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You Can Grab Most Of The Famously Irreverent Yakuza Games For About $30
6.9.2024
Before they became turn-based RPGs led by the world’s goofiest man, the Like a Dragon series—then known in the west as Yakuza—comprised about 6 mainline titles that followed the hardships of Kazuma Kiryu, gaming’s greatest yakuza and dad. Following him since his earliest days in the life...
Astro Bot Countdown Celebration Is A Reminder That The PS5 Comes With An Amazing Free Game
6.9.2024
Long gone are the days of standing outside a GameStop at midnight waiting for the official release of a new Halo or Final Fantasy. But Team Asobi brought the festive vibes back with a launch party for its newest game, inside of an older one. Read more
Netflix's Terminator Zero Anime Is A Welcome Departure From The Franchise's Uninspired Sameness
5.9.2024
Like the Alien franchise, the Terminator series has been stuck in a rut since its early days, with its subsequent projects failing to recapture the greatness of its first two films. While Netflix’s original anime spin-off, Terminator Zero, doesn’t entirely shake the uncanny sameness of...
9 Games To Grab During Epic Games Store’s End-Of-Summer Sale
5.9.2024
Alright, I’ve mourned summer enough, please bring on the fall weather and everything that accompanies it. Well, almost everything. The neat thing about summer is that it’s prime time for deals on video games,, and this narrow window between the end of summer vacation and the actual beginning...
Astro Bot: The Kotaku Review
5.9.2024
I cried at the end of Astro Bot. I recognize this isn’t indicative of much beyond my sentimentality, but I thought it was a crucial tidbit to underscore something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is, more than anything else, a celebration of...
Every Question You Have About Shadow The Hedgehog, Answered
4.9.2024
If you’re not a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, you might be wondering why the internet is losing its collective mind about Keanu Reeves’ Shadow the Hedgehog in the trailer for the third live-action movie, premiering on December 20. You may also be confused as to why Sega would dedicate an entire year...
10 Crucial Tips To Get The Most Out Of Visions Of Mana
4.9.2024
Visions of Mana is one of the cutest RPGs Square Enix has ever created, but it houses some fascinating secrets underneath its cheerful surface. I’m not talking about its story, though you will see some dark turns before your journey in Fa’diel ends. Instead I mean that underneath the bright...
Get The Star Wars Jedi Games For Cheap If Outlaws Has Left You Wanting More
4.9.2024
Star Wars Outlaws has been out for just about a week now, and I’m sure lots of folks are still poring over the details of its various worlds and wrapping up quests in Kay Vess’ adventure. However, if that game has left you wanting a more typical lightsaber-swinging odyssey across the stars,...
That New Castlevania DS Collection Includes A Terrific Bonus Game
4.9.2024
Last week saw the surprise release of Castlevania Dominus Collection, a great compilation that (finally!) gives us a way to play the series’ three Nintendo DS releases on modern hardware. Castlevania fans have their strong opinions on which of these are the best, but the fact that Dawn of Sorrow...
11 Of The Best Games At PAX West 2024
3.9.2024
PAX West continues to be one of North America’s most prolific gaming conventions. It’s not only a great place for the gaming community to gather and celebrate our favorite pastime, but also an excellent opportunity to check out the upcoming slate of games coming this year and early in 2025. Coming...
9 Out-Of-This-World Games To Grab During Steam’s Big Space Sale
3.9.2024
Steam sales, your wallet’s final frontier, a chance to boldly add more games to your cart than any man has before. Sure the huge summer sale has already passed but the PC gaming storefront is always running some new event offering amazing deals on equally amazing games. This time around the savings...
The First Sonic Movie Is Now On Netflix And Way Better Than You Think
3.9.2024
If you didn’t see the first live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, you still have plenty of time to rectify that before the third movie starring Keanu Reeves as the blue blur’s rival Shadow Sonic the Hedgehog 3 premieres on December 20. The 2020 film is mostly fine and pales in comparison to...
This Murder Mystery Is A Must-Play For Die-Hard Adventure Game Fans
3.9.2024
It’s 1913 and young Nancy Maple, an amateur geologist, travels from Toronto to the remote Canadian town of Crimson to investigate the discovery of a large diamond. However, things are more perilous than they initially seem, and before long our plucky heroine finds herself investigating an apparent...
Nintendo Just Dropped A Bunch Of New Details About Mario & Luigi: Brothership
3.9.2024
The weird drip-feed of information about Nintendo’s fall Switch line-up continues with a bunch of new details and combat trailers for Mario & Luigi: Brothership. The latest entry in the long-running RPG-lite adventure series will have the titular plumbers exploring a new set of islands and using...
Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece
2.9.2024
I was staring at a wall. It was an early mission in Ubisoft’s latest behemothic RPG, Star Wars Outlaws, in which I was charged with infiltrating an Empire base to recover some information from a computer, and this wall really caught my attention.Read more
Nintendo Officially Declares Breath Of The Wild To Be Outside Of The Zelda Series' Timeline
2.9.2024
It’s official: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom don’t fit on any previous Legend of Zelda timeline. As revealed by Nintendo this weekend, the two open-world games that bookended the Switch’s lifespan stand alone in their own version of reality. Which means all that time you spent trying...
Capcom Just Made Its Disastrous Mobile Resident Evil Games Even Worse
2.9.2024
Capcom’s ambition to bring some of its big-hitting AAA games to mobile devices is certainly to be applauded. It’s a bold ambition, to see Resident Evil 7 on a tablet. So it’s a shame the project has been pretty disastrous, the games barely shifting any copies. And Capcom’s reaction? Make it...
We're Begging You To Play Visions Of Mana, And Here's Every Reason Why
1.9.2024
From Black Myth: Wukong and Star Wars Outlaws to Dustborn and Madden NFL 25, we reviewed a lot of games last month. But perhaps no title left us feeling more satisfied and accomplished than Visions of Mana, the first new mainline entry in Square Enix’s Mana series in over 15 years. Though August...
Pick Up This Outstanding, Delightfully Weird Shooter On Sale
30.8.2024
Last year, Remedy released the survival horror title Alan Wake 2, a sequel effectively 13 years in the making and the next step in the studio’s universe of connected games. Among them is Control, a brilliant and utterly weird third-person shooter focusing on the character Jesse Faden and...
An Astro Bot Sequel May Already Be In The Works
30.8.2024
As far as games, September looks to be just as fruitful as August, with the month that was owned by Black Myth: Wukong and Star Wars Outlaws being followed by yet another hyped release in Astro Bot. And for those who can’t resist looking even further ahead, you may be in for a treat. It seems Team...