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Stellar Blade: The Kotaku Review
24.4.2024
In many ways, Stellar Blade is awesome. The action is awesome, the soundtrack is awesome, the world is awesome. However, when you peel back the curtain just a bit and peer behind all the flash and style, you find that Shift Up’s character action game can also be quite tedious. It’s a game...
GTA V Trevor Actor Says He Shot Scenes For DLC Before It Was Scrapped
23.4.2024
We previously learned that Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar’s neverending success story that has outsold entire franchises on its own, once had several pieces of single-player DLC in the works. According to previous reports, the studio scrapped planned story mode add-ons in favor of focusing on...
Tomb Raider 3 Update Secretly Nukes Lara Croft Pinups
22.4.2024
Well, this is weird. Pinups of Lara Croft appear to have gone missing in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered following a patch earlier this month to fix a bunch of bugs. Whether intentional or not, some fans are now calling it out as heavy-handed censorship of retro classics.Read more
The Best Zelda-Like This Year Is A Twin-Stick Shooter
22.4.2024
There is a reason why Minishoot’ Adventure has that apostrophe in its name, but it isn’t a good enough one, so we’ll rightly ignore it from now on. But this certainly isn’t a game you should ignore: despite the awful name, this is the best Zelda-like 2024 has offered so far, and it’s also somehow...
Best Settings To Tweak In Stellar Blade’s Demo
16.4.2024
Upcoming action game Stellar Blade is set to launch exclusively on PS5 on April 26, 2024. Developer Shift Up recently released a demo to give us all a taste of what’s expected on release. Thus far, it’s shaping up to be a promising action title with, um, interesting character design choices. Read...
Someone Bought 4,000 Worthless Copies Of Alan Wake
16.4.2024
We’ve all bought a second or maybe even third copy of a game we really, really love. Longtime Kotaku readers know of my obsession with re-buying Resident Evil 4. But I’m not sure there’s a game I love so much that I would buy thousands of copies of it. And there’s definitely not a game out there...
Harold Halibut: The Kotaku Review
15.4.2024
As I play through the sci-fi adventure that is Harold Halibut, I am often reminded of walking through an aquarium. It’s partially because the game’s gorgeous environments are submerged in, but it’s also because I feel a childlike frustration at the events unfolding in front of me. Like a...
I Wish I Could Show You The First Sonic 3 Movie Trailer
11.4.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is one of the films Paramount is showcasing at Cinemacon in Las Vegas right now, and that presentation included a whole trailer of the blue blur fighting his angsty rival Shadow. Unfortunately, as of this writing, none of that footage is available to the public. But we do have...
John Cena Should Be In The Zelda Movie, Actually
11.4.2024
John Cena is probably not teasing a role in the upcoming Legend of Zelda live-action film. But after the wrestler-turned-actor posted a no-context image of Link from the original 1986 NES game on his Instagram, fans immediately started running with the mere suggestion that Cena could appear in...
New Prince of Persia Game From Dead Cells Developer Announced
10.4.2024
Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.The next game in Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia series has been...
Stellar Blade’s Skin Suit Is An Easy Unlock (In The Demo)
9.4.2024
The Stellar Blade demo has been out since March 29, and if you manage to beat it, your save data will carry over to the full game when it launches as a PlayStation 5 exclusive on April 26. One thing I was curious about was the “Skin Suit,” an outfit for protagonist Eve that basically has...
Move Over Luigi, It’s The Year Of Shadow The Hedgehog
9.4.2024
For a little while now, Sonic the Hedgehog fans have known that 2024 is the year of the blue blur’s angsty rival, Shadow the Hedgehog. He’s getting his own story in the Sonic Generations remaster, he’s starring in the third live-action movie premiering in December, and he’s even getting his...
2023’s Indie Fishing Horror Game Is Getting A Film Adaptation
9.4.2024
Dredge, the 2023 indie game that was part fishing sim, part cosmic horror, is getting the adaptation treatment. Developer Black Salt games will be partnering with production company Story Kitchen on a live-action film based on the game’s world. Dredge is just the latest in the ever-growing trend...
Sonic Franchise Producer Wants Films To Enter Their Avengers Era
8.4.2024
With Sonic the Hedgehog leaping from the small screen to the big one and spawning TV series spin-offs devoted to specific characters (looking at you, Knuckles), executive producer Toby Ascher has said the film franchise will grow to Avengers-level proportions.Read more
Report: Life Is Strange Devs Dealt With Toxic Workplace, Crunch
5.4.2024
Life is Strange: True Colors and Before the Storm studio Deck Nine Games is the subject of a massive IGN report whereby current and former employees allege the studio was a toxic place to work, that there was studio-supported crunch, and there were leaders who only made things worse.Read more
Someone Got Red Dead Redemption II (Kind Of) Running On A Phone
5.4.2024
Phones are getting more and more powerful with each passing day, but it’s still impressive to see someone running Red Dead Redemption II or Grand Theft Auto V on a mobile device, even if performance isn’t as good as it would be on a PC or console.Read more
Suicide Squad Hackers Break Game To Play As Unreleased Characters
5.4.2024
It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem. Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters and skins. And publisher WB Games...
Hellblade II Dev Says People Want Shorter Games, And They’re Right
4.4.2024
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is set to follow in its predecessor’s footsteps as a digital-only, shorter experience. Ninja Theory’s follow-up to the 2017 psychological horror action game will run about eight hours and cost only $50 compared to the $70 most AAA games cost on the Xbox Series X/S. If...
Hellblade 2 Previews Say Xbox Might Have A Banger On Its Hands
4.4.2024
We’re a little over a month away from the May 21 release of Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga on Xbox Series X/S, the sequel to Ninja Theory’s 2017 action-adventure game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Ahead of its launch, some sites got the chance to check out Ninja Theory’s sequel via a 45-minute preview...
Canceled ‘Nolanverse’ Batman Game Has Extensive Gameplay Leak
4.4.2024
Back in the early 2010s, Batman was all the rage. Actually, what am I talking about? Batman is still all the rage, but at the time, it was an especially hot property. In the world of video games, Rocksteady’s Arkham series was taking off while Christopher Nolan was rounding the corner on his widely...