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We’re Getting More Hyper Light Drifter, Be Still My Beating Heart
1.4.2022
It’s been nearly nine years since the evocative pixel-art action RPG Hyper Light Drifter first took my breath away in its Kickstarter teaser. Now developer Heart Machine has a successor planned and it’s just around the corner. It’s called Hyper Light Breaker, it will be 3D instead of top-down,...
13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
1.4.2022
If you’ve played Borderlands, you’ve played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Gearbox’s latest, a fantasy twist on the loot-shooting series for which the studio is known, feels a lot like the previous four games—and 400 expansions and events—in the series. You shoot a bazillion guns. You find a bazillion...
The Best (And Worst) April Fools’ Jokes In Gaming For 2022
1.4.2022
April Fools’ is finally upon us, or as our UK editor John Walker likes to call it: “International Lying Day.” Never fear, readers. We Kotaku bloggers are vigilantly keeping alert for any announcements that seem a little bit too good or too weird to be true. Not me, though. Some April Fools’ jokes...
9 Games Like GTA V Worth Checking Out In 2022
31.3.2022
Nearly a decade later, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V remains incredibly popular. Its multiplayer mode, GTA Online, is still one of the most-played games in the world. And it just launched on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. So one way or another, it’s very likely you’ve played GTA V. In fact, it’s...
Ghostwire: Tokyo’s Captivating World Is Overshadowed By Weak Combat
31.3.2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tango Gameworks’ new action-adventure game with immersive sim-like elements, is a frustrating juxtaposition of highs and lows. It’s at once a compelling narrative about loss and the lengths we go to recover that which is gone, and a plodding first-person shooter with seriously...
A Horror Game That Commits So Hard To Consequences, It's A Knockout
31.3.2022
The most fascinating aspect of Weird West’s design is how friendly the game is to my fuck-ups. Have you ever thought to yourself: “I would like to play a top-down Dishonored game, but as a western?” Say no more. Even if that’s not a thought you’ve ever had, you should consider it. Weird West, which...
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is Actually Twice As Fun On The Highest Difficulty
30.3.2022
Borderlands games aren’t exactly known for being challenging. Even if you turned up the heat, you wouldn’t get a tougher game. You’d just get a more arduous one, the many bullet sponges simply becoming bullet-spongier. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands does away with all that by including an actually...
Fortnite's Getting Sued By Dance Choreographer Who's Worked With Bieber, Britney
30.3.2022
On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the “It’s Complicated” dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami’s lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer....
Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review
30.3.2022
Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem’s ending fails to deliver a satisfying...
Elden Ring, One Month Later
30.3.2022
It feels like just yesterday FromSoftware fans were worried they were going to die before Elden Ring arrived, and now we’re an entire month removed from its launch. In that time, dedicated players have eagerly explored every inch of this massive game, resulting in a lot of great coverage here...
Battlefield 2042's Maps, Ranked
30.3.2022
Hi, yes, it’s me again, one of the only 14 people on Earth who enjoy playing Battlefield 2042. As I enter my sixth month of playing the game, and as I approach the game’s level cap on a personal basis, I’ve found my attention of late turning towards the finer details of the game’s maps, and which...
War Game Disables In-Game Chat Over 'Political' Concerns
30.3.2022
War Thunder is a multiplayer combat game on PC and consoles that lets players take control of tanks, ships and aircraft from various time periods and just go at it. And like many other games of this type—World of Tanks and Warships in particular—the in-game chat experience can sometimes...
Valorant Art Director Comments On Endeavor Skin Criticism
30.3.2022
On March 23, Matthew Hagg, a professional Call of Duty player known as Nadeshot, expressed disappointment in a viral tweet that a new skin bundle for a weapon in the first-person shooter Valorant didn’t have a ton of alternate colors and special effects. He noted that the new cosmetics had “so much...
Loop Hero's Developers Tell Russian Players To Pirate Their Game
30.3.2022
Four Quarters, the developer behind the highly regarded deck-building roguelike Loop Hero, is encouraging players to pirate its game if they can’t find any legal means of purchasing it amid the ongoing sanctions placed on Russia after its military invasion of Ukraine. Read more
Ghostwire: Tokyo Has One Of The Coolest Healing Systems In Open-World Games
29.3.2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo, the cool new Tango Gameworks project about chatting up spirits and fighting ghastly humanoids, has managed to pull me away from Elden Ring. It’s a nice reprieve. Ghostwire is nowhere near as hard as FromSoftware’s latest Souls-like. So rather than roaming a vast, haunting open...
Hell Yes, Kairosoft's Classic Management Games Are Now On Steam
29.3.2022
Readers, an occasional dabble with emulation and board game ports aside, I don’t normally play games on my phone. Ever. But over the years I have made one major concession and played the shit out of a series of management games released by Japanese studio Kairosoft.Read more
Developers Fighting & Fleeing Russians Somehow Releasing Switch Game Next Month
29.3.2022
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a game that has been out for six years now on PC, and has also been ported to the PS4 and Xbox One. Next month it’ll be hitting the Nintendo Switch, which might not sound like big deal, except for the fact it’s a port that’s practically a miracle effort...
Games Industry Mourns Coffee Talk Creator, Who Passed Away At 32
29.3.2022
It’s with a heavy heart that we must report that Mohammad Fahmi, the creator of the beloved barista visual novel Coffee Talk and a notable figure in the Indonesian game development scene, passed away over the weekend. He was 32 years old. A cause of death hasn’t been specified at this time.Read more
The First 26 Minutes Of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
28.3.2022
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Tiny Tina's Revolution Side-Quest Is Borderlands Writing At Its Best
28.3.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands revitalizes Borderlands, thanks to a fantasy-inspired respray and an increased focus on melee attacks. A quieter but perhaps no less significant change is how the loot-shooter handles side-quests. For me, this clicked in an early optional mission called “Goblins Tired...