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BioWare Wants Fans To ‘Discover’ If Dragon Age: The Veilguard Shows Hog
10.7.2024
We already know Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have romance and spicy scenes. That’s par for the course with a BioWare RPG in a post-Mass Effect world. But sounds like the upcoming game in the beloved fantasy series isn’t restricting nudity to when protagonist Rook and their chosen partner...
Report: League Of Legends Maker Canceled A Smash Bros.-Style Fighter Because Of What Happened To MultiVersus
10.7.2024
Riot Games has been trying to turn the popularity of League of Legends into an extended universe of multi-genre games for years now. That plan apparently included prototyping a Super Smash Bros.-style game starring League characters called Pool Party, but according to a new report the project...
9 Things You Should Never Say To A Dragon Age Fan
10.7.2024
The Dragon Age series has changed so much between games that almost every fan has a different vision of what BioWare’s fantasy RPGs should be. Sometimes talking to a new Dragon Age fan can feel like walking on eggshells until you get a sense for where they fall on the community’s most hotly debated...
If Shadow Of The Erdtree’s Final Boss Feels Like BS, It’s Because It Kind Of Is
10.7.2024
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree ends on a real motherfucker of a boss. Seasoned and novice players alike have mostly loved the journey featured in the expansion to 2022’s biggest game, but a decent few are split on the very final boss fight and how fair it is. Honestly? It’s kind of bullshit.Read...
This Deal On Game Pass Ultimate Will Save You A Bunch Before The Price Hike
10.7.2024
Microsoft is raising the price of every tier of Xbox Game Pass starting July 10. Fortunately, you can save a good chunk of change on the most expensive tier through a current Amazon deal. Stacking a year’s worth of monthly subscriptions with this offer is $60 cheaper than paying the new price...
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion Is Reportedly Hitting PS Plus This Month With A Bunch More Games
9.7.2024
Have you finished Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’s 50-hour story? What about its 100 hours of side content? Every Remnawave tower, combat assignment, and summon shrine? Even the Odin one? Well, you’re in luck! It sounds like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is coming to PS Plus this month so...
The Dragon Age: Origins Companions, Ranked From Worst To Best
9.7.2024
Highly anticipated RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S this fall. BioWare has been focusing a lot of its marketing for the sequel on the game’s party of seven heroes, each of whom embodies a different faction within the universe and will be a romance...
Zenless Zone Zero Is Stylish, Fun, And A Letdown
8.7.2024
Above all else, Zenless Zone Zero is beautiful to look at. HoYoverse’s latest action RPG gacha title, following 2020’s Genshin Impact and last year’s Honkai: Star Rail, has a lot much going for it, with a beautifully detailed world, characters, and animations. Underneath that style there is even...
Starfield Modder Brings Star Wars Ships To Xbox
8.7.2024
In June, Bethesda brought mods to the Xbox version of Starfield. Since then, fans have created a ton of cool and useful mods for the massive, space-faring RPG. And one fan has even started porting Star Wars ships like the X-Wing into Starfield on console. Read more
Game Delayed For 22 Years Is Finally Out
5.7.2024
In 2002 a group of friends in Italy started developing an action-platformer with RPG elements for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld. Then 22 years passed and now, in 2024, Kien is finally launching on GBA, ending one of the longest delays in video game history. Read more
It's Time To Jump Into One Of The Longest-Running Japanese RPG Series Out There
5.7.2024
Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the latest game in...
16 Extraordinary Games You Need To Wishlist This Indie-Penance Day!
4.7.2024
Astonishingly, this is the fourth year in a row Kotaku has celebrated Indie-Penance Day, since the holiday was invented to mark the liberation of gaming from the cruel rule of the British monarchy. To mark the occasion, we’ve picked a selection of some of the most interesting, enticing, unknown...
The Dos and Don’ts Of Selling Your Friend On Your Favorite Game
3.7.2024
We all have that one game we love so much, we want to share with as many people as possible. Unless you’re a gatekeeper of the things that bring you joy, you’ve probably tried to get a friend, family member, partner, or stranger on the street to play a game you love in hopes that it will similarly...
Parasite Eve-Inspired Cyberpunk Game Announced, Looks Cool As Hell
3.7.2024
Sukeban Games, the developer best known for 2016’s charming and poignant VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, has announced a new game. Titled .45 Parabellum Bloodhound: Cyberpunk Active Time Action, the new project is a moody, retro-inspired adventure taking major inspiration from Square’s...
Elden Ring Helped Inspire The Acolyte's Hot Sith Baddie
2.7.2024
Have you also been gnawing on the bars of your enclosure since the most recent episode of The Acolyte? If so, it might surprise you to discover that part of the inspiration for the show’s great mystery is the game that everybody’s playing right now.Read more
Frostpunk 2, Flintlock, and 22 Other Games Worth Checking Out In July
2.7.2024
With the passage of the summer solstice last month, we are firmly in the hottest season. And this July, we’ve got a generous collection of compelling titles worth checking out. From some intriguing indie titles to Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion and beyond, this month is packed with games that...
The Dragon Age II Companions, Ranked From Worst To Best
1.7.2024
Highly anticipated RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S this fall. BioWare has been focusing a lot of its marketing for the sequel on the game’s party of seven heroes, each of whom embodies a different faction within the universe and will be a romance...
GTA III Blew This Lord Of The Rings Actor's Mind Back In 2002
1.7.2024
Actor Dominic Monaghan wasn’t a big gamer growing up, but that all changed when he first played Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto III on PS2. The open-world crime simulator basically blew his mind and revealed just how far games had come from Pac-Man.Read more
Dr Disrespect Admits 'Sexting' Minor And More Of The Week's Top Stories
29.6.2024
This week’s top stories centered around Herschel “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, as Midnight Society, a gaming studio he co-founded, cut ties with him, YouTube cut off monetization on his channels, and he admitted that he had sent “inappropriate” messages to a minor, resulting in his ban from Twitch...
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree’s Story, Explained
28.6.2024
Elden Ring, FromSoftware’s 2022 open-world action RPG, just dropped its first and only DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, bringing with it a few dozen hours of combat, exploration, and exposition. Erdtree is perhaps FromSoftware’s most lore-heavy creation yet, offering explicit details on the fallen gods...