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The Stranger of Paradise Demo Is Unapologetically Cringe, And I Love It
12.3.2022
Since its announcement during E3 2021, Team Ninja’s Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin has been a hotbed for shitposts and memes. These memes primarily involve out-of-context scenes of protagonist Jack Garland’s music tastes and his unbridled obsession with killing “Chaos”. Read more
Destiny 2 Players Missing Major Story Reveal Because Cutscene Won't Play
16.2.2022
Today, after months of waiting, Destiny 2 players were finally treated to Season of the Lost’s big reveal, setting up next week’s massive Witch Queen expansion. At least, that is, the players who could get the new cutscene to work. For everyone else, the only way to partake in the big moment was...
Clipping Out Of Halo Infinite’s First Level Requires Luck, A Grapple, And One Plasma Coil
11.1.2022
Players have already discovered a bunch of unintentional, wacky, and physics-breaking antics since the launch of Halo Infinite, and a new vid shows that with the help of a fusion coil, the grapple hook, and some good old-fashioned no-clipping, you can launch yourself right out of the massive...
Final Fantasy XVI Delayed By Almost Six Months Due To Covid-19
27.12.2021
The original plan was for Square Enix to make a big year-end announcement regarding Final Fantasy XVI. That’s not going to happen, and the game has been delayed by at least half a year. “When we last spoke, I promised I would have more information on Final Fantasy XVI sometime later in 2021,” wrote...
This Lightning-Fast Action Game Is Like A Cyberpunk Tomb Raider With Warframe's Swordplay
22.11.2021
Bright Memory Infinite is an ambitious first-person shooter action game that fuses the futuristic samurai combat of something like Warframe with the epic adventure and platforming of games like Tomb Raider. But while FYQD-Studio’s game is an improvement upon its 2020 build, Bright Memory, there...
Age Of Empires IV's Fancy Cutscenes Are A Wonder
2.11.2021
I’ve been playing the new Age of Empires IV this week, and for all the good work that has been done in bringing a classic game into a modern era, the best thing about it are the bits that happen while you’re not even playing.Read more
$400 Spider-Man NFT Looks Like A PS2 Cutscene
9.8.2021
By August 2021 it’s clear that the entire concept of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is an enormous pump-and-dump scam, but that’s not stopping Disney and Marvel, who over the weekend released the dumbest, funniest piece of Spider-Man trash imaginable and watched people lining up around the block to...
Halo: Reach Fans Spent Decade Trying To Save Doomed Character
1.7.2021
A group of Halo glitch hunters have figured out a way to save one of the doomed members of Halo: Reach’s Noble Team.Read more
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
11.6.2021
This weekend is about watching press conferences from the likes of Ubisoft, Microsoft, Bethesda Softworks, and other soft companies. Between the cracks we game like the mighty ninja, swift and silent-ish. Read more
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
No One Warned Me About Hitman 2’s Cutscenes
10.4.2021
Over the past few months, I, late to the party, have fallen head over heels for the new Hitman trilogy. Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to, including several Kotaku colleagues, have said Hitman 2 is the best of the three, or at least the one I should play first. They did not mention how jarring...
How To Skip Monster Hunter Rise’s Pesky ‘Quest Complete’ Cutscenes
6.4.2021
Once you get comfortable with the basics of Monster Hunter Rise, the real game of grinding out rare materials for high-level equipment can finally begin. While one would normally need to wait through a cutscene every time they finish a mission, a simple trick allows players to skip this brief...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Post-Launch Woes Continue
21.3.2021
I loved Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. So much so that, had I been given more time with it during the calendar year, it would have made a serious run for my Game Of 2020. But boy, at the same time, I have not been happy with the support the game has got after launch.Read more