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Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Just Hinted That Players Will Go On An Anime-Style Tournament Arc
31.5.2024
There’s just over a month left until Dawntrail, the next expansion for Square Enix’s hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, releases in early access. Yet we still don’t know too much about the next chapter of the game, beyond it being a kind of summer vacation for players. That mystery is intentional,...
The Legally Distinct Not-Bloodborne Kart Is Out Now And Looks Incredible
31.5.2024
We may never get a sequel to Bloodborne or a PC port, but we do have the next best thing: a PSX-style kart racer inspired by it. Nightmare Kart, which has raced down a long and winding road to get to this point, is finally available and it’s entirely free.Read more
Helldivers 2 Just Can’t Catch A Break Anymore
31.5.2024
Once upon a time, Helldivers 2 was everyone’s favorite game. Players were overjoyed to cosplay as satirized fascists, and the promise of an evolving galactic war story enthralled the masses. Nowadays though, it seems like Helldivers 2’s own community is getting increasingly sick of it and...
Silent Hill 2 Remake’s Character Models Have Fans Divided
31.5.2024
It seems like every time Konami shows off the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, something doesn’t sit right with fans. It started with the game’s announcement when it was revealed Layers of Fear and The Medium developer Bloober Team would be helming the reimaging of the seminal survival horror title...
Here Are The Donald Trump Hush Money Verdicts
30.5.2024
A jury of 12 New Yorkers has finally delivered its verdict in the hush money trial against Donald J. Trump. The 46th President of the United States reportedly popped something small and round into his mouth—a leftover Milk Dud from lunch?—while awaiting his fellow citizens’ decision.Read more
Redfall’s Final Update Revamps The Game As Arkane Austin Devs Bid Farewell
30.5.2024
Earlier this month, it was announced that Arkane Austin, among a number of other Bethesda-owned studios, was being shuttered by Xbox, meaning that the team responsible for vampire-themed loot shooter Redfall wouldn’t be able to continue supporting the game. The developers were reportedly working...
Ex-Bank Robber's New Heist: Scamming Pokémon Card Buyers For Millions
30.5.2024
Pokémon cards and crime are intimately intertwined at this point, as the collectible cards are often wrapped up in robberies and scams due to their high resale value. Some of the stories surrounding Pokémon card sales have reached tragic ends, and the entire subculture of scalping, stealing,...
Guy Who Didn't Make Hockey Playoffs Crashes Ninja's Stream To Talk Smack
30.5.2024
Can you hear that sound—sort of like a brushing, friction-y noise? That’s the sound of me rubbing my hands together with devilish glee as I realize that I can finally write about hockey on Kotaku dot com thanks to Ninja and his latest Twitch stream.Read more
EA Ruined Some Players' It Takes Two Saves So It's Giving Them New Ones
29.5.2024
It Takes Two, the award-winning and pretty dang good co-op game, received an update today making it verified on Steam Deck and removing the need to use the EA App launcher. But that update also killed old cloud saves. EA’s solution for fans who might have lost progress: Download this other save...
MultiVersus Is Back And It's A Big Mess
29.5.2024
After an extended break, MultiVersus—WB Games’ free-to-play online platform fighter starring characters like Batman, Bugs Bunny, and Shaggy—is back. However, while fans were hoping the game’s return would be a triumphant one, the reality is that after its first day back a lot of players aren’t...
$450 League Of Legends Bundle Leaves Players Gobsmacked
29.5.2024
If you play League of Legends and have roughly $450 burning a hole in your pocket then rejoice, then boy does developer Riot Games have the bundles for you. The new cosmetics in question are themed to LoL esports player Lee Sang-hyeok, better known as Faker, and even in a world of ludicrous...
No Man’s Sky’s Just Became A Desolate Space Horror Game
29.5.2024
It’s been about eight years since No Man’s Sky first launched and it continues to get updates that radically transform the game. Its latest update, Adrift, remains ambitious as it drops players into what Hello Games is calling “an abandoned universe” with no shops and no NPCs. You are the only...
Multiversus’ Re-Launch Already Has Its Competitive Fans Upset
28.5.2024
Multiversus, the Warner Bros. crossover platform fighter starring Batman, Shaggy, Arya Stark and more, is out for real this time after going into a year-long hibernation. Now that it’s back and out of beta, the fighting game community is assessing if it could have the longevity of fighting games...
The Final Shape Will Be Destiny 2's Big Moment Of Truth
28.5.2024
Destiny 2 players have conquered a planet-sized computer simulating the multiverse, earned wishes from space dragons, and slayed alien gods. But one of the loot shooter’s most enduring fictions is that its creators had a decade-long master plan to deliver a transformative story and re-shape...
Fans Are So Hungry For Persona 6 They're Excited About A Placeholder Logo
24.5.2024
We’re all waiting with bated breath for news about Persona 6. We’ve been living in Persona 5’s world for nearly a decade, it’s time for Atlus to give us a new story about teenagers summoning demon versions of their inner selves to fight monsters. But right now, all we know about Persona 6 comes...
A New Job Listing Has Given Me Hope For Titanfall 3 Again
24.5.2024
A job listing at Respawn Entertainment, the developer behind Titanfall and the battle-royale spin-off title Apex Legends, is calling for a senior director with “multiplayer FPS experience” to lead a team on a title that’s incredibly early in pre-production right now. It’s no confirmation, but...
Destiny 2 Reveals First Look At Keith David As Commander Zavala
23.5.2024
As Bungie continues to tease out the release of Destiny 2: The Final Shape, it has finally unveiled how Keith David (The Thing, Halo, Mass Effect) will sound when he assumes the mantle of Commander Zavala. Zavala, a key character in the Destiny series, had been played by the beloved actor Lance...
MultiVersus: What Do Returning Players Get?
22.5.2024
One of the biggest questions heading into MultiVersus’ 1.0 launch has been answered. WB Games’ crossover platform fighter dropped in Open Beta in 2022, and the plan at the time seemed to be a smooth transition to a full launch. Instead the game was temporarily shut down, despite having run multiple...
Suicide Squad's Remaining Players Rewarded With Ugly Arkham Skins
22.5.2024
WB Games and Rocksteady’s online supervillain looter-shooter, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, received some new skins ahead of the game’s upcoming season 1 episode 2 update. But the new skins haven’t gone over well with the game’s remaining players who aren’t sure how much longer they...
After Swimming In Gold For Months, Diablo IV Players Are Begging For A Bailout
22.5.2024
When Diablo IV first came out its economy felt hopelessly broken. Incrementally better but mostly worthless gear was incredibly expensive to buy during the main campaign, while gold was so tangential to the end-game grind that players quickly amassed Scrooge McDuck-like fortunes with nothing really...