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Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown: The Kotaku Review
18.1.2024
I hit a roadblock about three-fourths of the way through Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. There was a frustrating platforming section that required I dash and jump through hazardous obstacles: thorny spinning wheels, spiked pits and walls, falling platforms, and invisible auras that shot...
Po téměř deseti letech od vydání se horor Until Dawn dočká zfilmování
18.1.2024
Povedený herní horor Until Dawn, ve kterém se skupina teenagerů snaží přežít na horské chatě řádění sériového vraha, bude zfilmován. O režii se postará David F. Sandberg, který má na svědomí například dva filmy podle komiksu Shazam!
Rock Band Devs Announce No More DLC, Focusing On Fortnite Now
17.1.2024
Harmonix, the Epic Games-owned studio behind the popular rhythm game franchise Rock Band, has officially announced that it is wrapping up its weekly DLC releases for 2015's Rock Band 4. It will now focus on supporting Fortnite Festival, instead. Read more
Square Enix: Can Y’all Stop Comparing Foamstars and Splatoon?
17.1.2024
Foamstars is the upcoming competitive online shooter from Square Enix that a lot of people and publications (Kotaku included) have referred to as a Splatoon clone or Splatoon-like. Apparently, Square Enix is bored of all of us comparing its foam-shooter with Nintendo’s popular ink-shooter.Read more
That 'Pokémon With Guns' Game Really Wants You To Know It's Not A Scam
17.1.2024
The developers behind PalWorld—which folks online often refer to as “Pokémon with guns”—understand that people might be suspicious of this unorthodox survival game, so they’ve tried to assure folks it’s not a “scam” on Steam.Read more
Everything We Know About Amazon Prime’s Fallout
17.1.2024
An Amazon Prime TV show based on the post-apocalyptic Fallout games was originally announced in 2020. Coming from the creative team behind HBO’s Westworld, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, little more was heard until 2022 when casting and filming information began to trickle through. With the show...
Cloud’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Actor Says Shippers Are Too Damn Horny
17.1.2024
Cody Christian, the voice of Cloud Strife in the Final Fantasy VII Remake, has some bold (but reasonable) feelings on how shippers direct conversations in fandom toward romantic interpretations. Anyone who is even tangentially aware of Final Fantasy VII knows that there’s a decades-long shipping...
Starfield’s Big Update Delayed Because Of A Mysterious Issue
17.1.2024
On January 16, hours before Starfield’s massive update was scheduled to go live in beta form on Steam, developer Bethesda Game Studios announced its delay. The team said it still plans to drop the patch sometime this week, but until it can iron out a newly discovered (and unnamed) issue, we’ll have...
Devs To Toxic Fans: Stop Being Awful, Please
17.1.2024
Cities: Skylines 2 launched on October 24 in a not-so-great state. As a result, the studio behind the game, Colossal Order, received plenty of criticism over its state upon release. However, according to the studio’s CEO Mariina Hallikainen, since Skylines 2’s launch, the devs have noticed...
One FF7 Rebirth Line Changes Everything We Know About Sephiroth
17.1.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth seems poised to dive Buster Sword-first right into stories about the multiverse. And rather than chasing tired trends like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Square Enix’s three-game retelling of FF7 may come closer to one of the most influential comic storylines of the last...
Let’s Clear Up Those Halo Battle Royale Rumors
16.1.2024
Over the January 13-15 holiday weekend, a rumor spread about the cancellation of an untitled and unannounced Halo battle royale, codenamed Project Tatanka. It all started with a few off-hand comments on a January 13 stream of the XboxEra podcast, in which the three hosts (Jon Clarke, Nick Baker...
Speedrunning Dog Didn’t Set Record At AGDQ 2024, Still Good Boy
16.1.2024
On January 16, Peanut Butter became the first dog to ever speedrun a game at Awesome Games Done Quick. And while the Shiba Inu gamer didn’t set a new record today or beat their previous personal best, Peanut Butter is still a very good boy who deserves all the pets and treats.Read more
Xbox Game Pass Is Stacked For The Second Half Of January
16.1.2024
We’re halfway through January—where is the time going?—and Microsoft has revealed the rest of the games you can download this month with your Xbox Game Pass subscription. The crop is good, featuring a dungeon-crawling RPG, a monster collector, a social sim turn-based RPG, and more for your...
Everything We Know About Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
16.1.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second chapter in the highly anticipated remake project of the hallmark 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII is slated to arrive on PS5 on February 29, 2024. Through interviews and trailers, developer Square Enix has shared quite a bit about what folks can expect...
Tomb Raider Remaster Fixes The Worst Thing About The Original Trilogy
16.1.2024
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered will feature some spiffy quality-of-life updates, including the ability to turn on modern controls and health bars for bosses. However, the folks behind the updated collection are being careful to preserve the original games and let fans turn off most of the new tweaks...
Elden Ring Sleuths Think Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC Is Coming Soon
16.1.2024
It’s no secret that fans of FromSoftware are desperate for any news about the developer’s upcoming expansion for 2022’s smash hit, Elden Ring. The team recently made a change to Elden Ring’s backend on Steam, leading folks to believe a Shadow of the Erdtree DLC announcement could be right around...
10 Minutes From The Last Of Us Part II’s Roguelike Mode
16.1.2024
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Ellie And Abby's Best Video Game T-Shirts in TLOU 2's No Return
16.1.2024
In this house, we don’t like to pit two strong women against each other. That includes Ellie and Abby from The Last of Us Part II. Well, except for that part in the game where they are literally pitted against one another, but I digress. In The Last of Us Part II Remastered, both our heroines...
GTA And Alan Wake Devs Are Beefing Over The Letter ‘R’
16.1.2024
Two gaming giants have entered the legal colosseum. GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive has dragged the Alan Wake developer into a trademark dispute over Remedy Entertainment’s new logo design.Read more
The Last of Us Part II Remastered: The Kotaku Review
16.1.2024
The Last of Us Part II came out at the worst possible time. In June 2020, the pandemic was steadily becoming more terrifying, New York was under a curfew, and almost everything was closed or boarded up. The streets were all but empty despite the summer sunshine. I didn’t realize how good a job...