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How Long Is Avowed? It Depends On How You Play
24.2.2025
Role-playing games are known to be lengthy adventures that can keep you busy for weeks, months, or years, some totalling well over 100 hours. As such, it’s not surprising you’d want to know just how long you’ll be spending in Obsidian Entertainment’s newest RPG, Avowed, and whether it’s worth your...
Elden Ring Nightreign Impressions, Marvel Rivals Layoff Reactions, And More Of The Week's Top Commentary
22.2.2025
We’ve been playing quite a bit of Obsidian’s great new first-person RPGAvowed lately, and we have thoughts about the companions who fight by your side during your journey. Also, we share our impressions on Elden Ring Nightreign after spending time with its recent network test, and look at how...
Marvel Rivals Hit With Layoffs, MrBeast Says Life Is 'Easier When You're Broke,' And More Of The Week's Top News
22.2.2025
This week saw many of the people behind smash hit Marvel Rivals, including the game’s director, get laid off by developer NetEase in a move the company says was made “for organizational reasons and to optimize development efficiency for the game.” Meanwhile Humane, the company behind a $700 AI...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Good Games We Can't Get Off Our Minds
21.2.2025
Spring is almost here. I can practically feel it quietly blossoming between the 25-degree overnight lows and the desperate last flurry of snowflakes coating my driveway this week. Until then, we’re feasting on 2025's early bounty of games ahead of some heavy hitters that will be rounding out...
Xbox's Latest Big Single-Player RPG Was Originally Pitched As Skyrim + Destiny
21.2.2025
Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed is a wonderful single-player RPG featuring large fantasy zones to explore and chatty companions. But that wasn’t always the plan. In fact, it was originally designed as an online game similar to Destiny.Read more
Ex-Amazon Gaming Exec Explains Why No One Has Beaten Steam
21.2.2025
A surprising contradiction sits at the heart of PC gaming: the medium’s most open platform is nevertheless dominated by a single storefront. That storefront belongs to Valve, it’s called Steam, and despite plenty of challenges in the two decades since it launched, no one has yet come close...
New Chinese Blockbuster Just Surpassed Inside Out 2 To Become The Biggest Animated Movie Ever
20.2.2025
Ne Zha 2, a new Chinese animated movie, has brought in $1.7 billion at the box office and dethroned Pixar’s Inside Out 2 to become the highest-grossing animated flick in history.Read more
Jeff Bezos Asks Who Should Be The Next James Bond After Franchise Producers Relinquish Creative Control
20.2.2025
It’s been over four years since Daniel Craig’s final appearance as James Bond in No Time to Die and we still don’t know what the franchise’s future holds or who will take the reins next. That could all start changing fast. Amazon now has full creative control over the blockbuster spy series after...
GTA V On PC Finally Catches Up To Console Versions
20.2.2025
In 2022, Rockstar released the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online. These ports looked better, played better, and included new content and graphical options. And now, finally, three years later, Rockstar is bringing all of this (and more) to PC players via a...
6 Diablo 4-Like Games To Grind Before The ARPG's Next Season
20.2.2025
Following the success of Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, along with the recurring seasonal themes and fresh start opportunities, enjoying the grind brought to us by Blizzard Entertainment is easier than ever. But sometimes it’s not enough. Say, for example, you finish a season early. What then? Well...
Ex-Bungie Director's Creepy Texts To Female Employees Released By Sony In Ongoing Lawsuit
20.2.2025
Sony is firing back in court in the ongoing lawsuit between Bungie and former Marathon director Christopher Barrett. The Bungie veteran sued the studio in late 2024 after he was fired over alleged misconduct. He called the investigation a “sham” in his lawsuit. Now Sony has responded and published...
The Last Of Us Season Two Finally Has A Premiere Date
19.2.2025
HBO has announced that The Last of Us’ second season will begin airing on April 13. This will be the first of reportedly multiple seasons telling the story of The Last of Us Part II, the second (and, thus far, final) game in the series of PlayStation blockbusters.Read more
Tails Of Iron 2 Is A Soulslike You Can Finish In A Weekend
19.2.2025
There are so many fantastic soulslike games out in the wild these days, but it’s not often that you find one that casts you as an ass-kicking rat. Well, twice. It’s that often. Tails of Iron 2 ensures that your rodent power fantasy can be played out in all its gory glory in this animal-slaying...
Every Question You Have About Avowed, Answered
19.2.2025
The next big Game Pass RPG, Avowed, is finally here and it’s really good. However, perhaps you’re wondering if the game is on Steam? Or if you can play it with a friend via co-op? Or maybe you just want to know how much space it will take up on your Xbox’s SSD? Read more
Mass Effect Fans Are Freaking Out About Avowed’s Sexy Fish Man Companion
18.2.2025
Avowed is officially out for everyone today, February 18. Obsidian’s latest RPG in the Pillars of Eternity universe is pretty damn good, and fans who paid up for the game’s Premium Edition have been playing it a few days early. The aspect I’m most looking forward to in Avowed, beyond the character...
Getting Started Strong In Avowed, Mastering The Hulk In Marvel Rivals, And More Of The Week's Top Tips
16.2.2025
This week’s tips include an assortment of spoiler-free pointers for starting off on the right foot in Avowed, guidance on making the most of Hulk and other heroes in Marvel Rivals, and info about how to unlock your Ascendancy class in Path of Exile 2. Click on and reap the benefits of all this...
Hands-On With Monster Hunter Wilds, What Makes Avowed's Inventory So Great, And More Of The Week's Takes
15.2.2025
This week’s roundup of our hot takes from the past week includes a plea for Nintendo to let us buy older games again on the Switch 2 like we could in the days of the Wii’s Virtual Console instead of just locking all that stuff behind a subscription paywall and letting us pay for the privilege...
Obsidian Has Quietly Become Xbox's Secret Weapon
14.2.2025
In 2022, Obsidian Entertainment was the only first-party Xbox studio to ship a new game, Pentiment. And in 2025, the Microsoft-owned studio has already launched one big RPG, Avowed, and is set to release a second one, The Outer Worlds 2, later in the year. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now:...
Deadpool & Wolverine Director Working On Live-Action D&D Netflix Show
14.2.2025
A new report claims that Netflix’s next big fantasy TV show bet is a Dungeons & Dragons live-action series produced by Shawn Levy, the writer and director behind last year’s mega blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine. Read more
Why Some Fans Are Cheering The Return Of Loot Boxes In Overwatch 2
13.2.2025
One of the funny things about being entrenched in a game’s community for years is that you sometimes forget how it might look to someone on the outside. That happened to me this week when Blizzard announced it would be bringing loot boxes back to Overwatch 2 in Season 15 after dropping the mystery...