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Indiana Jones Looks Thrilling, Tactical Breach Wizards Is Brilliant, And More Of The Week's Opinions
24.8.2024
This week, Gamescom gave us fresh looks at Starfield’s upcoming Shattered Space DLC as well as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. We’ll tell you all about what we thought of those. We also have hands-on impressions for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, speak to the folks behind Dying Light: The Beast...
Every Big Announcement From Gamescom, Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
24.8.2024
This week, one of the three events each year in which we’re routinely graced with the presence of Geoff Keighley took place, with Gamescom Opening Night Live kicking off the week-long convention in Cologne, Germany. A host of World Premiere trailers and other announcements came out of that...
Every Kotaku Black Myth: Wukong Guide From The Game's First Week
24.8.2024
In a week that included a Geoff Keighley-led showcase and dozens of announcements, the most talked-about topic in games was Black Myth: Wukong, the Chinese action-RPG that earned a mixed Kotaku review for at times undermining its own epic ambitions. As those ambitions have awed some players...
Report Reveals Hamster Kombat Faces Legal Action From Early Investors
23.8.2024
Hamster Kombat, the Telegram tap-to-earn gaming sensation, is facing legal woes in Russia stemming from conflicts between its alleged creator, Eduard Gurinovich, and one of its early investors, Ad.ru, an IT holding company. According to reports from Lenta.ru, a popular Russian online newspaper...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games We Can't Wait To Get Back To
23.8.2024
The summer is winding down, the days are starting to grow shorter, and there’s a new chill in the air at night. It’s the perfect time to catch up on some older games ahead of the September onslaught that kicks off with Star Wars Outlaws’ launch next week. Read more
9 Things We Learned About Monster Hunter Wilds At Gamescom
23.8.2024
Monster Hunter Wilds is looking like it’s going to be one of the biggest games of 2025 already, and its showing at Gamescom is going incredibly well. The game is playable for the first time to the public, and the amount of information coming out of just that preview build is insane. We’ve learned...
3 Big Changes Coming To Diablo IV In Its First Major Expansion
23.8.2024
The Vessel of Hatred, the first expansion to Diablo IV, is set to release on October 8 and Blizzard dropped a ton of new information about it at Gamescom. That includes more details on the game’s new class, new region, and a few surprise announcements to get players even more excited.Read more
Legendary Parts Are Essential In 7 Days To Die, Here's How To Get Them
23.8.2024
As an open-world survival crafting game, 7 Days to Die thrusts so many different resources and materials in your face. It’s hard for any new player to sift through the baggage to find what’s most valuable, and often hard to actually find the most valuable. For example, Legendary Parts. They’re...
Madden NFL 25: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2024
Madden needs a year off. Read more
Dustborn Has A Great Story To Tell When Bad Combat's Not Getting In The Way
23.8.2024
In its first few hours, Red Thread Games’ Dustborn flaunts so many of the qualities I look for in a story-driven adventure game. It’s full of relationship-building with complex characters, has stakes that are just high enough to draw me into the weight of each dialogue choice I make, and...
A Sims Game Is Finally Coming To The Nintendo Switch, Sorta
23.8.2024
For years fans have been saying things like, “Why aren’t there any Sims games on Switch?” and “Will we ever see a Sims game on Switch?” Well, now their desperate pleas have been answered with a port of a a Sims spin-off from 2007. Kotaku understands that a remaster of MySims of sorts is headed...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Finally Telling Us More About Its Companions In A Cool Way
23.8.2024
BioWare changed the name of Dragon Age: The Veilguard from Dreadwolf in order to better reflect that the RPG is about its cast of heroes, rather than about Solas, the elven trickster god at its center. But even so, we still don’t know a ton about the party we’ll journey alongside when the game...
Black Myth: Wukong Secret Lets You Summon One Rock Boss To Beat The Crap Out Of Another Rock Boss
23.8.2024
Black Myth: Wukong isn’t a Souls-like but it is full of boss fights. Some of them are really tough and will beat you to a pulp, so it’s extra cool that there’s at least one secret encounter where you get to watch the bosses beat the crap out of each other instead. Read more
Yes, Black Myth: Wukong A Has New Game Plus Mode
23.8.2024
While Black Myth: Wukong may not adhere to the standard Soulslike formula in every manner, there are plenty of features within this action-adventure title that borrow from the beloved genre. Enemies respawn after resting at a checkpoint, its challenging battles require you to manage a stamina...
Revenge Of The Savage Planet Is A Surprising Sequel To A Great Metroidvania
22.8.2024
Journey to the Savage Planet is a 2020 first-person Metroidvania that sold pretty well and was absolutely fantastic if you played it, but strangely there’s a really high chance you’ve never heard of it. It’s a fate all too often reserved for bright, colorful, fun-first games that don’t obey...
Dying Light: The Beast Aims To Be An Adrenaline Shot To The Long-Running Zombie Series
22.8.2024
How do you know when a DLC isn’t a DLC any more? That was the question that faced Dying Light developers Techland as they worked on the next entry for the long-running zombie-battling parkour franchise. Intended to be the second major piece of DLC for 2022’s Dying Light 2, what has now been...
Check Out This 18-Inch Replica Of One Of Destiny's Iconic Weapon
22.8.2024
Bungie’s Destiny franchise has been kicking for about ten years now, and over that decade, players of the MMO loot-shooter have fallen in love a lot of its unique weaponry. Some of these weapons take on even greater meaning as players use them throughout the years, and become core parts of their...
Silent Hill 2 Remake Will Take You Twice As Long As The Original
22.8.2024
The Silent Hill 2 remake sounds like it’s shaping up to be the faithful tribute fans are hoping for, but new gameplay wrinkles and secrets mean it won’t be just a one-to-one recreation. According to Bloober Team’s creative director, the survival horror remake will actually take players much longer...
Black Myth: Wukong: The Kotaku Review
22.8.2024
There’s a moment in Black Myth: Wukong that would be the perfect visual metaphor for the game’s hopeful, proud ascension as China’s big breakthrough into the Western AAA pantheon. Unfortunately, that moment is restricted, and we can’t talk about that.Read more
Hands-On: Marvel Rivals Does Right By Captain America And Winter Soldier
22.8.2024
I’ve enjoyed every game I’ve played in NetEase’s Marvel Rivals. The comic book take on the hero shooter genre is a lot of fun, even if it takes some blatant inspiration from Overwatch. It feels less sanded down and polished than its obvious competitor, but that opens it up to chaos and fun plays...