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Here Are The Best-Selling Games Every Year For The Past Two Decades
25.10.2024
Over the last 20 years, a lot has changed in the video game industry. Online multiplayer live-service games have become more and more popular, 2D platformers have become less common, console games based on movies aren’t really a thing anymore, and we get a lot more remasters.Read more
Here's Why Some Fans Think This $90 WoW Mount Is Actually A Good Deal
25.10.2024
It’s the 20th Anniversary of World of Warcraft, and Blizzard’s long-standing fantasy MMORPG is celebrating with, among other things, an extremely luxe mount. Say hello to the Gilded Brutosaur, which will cost you $90. That’s more than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, or roughly the equivalent of...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Broly's Ring Is Majorly Glitched
25.10.2024
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s massive 180+ character roster isn’t exactly balanced, which fans are admittedly happy with. Helping to offset (or further expand) these differences are various Ability Items that provide characters with helpful buffs. One of, if not the rarest Ability Item is called...
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, As Told By Steam Reviews
25.10.2024
Capcom has been knocking it out of the park with its horror remakes in recent years (perhaps with the exception of Resident Evil 3, though I still enjoyed that one immensely). If you look at titles such as Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 2, they clearly know how to modernize famous franchises...
Diablo 4 Highest Tiers Of Difficulty Are Locked Behind A Whole Bunch Of Tasks
25.10.2024
Diablo IV has eight levels of difficulty, but the highest four are locked when you begin the game. If you are jumping into Diablo because of Vessel Of Hatred, and wondering how you’res supposed to access this higher tier, here is how you unlock Torment difficulty, where the endgame begins.Read more
Web3 Game Off the Grid Numbers Shine Despite Promotional Drop
25.10.2024
Off The Grid, the so-called Web3 extraction shooter built on the Avalanche blockchain, has maintained momentum after its launch in the early access stages. While the game has fallen from the top 100 most viewed games on the streaming platform Twitch, it has maintained 500,000 daily active addresses...
Amazon’s Like A Dragon: Yakuza Is Already A Divisive Adaptation Of The Beloved Games
24.10.2024
Amazon’s live-action adaptation of Sega’s hit Like a Dragon series has finally landed, and the show is already making waves. Titled Like a Dragon: Yakuza, the gritty crime drama follows the series’ longtime protagonist Kazuma Kiryu across two timelines: one as a teenage orphan in 1995, and...
One Of 2024's Best Games Continues Its Crossover Domination With Cyberpunk And Stardew Valley
24.10.2024
Balatro is a very, very good game. We’ve established that a few times here at Kotaku. And now, for all you folks still playing the roguelike poker game, a new update has added some fresh crossover cards featuring characters from Stardew Vally, Cyberpunk 2077, and Slay The Spire. Read more
Star Wars Outlaws' New Patch Makes The Game Look Bad On PS5
24.10.2024
The third big update for Star Wars Outlaws is finally here with promised improvements to stealth, NPC AI, and more. Unfortunately, the patch has also messed up how the game looks on PlayStation 5, with players reporting screen tearing issues that break the immersion of its normally gorgeous-looking...
Overwatch 2 Is Bringing Back 6v6 Sooner Than Expected
24.10.2024
Overwatch 2 announced it was considering testing out a return to its original 6v6 format after swapping to its current, controversial 5v5 structure back when the sequel launched in 2022. Now, it sounds like that test is coming up sooner than originally expected, as Blizzard has announced it will...
Fortnite Flays Peely, World Cheers
24.10.2024
Over the last few years, Peely, a disturbing anthropomorphized banana, has become Fortnite’s de facto mascot. We here at Kotaku don’t like that. This creepy bastard keeps coming back, even after death. So we are all happy to learn that Fortnite has finally skinned and flayed Peely. The bastard...
A Destiny 2 Conspiracy Theory Gets To The Heart Of Its Biggest Loot Problem
24.10.2024
Destiny 2 players are convinced the game is secretly ripping them off. While on its face an epic space opera about humanity confronting cosmic evil in a post-apocalyptic future, Bungie’s sci-fi shooter is also a Pokémon-style collectathon where instead of cute magical creatures, players capture...
Eight Terrifying Games And Series To Pick Up During Xbox’s Halloween Sale
24.10.2024
There’s no need to fret if you’re yet to make solid Halloween plans. If you don’t have a party or costume lined up, you can still find a theater doing a screening on the night, or if you’re more inclined to stay indoors, maybe it’s worth perusing sales for great horror games. Xbox is hosting a sale...
2023’s Best Narrative Game Just Got Even Better
24.10.2024
When I play a smaller game that really has an effect on me, I’m usually cool with not getting more of it. The advantage of artful, smaller-scope projects is that they can concisely say what they need to say without being beholden to all the forever-game nonsense that infects the AAA space. However...
Mech shooter game MetalCore moves to Solana
24.10.2024
MetalCore will use Solana Labs' GameShift platform, which incorporates a storefront and payment systems for in-game purchases
Final Fantasy VII's Biggest Skip Ever Lets You 'Save' Aerith Without Cheats
24.10.2024
There’s been a massive breakthrough in the world of Final Fantasy VII. Not the new remakes on PlayStation 5, but the original 1997 game. A new skip makes it possible to jump right to Aerith’s death, earlier than players had ever expected. She’ll still die in the pivotal scene, but players can keep...
The Pokémon Leak Has Revealed A Scrapped Form Of One Of Its Most Controversial Monsters
24.10.2024
Earlier this month, Pokémon developer Game Freak suffered a massive data breach and ever since, details about and assets for projects new and old have been trickling out onto the internet. These have ranged from unused Pokémon who never saw the light of day, to information on upcoming games like...
Roblox's New Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been For Years
24.10.2024
Today’s news that Roblox is adding new child safety measures to the phenomenally popular game platform is certainly good to hear, but the nature of these scant changes reveals just how careless and callous the app has been for so many years, and how it continues to offer almost no protections...
Dress To Impress Removes Hotdog Costume And You Can Probably Guess Why
23.10.2024
Dress To Impress, the extremely popular Roblox online game about creating themed outfits in a short amount of time to win awards, recently added some new costumes just in time for Halloween. One of these is a large hotdog. Remember that Roblox is, on paper at least, a kid’s game. So you...
Beyond Good And Evil 2 Is Still Alive And Slowly Moving Forward With New Leadership
23.10.2024
A new Beyond Good and Evil game from Ubisoft was first officially teased back in 2008. Over 15 years later, Beyond Good and Evil 2 hasn’t seen the light of day, but it still eventually might. Despite years of stalled production punctuated by high-profile departures and tragedy, the ambitious open...