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This Collection Of 50 ‘Fictional’ Retro Classics Is One Of The Year’s Best Games
17.9.2024
Efforts to preserve, spotlight, and celebrate important games of the past have been gaining steam in recent years. Consider, for instance, Digital Eclipse’s Atari 50, a compilation of games from across that company’s history that provides wonderful context in the form of interviews and archival...
Billions in Settlements Disrupted, Blockchain Gaming Boom, and More — Week in Review
15.9.2024
Recent Western sanctions have disrupted over $55 billion in trade settlements between Russia and Turkey. Cameron Thacker of Mythical Games believes the current blockchain gaming surge is more stable, as it focuses on better user experiences rather than hype. In the UK, a new bill recognizes digital...
The Lollipop Chainsaw Remaster Is A Janky Mess
13.9.2024
According to those who have played it, the recently released remaster of 2012's Lollipop Chainsaw is a janky and hard-to-play mess with performance problems, missing features, and bugs galore.Read more
The Penguin Series Is So Much More Than A Batman Comic Book Show—It’s A Crime Epic
12.9.2024
From the moment Colin Farrell limps into frame as the scarred and strange Oswald Cobb, it’s clear that The Penguin is going to be special. Set immediately after the events of 2022’s The Batman, the HBO limited series tells the story of the infamous villain in a grittier, more grounded version...
Wild Bastards Is The Space-Cowboy Strategy FPS Of Your Dreams
12.9.2024
Sometimes, when you want a food metaphor for a video game, you reach for a comparison to fine dining. Other times you might allude toward fast food. In this instance, my trite and overused analogy is a great big buffet offering of all your favorite foods, where you just grab handfuls of everything...
Transformers One: The Kotaku Review
12.9.2024
Maybe ten minutes into Transformers One, the computer-animated prequel to the entire existing saga of Hasbro’s robots in disguise, Scarlett Johansson’s focused mining manager Elita says to Chris Hemsworth’s idealistic worker Orion Pax, “You don’t have the touch or the power.” It’s a clunky, forced...
Rings Of Power Season 2 Episode 5 Foreshadows The Disaster We All Know Is Coming
12.9.2024
Just when I think I don’t give a Took about the many branching narratives in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the Amazon Prime series drops an episode that cleverly pulls together the disparate stories, justifying their (somewhat plodding) existence. Episode five is one of the more potent...
This Completely Free Half-Hour Platformer Will Scratch Your Celeste Itch
10.9.2024
Gaming tags on Steam are used with wild abandon, to the degree that they’re fairly useless. “Point-and-click” has been reduced to any game with a cursor, and “action” appears to mean any game where you move. In general, rather than draw you toward a game, their main use is to warn you off one....
World Of Warcraft: The War Within: The Kotaku Review
9.9.2024
World of Warcraft: The War Within has a lot to live up to. The first in a trilogy of expansions Blizzard has dubbed The Worldsoul Saga and the followup to the stellar previous expansion in Dragonflight, it’s easy to imagine it crumbling under lofty expectations. Luckily, however, The War Within...
Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer: The Kotaku Review
9.9.2024
As a “definitive” edition of the phenomenal 2006 RPG, 2024’s Persona 3 Reload was lacking in a few key features like the 2009 PSP port’s female protagonist route. Still, perhaps the most egregious omission was the lack of The Answer, the meaty, playable epilogue that was included in the 2007...
Liminal Says Grant Thornton Confirms Its Security Amid Wazirx Breach Concerns
9.9.2024
Grant Thornton’s review of Liminal’s infrastructure revealed no signs of any security breach within its frontend or backend systems, according to Liminal. Following a breach at Wazirx that resulted in the theft of over $230 million, internal and third-party investigations at Liminal...
Top 10 L1 Chains, Hamster Kombat Token Airdrop Performance, and More — Week in Review
8.9.2024
Data highlighted the dominance of the top 10 layer one blockchains, collectively valued at $1.66 trillion. In Russia, financial analyst Vladislav Antonov projected growth for the Hamster Kombat token post-airdrop. Meanwhile, China and Russia’s payment flows are under strain due to...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is Too Much Nostalgia And Too Little Substance
6.9.2024
Nostalgia has been the driving force behind so many recently released movies, with sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes of films that we love from the past dominating theaters in the last several years. From Ghostbusters to Indiana Jones, Scream to Spider-Man, Twister to Deadpool, It feels like...
GOMINING Token Review: Exploring Fundamental and Technical Factors
5.9.2024
Given the volatility of the crypto market, the opportunity for cryptocurrencies to skyrocket in value comes with an equally significant risk of them plummeting. This reality forces investors and users to identify tokens that are less likely to lose their value suddenly. According to Statista, as...
The Rings Of Power Season 2 Episode 4 Introduces An Iconic Lord Of The Rings Character In The Best Way Possible
5.9.2024
Despite its faults, The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power remains a treasure trove of Tolkien lore for superfans of the fantasy franchise—and season two episode four succinctly showcases the Amazon Prime series’ love for its source material. From the debut of a fan-favorite character to...
Astro Bot: The Kotaku Review
5.9.2024
I cried at the end of Astro Bot. I recognize this isn’t indicative of much beyond my sentimentality, but I thought it was a crucial tidbit to underscore something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is, more than anything else, a celebration of...
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2: The Kotaku Review
4.9.2024
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is a sequel I never expected. The original Space Marine, developed by Relic and released in 2011, was a fun, action-focused shooter, with just enough story and good ideas to keep you around until the credits rolled. A sequel seemed like a long shot, even if I and other...
Telegram CEO Arrested, Coinbase CEO Bullish on Crypto Payments, and More — Week in Review
1.9.2024
The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has sent shockwaves through the crypto community. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expressed optimism about the future of crypto payments, predicting it as the next big boom driven by advancements in technology. The SEC has issued a Wells notice...
Dustborn Developers Condemn ‘Tidal Wave Of Hate And Abuse’ Directed At The Team
30.8.2024
Red Thread Games’ adventure/rhythm/action game Dustborn has been out for a week and a half now, and it’s spent most of that time at the center of culture war bullshit. The game certainly has some problems we laid out in our review, but if you search the game on Google right now and look at the user...
Dustborn: The Kotaku Review
29.8.2024
Dustborn is kind of like the people-pleasing friend you know means well but runs ragged trying to accommodate so many people’s needs. Red Thread Games’ adventure/rhythm/beat-em-up hybrid has its strengths, and when it’s functioning as a socially conscious, modern version of a Telltale Games...