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Hogwarts Legacy Gets Animal Rescue All Wrong
9.3.2023
The only true moral stance Hogwarts Legacy takes is that animal abuse is bad. One of the main enemy types you face are poachers, a quest takes you to a dragon fighting pit that will horrify, and Poppy Sweeting (bless her) is a Hufflepuff student determined to free every animal on the hillside with...
The RPG Elements In Hogwarts Legacy Undermine Its Magic
22.2.2023
I’m walking the hallowed halls of Hogwarts, accompanied by twinkling classical piano music and random, startling interjections from a raucous moving painting or Peeves the Poltergeist. A student materializes in front of my eyes, shimmering into existence as their Disillusionment Charm fades;...
Don’t Want To Play Hogwarts Legacy? There’s An Elden Ring Mod For That
21.2.2023
Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.If you’re taking a moral stand and not playing Hogwarts Legacy...
15 Hours With Hogwarts Legacy: Magical Surface, Rotten Core
17.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy is here, its arrival surrounded by more brutal blasts of discourse than there are bursts of Bat-Bogey Hexes flying around the Slytherin Common Room. The conversation around the open-world action adventure game which seeks to provide players with the immersive fantasy of actually...
Trans Witch Games Bundle Is A Cool Alternative To Hogwarts Legacy
10.2.2023
Maybe you’re feeling FOMO about skipping Hogwarts Legacy. Or you’ve already bought the game and now you can’t look a trans person in the eye. Perhaps you’re just a gamer goth who enjoys magic-themed games. Have I got the itch.io bundle for you.Read more
Hogwarts Legacy’s Steam Forums Are A Mess Right Now
10.2.2023
While not every Harry Potter fan is a transphobe like J.K. Rowling, the new open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy seems to bring out the most dedicated bigots out in full force. As of the pre-launch period, the game’s discussion forums on Steam, the leading PC platform, are filled with hateful...
Hogwarts Legacy Spoilers Are All Over The Internet, As Is Harry Potter Tradition
9.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy spoilers are all over the internet right now. They’re in the Kotaku tips inbox, they’re in the comments on popular gaming website’s tweets, they’re casually getting scattered everywhere on the web, tossed into conversations with reckless abandon.Read more
PS5 Subreddit Doesn’t Want Players To Bring Up Harry Potter Author
7.2.2023
Hogwarts Legacy drops on February 10 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X, with ports coming to the Nintendo Switch and last-gen consoles later this year. However, if you were hoping to discuss the context surrounding the action RPG—that is, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and her damaging...
Marvel's Avengers Is Ending Development, Giving Away Cosmetics
23.1.2023
This may come as a surprise to the players who abandoned the game long ago and assumed this time had come already, but Crystal Dynamics and publishers Square Enix have announced the impending end of online support for Marvel’s Avengers.Read more
Let’s Kill High On Life’s Most Annoying Boss
6.1.2023
When it ain’t poking fun at video games, High on Life is often a straightforward, enjoyable first-person shooter with vibrant colors, a killer soundtrack, and fun gun mechanics. If you enjoyed any Ratchet and Clank or Resistance: Fall of Man and haven’t checked this game out, you owe it to yourself...
Hogwarts Legacy Transphobia Controversy Fuels Reddit Drama
28.12.2022
The Harry Potter books, and the universe they spawned, are beloved by millions. It’s so unfortunate, then, that the franchise’s creator, author J.K. Rowling, has repeatedly proven herself to be the worst kind of anti-transgender bigot. That bigotry is in the spotlight once again as the big-ticket...
Nobody, Critics Or Fans, Seems To Like The New Netflix Witcher Spin-Off
27.12.2022
The newest installment in Netflix’s growing Witcher franchise, The Witcher: Blood Origin, was recently released to a resounding “meh” from critics. But the fan response is even worse, with the four-episode limited series sporting a dismal eight percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The low scores...
This Killer Narrative Game From Obsidian Is A Must-Play
14.11.2022
Welcome to 16th-century Europe. You are Andreas Maler, an artist living among the people of the fictional town of Tassing, where things are about to change in the wake of a murder. How will they change? That’s what you’ll decide in Pentiment, a narrative adventure game that brings together...
The Art Of The Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power
7.11.2022
While Amazon’s big Lord of the Rings show probably wasn’t the success anyone involved in bankrolling or promoting it might have been hoping for, there was still some good stuff there, and one of the big things that I wanted to focus on for this post was the work that went into designing...
This Sexy Game Might Have The Best Romance Writing Of 2022
1.9.2022
It’s rare for a dating simulator to let players revel in their sexcapades while dishing out hard truths about the consequences of their actions, but this queer visual novel made by a development team composed entirely by people of color is built different. Read more
Dune Crypto Leader Quits NFT Project After Being Accused Of Racism, Homophobia & Grooming
24.5.2022
Let’s cast our minds back to January, when I wrote a story called ‘Crypto Losers Buy Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Have Played Themselves’, a piece which I thought at the time perfectly captured the extent to which brainworms had infested the blockchain community.Read more
Elden Ring Player Does A Perfect Lord Of The Rings Impersonation
3.5.2022
It may have had some writing done by an old white guy, and have magic and swords and monsters and the word “Ring” in the title, but Elden Ring is not Lord of the Rings. Not even close. Unless....Read more
Elden Ring's Wolf Pack Ashes Are Loyal Pups, And Therefore The Best
25.3.2022
Elden Ring has a bunch of spirit ashes, ethereal summons you can call forth to aid you in battle. Some, like Banished Knight Oleg, are highly effective damage dealers, capable of wiping out even the toughest of bosses. Others, hm, not so much—looking at you, spirit jellyfish ashes. While each...
The Hilarious Visual Novel In Which You Date Villages
21.2.2022
I just got friend-zoned by London.Read more
This Lovecraftian Visual Novel Is The Perfect Valentine's Day Game For Monster-Lovers
11.2.2022
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we all know how annoying it can be to doomscroll past a seemingly infinite number of photos of people boo’d up, accompanied by eye-roll-inducing song lyric captions meant to encapsulate their love. So why not protect your peace by playing a visual novel...