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Lego Horizon Adventures: The Kotaku Review
13.11.2024
I really liked Lego Horizon Adventures, a game that’s exactly what it sounds like. It tells an embellished version of the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, the first game in Guerrilla’s series of post-apocalyptic open-world adventures, with colorful Lego bricks and the slapstick humor you’d expect from...
Is Sony Teasing A December PlayStation Showcase In Its Latest PS5 Ad?
12.11.2024
Sony released a new “Play Has No Limits” ad for the PlayStation 5 on Tuesday to mark four years since its 2020 launch. No one would have thought twice about it, except that fans spotted a seemingly innocent but potentially telling split-second reference to a December date. Could Sony have...
GTA Trilogy Gets Big Surprise Update That Makes It Much Better
12.11.2024
Rockstar Games has released updates for each of the remastered Grand Theft Auto games included in the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition collection that make these maligned versions play better, as well as making them look more like the original games released on PS2 back in the early 2000s. Read more
Spend $1,800 On An Engagement Ring And This Jewelry Store Will Throw In A Free PS5
12.11.2024
Have you been in a relationship for a while and also really itching to play Spider-Man 2? Ready to finally tie the knot with someone you love, but also worried about being able to play most console games at 60fps? Jewelry store Helzberg has you covered with a free PlayStation 5 on every $1,800...
Stellar Blade Hype Train Continues With PC Release Aiming For 2025
12.11.2024
Stellar Blade arrived exclusively on PlayStation 5 near the beginning of this year, but a PC port is now becoming less theoretical. Shift Up, the South Korea studio behind the sci-fi action game, recently told investors that it’s aiming to bring the game to PC sometime in 2025. Read more
PS5 Slim Gets A $70 Price Drop For The Holidays
12.11.2024
Sony has announced that it’s lowering the suggested retail price of the PlayStation 5 Slim Digital Edition as we enter the holiday shopping season. But you’ll want to act fast, as the discount ends Christmas Eve, and is only available while supplies last. Read more
Both Nintendo And Sega Had Oddly Timed Announcements This Week
9.11.2024
Whether you think the art you consume should be a distraction from the real world or a reflection of it is up to you and your capacity for curiosity. While such a divide doesn’t exist for fans of film, music, literature, or television, for some reason, it does for people who enjoy things like...
Wise Words From Dragon Age: The Veilguard And An Unboxed PS5 Pro Got Us Through Election Week
9.11.2024
We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Six Games For Election Week Escapism
8.11.2024
What a week, huh? Yeah. Well, here we are, at the end of it, at the very least, and now looking toward the future. So how about some video games to take our minds off things for the weekend? This week we’ve got some fun shooters, some beat ‘em up action, and a digital spin on a classic trading card...
Here's The Most Annoying Thing About The PS5 Pro (Besides The Price)
8.11.2024
Yesterday, the PlayStation 5 Pro launched. But I’ve been playing around with Sony’s most expensive console ever for the past week, and the biggest issue I have with it, besides the high price, is that its really hard to actually figure out what games run and look better on it. Read more
Sony President Promises Better PlayStation Quality Checks After Concord's Failure
8.11.2024
There have been two massive questions hanging over Concord, the expensive PlayStation 5 hero shooter that almost nobody played. The first one is: how did a game that wasn’t busted or terrible bomb so spectacularly? The second is: how did a game seemingly destined to fail get through Sony’s quality...
No Man's Sky Just Got Its Best New Feature In Years
7.11.2024
Years after the cross-save revolution began sweeping across gaming, No Man’s Sky is finally joining the party. The space exploration sim is getting cloud saves that will let players take their bases, ships, resources, and progress to any platform they want. Read more
The PS5 Pro Sure Is Cool, But Who's It Really For?
6.11.2024
In September, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro and its $700 price tag. Immediately the reaction from folks online was negative. Many were confused by the high price point and weren’t convinced by Sony’s initial videos that the upgrades to games like Spider-Man 2 were worth it. After playing...
I'm Having A Fun Time With Metal Slug Tactics Even If I Can't Read A Damn Thing
6.11.2024
Metal Slug Tactics isn’t what I was expecting. Fortunately, that’s not a bad thing. Instead of Final Fantasy Tactics, it’s Into the Breach with some clever twists that help infuse it with some of the classic arcade series’ run-and-gun roots. I’m having a fun time with it so far, even if it has some...
Helldivers 2 Director Open To Crossovers, But Doesn't Want To 'Dilute The IP'
5.11.2024
Helldivers 2 might one day get some crossover content based on other franchises like Warhammer or Star Wars, but the director behind the hit sci-fi co-op shooter has not confirmed anything yet and wants to make sure they don’t “dilute” the Helldivers series. Read more
Someone Finally Solved Silent Hill 2 Remake's Biggest Mystery
4.11.2024
The recently released remake of Silent Hill 2 is one of 2024's best horror games and a fantastic adaption of the original 2001 classic. Since the game’s launch, one mystery involving a series of strange Polaroid photos has remained unsolved...until now. Interestingly, the answer seems to confirm...
We Looked Inside The Box Of The PS5 Pro, Sony's Most Expensive Console In Years
4.11.2024
Sony’s PS5 Pro, a $700 mid-gen upgrade of the PlayStation 5, launches later this week. And ahead of its official launch, Sony has sent over a PS5 Pro for us to play with and poke at. And while I can’t say anything (yet) about how games play or look on the new console, I can at least walk...
Sony Confirms PS5 Pro Specs And All 50+ Upgraded Games At Launch
4.11.2024
The PlayStation 5 Pro is out November 7 and with just a few days to go ahead of the new console’s launch, we finally have both confirmation on the full specs of the machine as well as all of the 50 games getting PS5 Pro enhanced upgrades in time for release.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Coming To Switch, The Concord Studio Gets Shut Down, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
2.11.2024
This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed role-playing gameXenoblade Chronicles X, previously only available on Wii U, will make its way to the handheld hybrid next year. Also, Guy...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Is Breaking Records For Xbox When It Needs Them Most
31.10.2024
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is the first entry in the annual blockbuster to be announced and released since Microsoft acquired it along with the rest of Activision Blizzard last October. And, by all accounts, it’s giving Xbox the boost it needed during a rough year. On an earnings call this week...