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Elden Ring Beta's Most Notorious Jerk Has Chilled Out Now
24.2.2022
Early Elden Ring players were shocked when an NPC in the closed network test called their character a “bit player” who should “die in a ditch somewhere.” His outright and immediate hostility was seen by some as a personification of the Souls-like genre’s brutal difficulty, but I’m here to report...
FromSoftware's Notorious Poison Zones Appear 90 Seconds Into Elden Ring
23.2.2022
Last week, I said FromSoftware was “back on its bullshit” in response to the moody Elden Ring cinematic that introduces the game’s world and major characters. I wish I’d saved that particularly evocative phrase for today’s story instead because, if finding a way to poison the player in less than...
Dying Light 2's Post-Apocalypse Would Be More Fun If It Just Let You Hang Out
21.2.2022
I’ve started Dying Light 2 twice now, once on PC, and once on PS5. Both times I’ve had the same struggle: I don’t want to leave that starting location. A few rotting skeletons aside, it’s perfect—it’s where I want to be in an apocalypse. Screw this guy’s missing sister, she’s probably long dead....
13 Years On, Mirror's Edge Is Still A Masterpiece
21.2.2022
I don’t tend to replay video games very often. The demands of this job mean I’m normally straight onto the next one as soon as the credits roll on the last. But every year I try to find the time to revisit one of my all-time favourites: EA’s Mirror’s Edge.Read more
Halo Infinite’s New Mode Is So Good It Should Be Permanent
20.1.2022
Step aside, Slayer. There’s a new deathmatch in Halo Infinitown: Attrition, a team-based mode wherein teammates share a limited pool of lives. It’s a total blast, an easy way to spice up Halo sessions, and a terrific addition to the first-person shooter’s arguably sparse range of playable...
Sisi Jiang’s Top Ten Games of 2021
29.12.2021
I’m not an accommodating video game critic. A game either sinks its hooks into me within the first hour, or I immediately bounce to something else. I’ve never had any patience for this “it gets good after ten hours” nonsense. A game either understands its own brilliance, or it doesn’t. And only...
The Witcher TV Series Needs A Map
21.12.2021
I’m about halfway through the second season of The Witcher on Netflix, and for the most part I’m loving it. It feels a lot more Witchery than the first season did, and is moving at a refreshingly brisk pace. One thing that’s really bugging me, though, is that series seems to have wildly...
Tencent Buys Up Back 4 Blood Devs Turtle Rock, Its Sixth Studio Purchase In 2021
17.12.2021
Today, one of the largest companies in the world, Tencent, announced it acquired Turtle Rock Studios, the developers behind the recently released zombie shooter Back 4 Blood. The deal is just the latest in a long list of acquisitions over the last few years for the Chinese tech giant, including...
The Top 15 Halo Multiplayer Maps
25.11.2021
By my own rough count, the Halo series has seen some 150 or so multiplayer maps over the course of its two decades. Many of these are good. Some are great. And of course, some are terrible. For this list, I and my fellow Kotaku Halo fans tried to narrow this extensive field down to what we consider...
Elden Ring May Just Reinvent The Open-World Genre
19.11.2021
From Software, as you may already know, has a new game coming out early next year. It’s called Elden Ring, and after spending a few hours with it during last week’s preview, I’m here to say that it’s shaping up to be something really special.Read more
A Simple Hole Killed Tons Of Elden Ring Players
15.11.2021
Among the scores of monsters and traps designed to kill Elden Ring players, an inconspicuous hole in the tutorial area proved to be the deadliest aspect of the game’s preview build.Read more
Back 4 Blood Devs Say The Game Is 'Far More Difficult Than Intended' And Have Plans To Fix It
14.11.2021
No, it’s not just you. Yes, Back 4 Blood is hard, and also, yes, the game is still spawning way too many special infected. Turtle Rock, the devs behind the popular zombie shooter, admitted that Back 4 Blood is currently harder than it intended and has plans to address various issues behind...
Skyrim's New Fishing Mini-Game: The Kotaku Review
13.11.2021
Fishing in video games is tricky to nail. Many games offer such a mechanic, but few actually pull it off. Personally, I can’t even recall a single fishing mini-game I’ve wrung enjoyment out of in the last few years. Pokémon? Tedious, annoying. Fire Emblem: Three Houses? Zzzzz. Hades? The only thing...
The New Tales Of Action-RPG You Probably Don't Know About
12.11.2021
The Tales series returned in flashy fashion this September with Tales of Arise, the 17th mainline title and one that breathed some life into the long-running action-RPG franchise. That’s a proper Tales game, replete with an anime opening and fast gameplay and all the good stuff series fans love....
Zombie akci Back 4 Blood půjde brzy hrát i sólo
9.11.2021
Studio Valve chystalo hru o vesmírných pirátech. Bohužel ji zrušilo
7.11.2021
Na internetu se objevily nákresy kdysi chystané hry Stars of Blood, na které Valve pracovalo před necelými deseti lety. Už jen stručný popis hry zní hodně zajímavě a celkem nás mrzí, že ji firma zrušila
More People Are Playing Left 4 Dead 2 Than Back 4 Blood
1.11.2021
A quick perusal of Steam-tracking sites indicates that players returned to Left 4 Dead 2 in droves following the October 12 launch of spiritual successor Back 4 Blood, so much so that the older game is now more popular than the newer one.Read more
The Art Of Back 4 Blood
26.10.2021
Tonight’s Fine Art is focused entirely on Turtle Rock’s new Back 4 Blood, the studio’s latest attempt to take the formula they almost perfected with Left 4 Dead and, well, perfect it. Read more
Every Far Cry Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
23.10.2021
Way back in 2004 a then-unknown developer called Crytek released the first game in what would become the Far Cry series, wowing players with its impressive visuals and sprawling, outdoor maps. Crytek moved on to creating the Crysis series, Ubisoft bought up Far Cry and continues to make new entries...
The 16 Best Cards In Back 4 Blood
22.10.2021
For the most part, Left 4 Dead 3– wait, no, that’s not what it’s called...for the most part, Back 4 Blood is a first-person shooter about teaming up with your friends to mow down hordes of zombies. But Back 4 Blood flips the script by including a decidedly non-shooting mechanic: a deck-building...