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Trump Declared 47th US President, JPMorgan CEO Claims World War III Has Begun, and More — Week in Review
10.11.2024
Trump declared 47th US president, JPMorgan CEO claims World War III has begun, Global Dollar Network launches, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Donald Trump has been declared the 47th U.S. president. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns that World War III may have started, citing...
The PS5 Pro Sure Is Cool, But Who's It Really For?
6.11.2024
In September, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro and its $700 price tag. Immediately the reaction from folks online was negative. Many were confused by the high price point and weren’t convinced by Sony’s initial videos that the upgrades to games like Spider-Man 2 were worth it. After playing...
I'm Having A Fun Time With Metal Slug Tactics Even If I Can't Read A Damn Thing
6.11.2024
Metal Slug Tactics isn’t what I was expecting. Fortunately, that’s not a bad thing. Instead of Final Fantasy Tactics, it’s Into the Breach with some clever twists that help infuse it with some of the classic arcade series’ run-and-gun roots. I’m having a fun time with it so far, even if it has some...
Hideo Kojima Thinks People Are Wrong About Joker 2 And Will Realize It Decades Later
4.11.2024
Hideo Kojima, the man who created and directed cinematic games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Death Stranding, has taken to Twitter to do what so many film nerds love to do: Write about 200-ish words on social media about a movie they recently saw. According to the acclaimed director, people are going...
We Looked Inside The Box Of The PS5 Pro, Sony's Most Expensive Console In Years
4.11.2024
Sony’s PS5 Pro, a $700 mid-gen upgrade of the PlayStation 5, launches later this week. And ahead of its official launch, Sony has sent over a PS5 Pro for us to play with and poke at. And while I can’t say anything (yet) about how games play or look on the new console, I can at least walk...
Mario & Luigi Returns After Nearly A Decade But Not To Universal Acclaim
4.11.2024
2024 might end up being the last year of the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan before it’s replaced by something else. Yet looking at the console’s constant stream of new releases you wouldn’t realize that. In a year that already saw wonderfully charming titles like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom...
Like A Dragon: Yakuza Is A Confused, Sometimes Visionary Mess
4.11.2024
Amazon MGM’s Like A Dragon: Yakuza has the unenviable task of taking RGG Studio’s beloved Yakuza video game series and translating it into prestige television. The Yakuza games are as much studies of bizarre secondary characters and unlikely encounters as they are narrative-driven crime stories....
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Launch Week Went Pretty Much The Way We Imagined It Would
3.11.2024
It took 10 years to get here, but we finally have Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the fourth entry in BioWare’s beloved (but divisive) fantasy RPG series. The sequel is a direct continuation of 2014's Inquisition, and it’s made the full shift to action RPG. Your mileage may vary on that, but I loved...
Ripple CEO Loses Bank Account, Russia’s New Crypto Law, and More — Week in Review
3.11.2024
Ripple CEO loses his long-term bank account, Russia publishes new crypto law, BRICS payment system aims to be a SWIFT substitute, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Ripple’s CEO recently disclosed the closure of his 25-year-old bank account, citing his leadership role in a crypto firm...
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure: The Kotaku Review
30.10.2024
2015’s Life Is Strange was about a high-schooler, the supernaturally gifted Max Caulfield, but its power resided in something deeper than its protagonist’s youth and the setting of Blackwell Academy. I think that, for many of the millions of players it resonated with, Life Is Strange spoke to those...
I Hate Call Of Duty’s Launcher So Much
29.10.2024
A few years ago, my best friends convinced me to play Call of Duty: Warzone, the series’ battle royale installment that had shot up the charts. While I was aware of it for work reasons, I’d largely sworn off the franchise about a decade prior, returning for brief stints and forays into the Black...
Here's Why You Should Make Action-RPG Ys X: Nordics Your First Ys Game
29.10.2024
Ys X: Nordics marks the tenth mainline game in the beloved action-RPG franchise, extraordinarily now in its 37th year. Originally released in Japan in September 2023, Ys X now at last has a worldwide English-language release. And yet, despite all this, you’ve never played a Ys game! Let us convince...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard: The Kotaku Review
28.10.2024
I admit, I’d grown cynical. Dragon Age has a well-established penchant for swapping out protagonists with each new game, and for treating one entry’s be-all, end-all conflicts as little more than narrative springboards that can largely be cast aside in the next. However, with 2014’s Inquisition,...
Kiyosaki’s Inflation Advice, AI Bitcoin Price Forecast, and More — Week in Review
27.10.2024
Get the biggest stories of the week all in one place, including Kiyosaki’s advice for surviving inflation, AI forecasts for BTC’s price post U.S. election, and more. Top Stories This Week: Kiyosaki’s Survival Tips, AI Bitcoin Forecasts, and BRICS’ Dollar Dependence...
2023’s Best Narrative Game Just Got Even Better
24.10.2024
When I play a smaller game that really has an effect on me, I’m usually cool with not getting more of it. The advantage of artful, smaller-scope projects is that they can concisely say what they need to say without being beholden to all the forever-game nonsense that infects the AAA space. However...
New Quiet Place Game Is Short, Scary, And A Perfect Halloween Treat
22.10.2024
2018’s A Quiet Place film kicked off the ongoing horror franchise that is all about deadly alien monsters invading Earth and hunting down anything that makes too much noise, forcing humanity to be very quiet at all times or die. I’ve never seen the movies, so I wasn’t sure if I’d enjoy the...
I Would Like To Join The Penguin’s Sofia Falcone-Led Mob
21.10.2024
It seems impossible, but HBO’s excellent The Batman spin-off series, The Penguin, keeps getting better. Last week, we watched Cristin Milioti put on a masterclass as Sofia Falcone, learning how the scorned woman went from mafia princess to Arkham inmate to de facto head of the Falcone crime family...
Sonic X Shadow Generations: The Kotaku Review
21.10.2024
People will no doubt call Sonic X Shadow Generations a “love letter” or “tribute” to Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic’s brooding rival who debuted back in 2001’s Sonic Adventure 2. But as a person who grew up seeing the black-and-red hedgehog as the emotional center of the franchise, it feels more like...
Kiyosaki Predicts Crash, BRICS Slashes USD and EUR Transactions, and More — Week in Review
20.10.2024
Robert Kiyosaki predicts a major market crash, suggesting bitcoin could briefly drop to $5,000 before surging to over $100,000. BRICS countries continue to shift away from the U.S. dollar and euro, with 65% of transactions now conducted in local currencies. The AI-generated meme coin, GOAT, saw...
Tekken 8 Will Give Every Player $5 Amid DLC Controversy And Steam Review Bombing
17.10.2024
The Tekken 8 community has been on fire this month after players learned a new stage coming to the acclaimed fighting game wouldn’t be included in the $110 Deluxe version they purchased at launch. Instead, the DLC level would be sold separately for $5. A Steam review bombing campaign ensued,...