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2022 Was the Year Of Elden Ring
26.12.2022
2022 was the year of Elden Ring, of Miyazaki, of Malenia. The highly anticipated FromSoftware title held the industry by its throat for months, dominating the conversation around difficulty, damage scaling, and player builds (including everyone’s favorite nepo baby, Elon Musk). It took over...
The Best (And Worst) Video Game Names Of 2022
26.12.2022
The line between an amazing video game name and a terrible one is nebulous. Some game names try so hard that they loop back around and become good, despite being objectively bad. Some game names are good only in that they use cool words, but the vibe screams, “I was created in a vat overseen by...
Sonic Advance 2 Perfected The Series 20 Years Ago (Maybe Video Games, Too)
26.12.2022
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”Read more
So, You Wanna Take Down Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Elite Four
23.12.2022
Defeating the Elite Four and the regional champion in battle is a rite of passage in most Pokémon games, and that includes Scarlet and Violet. These are supposed the most-powerful Pokémon trainers in the Paldea region, and overcoming them and their teams is the only way to become the regional...
Game Awards Photoshops Bill Clinton Kid Out Of Elden Ring Speech
22.12.2022
The 2022 Game Awards ended with a random kid sneaking up on stage and muttering nonsense about “reformed Rabbi Bill Clinton.” The 2022 Game Awards is now, understandably, trying to pretend that never happened, blurring the kid out of a picture celebrating Elden Ring developer FromSoftware’s second...
Square Enix Abandons Its Chocobo Racing Game Just 9 Months After Launch
22.12.2022
A game not included on our list of major 2022 games that died this year was Square Enix’s kart racer, Chocobo GP. There’s a reason for that, as it will remain playable for the foreseeable future. However, as Square Enix announced on December 21, the game is effectively dead now since “no further...
An Open-World Game With BOTW Vibes, Except You're Not Human
21.12.2022
The Gecko Gods is an upcoming exploration and puzzle game by Louis Waloschek (and other collaborators) that puts the player in control of a gecko crawling its way around an open island. The game saw a bit of an uptick in interest yesterday as the developer announced it will come to Switch, and...
River City Girls 2 Is The Beat ‘Em Up That Dreams Are Made Of
20.12.2022
When the year began, there were only a handful of video games that piqued my interest, and chief among them was the spin-off to the classic beat ‘em up series Kunio-Kun (or River City). River City Girls 2 finally arrived in the U.S. on December 15 after shifting release dates all year, and the game...
Hideo Kojima’s Game Studio Video Looks Like A Hyper-Futuristic Episode Of MTV Cribs
19.12.2022
Today, Japanese video game developer Kojima Productions celebrated its seventh anniversary and gave everyone workspace envy by showing off what its new game studio looks like. And boy howdy, this studio is just as over the top as you’d expect, given that its repertoire includes a video game with...
The Secret To Training Powerful Pokémon In Scarlet And Violet
17.12.2022
For most players, Pokémon games are a pretty straightforward affair of attacking enemies’ weaknesses and scoring that sweet one-shot. But Pokémon can become incredibly overwhelming once you start playing competitively. What’s an IV? What’s an EV, if not the cute brown fox who can evolve into...
Kojima's Making A Death Stranding Movie With A New Story
15.12.2022
Death Stranding is joining the neverending list of Sony and Sony-funded games getting a movie adaptation, but it won’t be a retread of Sam Porter Bridges’ story from the original game.Read more
If You're Not Cheering In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Raids, You're Doing It Wrong
14.12.2022
Tera raids in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are a team-based affair, and part of that teamwork comes from using cheers, a set of commands exclusive to these four-player boss battles scattered across the games’ Paldea region. However, in my experience grouping up with randos online, I’ve often found...
Genshin Impact’s New Quest Has A Hard Choice That May Mess You Up
14.12.2022
I’m not just a clown, I’m the entire circus. A week after I called him Genshin’s most annoying character, Scaramouche’s storyline crushed my heart into itty-bitty pieces and caused me to spend gacha currency on him. Ever since Genshin launched two years ago, players have been grumbling nonstop that...
The Best RPGs Of 2022
14.12.2022
It was another banner year for role-playing games. Even as the genre beloved for dialogue choices, skill trees, and making the numbers go up gets slowly subsumed into every major blockbuster from Dying Light 2 to God of War Ragnarök, there were still plenty of standouts, both big and small.Read more
Rick And Morty Creators Issue Patch To Make New Shooter Less Annoying
14.12.2022
I like annoying-sounding things, like feedback loops on Discord calls, un-WD-40’d door hinges, and small dogs who are losing their shit over the existence of reality. But not everyone likes to be annoyed while playing video games, and that’s why the developers for recently-released...
Mario Kart 7 Gets Patched 10 Years After Last Update
14.12.2022
Mario Kart 7 may be only one numerical entry behind the most recent game in the series, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t old as shit. In fact, it was first released on the Nintendo 3DS eleven years ago, in December 2011.Read more
Final Fantasy Remake Has A Painting With A Getty Watermark
14.12.2022
Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion was released today and is a solid remastering/remake of a beloved PSP title. But at least one painting in the new game contains a li’l something extra: a Getty Images watermark implying that the in-game painting was created using an image preview seemingly...
Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion: The Kotaku Review
13.12.2022
As a prequel to one of the most beloved video game stories of all time, It’s important that Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion tell its own prequel story without disrupting the thematic cohesion of the story that spawned it. Does it succeed? Mostly. Reunion excels at being a great RPG and...
This New Scarlet And Violet Pokémon Is Unexpectedly OP
13.12.2022
Pokémon has a new meta contender in town, and it’s…a cute mouse family? That’s right. In addition to having unsettling in-game implications like how parents hatch out of a single egg, the Tandemaus line is also incredibly powerful: its signature move can exceed the base power of attacks such...
Classic Final Fantasy ‘Pixel Remasters’ Likely To Hit Switch, PS4
13.12.2022
New ESRB ratings for Final Fantasy I through VI heavily suggest that Square Enix is bringing its Pixel Remaster line of classic Final Fantasy remakes to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.Read more