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Black Ops 6 Is So Fast It's Both Frustrating And Fun
3.9.2024
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta weekend is over, but I’m still a little shell-shocked from it. The sixth installment in the long-running Activision sub-franchise is faster than ever before, and full of players who have already gotten the brand-new omnimovement system down to...
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...
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...
You Can Finish Star Wars Outlaws In 15 Hours, But Here's Why You Shouldn't
30.8.2024
If you’re playing an open-world Ubisoft game, you can rest assured it’s going to take some time to complete. So it’s no surprise that Star Wars Outlaws—the very first open-world Star Wars title (no, MMOs don’t count)—is an extremely long game filled with tons to see and do. That goes doubly...
The Remedy Connected Universe May Be Coming To TV And Movies Soon
29.8.2024
You might be seeing the likes of fictional horror writer Alan Wake and super-powered government agent Jesse Faden on the big and small screens sometime soon. Remedy, the developer of the Control and Alan Wake games, just announced a partnership with film and game distributor Annapurna that could...
Space Marine 2's Roadmap Promises New Maps, Missions, And More
27.8.2024
Space Marine 2 is shaping up to quietly be one of the coolest games of 2024 and possibly the best Warhammer 40K game in some time. Ahead of its launch next month, developer Saber Interactive revealed a roadmap promising new weapons, maps, and more at no additional cost. Read more
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
Star Wars Outlaws: The Kotaku Review
26.8.2024
As a big Star Wars fan and video game lover, I’ve long dreamed of a game just like Star Wars Outlaws: a massive open-world action game set in the Star Wars universe that would let me rub shoulders with Jabba the Hutt while freely exploring every inch of a planet like Tatooine. It’s wild that...
The Video Game Sequel To One Of The Best Action Movies Ever Is On Sale For $2
22.8.2024
Hard Boiled, the 1992 film from legendary director John Woo, is probably the best action movie ever made. What you might not know is that it has a sequel, but it isn’t a movie. In 2007, developer Midway and Woo released Stranglehold, an action video game that transfers the director’s signature...
Black Myth: Wukong - behind the numbers on the phenom!
22.8.2024
Also: an in-person look at Gamescom, and lots of discovery news
Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer: 6 Clues Fans Are Talking About
21.8.2024
Gamescom Opening Night Live kicked off with a surprise reveal: Borderlands 4 is real and coming in 2025. It’s been a long wait for the next numbered sequel in the sci-fi looter shooter series, and the teaser confirming the game’s existence didn’t give a clear idea of what to expect from...
It Sure Looks Like Keanu Reeves Is Starring In An Armored Core Short Film For Amazon
20.8.2024
Earlier this month, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series full of shorts based on video games like Spelunky and Mega Man, called Secret Level. Now we’ve gotten our first look at the teaser trailer for the series, and it certainly looks like there’s a short based on Armored Core...
Everything We Saw At Gamescom's Opening Night Live
20.8.2024
It’s time for Gamescom, friendos. Geoff Keighley is back to host another big video game showcase, and this time it’s the Opening Night Live presentation before Gamescom. The German event is taking place from August 21 to 25 in Cologne, but before fans, press, and developers explore the showfloor...
Batman: Arkham Shadow Looks Like The Batman Games You Love In First-Person
20.8.2024
Hey, so I know that a bunch of us actually don’t have VR or are all that interested in getting into it, but that new VR Arkham Batman game looks pretty good, right? Shown off at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, Batman: Arkham Shadow seems like a pretty decent follow-up to the Arkhamverse, and...
Borderlands 4 Finally Gets Official Teaser, Coming 2025
20.8.2024
Borderlands 4 is real and coming sometime in 2025. Gearbox Entertainment made the latest sequel to its hit looter shooter franchise official with a teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live showing a literal collision of worlds. Read more
This Underrated And Immersive Shooter Series Is On Sale At The Moment
20.8.2024
In the early 2010s an odd little shooter by the name of Metro 2033 emerged out of nowhere. Adapted from a similarly named sci-fi novel by author Dmitry Glukhovsky, it didn’t quite take the world by storm, but the story-driven FPS about a community trying to survive the nuclear apocalypse by hiding...
Destiny 2 AFK Farming Has Gotten So Bad, Players Will Be Banned For It Now
19.8.2024
Destiny 2: The Final Shape is a good expansion with one particularly terrible exotic loot chase. The new exotic class items are powerful pieces of RNG gear that can be extremely tedious to chase, which is why lots of players instead rely on AFK macros to farm the loot for them. The epidemic of...
Epic Box Office Flop Borderlands Reportedly Rushing To Streaming In Late August
19.8.2024
You might not have to wait long to see what’s going on with the much-pilloried Borderlands movie starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart for yourself from the comfort of your own couch. The box office bomb is reportedly coming to streaming as early as late August, after less than a month...
Dr Disrespect Deletes Statement, Hyped Modern Warfare 2 Mod Gets Killed, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
17.8.2024
This week saw Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm delete a post from late June in which he’d admitted to “inappropriate” behavior with a minor, and instead post a new tweet teasing a forthcoming return and the statement, “we have lots to talk about.” Additionally, we’ll fill you in on that new Valve game...
Snag The Entire Far Cry Series On The Cheap This Weekend
16.8.2024
First kicking off 20 years ago, the Far Cry games rank among Ubisoft’s most popular series and for good reason. The first-person shooter series is largely viewed as the tentpole franchise in which the developer and megapublisher consolidated the open-world model of games that became so ubiquitous...