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Pokémon 151 Is Beautiful, But Pull Rates Are Rough
21.9.2023
Pokémon 151 is surely the most anticipated set of the long-running Pokémon Trading Card Game in years. Featuring the original 151 Kanto Pokémon, united into one single set for the first time ever, it’s finally out on September 22. With some of the most beautiful cards we’ve ever seen in the live...
Modern Warfare III Lets You Kill Opponents With Weed
21.9.2023
Activison Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III multiplayer, out worldwide on November 10, apparently lets you murder people with marijuana. The detail was revealed in the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s decision summary for marking the first-person shooter as “mature,” and it seems...
Meet The Early Lies Of P Mini-Boss That’s Terrifying Players
21.9.2023
Lies of P, the punishing Soulslike about Pinocchio looking for his dad Geppetto, has plenty of tough enemies waiting to meet you. They’re all terrifying, ranging from a poison-imbued slug beast to a dude who literally thinks he’s God, but there’s one mini-boss who sucks so much I can’t wait to meet...
13 More Things We Just Learned About Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
21.9.2023
A giant batch of new Final Fantasy VII Rebirth interviews and previews just dropped to kickoff Tokyo Game Show 2023 and the sequel is sounding more promising than ever. Here’s everything we’re learning from Square Enix’s latest marketing bonanza around the upcoming timed PlayStation...
QVC Deal Will Let You Buy Mortal Kombat 1, Diablo IV, And Other New Games For $40
20.9.2023
Mortal Kombat 1 has only been out for a few days. Diablo IV is barely a few months old. And Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are Nintendo games, so they rarely go on sale. But right now on QVC—yes, that old shopping network—you can get any of these games for $40 thanks to...
All-Digital Xbox Leak Reignites Game Preservation Fears
20.9.2023
In some ways it feels like Microsoft has never quite recovered from its disastrous rollout of the Xbox One. A decade later, it has new studios, better consoles, and tons of great games, but the shadow of its big, out-of-touch bet on an all-digital Xbox with an expensive Kinect add-on still lingers....
Save Cyberpunk’s Phantom Liberty DLC Until After The Main Game
20.9.2023
Next week sees the long-awaited launch of Phantom Liberty, CD Projekt Red’s one and only expansion for the controversial and divisive Cyberpunk 2077. If you’ve got an existing save game, you can jump into the expansion as long as you’ve complete the main game’s Voodoo Boys questline.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 - Phantom Liberty: The Kotaku Review
20.9.2023
Even as Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion tells a new, mostly standalone story, there are multiple points throughout when V, the protagonist of CD Projekt Red’s long-troubled RPG, reflects on the job that got them into this mess: the heist on Konpeki Plaza. While Cyberpunk 2077 and...
Your September-October Xbox Game Pass Offerings Await
19.9.2023
Microsoft has announced the next crop of games you can snatch up on Xbox Game Pass for the rest of September and the early parts of October. The offerings are pretty lowkey, but there’s some cool stuff to download right now.Read more
Starfield: Afflictions And Environmental Damage Explained
19.9.2023
Space can be a rough place for soft-bodied adventurers. Ya got limbs to worry about, not to mention afflictions like hypothermia from being out in the cold too much. But Starfield isn’t the best at letting you know how these things work, forcing an adventurer such as yourself to go digging through...
Mortal Kombat 1 Fans Can’t Stand Megan Fox’s Nitara Voice Acting
19.9.2023
Transformers actress Megan Fox provided her likeness and her voice for Nitara—a Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance vampiress reintroduced in NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 1 reboot released September 19—but fans can’t take it seriously. Though NetherRealm blessed Nitara with incredible combos, none...
Wild Starfield Exploit Can Net You 9 Million Credits In An Hour
19.9.2023
Are you broke in Starfield? Would 9 million credits showing up in your pocket in just an hour change your spacefaring life? Well, one player has found a bug that will help you get rich quick by glitching through walls.Read more
The Crew Motorfest Is A Wackier, More Frustrating Forza Horizon
15.9.2023
The Crew is a weird franchise. The first game was focused on a story involving car gangs and criminals. The second game kept the map from the first—a scaled-down recreation of the United States—but ditched the narrative and focused on exploration and adding more types of vehicles to operate....
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - The Teal Mask: The Kotaku Review
14.9.2023
I’ve put over 120 hours into last November’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and I think at some point between then and now, I must have mentally suppressed just how poorly these open-world Switch games run. Either that, or their first DLC, The Teal Mask, is somehow worse at holding itself together...
Starfield’s Photo Mode Is Deeply Satisfying
14.9.2023
As the daughter of a photographer, I developed a love for the artform from a young age. But despite taking an inspiring film photography class in college and having access to great photo equipment, I rarely have time to pursue this interest. And though I’ve rarely used the “photo mode” features...
Starfield Contains A Magic Mud Puddle That Will Make You Rich
13.9.2023
Do you need more money in Starfield? Well, you have plenty of options. You could go out and complete quests, sell expensive items, or use the game’s impressive physics to steal a bucket full of credits without getting in trouble. But an even easier option exists: Just stick your digital hands into...
Starfield’s Fast Travel Cheapens Space’s Impact
13.9.2023
Starfield is a massive game. With hundreds of planets and solar systems to probe, Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG tasks you with traveling from galaxy to galaxy. Unfortunately, for all the space exploration the game has you doing, doing this by fast traveling amounts to a series of loading screens that...
Starfield Settings For A More Immersive Experience
11.9.2023
Starfield doesn’t have a whole lot of in-game options to mess with, but that doesn’t mean you can’t tweak the game to be a bit more immersive. After playing a number of hours, I’ve discovered a few ways to make that big ‘ol galaxy feel a bit more spacious and help you feel like the game’s simulated...
Don’t Skip Starfield’s Star Trek-Esque Quest
8.9.2023
Starfield is packed with many sights to see, secrets to uncover, factions to join, junk to pick up, and, most importantly: quests. One of the best side quests discovered thus far involves a ship full of some unlucky people stranded in a planet’s orbit. Fortunately (or unfortunately), you’ve arrived...
Starfield Isn’t The Future Of Video Games, And That’s Okay
8.9.2023
In the months (nay, years) leading up to Starfield’s September 6 release, the hype for the Bethesda RPG grew and grew until it was a heretofore unseen beast, a giant Kaiju of expectation that threatened to take down Sony, upend 2023’s GOTY race, and suck up all of gamers’ precious free time.Read...