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Next Game From Mass Effect Director Cancelled As Studio Shuts Down
25.11.2024
In 2021, former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced a new studio called Humanoid Origin. It was working on a sci-fi blockbuster and hiring for an ambitious future. On Monday, however, the studio announced it was shutting down just a few years later, having failed to acquire the funding...
The Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominees And More Of The Week's Top Takes
24.11.2024
This week, perhaps nothing sparked more discussion than the announcement of the 2024 Game Awards nominees. We weighed in ourselves with a breakdown of the seven biggest surprises in what got nominated, and what didn’t. Also this week, both Sony and Microsoft announced new forays into game...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gets New Photo Mode Options And A Bunch Of Bug Fixes In Latest Patch
21.11.2024
If you’ve been enjoying the return of Dragon Age with The Veilguard, there are some cool quality of life changes and bug fixes in the latest patch that went live on November 21, 2024. I’ll break them down below to let you know what you’re getting into.Read more
Making Rook The Hero Of The Next Dragon Age Could Fix The Series' Biggest Problem
21.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a lot to live up to. Its predecessor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, launched in 2014 and left the series on a devastating cliffhanger, a cliffhanger that went unresolved as developer BioWare went through 10 years of development hell and internal reboots, before ultimately...
Fans Found A Workaround For One Of The Most Frustrating Things In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
21.11.2024
One of the reasons it took me so long to start a second playthrough of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is that recreating the Inquisitor, the protagonist of 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, is a painstaking process. I loved making an older version of my Inquisition hero the first time I played through...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Nearly Brought Back Another Hero Alongside The Inquisitor
20.11.2024
Reading the official Dragon Age: The Veilguard art book is kind of maddening, honestly. I adored the fourth game in BioWare’s fantasy RPG franchise despite my many, many issues with the series going in but each time I look at the art book, which is full of concepts that didn’t make it into...
The Game Awards Should Happen After The Year Is Over, Like Every Other Award Show
20.11.2024
In case you missed it, the nominees for the 10th annual Game Awards, set to air on December 12, have been announced. Some frontrunners were predictably nominated in multiple categories, such as Astro Bot and Metaphor: ReFantazio, which scored seven and six nominations, respectively. But there were...
Kicking Enemies Is So Much Fun In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
18.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a big, epic RPG about the destruction of the world and dealing with your past. It’s a game featuring a large cast of flawed people trying to come together to stop someone who thinks they are doing the right thing, but which will kill many. But who cares about all that?...
Some Games Like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Actually Look Worse On PS5 Pro
18.11.2024
The PlayStation 5 Pro has been out in the wild for over a week now, and while it offers impressive improvements on many existing games, there are also some for which it seems to introduce new issues that make things look worse. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the Silent Hill 2 remake are just a couple...
BioWare Clarifies Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Secret Ending As Misinterpretations Spread Online
15.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s ending is one of the best segments in the game if not the whole series. But its secret ending, one you unlock by doing specific side quests and finding certain artifacts throughout the world, is a bit more controversial. After fans unlocked the scene in question, some...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Hardest Choice Has Fans Scouring For A Way Out
13.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a game about choice and consequence. One of the decisions that has the most immediate impact happens at the beginning of the game’s final quest. The effect this decision has on the remainder of the game and, presumably, any future Dragon Age games, has devastated fans...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Final Mission Starts With A Big Decision, Here Are The Consequences
11.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a lot of choices for you to make, especially surrounding its seven companions. But one of the most significant happens in the game’s final stretch and involves the dwarven rogue Harding and Grey Warden warrior Davrin. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely encountered...
For No Particular Reason, We Suggested You Slay Nazis In Wolfenstein This Week
10.11.2024
Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but a lot happened this past week. Some of it may or may not have been newsworthy. Nevertheless, to get you through, we’ve kept you abreast of all the tips, deals, and reviews your nihilistic heart could desire. This includes articles on the perfectly cathartic...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Stats Reveal Most Players' Choices Are Basic
8.11.2024
My favorite part about talking to other people who play choice-based RPGs is comparing choices. Whether it’s about the characters we make or the ways we nudge the story, I am always down to hear how people are playing games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We’re just a week out from launch, so a...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Got Mass Effect Armor For N7 Day, Here’s Where To Find It
7.11.2024
It’s N7 Day, the annual Mass Effect holiday in which BioWare gestures at the next game while fans have a field day with merch and fan art. But this year, the team just put out another game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard and doesn’t want to steal the game’s thunder with a bunch of teases for a game...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Party Nearly Had An Unlikely Inquisition Villain
6.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has an excellent cast of characters, almost all of which are new to the series. However, it looks like there were once plans for a few characters from previous games to appear as party members. And now that fans know this, they’re in their feelings.Read more
‘You Already Have Everything You Need’
6.11.2024
It’s a rough Wednesday, but you probably don’t need me to tell you that. If, somehow, you’re learning this through Kotaku and not anywhere else, convicted felon Donald J. Trump is projected to win the 2024 presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris. As a queer person in America, it’s...
Dragon Age Has Always Been Gay As Hell
5.11.2024
It’s nearly impossible to talk about Dragon Age: The Veilguard on certain sectors of social media without being overrun by people who have a vested interest in seeing the game fail. There are plenty of criticisms to levy at the fourth entry to BioWare’s fantasy RPG series, such as its lack...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s First Patch Will Fix One Of The Game’s Biggest Problems
5.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting its first patch this week, and friends, this is about to fix one of the worst things about the latest entry in BioWare’s fantasy RPG series. The studio hasn’t released full patch notes, but it has confirmed the update will address a bug that broke my heart as...
This Bug Nearly Ruined Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Excellent Finale For Me
4.11.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is probably BioWare’s most polished game. The RPG looks great, runs exceptionally well, and I had a pretty good, mostly bugless experience in my first playthrough. However, during the review period, I experienced a devastating glitch that almost ruined what was otherwise...