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Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Players Trolled By Loot
1.4.2022
Loot shooter series Borderlands is about picking up a shiny new gun one minute and throwing it away for something more powerful the next. TIny Tina’s Wonderlands continues this trend, but with a few added wrinkles that can end up trolling unsuspecting players who aren’t paying close enough...
We’re Getting More Hyper Light Drifter, Be Still My Beating Heart
1.4.2022
It’s been nearly nine years since the evocative pixel-art action RPG Hyper Light Drifter first took my breath away in its Kickstarter teaser. Now developer Heart Machine has a successor planned and it’s just around the corner. It’s called Hyper Light Breaker, it will be 3D instead of top-down,...
Steam’s Latest Puzzle Sensation Is Very Trippy, Very Good
1.4.2022
The best moment of any good puzzle game is when it rewires your brain and you suddenly feel like the smartest person in the world. That moment when you look at a puzzle and think to yourself, “Oh…that would work!” and then it actually does and you feel amazing. But a great puzzle game should also...
13 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
1.4.2022
If you’ve played Borderlands, you’ve played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Gearbox’s latest, a fantasy twist on the loot-shooting series for which the studio is known, feels a lot like the previous four games—and 400 expansions and events—in the series. You shoot a bazillion guns. You find a bazillion...
The Best (And Worst) April Fools’ Jokes In Gaming For 2022
1.4.2022
April Fools’ is finally upon us, or as our UK editor John Walker likes to call it: “International Lying Day.” Never fear, readers. We Kotaku bloggers are vigilantly keeping alert for any announcements that seem a little bit too good or too weird to be true. Not me, though. Some April Fools’ jokes...
Forgotten Pokémon Musical From 2000 Gets 68-Minute Documentary
1.4.2022
For one brief, shining moment in time over 20 years ago, Pokémon ascended from the anime/video games plane where it normally resides and became something more. Something fancier, something jauntier. And then, just as quickly as it rose, it slipped right back down again, and most folks now forget...
Elden Ring Characters Beat Each Other To A Pulp In Bonkers Tekken Mod
31.3.2022
We’re one month removed from Elden Ring’s launch, probably FromSoftware’s biggest Souls-like release thus far, and the action-RPG is still top of folks’ minds. It’s still on mine, even if I managed to leave the Lands Between briefly to play Ghostwire: Tokyo. I love the characters and world of Elden...
Report: Xbox Game Pass Getting Family Plan Option Later This Year
31.3.2022
According to a new report, it might get a lot easier—and cheaper—to provide the entire family with Xbox Game Pass as Microsoft plans to launch a five-person option later this year. Read more
How To Get The Coveted Moonveil Katana In Elden Ring
31.3.2022
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Report: E3 2022 Canceled
31.3.2022
Pour one out for the “world reveals” and “world exclusives.” E3 won’t happen at all this summer, IGN reports.Read more
Ghostwire: Tokyo’s Captivating World Is Overshadowed By Weak Combat
31.3.2022
Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tango Gameworks’ new action-adventure game with immersive sim-like elements, is a frustrating juxtaposition of highs and lows. It’s at once a compelling narrative about loss and the lengths we go to recover that which is gone, and a plodding first-person shooter with seriously...
A Horror Game That Commits So Hard To Consequences, It's A Knockout
31.3.2022
The most fascinating aspect of Weird West’s design is how friendly the game is to my fuck-ups. Have you ever thought to yourself: “I would like to play a top-down Dishonored game, but as a western?” Say no more. Even if that’s not a thought you’ve ever had, you should consider it. Weird West, which...
Allegations Of Sexism, Bullying, And Burnout: Inside The Microsoft Studio Behind State Of Decay 3
31.3.2022
The video game industry faces a long-overdue reckoning. The average game developer is underpaid relative to the generous bonuses and shareholder payouts enjoyed by the CEOs above them, and recent reports and lawsuits have uncovered a wide range of mistreatment across companies big and small. Many...
7 Possible Berserk References In Elden Ring
30.3.2022
FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki’s love for the late Kentaro Miura’s manga and anime series Berserk is the worst kept secret in the gaming industry. While he avoids explicitly discussing the connections between his games and Berserk, it’s clear that every Miyazaki-helmed project since...
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is Actually Twice As Fun On The Highest Difficulty
30.3.2022
Borderlands games aren’t exactly known for being challenging. Even if you turned up the heat, you wouldn’t get a tougher game. You’d just get a more arduous one, the many bullet sponges simply becoming bullet-spongier. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands does away with all that by including an actually...
Fortnite's Getting Sued By Dance Choreographer Who's Worked With Bieber, Britney
30.3.2022
On March 29, lawyers representing choreographer Kyle Hanagami sued Epic Games for copyright infringement over the “It’s Complicated” dance emote in Fortnite. The in-game emote begins with movements which Hanagami’s lawyers allege are lifted from copyrighted dance moves created by the choreographer....
Big Horizon Forbidden West Patch Makes The Game Less Shimmery
30.3.2022
Developer Guerrilla Games has rolled out a massive patch for Horizon Forbidden West, purporting to fix more than a dozen quests, plus a litany of minor hiccups. It also aims to make the game less shimmery. Those who made it through the era of puddlegate unscathed should rejoice.Read more
Anno: Mutationem: The Kotaku Review
30.3.2022
Anno: Mutationem is an overly ambitious love letter with one too many recipients. While the game has an interesting gumbo of ideas, its story buckles under the weight of living up to the very properties it attempts to pay tribute to. Ultimately, Mutationem’s ending fails to deliver a satisfying...
Elden Ring, One Month Later
30.3.2022
It feels like just yesterday FromSoftware fans were worried they were going to die before Elden Ring arrived, and now we’re an entire month removed from its launch. In that time, dedicated players have eagerly explored every inch of this massive game, resulting in a lot of great coverage here...
Battlefield 2042's Maps, Ranked
30.3.2022
Hi, yes, it’s me again, one of the only 14 people on Earth who enjoy playing Battlefield 2042. As I enter my sixth month of playing the game, and as I approach the game’s level cap on a personal basis, I’ve found my attention of late turning towards the finer details of the game’s maps, and which...