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Visions Of Mana Is A 30-Hour RPG You Can Make Last Twice As Long
29.8.2024
Square Enix’s Visions of Mana is an RPG, and if there’s one thing we know about RPGs, it’s that they tend to be long. If you’re looking to get the most entertainment per minute for your dollar, this is great news. For others, the thought of tackling days-long epics might inspire unadulterated...
Black Myth: Wukong's Latest Patch Makes One Boss Much Easier
29.8.2024
If you’ve been hitting a wall in Black Myth: Wukong due to the endless annoyance of Captain Wise-Voice, then the latest patch is here to save you. On top of a slew of general fixes to the action-RPG for both PC and PlayStation 5 players, the recently released patch 1.08.14860 gives the Yaoguai King...
Breakthrough Gaming: How To Get Started With Action-RPG Series Ys
29.8.2024
When a game franchise has been running for nearly four decades, no matter how much it may look like something you’d enjoy, it can often feel impenetrable. Where should you begin? At the very beginning? With the most recent? The latest remake? It’s too easy to give up and walk away. But don’t...
CDPR Starting The Witcher 4 Production Any Moment Now
29.8.2024
Yesterday, August 28, saw CD Projekt hold their latest earnings call, which might not sound exciting but has led to a number of updates on the game developer’s upcoming projects. While Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ fans are already happy with the news that the company wants more animation projects like...
6 Cool Moments From Four Hours Of Metaphor: ReFantazio
28.8.2024
I recently got the chance to play four hours of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the fantasy RPG from the minds behind the Persona series. I came away really enthralled by its world and how it seems to be toying with the barriers of fantasy and reality. I was less thrilled with how Atlus attempted to distance...
Four Hours With Metaphor: ReFantazio: A Promising Game That Atlus Should Let Speak For Itself
28.8.2024
One of the most confounding things about video games is how they often tell stories that are clearly meant to be real-world allegories rather than escapist fantasies, but are still often framed as such by the companies that make them. After playing four hours of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming...
Everything Shown At Today’s Joint Nintendo Direct And Indie World Showcase
27.8.2024
Today, August 27, Nintendo treated fans to a double whammy of news during the joint Nintendo Direct and Indie World presentations. If you didn’t catch the showcases live as they happened or you just can’t be bothered to sit through the whole thing yourself, then don’t worry, we’ve got you covered....
Visions Of Mana: The Kotaku Review
27.8.2024
There’s no outfit in gaming with a stronger history of telling tales about picking fights with God than Square Enix. Literally or metaphorically, from Final Fantasy Legend/SaGa and Star Ocean to Xenogears and even some Final Fantasies, a foundational narrative in which our heroes push back against...
Obsidian’s Blockbuster Avowed Feels Like The Perfect Combination Of First-Person And Classic RPG
26.8.2024
The thing is, Avowed just feels right.Read more
Valve Quietly Announces Super-Secret Hero Shooter Deadlock Months After People Started Playing It
26.8.2024
Deadlock is official. The multiplayer shooter that thousands of players have been testing on Steam but not been allowed to talk about now has its own store page that’s mostly full of information about how the game could drastically change at any moment. Read more
14 Things We Noticed In Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Combat Showcase
24.8.2024
BioWare put out a 10-minute showcase video breaking down Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s action-based combat. Most of what we’ve seen of the RPG thus far has been in the early game, so we still didn’t have a strong grasp of what high-level encounters look like. There have been a lot of questions...
Indiana Jones Looks Thrilling, Tactical Breach Wizards Is Brilliant, And More Of The Week's Opinions
24.8.2024
This week, Gamescom gave us fresh looks at Starfield’s upcoming Shattered Space DLC as well as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. We’ll tell you all about what we thought of those. We also have hands-on impressions for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, speak to the folks behind Dying Light: The Beast...
Every Big Announcement From Gamescom, Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
24.8.2024
This week, one of the three events each year in which we’re routinely graced with the presence of Geoff Keighley took place, with Gamescom Opening Night Live kicking off the week-long convention in Cologne, Germany. A host of World Premiere trailers and other announcements came out of that...
Every Kotaku Black Myth: Wukong Guide From The Game's First Week
24.8.2024
In a week that included a Geoff Keighley-led showcase and dozens of announcements, the most talked-about topic in games was Black Myth: Wukong, the Chinese action-RPG that earned a mixed Kotaku review for at times undermining its own epic ambitions. As those ambitions have awed some players...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games We Can't Wait To Get Back To
23.8.2024
The summer is winding down, the days are starting to grow shorter, and there’s a new chill in the air at night. It’s the perfect time to catch up on some older games ahead of the September onslaught that kicks off with Star Wars Outlaws’ launch next week. Read more
Madden NFL 25: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2024
Madden needs a year off. Read more
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Finally Telling Us More About Its Companions In A Cool Way
23.8.2024
BioWare changed the name of Dragon Age: The Veilguard from Dreadwolf in order to better reflect that the RPG is about its cast of heroes, rather than about Solas, the elven trickster god at its center. But even so, we still don’t know a ton about the party we’ll journey alongside when the game...
There's A World Of Warcraft VR Ride And It's Incredible
22.8.2024
Wandering the vast acres of Microsoft’s hilariously named “booth” at this year’s Gamescom, there were many sights to behold. A vast Space Marine towers over the crowds of journalists, next to an enormous flag-strewn faux-stone hut that houses half-hourly showings of Obsidian’s upcoming RPG Avowed....
All 15 Games Featured In Secret Level
21.8.2024
Even after reports of the animated series surfaced last week, one of the most surprising announcements at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live was Secret Level. This 15-episode anthological animated series focuses on different video game properties, and is coming to Amazon on December 10. Deadpool...
Three Hours With Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Has Me Thinking It Might Be A Great Immersive RPG
21.8.2024
There’s a fine line between medieval gameplay that’s historically accurate and medieval gameplay that’s fun. The overall reception to Kingdom Come: Deliverance indicates Warhorse Studios struck that balance well in 2018, but as noted in Kotaku’s review, plenty could be improved. After playing (the...