow-up to Nintendo’s critically acclaimed strategy game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Most reviewers seem to agree that Three Hopes is a worthwhile successor to Three Houses, though many seemed to burn out on...
Fire Emblem Warriors Was Brilliant Actually: A Defense Of Musou
13.4.2022
Every time Nintendo puts out news about Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, I brace myself for a wave of anti-musou sentiment on Twitter. Just search “Fire Emblem” and “musou,” and you’ll see Twitter grousing about how Three Houses’ sequel would be so much better if it wasn’t a musou. As someone...
Sega And Koei Tecmo Donate To Humanitarian Efforts In Ukraine
9.3.2022
Earlier this week, Kotaku reported that Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft and Epic Games suspended Russian sales in the wake of the country’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Now, Japanese companies Sega and Koei Tecmo are doing their part in helping the Ukrainian people, by donating money to...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Getting A Musou Spin-Off
9.2.2022
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is coming back, this time as the frenetic hack-and-slash game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. The Musou-style game arrives on Nintendo Switch on June 24, 2022.Read more
Live-Action Dynasty Warriors Movie Is Hack-And-Slash Brought To Life
9.3.2021
Koei Tecmo’s popular Dynasty Warriors series is getting a live-action cinematic version. It looks wild.Read more
How Persona 5 Strikers Did (And Didn’t) Steal Our Hearts
3.3.2021
At long last, the Phantom Thieves ride again as Persona 5 Strikers—the Atlus RPG turned Koei Tecmo hack and slash—is out in North America. I’m a big Persona 5 nerd and I’ve been anxiously waiting for fellow nerd Luke Plunkett to get far enough into the game that I could finally have someone with...
Persona 5 Strikers: The Kotaku Review
13.2.2021
It’s now or it’s never, and I’ve got toMake my decisionThis time it could be my momentIs this a mirage or a chance to fulfill my mission?Read more
Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time
3.12.2020
Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that...