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Stardew Valley Creator Asks Fans To Shame Him If He Ever Breaks Promise To Keep DLC Free
22.7.2024
Stardew Valley has received years of major updates with thousands of tweaks and additions since it came out in 2016. The pixel-art farming sim just keeps growing, and all for a one-time price of $15. Creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone says that’s never changing. Read more
Fallout And Starfield Maker Bethesda Game Studios Is Unionizing
22.7.2024
Bethesda Game Studios is known for making some of the biggest open-world RPGs in gaming like Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Now it will also be known for being the first major studio in the U.S. to unionize across all of its teams. Read more
This Innovative Puzzle RPG Might Be A Perfect Video Game
22.7.2024
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure by developer Furniture & Mattress is the kind of delightful, genre-blending game that words can feel inadequate to describe when it’s much more easily understood in motion. Yes, telling you that it’s an adventure game which you navigate via a grid that moves...
How To Get Started In Final Fantasy 14 And More Tips For The Week
21.7.2024
Looking to take your first steps into Square Enix’s acclaimed and newly expanded MMO, Final Fantasy 14? We’ve got you covered with some great beginner guides. We’ve also got tips for Palworld, Once Human, and The First Descendant, as well as recommendations for games to pick up before the Xbox...
Jeanne D'Arc Is Great, Flock Is Supremely Chill, And More Video Game Takes For The Week
20.7.2024
This week, a Pokémon GO event accidentally reminded us of how much better the game used to be. Also, PSP tactical RPG classic Jeanne d’Arc hit PlayStation Plus and we just had to sing its praises. We also vented about how frustrating trying to become a PC gamer can be, and oohed and ahhed at...
New Witcher 3 Mod Gives The Game A Full-Fledged Reputation System
19.7.2024
Modders of The Witcher 3 have only had official tools from developer CD Projekt Red for two months, but they’ve already made great use of them. One ambitious modder was able to recreate some of the first game’s map with the new tools only a day after they were released. More recently, a new mod...
Dungeons Of Hinterberg: The Kotaku Review
18.7.2024
Do you believe in magic? What do you think it looks and feels like? In Dungeons of Hinterberg, magic is uncomfortably real. In the places that it has sprung up, monsters inspired by local folklore have come to life, and otherworldly dungeons have appeared. Quiet mountain towns have become booming...
Jeanne d’Arc’s First Hour Won Me Over With Its Absurd Premise, Sick Cutscenes, And Great Tactical Combat
18.7.2024
Everybody was right about Jeanne d’Arc. The 2006 PSP game from developer Level-5 has been on my radar for a while, thanks to its reputation as a solid tactical RPG with a semi-historical setting—yes, it’s about the 15th century saint Joan of Arc. Unfortunately, the game never found life outside...
Here's How Today's Best-Selling Games Compare To Those From 20 Years Ago
17.7.2024
Today’s most popular and best-selling games often include expensive first-party exclusives, big multiplayer hits, and aging titles like GTA V that stick around years after launch. But that wasn’t the case 20 years ago, as seen in newly published sales data.Read more
No Man's Sky Is Getting A Complete Universal Refresh In One Of Its Biggest Updates Ever
17.7.2024
As No Man’s Sky nears its eight anniversary, it’s clear the open-world survival crafting sim isn’t slowing down. A cavalcade of free updates continues to transform the game from what it once was at launch, and the latest of those is no different. Today, Hello Games revealed Worlds Part 1,...
Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn: The Kotaku Review
17.7.2024
The world has been plunged into darkness. The dead persist violently among the living. What remains of humanity following a cataclysm I helped trigger is now at each other’s throats. I carry my share of the blame, but it’s clear the gods must pay for what they’ve done to us. There’s a path...
An Elden Ring Mod Lets You Summon DLC Bosses Like They’re Pokémon
15.7.2024
You know how defeating the major bosses in Elden Ring grants you a remembrance of them? Typically, you’re meant to use these to get runes for leveling or spending, otherwise you can mold those remembrances into weapons reminiscent of the boss. What if, instead, you could use them to call on former...
No Man's Sky's Sean Murray Is Teasing Something And Players Think It's Big
15.7.2024
Sean Murray is no stranger to hyping up expectations, and that’s exactly what he’s been doing for the last several days on social media. The boss of No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games has been posting little emoji of our planet. Fans are taking the cryptic messages and running wild with them...
Final Fantasy XIV: A Beginner’s Guide To Questing
15.7.2024
Like most RPGs, a majority of your time in Final Fantasy XIV is spent completing various quests. However, new players may find themselves wondering what each of the different symbols mean, or how to tell what quests are worth their time. This guide will explain the three main types of quests,...
Baldur's Gate 3 Won So Many Awards It Started To Cause Problems
15.7.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 was one of the best games of 2023 and easily one of the year’s biggest success stories. And as you might expect, all that acclaim and adoration saw the game winning a lot of awards at various shows and events. According to the game’s director, being showered with so many accolades...
Dev Casually Reveals We Almost Got Crash Bandicoot 5
15.7.2024
Project Dragon, a new game from Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs, has been canceled. This was revealed by former devs on the project over the weekend, including principal concept artist, Nicholas Kole. revealed over the weekend that an in-development game codenamed Project Dragon has been canceled....
Genshin Impact’s Latest Controversy Has Gotten So Big Its Voice Actors Are Weighing In
15.7.2024
Genshin Impact has been under fire for whitewashing people of color before, but the backlash over such accusations has never before reached the level it has now, as the release of the new Natlan nation grows ever more imminent. The nation is based primarily on Latin America, but also includes...
Game Pass Woes, Elden Ring Takes, And More Of This Week's Spiciest Opinions
14.7.2024
Gosh, Xbox really did that to Game Pass, huh? And Elden Ring’s beloved DLC is letting down some fans? Yeah, it’s been a week of spicy opinions, and we’ve got them all here, including our impressions of that loot-shooter The First Descendent. Read through for more!Read more
That Gorgeous Dragon Quest 3 Remake Includes New Story Elements By The Series Creator
12.7.2024
We already know that the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 is going to look amazing, and now we have some new information on what other improvements and additions the updated classic is getting. In a recent Famitsu article, Square Enix revealed a range of information on the hotly anticipated remake...
A Famously Canceled Fallout Game Finds New Life As A Free Mod
11.7.2024
Back in the good ol’ days, the Fallout series was a beloved isometric CRPG series developed by Black Isle Studios, a renowned developer that shut down in the early aughts. Before its closure, it worked on two incarnations of a proposed Fallout 3 before both were eventually canned. One of these...