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Bungie's First Shooter Since Destiny Resurrects An Outstanding Classic Series
26.5.2023
Well folks, Marathon is coming back. What do you mean you don’t know what that is? It’s only Bungie’s seminal series of first-person shooters everyone was playing on their Power Macintoshes and Pippins in the 1990s. Where even were you? It’s why Steve Jobs was so elated to first announce Halo...
Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker Trolled By Game Awards Show Crasher
5.5.2023
Matan Even, the trolly kid who stealthed his way onto The Game Awards stage last December to shout out former U.S. president Bill Clinton, is back. This time, though, he crashed socialist Twitch streamer Hasan “Hasanabi” Piker’s May 4 livestream at the WGA writers’ strike picket line in Hollywood...
Every FromSoftware Soulslike Ranked From Worst To Best
31.3.2023
I usually think “Soulslike” is a loaded term; FromSoftware’s legendarily grim and difficult 2011 role-playing game Dark Souls inspired a crowd of similarly grim, difficult games, but I don’t think any of those imitators can compare to the regal original. Except, maybe, FromSoftware’s other games...
Elden Ring Director Turns To Escape From Tarkov For Inspiration
1.3.2023
It seems that Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki and I share an affinity for the same kind of game: Extraction shooters. (I always knew he had good taste). In a recent interview, the award-winning director said that he was a fan of none other than Escape From Tarkov and, more importantly, that...
15+ Epic Games To Play After The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
3.2.2023
So you’ve played, or re-played, the epic fantasy saga that is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its two critically acclaimed expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Now you’re on the hunt for your next fantasy epic, but which to choose? Read more
Kotaku's Top 10 Games of 2022
30.12.2022
I was warned of how heated Kotaku’s GOTY arguments traditionally get when I first started here in November, so I was a little nervous when I was put in charge of organizing and tabulating our list of the best games of the year. Read more
Game Awards Photoshops Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech
22.12.2022
The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second...
What To Expect From Armored Core VI, The Next Game From Elden Ring Devs
12.12.2022
Elden Ring studio FromSoftware is pivoting from demigods to giant mechs in Armored Core VI, and warning fans not to expect the cult-classic sci-fi franchise to go all “Soulsborne” on them. Instead, a new IGN interview with FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki and game director Masaru Yamamura...
Kid Sneaks Onto Game Awards To Nominate Bill Clinton, Is Arrested
9.12.2022
Yes, you heard that right. At the tail end of the 2022 Game Awards, right after the developers of FromSoftware collected their Game of the Year award for Elden Ring, a youth popped out from the shadows to nominate former president Bill Clinton (?). Shortly after, host Geoff Keighley announced...
300 Tries Later, A Twitch Streamer Bodied 7 Souls Games Completely Unscathed
17.11.2022
So, there’s this thing in the FromSoftware community called the “God Run.” It’s a challenge run where you play through the studio’s various Soulsborne games without getting hit. It’s difficult, but not impossible. Two of them have been completed by other streamers already. And now, a third God...
Elden Ring Gets Massive Combat Overhaul As It Makes Way For DLC
13.10.2022
Another major update is shaking up the world of Elden Ring, and this time FromSoftware is calibrating the changes differently depending on whether you’re playing the main game or dunking on strangers in PVP. That addresses a longtime request by fans to balance the two sides of the game separately...
The Pinocchio Action Game Is A Love Letter To FromSoftware, Not A Bloodborne Clone
31.8.2022
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